"Alma the Younger" experience

Sorry i'm writing today.. yesterday was a holiday here in angola and

the whole city was pretty much out of energy.. so it was pretty

stressful to find a place to email.. so president let us email today

and not worry about it yesterday which was nice.

So this week was cool, we had elder hamilton in for a a week to tour

the mission which was really cool. Sadly i didn't get to walk with him

but we still had a nice leadership meeting and zone conference with

him. The thing that i thought was very interesting was that he could

be teaching and saying something and the spirit would reveal something

completely different that i needed to do or change as a missionary and

as a man. Pretty cool to see how the spirit was just around him and

how even though he didn't mean to teach that, its exactly what i needed

to hear and do. This week i came to a lot of necessary conclusions on

what i need to do in my mission and in my life and some of the changes

i need to make. Its been really cool to see the changes the lord makes

in me. If i really want something and i work hard for it and i'm

exactly obedient the lord will bless me in incredible ways. Even

things i worked for years on before the mission have turned to be so

easy as i work and am obedient here in the mission.. it was pretty

cool to see.

Also this week i had a nice little alma the younger kind of

experience.. i wont go into detail but i realized a lot of things and

looked at the past and realized how incredibly blessed i am even

though i was not who i should have been. It gave me a new desire and a

fire in the chest to keep working to finish strong and to continue on

doing the lords work after the mission. It was a nice little rebirth i

guess you could say that helped me make necessary changes and do what

i needed to do.

This week i also had the chance to baptize Flanis.. hes the younger

brother of wilma and yolene the 2 sisters i baptized almost a year

ago... after a very short year the whole family decided to get

baptized and i was luckily enough to do the interviews for them all and

to be the one that baptized Flanis.. it was a super cool baptism, i

don't think I've seen so many people at a baptism before.. it was

packed!

My left shoe has a hole in it and we are in the sandiest area in the

mission.. so when i go home at night i can fill up a litter box for

the stray cat that lives outside our house.. so i guess that's pretty

cool.

Also found out this week that a lot of mothers of missionaries here in

angola read my blog.. soooo shout out you my fan club.. your sons are

the best in the world and its been a sweet experience to serve along

side all of them.

Elder Webber