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From: Jessica Webb <jzwebb@myldsmail.net>
Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:28 AM
Subject: Vwah!
To: gordonkendrick@gmail.com, pauladawnwebb@gmail.com, annajanewebb@gmail.com, bostonweb7@gmail.com, haydenmikhail@myldsmail.net, jeccazan@gmail.com, kendrickclegg@gmail.com, larsenalma@gmail.com, pclegg1@gmail.com, jollygreenegiant7@gmail.com, webbstua@isu.edu, zclegg@ida.net
HI! Oh, how I love you all. I love your letters and your thoughts and your wisdom and your wonderful examples. I'm sure I've said this a hundred times, but some Wednesdays I come to your window just to say hi and see how your doing.
Not to worry, my cold is drying up. I've been through an entire economy size package of toilet paper single handed, but I think I will live to see another day.
This week was a tough one, which leaves my little mind tied up in the sheets. But we still have so much to be greatful for. We got to meet with a woman named Tatijana, who I met at a bus stop. We met, prayed, and spoke of the glory of the Restoration of the priesthood, all on the sidewalk leading to Lietuvos Energija. She was a little overwhelmed by the news, but promised to read and pray about it. We also met with Veronika, who turns 88 this year. She was an unusual find. She lived in a very common apartment building, but upon entering her flat we discovered that her's took up the whole level...very wealthy woman, by Lithuania's standards. She is the sister of Joseph Russi, (not sure on the spelling) who is a "famous" architect in America. Look him up. She also LOVES Mary very much. I've decided that Mary was something for the women of the Catholic church to latch on to...a religious escape for feminists. Unfortunately it just got taken a little too far.
We also had Zone Conference yesterday. The attached pictures are of our Lithuanian Zone. The one with out the leaders was one we took while we were waiting for them to show up. We were blessed with the opportunity to have President Gibbons, from our Area Presidency come to speak to us. I also got a little special one on one time with him when he pulled me aside to let me know my prelude was a little too fancy. I was embarressed, but somehow still apprecieated the reprimend. : )
This weekend was Vilniaus Diena...i.e. classy-Eupopean county fair. It was a good opportunity to find families out and about, though most of them that we talked to had already met with missionaries and had decided against it. One guy stopped us and asked us if he could take our picture, cause we were soooo beautiful. Haha...just kidding. He didn't say we were beautiful, but it did spark some interesting conversation. There were tons of going on all the way up Gedimino, which happened to be our route home. They had two big rock concerts going on in the streets and squares, and we felt so out of place worming our way through the crowd of rowdy people trying to get home for the evening.
We also decided to just "drop-by" Sveta's apartment. She hasn't answered calls or text messages or anything. So we picked a time when we knew she would be home and went by. Oh how sad we were when a half-naked man opened the door. He said she was in the shower, as he eyed us up and down. When we first met her she had just been beaten by her at the time boyfriend. i'm not sure if this was the same guy, but it just confirmed my suspicions that something had stepped into interupt her investigation. So sad.
Zone Conference brought a lot of good advice and direction, but most of it was direction to just figure things out for ourselves. I find that to be wonderful that God will let us know what WE personally need to do. I'm not sure how missionary work is going in the rest of the world, but we are trying to focus on helping the members to fulfil their missionary responsibilites. The goal is that all of our finding will be through members. Are you guys finding people? He gave us lots of ideas on how to help the members gain confidence in being missionaries...So here you go.
Express your love to your friends. And to God. It brings in the Spirit.
Be straight forward, simple, and honest. He said one of his affluential friends in Boston brings people into the church by saying..."My church puts a lot of pressure on me to bring non-members to activities. Will you be my non-member?" He said he's done a lot of good with his approach and efforts.
Don't be to serious about it. We are here to have joy, the gospel is a message of joy, so make it joyful!
Find families. Focus on entire families who need to the gospel, so they can help each other to accept and live according to the commandments.
Ope...i gotta run. I love you all!!! Be wonderful for another week. Be happy!
Love Sese Veb
From: Jessica Webb <jzwebb@myldsmail.net>
Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:28 AM
Subject: Vwah!
To: gordonkendrick@gmail.com, pauladawnwebb@gmail.com, annajanewebb@gmail.com, bostonweb7@gmail.com, haydenmikhail@myldsmail.net, jeccazan@gmail.com, kendrickclegg@gmail.com, larsenalma@gmail.com, pclegg1@gmail.com, jollygreenegiant7@gmail.com, webbstua@isu.edu, zclegg@ida.net
HI! Oh, how I love you all. I love your letters and your thoughts and your wisdom and your wonderful examples. I'm sure I've said this a hundred times, but some Wednesdays I come to your window just to say hi and see how your doing.
Not to worry, my cold is drying up. I've been through an entire economy size package of toilet paper single handed, but I think I will live to see another day.
This week was a tough one, which leaves my little mind tied up in the sheets. But we still have so much to be greatful for. We got to meet with a woman named Tatijana, who I met at a bus stop. We met, prayed, and spoke of the glory of the Restoration of the priesthood, all on the sidewalk leading to Lietuvos Energija. She was a little overwhelmed by the news, but promised to read and pray about it. We also met with Veronika, who turns 88 this year. She was an unusual find. She lived in a very common apartment building, but upon entering her flat we discovered that her's took up the whole level...very wealthy woman, by Lithuania's standards. She is the sister of Joseph Russi, (not sure on the spelling) who is a "famous" architect in America. Look him up. She also LOVES Mary very much. I've decided that Mary was something for the women of the Catholic church to latch on to...a religious escape for feminists. Unfortunately it just got taken a little too far.
We also had Zone Conference yesterday. The attached pictures are of our Lithuanian Zone. The one with out the leaders was one we took while we were waiting for them to show up. We were blessed with the opportunity to have President Gibbons, from our Area Presidency come to speak to us. I also got a little special one on one time with him when he pulled me aside to let me know my prelude was a little too fancy. I was embarressed, but somehow still apprecieated the reprimend. : )
This weekend was Vilniaus Diena...i.e. classy-Eupopean county fair. It was a good opportunity to find families out and about, though most of them that we talked to had already met with missionaries and had decided against it. One guy stopped us and asked us if he could take our picture, cause we were soooo beautiful. Haha...just kidding. He didn't say we were beautiful, but it did spark some interesting conversation. There were tons of going on all the way up Gedimino, which happened to be our route home. They had two big rock concerts going on in the streets and squares, and we felt so out of place worming our way through the crowd of rowdy people trying to get home for the evening.
We also decided to just "drop-by" Sveta's apartment. She hasn't answered calls or text messages or anything. So we picked a time when we knew she would be home and went by. Oh how sad we were when a half-naked man opened the door. He said she was in the shower, as he eyed us up and down. When we first met her she had just been beaten by her at the time boyfriend. i'm not sure if this was the same guy, but it just confirmed my suspicions that something had stepped into interupt her investigation. So sad.
Zone Conference brought a lot of good advice and direction, but most of it was direction to just figure things out for ourselves. I find that to be wonderful that God will let us know what WE personally need to do. I'm not sure how missionary work is going in the rest of the world, but we are trying to focus on helping the members to fulfil their missionary responsibilites. The goal is that all of our finding will be through members. Are you guys finding people? He gave us lots of ideas on how to help the members gain confidence in being missionaries...So here you go.
Express your love to your friends. And to God. It brings in the Spirit.
Be straight forward, simple, and honest. He said one of his affluential friends in Boston brings people into the church by saying..."My church puts a lot of pressure on me to bring non-members to activities. Will you be my non-member?" He said he's done a lot of good with his approach and efforts.
Don't be to serious about it. We are here to have joy, the gospel is a message of joy, so make it joyful!
Find families. Focus on entire families who need to the gospel, so they can help each other to accept and live according to the commandments.
Ope...i gotta run. I love you all!!! Be wonderful for another week. Be happy!
Love Sese Veb
