last one: i'm not here to pick weeds

 what's up guys!! this is my last pday WHAT!!??

it's so bittersweet but here are a few tender mercies Heavenly Father gave me this week to ease all the crazy feelings:

-got a free torta frita from a guy that sells them because i told them they're my favorite thing in Uruguay

-in exchanges i got to visit two of my past areas, paso carrasco and la paz. I felt so lucky to be able to check up on friends, members and converts.

-our friends Miguel and valentín were baptized!! Miguel is an adorable reformed military man and Valentín is best friend of the only deacon in the branch. 

-after praying all transfer to find our family, and contacting literally every family we have seen in the past 6 weeks, my comp and i were thrilled to see a mother and daughter sitting in sacrament this week, along with some of our other friends. They had been invited by a family member in another ward and loved the meeting!!

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President shared something in our last mission conference that really stuck with me. He shared a story about Henry b. Eyring's dad, who volunteered on a church-owned farm as an elderly man. After a back-breaking day of weeding in the farm, one of the other workers said "what are you doing?! we've already sprayed weed-killer on this whole part of the farm!"

all of his work was completely unecessary, the weeds would have died on their own. This humble man just laughed and laughed, finally pulling himself together enough to say "i'm not here to pull weeds".

and that's how i feel right now. I'm so thankful to Heavenly Father for letting me work alongside Him, and i plan to keep doing it after the mission. but i know that it's not the work i'm doing here that counts, it's the change it's made in me. It's the way giving my full heart and soul to that work has molded me to become more like my Savior Jesus Christ, who i know loves me and every one of you.

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on another note, I'M SO EXCITED TO HUG MY MOM!!!

chau!! con mucho amor,

💌💌hermana webb

ps if you wanna come to my homecoming talk, message me. i still don't know all the deets :)

PANDO🐄

 hey guys!! i'm loving my new area, Pando, it is a lot of walking but my comp and i are getting used to it. we're meeting some amazing ppl here are some of my favs:

miguel- street contact. so converted to Christ i love this man. tells us crazy stories in every charla, last time it was about how he worked in a circus and had a pet bear named Jaqueline that he loved. looks like a hippie-surfer-woodutter with his long hair, bucket hat, and flannels.

andres- other street contact that turned out to be a member, he only remembered when we started teaching the restauración and he was like "wait i got baptized in Colombia!" now he's the only active young member our branch has and he's bringing friends

hna brinton- my comp and one of my fav peeps in pando, she gives her full effort every day and me die laughing. it's been fun to introduce her to the best and worst of uruguay. she's a big fan of bizcochos and soccer, not super into huge rats in the street

this week was crazy, we're growing in faith as a mission and individually. something i've loved has been reading in alma 19 this week about the overwhelming joy that God's love and gospel brings us. so grateful to feel slivers and buckets of that joy every day.

love you guys!!

💌💌 hermana webb