Woodward Family,
I have now been on my mission for 2 months today! I am 1/12th of
the way done! It is crazy how fast time goes by. This transfer has
gone by super fast. I have no idea where the last six weeks went, but
it was a good six weeks.
First, Carrie was baptized on Saturday, and she was confirmed a
member of the church yesterday. We really stressed the importance of
being confirmed with her after what happened with Brandy. We stressed
it so much that by the time she was confirmed she just laughed whenever
we told her that she wasn't a member until she was confirmed and
received the Holy Ghost. Her baptism was the best way to have ended my
first transfer.
I forgot to tell you this last week so I'll tell you know. We got
snow in Ada last Monday Morning! I was really excited to see it. The
only bad part to it was that is was super cold the next couple of days.
Oh well its better now.
Well this past week we started to teach a 10 year old named Blake.
It was a different experience to teach someone so young, but it was
really fun. We had a baptismal date set for January 5th but that isn't
going to work anymore because he is moving to Norman with his mom. That
that was a bummer for this last week.
This next part may come as a shock to all of you, but so far I have
done pretty well with eating food that has been put in front of me.
There have been some really weird things, such as fried green
tomatos, but I managed to eat them so I wouldn't offend the members. It
still hasn't changed my opinion about the foods I eat, but I have been
doing pretty well with that.
Well the big news that happened was on Saturday before Carrie's
baptism. Any bets on what it was that happened? Well President Taylor
called and Elder Fee is being transfered up to Edmond to be a Zone
Leader. So I will be losing my trainer on Wednesday. It really wasn't
as big of a shock for me as you would think it was just because I could
see it coming. I was really hoping that it wouldn't happen for another
transfer, but it didn't. I will be getting a new companion on Wednesday
to come help in Ada. His name is Elder Jones. All that I know about
Elder Jones so far is that he has been out on his mission for three
transfers now plus his time in the MTC. So probably for 5 months now.
It will be interesting to see how this will work.
This past week has been a Good one for Christina. She came to
Carrie's baptiam and was at church yesterday. At both of those things
she has felt the Spirit so strong. We went and had a lesson with her
again last night and we were able to reschedule her baptism for January
12th. Well January 12th as long as she hasn't moved by then. So far it
isn't looking like she will have moved so I am excited for that day.
She was really sad when she found out that Elder Fee is being tranfered.
There is a question that I have for Dad. With Ada having just
become a Ward and all that stuff, the Bishop doesn't have a whole lot of
want to help with missionary work right now because he is more focused
on everything else. So my question is what could we do on our end to
get him more interested and wanting to help us? I figured you would
have a good idea what to do because you got put in as the Bishop of the
19th ward, and were kinda in the same situation the our Bishop is. So
if you have any idea on what we could do we would love it.
Well that pretty much wraps up my week. I got the Christmas
presents that you sent. The box was pretty beat up so from what I can
tell they are still in one piece. Hopefully there wasn't anything
fragile. I gave Elder Fee his present so he will have that for while he
is up in the city. I almost opened my presents early under the
reasoning that the world is going to end on Friday so if I waited until
Christmas I would never get to know what they were. I decided that that
wasn't a good enough reason though, so for now they are under our
little Christmas tree waiting for next week. I don't know if they will
stay there for another week though. Only time will tell.
So yeah thats all from me. I would say have fun in California but
the world is going to end before you get there so you really can't have
fun. Oh well it will all work out in the end. I love you all. Don't make Mom and Dad's lives to hard over
Christmas.
Love Elder Woodward
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