Dear Woodward Family,
I hope you are having fun in California. It is a lot warmer there
then it is here. When we left our apartment this morning it was 23
degrees outside. It has been pretty cold here. I didn't think that it
would be this cold.
The instructions we have been given for calling on Christmas are
"You may use the missionary cell phones to make your calls home except
for overseas calls. Calls are limited to 60 minutes total. For
example, if you need to make two calls, they would be 30 minutes each or
any combination up to 60 minutes total. Sometimes a shorter call is a
better call, so don’t feel that you have to talk for the full 60
minutes." So yeah it is pretty simple. For right now I will plan on
calling at 9:00 (my time 7:00 your time). The two hour time difference
really messes things up.
We really don't have anything planned for today and tomorrow.
There is supposed to be a snowstorm tomorrow and it sounds like
President Taylor wants us to stay at our apartment to stay safe and all
that stuff. We on holidays and stuff we are supposed to be back at our
apartments by 5 so we are not out doing stuff when there are people who
have been partying driving. So today tomorrow and New Years we will be
"locked up." It definently doesn't feel like it is Christmas. I
haven't seen to many houses with light up. Its just not what I am used
to. Maybe the Oklahomians don't do as much stuff for holidays. It
sounds like you have been having a fun vacation. At least the condo
people didn't rent the condo to another family as well so then you
wouldn't have anywhere to stay.
This past week has been a pretty slow one. We did have 8 member
present Lessons this week which is pretty good. When I first got here
the mission average for member present lessons was 3.5 a week, so Ada
has been doing pretty well. The least amount that I have had here is 4
in a week. On average we had 6 member presents a week. We ended the
transfer with 36 total member present lessons. We would have had more
if we had counted all of the times we went to Brandy's house. We didn't
count any of the because she had been baptized but not confirmed. I am
guessing that we had at least 15 lessons with her that we didn't
count. So really is was like we had 51 at least. But oh well we still
did really well and I am proud of the work that has been done here in
Ada.
My new companion, Elder Jones, is really fun to be around. I think
that we will be able to get along just fine. It is reallt herd to
adjust to living with someone else now that I have benn so used to being
around Elder Fee. Elder Jones is from American Fork. He has been out
for 6 months now. there are 4 kids in his family and all of them are
adopted, so that is one thing that we have in common.
Going up to transfers was an interesting experience. I didn't have
to go up so I was going to stay in Pauls Valley with Elder Hernandez
until Elder Jones got down here. But for some reason Elder Hernandez
needed to go to transfers, so we had to fit 4 missionaries, 2 bikes and
all of the luggage for 2 missionaries into a chevy Malibu. Going up was
the easy part. The Elder that went to Pauls valley had enough stuff to
supply 2 other missionaries. So on the way back we had to fit 3 big
suitcases, 2 smaller suitcases, 3 full backpacks, Christmas packages
from the 2 Elders coming in, plus verything else that we picked up from
transfers, 2 bikes and 4 missionaries into the same Chevy Malibu. It
was so crowded. Luckily we had a bike rack of it would never have
worked. I am not doing that again.
So yeah that was my week. I hope you have fun in California. I love you all. Merry Christmas.
Love Elder Woodward
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