Dear Woodward Family and Friends,
Well here I am in another new
area with another new companion. Well in a sense I now have three
companions, but only kinda sorta. The house (yes it is a house that I
am in) is big enough to fit two companionship's, so I get to live in a
four man house. When I first hear that I was a little worried about it,
but since I got here I have found that it is AWESOME! I have really
enjoyed the majority of this transfer so far, and it has been less then a
week. It is going to be a really good transfer. The four of us living
there are: Elder Haskell (my companion), Elder Chapman, and Elder
Kahawaii. Elder Kahawaii is from Hawaii. Ironic huh? KaHAWAII. Haha.
Ok I'll stop trying to be funny now. Elder Kahawaii is a little more
on the quiet side, but once he opens up he is really fun to be around.
Elder Chapman lived in Logan untill he was 12 then he moved to Arizona.
Elder Chapman and I get along amazingly well, which is probably why we
weren't companions with each other. I would say that we are the two
most crazy ones in the house. The funny thing is that sometimes we both
have the same crazy ideas. For example, we get our milk here from a
member who owns some cows, so it is fresh from the cow. Its great! But
the thing I was getting into was that we both had the idea to let the
cream and milk separate, then we were going to take the cream and make
homemade ice cream with it. WAHOO!!! While we were doing this Elder
Chapman turned to me and told me that I was the only other person in the
house that would be excited to do that. Which is true, I was the only
other person excited about it. And lastly my companion. Elder Haskell
is from South Jordan. He is quite a bit less fun loving the Elder
Chapman and I, but that is ok. I would
say that we have fairly similar personalities for the most part. The
biggest and most obvious difference would be my fun loving, life is a
party personality; and he is very conservative, one way to do things
personality. So hopefully in the long run that won't cause too much
contention and problems between us. There have been a few things happen
so far, but I am trying my best to overlook those things so we can work
together as a companionship. This is going to be something new to me
because all of my past companions I have gotten along with super well,
so we will see how this turns out.
Now onto the things about the area. Down here in Texas there are 4
sets of missionaries. One set is in Burkburnett, which covers the Air
Force base and the area up north closer to the boarder. Then there is
Wichita Falls North, Wichita Falls Central, And then Wichita Falls
South. So there are 8 of us here in Texas plus two senior couple. So
there are alot of missionaries here. Elder Chapman and Elder Kahawaii
cover the Central area in case you were wondering. I am in another bike
area, so my bike has been getting used quite a bit.
The first day I was down here it was 70 degrees and Thursday it was
71. So it has been quite warm here. Well until this morning anyways.
Elder Chapman and I decided we were going to be more consecrated
missionaries and exercise for 30 minutes in the morning like we are
supposed to. We decided we would start out by going running every
morning. So we got up got dressed to run, went outside and it was 28
degrees. Man that was cold. It has been close to five months since I
have done anything like that, so when we were done running I felt like I
was dying. It was just great. Good news is that we get to go do it
again tomorrow.
I am feeling like things are going really good for me out here. I
don't know if I mentioned it to you before, but time is really starting
to fly by. I'm not quite sure if last transfer went by so much faster
because it was a week shorter then all the others or what it is. I'm
sure that with last transfer being cut down by a week was a big reason
it seemed shorter. Looking back I can hardly remember 90% of the things
I've done the past 5 weeks. Luckily I have been writing in my journal
everyday so I can go back and look at all of that stuff later. It is
amazing how fast you forget the things that happen on a day to day
basis.
The work is going along really well. Being a missionary is hard
work, but not in the ways you would expect. It has been very mentally
and physically demanding. One thing that I have noticed is that if I'm
not constantly focused on my purpose as a missionary it is really easy
to just want to sit around and relax. That is one of the greatest
things that keep me going is remembering why I came out. When I am able
to keep that in mind is when it is easiest for me to go out and work. I
think that is one of the things that Heavenly Father has helped me to
learn while I've been out is that I came out here to serve others and I
can't do that when I am sitting at home. That is one of the biggest
things I have come to dislike. It drives me crazy to be sitting at the
house/ apartment doing nothing during the day. It is so much more fun
to be out going around seeing people. Sometime taking an hour break for
lunch seems like it is too long. So yeah I like to be out.
Outside of the missionary work, I am doing really well. The members
usually do a really great job at signing up to feed us dinners and
such. I have had to cook for myself quite a bit and usually it isn't
spaghetti. I think that I may have had spaghetti more because members
have fed it to us then because I have made it. You might be surprised,
you might not, but since I have come out I have gained 15 pounds. I am
staring to get a missionary gut. That is one of the reasons I'm going to
start exercising. I need to get rid of my gut. I haven't really had
the chance to meet a lot of the investigators in my area yet. They are
all really busy, so when I found out more about them I will let you
know. I hope that was sufficient Mom because I'm not sure what else you
want to know.
Well that is about all. Its time for me to go out and do other
P-day things now. I love you all and I hope that you have a great
week. Let me know where Shannon gets her mission call to.
Love Elder Cameron Woodward
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