Woodward, Oklahoma -August 12, 2013

Dear Family, 

This has been a pretty exciting week for me here in Woodward.  There is lots of exciting news to tell you about, but I don't know if I will be able to tell you all about my week in a minute, so I will take a little more time. 

So to start off, Don and Francis got baptized on Saturday!!!  Yay!!!  It was a long day leading up to this, but it was all worth it in the end.  On Friday I stayed down in Clinton, Oklahoma because we needed to do an exchange so that the District Leader could come up and do Don and Francis's baptismal interview.  On Saturday up until I left to come back to Woodward I spent the entire day in the Clinton Elder's apartment because the Elder I was with got sick.  So I spent all day fixing their bikes because they were in pretty bad condition.  Elder Park and Elder Powley got back to Clinton a little after 3:30 and Elder Park and I were on our way back to Woodward by 4.  We got back, had dinner with Don, Francis and their Family, then went to the church to make sure everything was ready for the baptism.  The baptism itself went really well.  Don and Francis only had to be dunked once, so I guess they went completely under.  After the baptism we were invited to go back over to Don and Francis's house to have some pie.  After the pie on the drive home Elder Park noticed that we had missed a call from Elder Fee.  So we called him back when we got to the apartment and I talked to him.  He asked us how the baptism went and a couple other things.  He then broke the news and told me that I would be training a new missionary next transfer.  I was defiantly not expecting that to happen.  I thought that Elder Park and I would be together for another transfer, but I was wrong.  So this Wednesday I will be going down to OKC to a meeting for all of the missionaries that will be training.  It will be interesting to see what happens.

So this Saturday Jeff is going to get baptized.  He has been meeting with the missionaries since March and is ready to be baptized.  I think it is really cool that I have been able to work with Jeff while I've been here.  I don't think that it is a coincidence that I have been able to come teach him.  He can hardly wait for Saturday to come.  Last week when we asked him who he wanted to baptize him, he asked me, Elder Park, and Elder Egnew if we could all baptize him together.  Unfortunately it doesn't quite work out like that, so he asked Elder Egnew to baptize him. We are all super excited for him.

Well that is about all for this week.  I will let you know how things go with the trainers meeting and Jeff's baptism.  I hope you all have a great week. Love you guys.

Love Elder Cameron Woodward