Hello!
Well to start out CONGRADULATIONS TO DARCY AND EMMIE FOR TAKING 1ST PLACE!!! YAHOOOOOOOOOOO, that is so cool!
Ok so now onto stuff that all of you want to hear about. My crazy life as a missionary. Well for starters it was a busy week leading up to Jeffs baptism! On Wednesday I had to go down to OKC to a meeting that was being held for everyone who is going to be training. There are 33 new missionaries coming out this transfer. That is sch a big number. A lot more then the 5 that came out with me. Most of what was talked about was what was expected of us as trainers and how to be a good trainer. I think that this next transfer there are going to be a lot of 18 year old missionaries that have just graduated coming out to the field. It was very enlightening. There was a part where the AP's called up the parents of the missionaries coming out and asked them questions such as "What do you expect of your son/daughters trainer?" and "Why is it important for the trainer to be obedient?" It made me realize that there is a lot more to being a trainer then what I thought. It was a much needed meeting. Elder Park and I made it back up to Woodward in time for our appointment with two of our investigators, Herman and Carolyn. We had a super good lesson with them. We found out that one of the things holding Herman back was that he just wanted to know more of the history of the church. So to resolve that concern we gave him a copy of "Our Heritage" and told him to read it. Hopefully that will help him. I really think that if we work with them we can get them to be baptized on the 31st. It is a little bit of a stretch, but it is worth a shot.
Ok so now onto Jeff. He got baptized on Saturday and confirmed yesterday. The only bad parts about all of it was that he showed up to his own baptism late and he was late to church on Sunday. We really need to get him a watch or something. Elder Park and I were so worried that he wasn't going to make it to church. At the baptism I was starting to think that Jeff didn't want to get out of the baptismal font. He had to be baptized three times. The first time his right wrist didn't go under the the second time his left wrist didn't go under. The third time Elder Egnew made sure he went all the way under. I may have just been imagining it, but I think Elder Egnew held Jeff under a little bit longer to make sure that he was all the way under.
So I guess the other bit of big news is that I gave a talk in sacrament meeting yesterday without any help from Mom or Dad. =) I talked about our purpose of life on Earth. And I even managed to ramble on for 10 minutes. I didn't think it was a very good talk but there were a couple of people who told me I gave a good talk. So who knows if it was actually good or if they were just being nice. I think they were just being nice.
So by now Mom is probably dying to know if I am staying in Woodward. Well I will be here for at least one more transfer, hopefully longer. I still don't know who my new companion will be. I won't find out until Wednesday since he is straight from the MTC. It should be interesting to find out.
Well that is all from me. Love you all. Have a great week. Bye
Love Elder Woodward
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