Woodward, Oklahoma -July 29, 2013

Elder Woodward, Elder Park, and Elder Egnew in Woodward, Oklahoma

Woodward, Oklahoma

Dear Woodward Clan,

Is the weather staring to cooperate yet?  Probably not.  Maybe you should take it as a sign that you aren't supposed to go out and do anything fun without me.  So you should all just sit around the house like a bunch of bums and do absolutely nothing for the next 15 months.  I think that would work out pretty well.

Well as for me, I had a pretty good week here in Woodward.  I am still alive and breathing.  Other then that, there isn't to much more to say.  Ok I guess I will say more then that or else Mom would probably drive all the way out here and strangle me or something like that.

Well for starters, things are going really well with Jeff, our Haitian investigator.  We met with him twice last week and he is progressing really well.  We talked to him about setting a baptismal date for August 24th.  After we set the date he started telling us about how ready he is to be baptized.  He made the decision that he doesn't want to wait any longer for his wife.  He told us he didn't want to wait because his wife is "flippy floppy."  He is super excited to be baptized and doesn't want to wait any longer.

We had a huge miracle happen with another one of our investigators.  Her name is Francis.  We had a baptismal date set with her for August 10th, but in order for her to be able to be baptized then she would have had to come to church three times.  She has only been able to come twice due to the fact that she works every Sunday until 12:00.  So she needed to come to church either yesterday or next Sunday so that she could get baptized.  So the past couple of weeks we have been trying to come up with a solution so that she could be able to come to church.  Things got to the point where the only thing that she could do was ask her boss if she could have a schedule change and get Sundays off.  We promised her that if she asked her boss things would work out and she would be able to get Sundays off.  Well she talked to her boss and asked to have Sundays off so that she could come to church, but her boss said that the only thing she could do was ask another worker to switch with her, but chances were that the other worker would quit before she switched hours.  So Francis wasn't even going to ask the other worker to switch.  Then a couple of days later the other worker talked to her boss and told him that she needed to get her schedule switched around.  So everything worked out to where Francis is going to be able to come to church next Sunday and then be baptized on August 10th.  It was defiantly an answer to her prayers and all of ours and it shows that the Lord will prepare a way for us to live the commandments. 

I think that the Bishop that Cecil met was Bishop Grey from when I was in the Edmond 2nd ward.  Woodward is defiantly a western town.  It is the smallest town I have been in but covers the largest area of land.  If I remember right we cover 4000 square miles in the Woodward branch.  It is a pretty big area.  I really don't have a favorite thing that I have eaten.  All of the food is pretty good.  Some of it is a lot better then some of the other stuff, but its all ok. 

Ok so a little bit about Elder Park.  He is from Shelley, Idaho.  I still have no idea where that is.  He is 19 years old and come from a small family of 5 or 6.  I don't remember.  He is shorter then I am, but taller then Kelsey.  He is in the middle in case you couldn't guess. 

Well That is about all.  Oklahoma is really flat.  Love you guys.  Have a good week.

Love Elder Woodward