Hey everyone,
This past week was a very interesting one. We didn't get to work up here in Woodward as much as we would have liked to, but I thought that the trade off was pretty good. The reason that we didn't get to do as much as we would have liked to was because we had mission tour this past week. Elder Craig A. Cardon came out to my mission this past week. It was really good, but I will talk more about that later. Because of the mission tour and bad weather, we had to leave Woodward a lot earlier then we had anticipated on Thursday so we could make it down to OKC before the storm got bad. So after weekly planning, we met the Elders in Alva and then left to drive to the city at about 3. So that left no time on Thursday, then Friday we had our conference with Elder Cardon, which lasted most of the day. Then when that was over we went out to our car and it was covered in half an inch of ice, so we had to wait for the ONE ice scraper that was there to clean our car off. I'm not sure why half of my mission was there and we only had one ice scraper. Then after we left we stopped for dinner and by the time we had just got on the freeway the storm got really bad and the rain would hit out car then freeze on the windshield. So needless to say we turned around and went back to the city. The weather was a lot better Saturday morning so we left and came back up to Woodward and had about half of the day left. Elder Birch and I were both pretty upset we lost so much of the time we had to work. We are both safe and doing well which is a little bit better then having lost time to work in our area.
Ashley is still doing really well despite all of the setbacks due to weather, we were still able to see her twice last week. We had two really good lessons with her. The first one we taught her about the Plan of Salvation. She really enjoyed it and loved the different idea that it presented on God's plan for us. We saw her again on Wednesday and that was one of the best lessons I have been in. We started out by asking her if she had had any thoughts or feelings come to her as she had been reading the Book of Mormon. She definitely had felt the Spirit as she had been reading. She told us how she had felt really overwhelmed the first time that she picked the Book of Mormon up to read it. She felt the Spirit testifying to her that the Book of Mormon was true before she had even read it. She told us when she first sat down to read and that happened that she thought that Heavenly Father couldn't (as in he wasn't supposed to) have been telling her it was true yet because she hadn't read any of it yet, and she hadn't asked Him if it was true either. It has been really cool to work with her because she is so open to the gospel and open to the promptings of the Spirit. We started to talk about the Gospel of Jesus Christ after that and when we started to talk about baptism, I felt like I needed to invite her to be baptized. As I was thinking about a date to set with her I thought about asking her to be baptized on Dec. 14, but then as I opened my mouth to ask the question I invited her to be baptized on Dec. 21. It is really amazing to see how the Spirit really will put the words that you need to speak into your mouth when you need them because I wasn't planning on saying Dec. 21.
Now to tell you about Mission Tour. Like I said Elder Cardon came out to speak to us. It was such a good meeting! One of the things he talked a lot about was prayer and the role it has in an investigators conversion, and why it is so important to have an investigator pray at the end of the first lesson. I would tell you some of the other things he talked about but I can't remember anything else right now.
Thanks for everything that you do for me! I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Love Elder Woodward
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