Hello!
Well I am glad that you all enjoyed the pictures that I sent home. I figured that Mom would really enjoy them since I haven't sent very many home. But now you can't complain about not sending pictures, because those are all of the pictures that I had. If I'm feeling nice I will tell you who all the pictures are with when I get home. So I don't want to hear anything else about it for another month. Hopefully by then I will have some more pictures.
Here in Oklahoma I have noticed that a lot of focus is being put on missionary work as well. Last week we had a Stake Priesthood Meeting and if I remember right every one of the speakers mentioned missionary work. I'm not really sure why they would mention that. Maybe I will find out one of these days. One of the speakers there mentioned five things that the Savior needed the Aaronic Priesthood to do. Even though he was speaking specifically to the Aaronic Priesthood, I felt like the first four were all things that the Savior needed us all to do, then the fifth one was more for the priesthood, but didn't exclude young women. The five things were:
1. The Savior needs you to be happy.
2. The Savior needs you to be an example.
3. The Savior needs you to have the Spirit with you.
4. The Savior needs you to be ready.
5. The Savior needs you to serve a mission.
I really liked those 5 things and I wanted to share them with you.
It looked like all of the kids had a fun time on Halloween. We had a really boring Halloween here. I don't know if it just here in my mission or if it is a church wide thing, but for Halloween we were supposed to be in our apartments by 5:00. So all that we did was sit around and do nothing. All I really accomplished that night was learning how to juggle off of a wall. I didn't get any candy though, so if any of you want to share... I really like Twix by the way.
Well i am sure that you all want to know about Herman and Carolyn. So we went and saw them last week on Tuesday evening. While we were there we set a baptismal date with them for November 9th. That was the date that Herman wanted to set, so that is what we are going for. We went over the baptismal interview questions with them again to make sure that the understood everything and didn't have any questions. So far everything is going well with them. This Saturday they will be getting baptized, and then on Sunday they are going to get confirmed. It has been really exciting to see them progress to the point where they were pretty much asking us to get baptized. They are going to be such a strength to the branch here.
Oh and we finally managed to find a couple of new investigators this past week! It is really cool how we ended up finding them. A while ago Elder Fee texted us and said that there was a recent convert who just moved in up here that we should go see, so being the good missionaries we are, we went to see her. We talked to her for a couple of minutes and then left. We tried back a couple of times, but were never able to catch her again. So about a week and a half ago we were sitting in our apartment doing our weekly planning when we got a media referral from the mission office. We checked who it was, and it was a name we didn't recognize but it had the same address as the recent convert we saw a month or so earlier. We gave Talorea (the Referral) a call and asked if there was a time we could come over. So then last Wednesday we went over and saw her. When we got there Talorea, her husband, Rodney, and Talorea's sister all came out and sat down to talk to us. We taught them about the Restoration and Joseph Smith. They all really liked the story about Joseph Smith and they all said they believed it could happen. Then at the end of the lesson we invited them to be baptized, when they came to know it was true, and they all said that they would. Talorea's sister (sorry we don't know her name yet, but we will soon) even said that that was something that she wanted to do. It was a really good lesson with them, and they all seem really promising. Oh and some other stuff that is cool about them: they are an African American family, so they are black! =D Then the other cool thing is that Talorea has a brother who was baptized a couple years ago, and he is now serving in the Utah Ogden Mission! So if you ever meet an Elder Johnson who is black, I know two of his sisters and I started teaching them! I thought that you would like to know that.
So you were right about transfers, they are next week. So by next Monday I will find out if I am going to stay or leave. I'm pretty sure I am going to end up getting transfered though. Partly because I have been here for 4 months now. One of the other reasons I think I might be leaving is because back when President Walkenhorst fist got here and when I first got to Woodward, I had an interview with him and one of the things he asked me was what I thought it would take to get 5 baptisms up in Woodward. The other day I just thought back to that and I figured out that between Don and Francie, then Jeff, and now Herman and Carolyn, that adds up to 5. I'm not sure if it is just a coincidence or what, but I think that I have done about all that I was supposed to do. It's still not official if I will leave, but I'm not going to be surprised if I do.
Well that is all for this week. I will let you know what happens next week! I love you all and hope that you have a great week! Bye.
Love Elder Woodward
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