Hey!
So I still haven't heard any news about transfers yet, so anything could happen at this point. We will find out exactly what is going to happen on Sunday evening. All that we know at this point is that transfers are going to be on February 5. Most of the missionaries have come up with a bunch of speculation on what is going to happen, but I hardly ever listen to any of it because most of the time it is wrong.
So as for news from this past week... There really wasn't a whole lot of excitement for me this week. Overall the week flew by and the things that happened are all a blur now. The most exciting thing that happened for me this week occurred at church yesterday. I will try to make this as exciting as I possibly can for all of you. So obviously since it was Sunday we were going to be going to church. When we pulled into the church parking lot and I started to look around for a place to park since I was driving. As I looked over to my right there was a man standing there waving at me with a big grin on his face as we drove past. Any guesses as to who it was? So the man that was standing there was Herman. Yep it is the same Herman that I taught up in Woodward, and the same one who got baptized a couple of months ago. I was so excited to see them at church. I don't even know what words to use to describe my excitement. I think that was the fastest that I have ever gotten out of a car before. There was not any time wasted. Herman and Carolyn were both there along with their daughter, Maddie. It was really cool to get to see them yesterday. It was quite the surprise for me and it was the last thing that I would have expected going to church in Mustang. It was kinda funny when they walked into the building because all of the members here thought that Herman and Carolyn were a new family that was going to be moving into the ward. They were just down here visiting a friend of theirs and so they decided to pay a surprise visit to me.
So the work is still going pretty well for me. Things are starting to pick up and we are starting to see some cool things happen. I guess that means it will be time for me to get transfered again. We have been getting a lot more member support over the past couple of weeks. I think this past week we had a member out with us almost every day. So it is really cool to see the members getting involved in missionary work.
Thank you all for everything that you are doing for me! I can defiantly feel you prayers! Thank you again! I love you all so much! Have a great week!
Love Elder Cameron Woodward
Cam
Monday, January 27, 2014
Monday, January 20, 2014
Mustang, Oklahoma -January 20, 2014
Hey everyone!
So what I can remember from last week. Last Wednesday Elder Davis and I were finally able to go and see one of our investigators that we hadn't been able to see the entire time I have been here. His name just happened to be Jeff as well. He isn't black though. I don't know what it is but it seems like half of the people I have been teaching recently have been named Jeff. So we went and saw Jeff on Wednesday and we had a really good lesson with him. We spent most of the time answering the questions he had for us. He sure did have a lot of questions. One of the questions that he had that no one had been able to answer yet was the reason that we believe there needs to be a prophet on the Earth today. So I turned to Hebrews 13:8 which says "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day and for ever." Then we explained to him that Christ's church is always going to be the same, and that if there were prophets called before Christ came there would be prophets called after Christ came. After we shared that with him he thought about is for a second then said that was the most clear answer to that question he had ever been given. So one thing that I learned from that was that our answers to others questions don't have to be worded fancy, or be long and complicated, but they can be short, simple, and clear. It was really cool to be a part of that lesson.
We spent a lot of this past week tracting and trying to find some new investigators. We didn't get any new investigators, but we did talk to a few people who would be interested in learning more about the church. We were able to set up a lot of appointments for later this week, so we are really excited for those. We had a lot of improvement this past week and it was so much better then the week before. We are seeing a lot more things happen and the work is really starting to move forward.
The only other bit of exciting news (if you can call it exciting) was that I got to give a talk yesterday. Yay... I wasn't very excited for it because I found out that I would be speaking on Saturday night at about 9:30. Oh the joys of being a missionary and the Bishop thinking that you will be able to fill in. Did you notice that I said I found out, not I was asked to speak. The Bishop called the other set of elders in the ward and talked to them, and I guess somewhere in all of that I was volunteered to speak the next day. Oh the joys of being a missionary.
So yeah, that was my week. It was pretty good. There is lots of stuff happening. I hope that you all have a great week! Be safe and don't do anything I wouldn't do. I love you all!
So what I can remember from last week. Last Wednesday Elder Davis and I were finally able to go and see one of our investigators that we hadn't been able to see the entire time I have been here. His name just happened to be Jeff as well. He isn't black though. I don't know what it is but it seems like half of the people I have been teaching recently have been named Jeff. So we went and saw Jeff on Wednesday and we had a really good lesson with him. We spent most of the time answering the questions he had for us. He sure did have a lot of questions. One of the questions that he had that no one had been able to answer yet was the reason that we believe there needs to be a prophet on the Earth today. So I turned to Hebrews 13:8 which says "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day and for ever." Then we explained to him that Christ's church is always going to be the same, and that if there were prophets called before Christ came there would be prophets called after Christ came. After we shared that with him he thought about is for a second then said that was the most clear answer to that question he had ever been given. So one thing that I learned from that was that our answers to others questions don't have to be worded fancy, or be long and complicated, but they can be short, simple, and clear. It was really cool to be a part of that lesson.
We spent a lot of this past week tracting and trying to find some new investigators. We didn't get any new investigators, but we did talk to a few people who would be interested in learning more about the church. We were able to set up a lot of appointments for later this week, so we are really excited for those. We had a lot of improvement this past week and it was so much better then the week before. We are seeing a lot more things happen and the work is really starting to move forward.
The only other bit of exciting news (if you can call it exciting) was that I got to give a talk yesterday. Yay... I wasn't very excited for it because I found out that I would be speaking on Saturday night at about 9:30. Oh the joys of being a missionary and the Bishop thinking that you will be able to fill in. Did you notice that I said I found out, not I was asked to speak. The Bishop called the other set of elders in the ward and talked to them, and I guess somewhere in all of that I was volunteered to speak the next day. Oh the joys of being a missionary.
So yeah, that was my week. It was pretty good. There is lots of stuff happening. I hope that you all have a great week! Be safe and don't do anything I wouldn't do. I love you all!
Love Elder Cameron Woodward
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Mustang, Oklahoma -January 13, 2014
Hey!
Well this past week hasn't been a very interesting one for me. Not much has been happening with the work. I got sick close to the end of the week, so me and my companion weren't able to go out and get any work done on Saturday or Sunday.
Other then that there isn't too much to tell about. Really the only semi good day I had was when I was on exchanges with Elder Bolan and we got out and did some work. One day I got so sick and tired of how disgusting our apartment was and I finally broke down and cleaned everything up. I guess that growing up around Camille for all those years wasn't such a bad thing after all. So I would like to take this time to thank you Camille for teaching me how to be OCD and showing me it is ok to be a clean freak. Who would have known that would have rubbed off on me. I didn't think it would have rubbed off either until it actually happened. Who would have ever guessed that I would learn so much from my mission about real life.
Thank you all for everything that you do for me! I love you all and I hope you all have a good week
Love Elder Cameron Woodward.
Monday, January 6, 2014
Mustang, Oklahoma -January 6, 2014
Hello!
Well Oklahoma weather continues to be stupid. I am really starting to dislike how often the weather changes. One day it will be in the high 40's or the 50's and by the next day the temperature will have dropped to 15 degrees. When we woke up this morning it was 7 degrees outside and the wind chill made it feel like it was -10. That is by far the worst thing about Oklahoma. The next worst thing would definantly be there are no mountains here. I really miss the mountains.
Things are still going really well for Elder Davis and I. We are getting along really well. We haven't gotten into and fist fights yet, so I guess that is a really good thing. This past week was another interesting one for us though. Holidays really mess with missionary work because everyone is either gone or they are to busy for us to come over and see them. And what makes that funny is that in the missionary handbook it says that the holidays are some of the best times to do missionary work. That defiantly is not true here in Oklahoma. Holidays make missionary work a lot more hard.
Anyways... So as for me and the things that have happened this week. Like I kinda said, the New Year threw things off a little bit, but we still had a pretty good week. I was finally able to meet more of the people we are working with. I finally know more then one of our investgators. It is great!
So last Monday night turned out to be a really good one. It was filled with some disappointment, but hidden within the disappointment there was a miracle. So last Monday night we had an appointment set up with a potential investigator named Kristen. She is a referral from mormon.org so Elder Davis and I were really excited to go meet with her. We had a member coming out with us so that we could save some miles, but our member showed up a little late, so we ended up getting to the appointment late. When we went up to the door Kristen's mom answered the door and told us that Kristen was busy and to try again in about a half and hour. So we left and tried a couple other people nearby. When we went back to Kristen's house her mom answered again and told us that Kristen had waited around for a little while then she went out on a date with her boyfirend. So that was the disappointment. We stayed there for a couple more minutes and talked to Kristen's mom and by the time that we left we found out that Kristen's mom was also interested in learning more about the church. So that was our miracle for the day because if our appoinment hadn't fallen through we wouldn't have been able to talk to Kristen's mom and find out she wanted to know more as well. So that was really cool for us to see that things happen just the way they need to and that the Lord always knows what needs to happen.
Tuesday and Wednesday were our slow days due to New Years. We weren't supposed to go out and visit with people unless we had a set appointment with them and since we didn't have any set appointments we stayed at the apartment most of the day. Wednesday we were a little bit more fortunate and we had the Seagraves family invite us over to their house. Since all of the missionaries I live with work in the same ward we all went over to the Seagraves house. It was so much better then spending the day in the apartment. We were there almost all day long. Most of the time I helped them finish a puzzle that they had been working on while the other three Elders played Risk. Six hours later we finally finished the puzzle. That was pretty much all we did on New Years.
The Primary president asked us if we could come help with the primary activity that they had on Saturday morning. We all got to dress up as one of the Book of Mormon heros and tell them a story about us. I got to be Ammon, so I told the Story about when he protected the kings sheep. It was surprizing to see how much some of the kids already knew about these stories.It was really fun to get to go and help with that.
So a couple weeks ago one of my first dinner appointments that I had here was with the Cardon family. While we were eating dinner with them one of their sons told us that he wanted to get a suit for his eighth birthday, but his dad told him that if he wanted to get a suit when he turned eight he needed to finish the Book of Mormon by the time he turned eight. He is about two months away from his eighth birthday, so to give him some extra encouragement to read through the Book of Mormon, I told him that I would race him through it and we would see who could finish first. As of yesterday when I asked him where he was he had read to 2 Nephi 12. That is only 2 weeks after we started reading through. He is reading through it really fast for a 7 year old boy. I think it would have been really fun if one of the missionaries had done that with me when I was seven. It is really fun to get to read through the Book of Mormon while having a race with the Cardon's son. So maybe that is something that Zander can do with one of the missionaries there. I think that would be really good for him.
So one of the other miracles we have had this week happened last night. We were about to go back to the apartment for the night, but I felt like there was someone else that we needed to go see. So I asked Elder Davis if there was anyone he could think we could go visit. There were a couple of investigators close to where we were so we went over to try and visit them. While we were driving down the street our investigators lived on Elder Davis told me to pull over so we could try to see a less active before we tried our investigator. So we stopped and got out of the car and went up to Sister Bakers house. We knocked on the door and she answered. She was about to run out the door with her kids to visit her sister, but she told us that she would really like for us to stop by again sometime soon. So we left and tried our investigator, and we only talked to them for a minitue or two. The thing I thought was really cool was that the Spirit prompted me to try one more person, and even though we didn't have very much success with our investigator, we were able to see our less active and find out that she really wanted us to come over and visit her again. It was really cool to see how the Spirit can prompt us to know what to do.
Well that is all for our week. I would say it was a really good week for us. Thank you for all that you do for me! I love you all!
Love Elder Woodward
Well Oklahoma weather continues to be stupid. I am really starting to dislike how often the weather changes. One day it will be in the high 40's or the 50's and by the next day the temperature will have dropped to 15 degrees. When we woke up this morning it was 7 degrees outside and the wind chill made it feel like it was -10. That is by far the worst thing about Oklahoma. The next worst thing would definantly be there are no mountains here. I really miss the mountains.
Things are still going really well for Elder Davis and I. We are getting along really well. We haven't gotten into and fist fights yet, so I guess that is a really good thing. This past week was another interesting one for us though. Holidays really mess with missionary work because everyone is either gone or they are to busy for us to come over and see them. And what makes that funny is that in the missionary handbook it says that the holidays are some of the best times to do missionary work. That defiantly is not true here in Oklahoma. Holidays make missionary work a lot more hard.
Anyways... So as for me and the things that have happened this week. Like I kinda said, the New Year threw things off a little bit, but we still had a pretty good week. I was finally able to meet more of the people we are working with. I finally know more then one of our investgators. It is great!
So last Monday night turned out to be a really good one. It was filled with some disappointment, but hidden within the disappointment there was a miracle. So last Monday night we had an appointment set up with a potential investigator named Kristen. She is a referral from mormon.org so Elder Davis and I were really excited to go meet with her. We had a member coming out with us so that we could save some miles, but our member showed up a little late, so we ended up getting to the appointment late. When we went up to the door Kristen's mom answered the door and told us that Kristen was busy and to try again in about a half and hour. So we left and tried a couple other people nearby. When we went back to Kristen's house her mom answered again and told us that Kristen had waited around for a little while then she went out on a date with her boyfirend. So that was the disappointment. We stayed there for a couple more minutes and talked to Kristen's mom and by the time that we left we found out that Kristen's mom was also interested in learning more about the church. So that was our miracle for the day because if our appoinment hadn't fallen through we wouldn't have been able to talk to Kristen's mom and find out she wanted to know more as well. So that was really cool for us to see that things happen just the way they need to and that the Lord always knows what needs to happen.
Tuesday and Wednesday were our slow days due to New Years. We weren't supposed to go out and visit with people unless we had a set appointment with them and since we didn't have any set appointments we stayed at the apartment most of the day. Wednesday we were a little bit more fortunate and we had the Seagraves family invite us over to their house. Since all of the missionaries I live with work in the same ward we all went over to the Seagraves house. It was so much better then spending the day in the apartment. We were there almost all day long. Most of the time I helped them finish a puzzle that they had been working on while the other three Elders played Risk. Six hours later we finally finished the puzzle. That was pretty much all we did on New Years.
The Primary president asked us if we could come help with the primary activity that they had on Saturday morning. We all got to dress up as one of the Book of Mormon heros and tell them a story about us. I got to be Ammon, so I told the Story about when he protected the kings sheep. It was surprizing to see how much some of the kids already knew about these stories.It was really fun to get to go and help with that.
So a couple weeks ago one of my first dinner appointments that I had here was with the Cardon family. While we were eating dinner with them one of their sons told us that he wanted to get a suit for his eighth birthday, but his dad told him that if he wanted to get a suit when he turned eight he needed to finish the Book of Mormon by the time he turned eight. He is about two months away from his eighth birthday, so to give him some extra encouragement to read through the Book of Mormon, I told him that I would race him through it and we would see who could finish first. As of yesterday when I asked him where he was he had read to 2 Nephi 12. That is only 2 weeks after we started reading through. He is reading through it really fast for a 7 year old boy. I think it would have been really fun if one of the missionaries had done that with me when I was seven. It is really fun to get to read through the Book of Mormon while having a race with the Cardon's son. So maybe that is something that Zander can do with one of the missionaries there. I think that would be really good for him.
So one of the other miracles we have had this week happened last night. We were about to go back to the apartment for the night, but I felt like there was someone else that we needed to go see. So I asked Elder Davis if there was anyone he could think we could go visit. There were a couple of investigators close to where we were so we went over to try and visit them. While we were driving down the street our investigators lived on Elder Davis told me to pull over so we could try to see a less active before we tried our investigator. So we stopped and got out of the car and went up to Sister Bakers house. We knocked on the door and she answered. She was about to run out the door with her kids to visit her sister, but she told us that she would really like for us to stop by again sometime soon. So we left and tried our investigator, and we only talked to them for a minitue or two. The thing I thought was really cool was that the Spirit prompted me to try one more person, and even though we didn't have very much success with our investigator, we were able to see our less active and find out that she really wanted us to come over and visit her again. It was really cool to see how the Spirit can prompt us to know what to do.
Well that is all for our week. I would say it was a really good week for us. Thank you for all that you do for me! I love you all!
Love Elder Woodward
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