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
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