Well it sure sounds like things are going well back home. Like always there are always a lot of different things going on that keep mom and dad busy.
Missionary work sure has been keeping me busy this last week. It was a harder week to get out and do stuff because of how cold it has been the past week. It has been really hard to be out walking around in the cold, because with they way the weather is, once you get cold you are going to stay cold. So it was a rough week. We did see lots of exciting things happen this week though.
We were finally able to have a lesson with one of our potential investigators, Kristen. We had been trying to meet with her for about a month, but something always happened that prevented us from having a lesson. We had an appointment set up with her on Thursday, but when we went to her house she told us that her mom was embarrassed about how messy the house was so we wouldn't be able to come in. I thought that we would just end up setting up another appointment and coming back later, but Kristen told us that she would be willing to follow us somewhere to talk to us. So we came to the library and had a lesson here. It went pretty well. The only kinda bad thing was that the member we had at our lesson kept taking us off on some really random tangents, and Elder Davis and I didn't get much of a chance to speak. The important thing was that we were able to sit down and have a lesson with Kristen. We were both pretty excited about that.
The other miracle that we had this past week was with Amanda. We weren't expecting it to happen, but it did. We were out last night with Brother Cardon, and we wanted to stop by Sister Crye's house to see if we were still ok to come over on Thursday for the lesson with her and Amanda. When Sister Crye answered the door she invited us in right away. Before we had the chance to ask if they were still planning on Thursday Sister Crye started to tell us about how they were going to have some company over on Thursday so that day wasn't going to work, but since we were there she really wanted us to talk to Amanda right then. She also mentioned that when they found out that Thursday wasn't going to work Amanda started telling her mom that she needed to call us and let us know that Thursday wouldn't work. So that was really cool to hear that Amanda was wanting to let us know about Thursday. So last night we were able to sit down and teach Amanda about the restoration of the gospel. We had a really good lesson. She committed to read and pray about the Book of Mormon.
And then only other big thing that really happened this week was that I got to give my first training at District Meeting. I thought it went pretty well considering the fact that on Thursday I had planned to talk about a principle called "we invite, they commit, we follow up." It is basically about the importance of investigator keeping their commitments and what we can do to help them do that. Then on Friday morning when we got to the church I felt like I needed to change what I was going to talk about. I was so afraid that was going to happen. So with what little time I had before District Meeting started, I changed my training to being a consecrated missionary. So I hope it went pretty well.
Other then that we had a pretty normal week. Things went pretty well for us and they are going to keep getting better. I love you all and hope that you have a great week!
Love Elder Woodward
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