Well mom probably made the announcement that yesterday was my 16 month mark. It is hard to believe how fast the months go by. It would be nice if they could slow down a little bit, but I don't think that is ever going to happen so I am doing the best I can to make the most of every day. It is great to get to be a missionary at this time. One thing I have really enjoyed getting to see while I have been out is all of the changes that were/ are being made in the mission because of lowering the age missionaries can leave on their mission. There has been a lot of things change just while I have been out, so I'm excited to see what other changes will happen over the next 8 months.
Wednesday was a great day for me. Recently President Walkenhorst changed the policy on how often we can go attend the temple so this past week my zone got to go up to the temple. It was a really great experience! I loved having to opportunity to go up to the temple. It is really nice being so close to the temple right now. It is defiantly a change from being 2 1/2 hours away from the temple. Even though we are so close to the temple that still took up the majority of our day. There wasn't a whole lot of time left to go out and work.
We had a hard week getting in to see some of our investigators. There were only a couple of people that we were able to see throughout the week. We were able to see a part member family, the Oakley's, that we have been working with. We were able to have two lessons with them last week. The first time we saw them we talked about the Plan of Salvation, then when we saw them again on Sunday we taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I thought that both of those lessons went really well. We have invited Brother Oakley (he is the investigator) to be baptized a couple of times now and he said that he would be, but elder Davis and I have held off on setting a date until they understand the importance of coming to church weekly. That has been one of the only holdups with their progression. Sister Oakley did come to church this past week so we are making some steps in the right direction. Elder Davis and I are both really excited to get to keep working with them.
The only other investigator of ours that we were able to see this past week was Darrel. In case I haven't told you about him before, he has been a member of the Roman Catholic church his entire life. He is a really nice man who loves us going over to see him. It has been tough trying to teach him though because he is so indoctrinated in his church that whenever we tell him something that we believe happened he replies and tells us that everything we talked about is in direct contradiction to everything that he believes. So it has been really hard working with him because as we talk with him he gets very contentious, but he doesn't realize the contention that is there, and because of the contention is it hard to feel the Spirit. So that is Darrel for you.
So that was pretty much my week. I am still doing really well. Thank you for everything that you do for me everyday! I love you all!
Love Elder Cameron Woodward
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