Well another week has come and gone here in Oklahoma. Not to mention that another month has gone by as well. It seems like it was just yesterday that I was talking about being at 16 months, and now here I am talking about how I have been out for 17 months now. Mom and Dad you were defiantly right that the time does start to go faster. Then on top of another month, we have arrived at another transfer. This past transfer just flew by! It does not seem like it has been 6 weeks.
So I guess I will start out this week by telling you all about what is happening this transfer. Elder Garner and Elder Bolan are going to be staying together in Mustang 1st West. Elder Davis is going to be transfered all the way down to Seymour, Texas so my new companion is going to be Elder Faulkner. I am now up to companion number 9. I have no idea who my new companion is so it will be interesting to see what kind of a person he is. It should be fun though. I am still going to be the District Leader here in Mustang. I thought about asking if our Zone Leaders if they were sure that I was going to stay District Leader, because I defiantly think that someone else should be given the chance to experience being a District Leader. Oh well I guess that I will continue to do what the Lord has asked me to do.
I can't really complain about how our week went. We saw some pretty cool things happen and we learned a lot of new interesting "facts." All of these so called "facts" came from a guy we visited last Thursday. His name is Ty and he just happens to be an Atheist. It was an interesting experience getting to talk to him. There was really nothing more then interesting that came out of it. So Ty used to be a Christian until he was about 18 years old, then he started to question whether or not God actually existed. From there the visit we had with him went downhill. Throughout the lesson his life story reminded me about part of the Book of Mormon where it talks about how those who once knew the truth and then turned away from it were more hard hearted then those who had never know the truth. Ty was very contentious with us and he didn't have a whole lot of real intent behind wanting to meet with us. We started to talk about Moroni 10:3-5 about how we need to have a sincere heart and real intent if we want to find out the truth. Ty told us that he would pray like we asked him to, which was fine with me, but it wasn't good enough for Heavenly Father. After he said he would pray I felt like I needed to invite him to be baptized which before that though, was the last thing I had thought of inviting him to do. I went ahead and invited him to be baptized though, and when he replied to the invitation I could see why I felt I needed to ask him to be baptized. It was Heavenly Father's way of letting us know that Ty wasn't going to do any of the things we asked him to do and to not spend more time then we needed to trying to teach him. So we will probably stop by one more time and unless there is a significant change in his attitude we probably won't go back.
We were also able to have another lesson with Brother Oakley again this past week. We saw him and his wife on Wednesday evening and we taught them about the 10 Commandments. The lesson went really well and he understood everything we talked about. He even told us that he would come to church yesterday, but Sunday morning he got sick. I'm not sure, but I think there might be a new flu going around called the Sunday Flu. It seems like it only lasts for 5-6 hours and the only time it starts to act up is on Sunday morning on weeks that you have told the missionaries that you are going to come to church. After church is over it doesn't bother you again until next Sunday. It has been really frustrating trying to get Brother Oakley to church. It seems like there is always and excuse. Hopefully we will be able to help him overcome his concerns with coming to church. We will see how that goes.
Don't worry Mom there was some good things that happened last week! I would say the best thing that happened was that on Friday I got to go on an exchange with Elder Schofield down in Mustang 2nd South. We had a really cool day full of awesome stuff! We had a really good church tour with one of their investigators. Funny story though, the investigator we had a church tour with, Leann, was someone that we had started teaching the last time I went on exchanges down to the Mustang 2nd South area. So I have now taught Leann more then the two Elders who actually serve in the area. Maybe I will be able to have another lesson with her the next time I do exchanges with them. Oh and P.S. Leann has only been taught two lessons total. So that was pretty cool! But after the church tour we stayed at the church because we got to be the judges for the Pinewood Derby that evening. We got to judge all of the cars and decide who got what awards. My favorite award that we gave was the "Best Fuel Economy." Do you have any guesses at what the award was for? The Best Fuel Economy award was given to the overall slowest car. Elder Schofield and I left the church before the awards were given so that we could avoid the mob of angry dad's if their son didn't get the right award. So that turned out to be a pretty fun evening for me. It was a lot of fun to go to another pack meeting and see all of the cub scouts running around like chicken with their heads cut off.
Well I think that about covers all of the bases for this past week. I really enjoyed it! There was a lot to learn and a lot for us to do.
Thank you for everything that you do for me! I couldn't be doing this without you guys! I love you all!
Love Elder Cameron Woodward
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