It sure sounds like things have been kinda crazy this past week. Like always there is always something to do with soccer. I would just like to time to tell you that you are all crazy for going out and sitting in freezing cold weather to watch Emmie and Darcy play soccer. I would have tried to find a place to park where I could see the field and I would have sat in the car the entire game. You have to remember though that I am not as committed to soccer as the rest of the family.
As for this past week for me... It was a crazy one to say the least. To sum it up into a nutshell: 2 exchanges with the district, a 6 hour long meeting on Thursday with some of the members from the Missionary Department in Salt Lake, crazy bad weather that caused at least one Jeep to get flipped upside down off the side of the roadway, and a church tour with one of our investigator who we set a baptismal date with.
So first, starting Saturday and going into Sunday we had a really really bad (well bad for Oklahoma) storm come through. It was one of the strangest storms I have ever seen though. Saturday it was lightly raining most of the day, then we had a cold front move in so everything that was wet froze, then it started to snow, then it stopped snowing, then it started to hail, then some more snow, more hail, thunder and lightning in the middle of the snowstorm, then it stopped snowing and everything froze over. It was a very strange storm. I can now say with assurance that if you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait 5 minutes and it will change. But the silver lining to the storm is that we got grounded so we couldn't go out and work so I spent 3+ hours in the kitchen cleaning everything and de-junking. Our kitchen finally looks somewhat inhabitable and we didn't have a single dirty dish in the apartment. It was fantastic, but I'm not expecting it to last very long. I'm guessing that by tomorrow evening our sink will be full of dirty dishes again even though the dishwasher is empty right now. It seems like everyone I live with is anti fill up the dishwasher.
So last Thursday was a pretty cool day for me. Two guys from the Missionary Department came out here to visit the mission and they wanted to have a meeting with all of the District Leaders, Zone Leaders, Sister Training Leaders, and the Assistants. It was a really good meeting and there was a lot of really good stuff that they talked about. Brother Jarmin who is in charge of ALL of the training at the MTC was one of the two men that came out to visit, and he gave some really good training's to us. The first one was all about our purpose as missionaries to Invite others to come unto Christ. One of the other training that we received was about how giving church tours can help us get investgators at Sacrament meeting. It was a really good meeting. So the next day we gave one of our investigators a church tour to see how it would go. Things went pretty well for us during the tour. Afterwards we were able to have a lesson with him and we talked about keeping the Sabbath day holy. He understood everything really well and didn't seem to have any questions about it. He committed to start keeping the Sabbath day holy and coming to church. We shared with him that we would like to set a goal for when he would like to be baptized and he said March 29th was a reasonable date for him. We then asked what he thought he would need to start doing to prepare to be baptized and he told us that he felt like he needed to come to church. So we were expecting to see him at church yesterday, but we had church cancelled due to the weather. So I can now see why church tours are so effective. I feel like the church tour really helped Brother Oakley increase his faith.
So it turned out to be a pretty good week for us. Thank you for all that you are doing for me each day. I love you all!
Love Elder Cameron Woodward
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