Well like usual life continues to move forward for me out here. It sounds like things have been going pretty well at home. Mom is probably already aware of this, but tornado season is just around the corner for us. We are supposed to be getting a pretty big storm come through this week, but it won't get bad until Wednesday. Don't worry though Mom, after seeing how much damage a tornado causes I don't plan on going outside to see a tornado anytime soon. And yes we do have a storm shelter that we can go to in case of an emergency. Enough of that though.
So this past week was an ok one for Elder Faulkner and I. It wasn't the best week that I have ever had, but we were able to see a couple of miracles happen. Miracles always make things so much better for us. Last night we were out with one of our members and we decided to stop by Sister Jackson's house. I don't know if I have told you anything about Sister Jackson before, but her husband recently passed away. Sister Jackson was sitting out in her garage when we got there so we sat outside and talked to her for a couple of minutes. She mentioned that she was going to be remodeling her house, so being missionaries we offered to come over and help her with anything. She told us that she had a lot of painting that she was going to be doing in a couple of weeks and asked if we could come help her with that. Of course we jumped at the opportunity to give service. The miracle that happened though was that the member who was with us, Brother Hooser, offer to get a sprayer from his work and come over to spray all of the paint on the walls, which would save hours and hours of work. That got a really good reaction from Sister Jackson and she really started to open up. It was really cool to see the involvement of the ward members in trying to help her right now. I really feel like if we can get a lot of members involved in helping Sister Jackson right now that there is a good chance she will start coming back to church.
One of the other great things that happened this past week was that we were able to go and see our investigator Jeff again. We saw him last Thursday evening and we had Brother Bynum there with us. We had a really good lesson about the priesthood. He had questions about why we believed that you needed to be baptized in the Mormon church. Pretty much he had questions about priesthood authority. So we were able to teach him all about the priesthood and how Christ gave it to his apostles, then the priesthood was lost during the great apostasy. We then got into the restoration and how the priesthood was restored through Joseph Smith. I felt like we answered a lot of his questions and helped him to understand the importance of having the priesthood. We left him with one of the restoration pamphlets and asked him to read about the restoration of the priesthood. We are going to be seeing him on Wednesday evening so wee will see how all of his reading went. We are defiantly going to be inviting him to come and watch general conference though.
So speaking of General Conference, I am so excited for this weekend! Conference on the mission is defiantly a different experience for me. Now that I have been on a mission for as long as I have, I have defiantly learned to love Conference time. It is one of the things that I look forward to every April and October. It is fantastic to be able to hear from the Prophet and Apostles! It is going to be an exciting weekend for sure!
Well I think that is all for this week. We are doing really well and don't have much to worry about. I am slowly learning to love it here in Mustang. There are a lot of really good members here. Thank you for all that you guys do! I love all of you so much.
Love Elder Woodward
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