For the record I would like to let everyone know that I am NOT a slacker. I clearly remember that I told you about Elder Bolan when I called home on Christmas day. So don't be calling me a slacker because you forgot that I already told you that I was with Elder Bolan. I also was not even aware that we were supposed to be guessing who was writing the emails. So to re-emphasize what was said in conference yesterday by Elder Ballard and the things that he learned from his mission, and to share something I have learned, it is VERY important to be clear and simple when you are inviting someone to do something. For example, when you are telling your son to guess who has been writing the emails. So you need to be sure from now on that your invitations are clear and direct. And yes I will be following up with you next week to see how you are doing. In answer to your question, I'm going to say that it was dad.
So now for things that have happened here in Oklahoma from the date of March 31st to April 6. For starters Elder Faulkner and I have managed to keep our running streak of having 0 investigators at sacrament meeting. After much review, we have now been able to more accurately convey the true running total. It has now been more then 21 weeks since our area has had an investigator at sacrament meeting. It is getting really frustrating that no one will come to sacrament. Enough of that though.
This past week was a really slow one for us over here in our area. We did have a bright spark of hope come to us this week as we were finally able to get a new investigator this week. Her name is Louis. So Louis works at the laundromat where we do our laundry every week. A member of our ward also happens to own this laundromat, so Louis has had a lot of contact with missionaries for the four years she has worked there, and has also had a lot of contact with members of the church. This past week was when she decided that she wanted to join the church and take the missionary discussions. So on Friday after our District Meeting we went over with Sister Ridley (she owns the Laundromat) and started teaching Louis. We had a really good lesson with her and we even committed her to be baptized. Unfortunately though because of the excitement that we had, we wanted to commit her to be baptized before this transfer was over, so we set the date for April 26th, so she would have had to watch a session of conference and come to church every week before she could get baptized. The unfortunate part came because as far as we are aware, she didn't watch any of conference. So we now have to reschedule her baptismal date for another day. It was still really good to have been able to start teaching Louis and help her prepare to get baptized.
I really enjoyed conference this time! There was so much that was talked about and so many good talks. I don't know which one was my favorite. They were all just so good! Who would have ever thought that I would enjoy sitting and watching 10 hours of tv. It was great though!
Well that is about all for me this week. I hope that you all have a good week!
Love Elder Woodward
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