It sounds like everything at home is going just as it should be. It didn't sound like there has been anything that has really changed. It is probably a good thing that Dad hasn't had Gislene and Zander doing any work out at the farm. Who knows though, they could do a really good job at gathering the eggs. It is probably just a better idea to let them play DS and watch movies instead of finding out what would happen in Dad let them try to do something.
It is good to hear that everything is going well up in Canada as well. Like always there is something happening with soccer. I don't know what would happen if the family tried to go an entire week without having to do anything with soccer. That would probably be a sign that the end of the world is coming. Good luck to Darcy and Emmie at their next soccer camp later on this week.
This past week was very different from other weeks for Elder Tanner and I. I don't remember if I mentioned it last week, but when we were doing some service for a member a couple weeks ago Elder Tanner ended up getting some sort of spider bite on his arm. At first it didn't start out to bad but a couple days later his wrist around the bite got swollen and the bite area started turning black. Needless to say there was something wrong. So this week we went to the doctors they gave him some stuff for the spider bite and we left. To go along with the bite, he started to develop a rash from something. So the reason that I am telling you all of this is because of everything that happened it prevented us from being able to go out and work as much. When we were out working Elder Tanner's rash would get really itchy and start to ooze stuff so on the doctors orders we spent a whole lot of time in the house we live at out of the heat so things would get better. Things have started to get better with his rash. So the only things that we were really able to do this week was go to set appointments where we wouldn't be outside in the heat. Other then set appointments we didn't get out much. The Lord definitely blessed us yesterday though.
So like I said we only went to set appointments and so we had a couple of appointments yesterday that we went to and saw a lot of miracle with them. The first one was with our investigator Sarah. We ended up finding Sarah and her family while we were out visiting a different potential and Elder Tanner and I saw her and the family sitting on the porch looking at us, so we decided to go over and talk to them. They told us that when they saw us on the other man's porch they thought we were the FBI. We have been going back to visit them pretty regularly, but we have mostly only been able to talk with Sarah. Anyways, so yesterday when we went over to see Sarah she invited us inside and she had all of her family there the sit in on the lesson. Then she had also sent her significant other to get one of their elderly friends who asked if she could come over for the lesson as well. So I think total we had 9 or 10 people at the lesson not including us. It was really cool. Elder Tanner and I taught them about the Plan of Salvation. Almost all of Sarah's family was involved and paying attention. Out of however many people were there we counted three of them as new investigators mainly because they were the ones we had seen the most often. We are definitely planning on working with the entire family because the Branch out here could really use a new family in the branch. Elder Tanner and I both feel like they are so prepared to hear the gospel.
The other miracle that we saw yesterday was with another investigator named Shannon. Shannon is someone that we met on the 4th of July because of the booth that we had set up. Shannon is another person that we feel is really prepared to hear the gospel. Yesterday was the second time that we had gone to see Shannon. She wasn't a new investigator yet because the first time we went over we spent some time getting to know her. Anyways, so we saw her yesterday and taught her about the Restoration and Joseph Smith. The reason we feel she is really prepared is because shortly after she came and talked to us at the booth her sister started to share a whole bunch of anti Mormon literature and normally when something like that happens is when people tell us they don't want us to come over. With Shannon though pretty much the exact oppostie of that happened. Shannon told us that after her sister read her all of the anti mormon stuff she told her sister that she didn't want to hear that stuff because she wanted to go straight to the source (us) to find out what we believe. So that was a miracle in and of itself but ontop of that she has a really sincere desire to know if this is true. She kept reiterating how much she wanted to know if this was true throughout the lesson. We have another appointment with Shannon on Thursday and I definitely feel like if she reads and prays between now and then she can have an answer about if this is Christ's restored church.
So just yesterday we were able to get four new investigators and two member present lessons. That was a miracle for sure because of the slow week we had had due to what happened with Elder Tanner. Heavenly Father was blessing us for having done everything we could throughout the week to do missionary work despite having had to stay inside for most of it.
Things have been going really well for us! We are enjoying our time here in Anadarko. Thanks for everything that you guys do for me! I will let you know what happens next week with transfers. Thanks again.
Love Elder Woodward
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