Things out here in Oklahoma sure have been really crazy over the past week. We have had a lot of good stuff happen and a lot of not so good things as well. As you know transfers have come around again and we had a lot of surprising changes here in our District. Nothing is going to change for Elder Tanner and I. We will be here in Anadarko for at least another transfer. The surprise came Sunday morning when the Sisters told us what was happening with them. President Walkenhorst called them at 10:40pm on Saturday and told both Sister Hirschi and Sister Safley that they were going to get transfered. If it wasn't bad enough to hear that we were losing both of our Sisters it was definitely bad to hear they were being replaced by Elders. Not that having Elders is going to be an entirely bad thing, but our branch president here has had some REALLY bad experiences with Elders in the past and now we are going to have two sets of Elders. It will be interesting to see what is going to happen with the branch when we get another set of Elders. Anyways so that is the news with transfers. It is going to be a really big change not having the Sisters around anymore. Oh well this is what President felt like would be good. We had better be getting some dang good Elders here or I will be so ticked!
Besides all of the crazy dumb things happening with transfers, Elder Tanner and I had a pretty good week. We were able to have a couple more lessons with Sarah last week which both went really well. The first lesson we had with her was on Tuesday. We were able to get a Sister in the branch, Sister Blanchard, to come to that lesson with us. Sister Blanchard turned out to be a great fellowshipper for Sarah. They started talking right away and got along really well. So at our lesson with Sarah on Tuesday we read through 2 Nephi 31 and talked a lot about baptism and why it is important. I don't know exactly at which point Sarah said this, but one of her comments during the lesson was that she would probably need to be re-baptized. You could definitely tell the Spirit was there working on her in order for her to feel like she needed to be baptized again. We invited Sarah to be baptized on August 31st and she said that she would prepare for that day. So then when we set up a return appointment we planned to have it at the church building so we could have a church tour so she could be familiar with the church before she came. Then on Thursday we were able to have the Church tour with her. It was an almost perfect time to have the church tour with her. It was great to get her to the church and show her around. The Spirit was there and it was really strong! Then yesterday Sarah and some of her family came out to church. It was great to get to see them there because it shows that they are truely committed and the really are interested in learning more about the church. There were a lot of miracles with Sarah this week.
We weren't able to have another lesson with Shannon because she got sick and still isn't feeling better. She can't be sick forever though so we will be able to get to see her soon.
One of the other really good lessons that we had last week was last night. We had gone to a small town about 10 miles North of Anadarko to do some work up there. We went to try two potential investigators, Brooke and Krissy, who ended up becoming investigators. We had a lesson with them about the Restoration and Joseph Smith. It ended up being a really good lesson. They both committed to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. We shoule be making a trip back up there on Tuesday to visit with them again.
So that is about all from me. It was a fun week! Thanks for all that you guys do for me. Be safe and don't do anything dumb.
Love, Elder Woodward
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