We were able to spend a lot more time out working last week since both of the rashes that we had are gone. Last week we had the American Indian Expo here in Anadarko. I called it an expo because that is technically what it is, but it was very similar to the Cache Valley Fair, it was focused more towards the American Indians though. The Senior couple here talked to whoever was in charge of it and were able to arrange for us to have a booth at the expo, so we got to spend a couple of hours each day working at the booth. We had a lot of success come from it and we were able to contact a couple of people who seemed really interested in learning more about the church. We had a lot more success with people who were visiting and live somewhere else, but there were still a lot of people from Anadarko. So we should be able to get a couple of new investigators from the booth. Over the four days that the expo was going we (mostly Elder Philbrick) gave out somewhere around 300 copies of the Book of Mormon. So it did turn out to be very successful.
We did spend a lot of our time away from the booth and got to go visit a couple of our investigators as well. We still haven't been able to go and see Sarah since she came to church several weeks ago. We are still going out to try and visit her since she still has a baptismal date for the 31st, but we haven't been able to make contact with her. She has been really busy the past couple of weeks, but we are determined to visit with her again! We were able to have a lesson with Trevor and his Sister last week. I probably haven't told you much about Trevor yet. So Trevor has been meeting with the missionaries for 4 or 5 months now and taking the discussions. Right about the time that I got here to Anadarko Trevor's sister, Tillie, came up from Florida to visit. Just before Tillie came up here she was meeting with missionaries there and got baptized. Trevor and Tillie didn't know that the other were meeting with the missionaries until after Tillie was baptized. Anyways, so when Tillie came to visit, which was right when I got here, Trevor decided that he was going to go back to Florida with his sister to get away from the negative influences he had here. That is probably why I haven't told you about Trevor yet. So after a short time, Tillie decided that she was going to move back here to Oklahoma, and so Trevor came back with her so we started to teach Trevor again. Last week we had a really good lesson with Trevor and Tillie about the Priesthood and why we need the Priesthood on the earth. We taught this lesson using the Gospel Principles manual, which actually turned out to be very good for both Trevor and Tillie.
One of the other cool miracle that we saw this past week was with a less active member that we met when we went to eat at Pizza Hut a couple weeks ago. So as it turns out this less active, Andrea, is actually a less active that lived up in the Woodward Branch while I was serving up there. I don't remember ever actually meeting her while I was up there. Andrea ended up moving down here to Anadarko last December which nobody knew about because her records weren't moved here. We went over and visited with her and she was very open and she told us that she really wanted to start going back to church. It was really cool to run into her and have some common things to talk about.
I hope that you all have a great week! Talk to you guys soon!
Love Elder Woodward
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