I would agree with you that it seems like it was yesterday that it was P-day and we were emailing home. It is crazy how time flies. There isn't a whole lot that I can do to slow things down, so I figure that it is best to make the best of the time I have left. It is crazy that it has almost been two years since I left. I wouldn't mind staying out here a little longer, but I am sure that all of you guys are ready for me to come home. Well too bad the Lord still has me for another 6 weeks!
Last week contained a little bit of everything for me and Elder Tanner. I guess that is what I should have come to expect by now. I am starting to get really bad at remembering all of what we did the week before, but I will do my best to remember.
Recently the Anadarko branch has been doing a 40 day fast. If you have never heard of that before here is what it is. So each day a member here signs up to fast for one day and fasts specifically for missionary work here in the Anadarko branch. The goal of this is to have a different member fasting every day for 40 days straight. It has been a really good way to get the members involved in missionary work and to help get them excited to help us with missionary work. There have been a lot of really cool things happen because of this 40 day fast and we are only halfway through. There have been a whole lot of miracles happen so far.
Yesterday we had a really cool miracle happen. Church had just gotten over for the day and Elder tanner and I were talking to some of the members, when our Branch Mission Leader, Brother Bateman, came up to us with a couple who had just walked into the church a couple of minutes earlier. He introduced us to the couple and told us what they had told him. This couple was Cheyenne and Cody. We had met Cheyenne a couple of weeks earlier at the Indian Expo that was going on here. She was working at the gate and so we saw her and talked to her every time that we went over there. We found out that she lived in Arizona, so I really didn't think about talking to her about the church or asking if we could have missionaries come visit her. Who would have ever thought though that Cheyenne and her husband, Cody, would have moved here to Anadarko recently. They had just moved here and were looking for a church to go to and of all of the churches here in Anadarko, they chose to walk into our building. It was a definitely a miracle that they walked into church at the exact time so that we could talk to them. There are so many other ways that meeting Cheyenne and Cody at church was a miracle, but my favorite part about it was that out of everyone that Elder Philbrick gave a Book of Mormon to, (334 of them if you remember) the only thing that we have seen come out of those 4 days at the expo was a lady that we didn't "force" the church or the Book of Mormon on.
Like I said earlier by the time P-day come I have a whole lot of trouble remembering what happened at the beginning of last week. So that is really all for my email this week. I will probably write you a letter later today with some of the other things that we did last week. I really am sorry that my memory is turning into mush and I can't remember anything.
I hope that you all have a great week! I love you guys!
Love Elder Woodward
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