It sounds like things have been just as crazy as ever in the Woodward home. Like always there has been soccer, soccer, and more soccer. I sounds like Zander is having fun with soccer this year. I'm not really surprised that all he wants to do is dribble to ball and score. He is pretty independent. Hopefully the girls don't start to get an attitude like that.
I am so excited to be able to listen to conference this weekend. I have always been to excited to watch General Conference as a missionary. It is one of my favorite times of the year! Last April Lois (she is the lady who got baptized in Mustang) watched a session of conference and the only question that she had about conference was about how many pipes there were in the organ at the conference center. It was pretty cool. There are always a lot of miracles that happen around conference time, so I am excited to see what will happen this time. Elder Tanner and I have been inviting a lot of people to watch conference this weekend. It is going to be a really fun weekend.
One of the things that I am really excited for next week is that I get to go back up to Woodward for a baptism next week. There is an investigator that I worked with while I was up there that is getting baptized and they invited me to come back for the baptism. It is really exciting to know that this investigator is getting baptized after all this time. I will be sure to take pictures so that you can all see.
Last week we got to go see our investigators, Jose and Angelica. Jose is in the process of recovering from an open heart surgery that he had last week. Jose is doing really well for just having had surgery. I am always amazed with that man. Jose is such a great example of a faithful person. Even with everything that he has gone through recently he is still laughing and joking with us when we go over. I was hoping that he could get baptized before I go home, but since he just had heart surgery, it probably isn't very likely to happen. We had a couple of really good lessons with Jose and Angelica last week. One of the things we taught them was about the 10 commandments. Normally when we teach the 10 commandments we teach them using hand signs. For the sixth commandment which is thou shalt not kill, the hand sign we use is finger guns. Jose decided to crack a joke when we reviewed all the commandments and instead of saying thou shalt not kill he said "no boom boom." The way Jose said it was really funny and so we all started laughing.
Another really cool thing that happened was when we were out in Hinton this past week. There is a part member family that we are teaching up there. The are the Finney family. When we were talking with Sister Finney she told us that she had been talking to her husband and asked him if he was ever going to join the church and Brother Finney had told her that he was going to join the church he just wasn't sure when. That was super cool to hear about. We have been working with the Finney's for a long time now so it was cool to hear that he has been making some progress and his heart is starting to be softened. That was a really cool day for us.
We had the primary program here in the branch yesterday. Like always the Primary program was great! We heard that when they were practicing for their program it was super crazy and the teachers had no idea how it was all going to come together. Actuall the way it was described to us was that is was like trying to heard a flock of cats. It all came together though. What the leaders did in order to motivate the kids to learn the songs was that the kids were promised an eight layer cake if they learned all the songs. It was a pretty impressive cake.
Well thank you all for everything that you do! I love and appreciate all that you guys do for me everyday. I will see you guys in a couple of weeks!
Love Elder Woodward
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