This week was about the same as last week. Still not a lot of stuff happening. Still really hot. I kind of know the area, but not super well. We went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders on Thursday and they both came here so it seemed like we got a lot done that day but only because we had extra help. Elder Nageli and Elder Edmond found and 11 year old boy and his mom and the cousin of the boy that lives in the same area that were super interested so they set up an appointment to go back on Friday so Friday was going to be a super good day. We got there on Friday and the mom was "sick" so we tried teaching her boyfriend/husband, I'm not really sure which it is, and there is a slight chance that he was high on some drugs. So that was a bummer that we didn't get to teach them. We left them with a Book of Mormon and the 11 year old boy was running around with it talking to his friends about it so hopefully something good comes from it. Then we went to the cousins house and she's nine years old and her dad answered the door and didn't let us really say much before shutting the door. So both those appointments and potentials were shot down pretty quickly. We were on our bikes and there was a storm coming in with lightning and rain so we decided to wait out under a tree for the rain to stop. It has never rained during the day since I've been here, so it was a little bit abnormal for it to be raining. As we were sitting there, this man got out of his truck and started walking towards us. He didn't look like the best citizen, but he came over and started talking to us. He just talked and talked and talked. He told us his whole life story and how he's been to jail 40 times and he's only 23 years old and how he's done basically every drug and hates the drugs but he's addicted to them so he can't get off of them. His entire life story he just gave to us. He said that as he was sitting in his truck he saw us and just had the feeling that he needed to come and talk to us, so that's what he did. He said that at night he thinks about God and just gets this warm, fuzzy feeling when he does. We set up an appointment the next day to go and meet with him to start teaching him. It was a way cool experience to see how Heavenly Father works. We couldn't teach the people we were supposed to be teaching, it started to rain in the middle of the day, we decided to stay at the apartments and wait for the rain, and he showed up and decided to come talk to us. Everything worked out so perfectly like it normally does when Heavenly Father helps out. Sounds like a perfect experience, right? Well Saturday we stopped by for our appointment and he wasn't home. His car was outside, but he didn't answer. So we tracted around his house and went back an hour later. There was music inside and we could hear him on the phone. Perfect timing, right? Well we knocked on the door and we heard him turn down the music and continue talking on the phone. So we knocked again. And he just didn't answer the phone. It was definitely annoying and frustrating. One hopefully good day turned bad and then turned amazing which led into the next day which turned back to bad.
There's still not a lot of investigators, and nobody wants to come to church. We had to talk in church and it was awful. Both of us and the branch mission leader were all given the same talk from conference to talk about, so it was probably really repetitive and boring for everyone.
Love,
Elder Woodward
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