But last really was better than the other weeks. Monday night my back hurt worse than it did on Sunday night, but then Tuesday night and the rest of the week it's been good. Every once in a while I get a little pain but nothing like it used to be. Didn't ever go to the doctor so I don't know if something was wrong with me or not. But either way it got better so hopefully it wasn't that bad. The weather finally cooled down for Sunday and Monday when we weren't out riding bikes, but then got super hot again like normal when we were on bikes. I knew it was going to happen. But then Friday it cooled down quite a bit and Saturday it rained. It was coming down hard. It's been the first time this summer that is has really rained and rained hard. We had been doing some service and were in the rain for a minute when it started to rain and we got soaked. After only one minute. It was coming down. We looked like wet dogs. Once it stopped raining it felt really nice outside. It was way cooled down and felt like a Utah night after it rains. Normally it's still hot at night. And then yesterday it rained a little bit to keep it cool and it is currently raining so hopefully it stays nice outside.
So now to the good part. We went over to a members home and had dinner. They had some super good burgers and fries. Then Tuesday we had dinner at another members home. Well we were supposed to but we were on exchanges again so I was over in Findlay for the day but we had dinner planned. Then on Wednesday we had dinner again at another members home and ate tacos with homemade salsa and guacamole. Then on Thursday we had tacos again but at a different members home. Then on Friday we had a dinner appointment with some more members and they were going to make us ribs but she got sick and didn't want to make us sick so she had to cancel. :( Then on Saturday we had dinner with some more members and they made a super good pot roast and potatoes. Then yesterday we had dinner again with the vegan family we eat with every Sunday and we had chili. But now this week since basically everyone in the branch signed up to feed us last week we only have one meal on Friday because the lady that cancelled felt bad so she moved it to this week instead.
Now to the really good part that you probably thought I was going to talk about in the last paragraph but was loving the food we got. So the lady who walked into church last week is named Marissa. We went over the burger family's house last Monday for dinner and to teach her. We taught her the restoration and had a really good lesson. Like, a bomb lesson. It really helped having the members there. She really liked the lesson. We gave her a Book of Mormon and committed her to read it. And we asked if she'd be baptized. And she said yes. She didn't have any concerns with it, she just said yes. No questions, just yes. So we set the date for August 26 because the branch temple trip was supposed to be the next weekend so then there would be enough time to get her membership record number so she could go to the temple that next week to do baptisms. She stayed up really late reading the Book of Mormon and found a study guide online that she was using. We met again with her on Wednesday with the Branch President and she had some questions that we answered for her. She came to church yesterday but had to leave early to work because one of her coworkers quit. But she came to sacrament meeting and then we taught her the Plan of Salvation during the second hour because no one else was there for gospel principles. She said that she has read into Mosiah in the past week and she's praying about it. We are meeting with her again tonight, and probably Wednesday, and maybe again later in the week. We always have to find a place to meet because she lives with her grandparents and they wouldn't be happy if she was meeting with us. She leaves her house in gym clothes with her gym bag and then changes in the car to meet with us so her grandparents don't know. We're going to talk to her soon about that and the fact that she needs to tell them. But so far it's going amazing. The temple trip is getting moved to another week so after learning a little bit more about her and her past we decided to move the date to September 10, but then after we realized that that weekend is stake conference so it probably won't work and the area general authority wants the priesthood meeting to be a full two hours so he moved it to Saturday, so a lot of members will be gone all day for that. So now we either have to move it to the 17th of September of back to the original date of August 26. We don't want to have to wait another month for it but we might have to.
Other than Marissa, we have been doing other missionary work. There's another investigator that we have slowly been working with but he goes out of town just about every weekend so he never comes to church. And that's about it. We're still trying to find more investigators but it's the same old stuff. People not interested or Catholic. That's about it.
That's all for this week,
Elder Woodward
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