We had another really good week this week! As of yesterday night, we have 5 investigators that have a baptismal date, 2 in January and 3 in February! Over the last two weeks we have found 9 new investigators which is A TON for this area. Normally two a week is considered a good week, so we've had some really good couple of weeks! The only sad thing is that I'll be gone for all of those baptisms because transfers are coming up in a couple of weeks and I'm most likely getting transferred. There's also another 13 year old boy who's family is all members but he has Down Syndrome and is afraid to go under the water that we are working with to get him ready for baptism too! He wants to be baptized so he can help pass the sacrament, he's just a little scared. He's my favorite person ever. He started calling me "New Guy" when I first got here and he stills calls me that to this day, even though I've been here for five months now and Elder K is newer than I am.
It snowed over the weekend and we got a couple of inches and it is still here! We woke up on Sunday morning to snow on the ground for the first time. It was wonderful. But because of the snow it made it so lots of people couldn't make it to church, so there were only around 30 people there. It was all good though cuz our only recent convert Ed Smith got the Melchizedek Priesthood and that's all that mattered! Okay, not really, the Sacrament mattered as well, but he got the Priesthood! He was so happy and it was the biggest smile I've seen from him since his wife passed away a month and a half ago.
The only problem we have here in Tiffin is getting people to come to church! We commit them to come and they say they will, but then they don't show up! It's a little bit frustrating. One of our new investigators is just nervous about coming to a new church and we've only met with her once before and she seems really promising. We just knocked on her door one day but she was getting ready to leave to go pick her son up but we gave her one of the Light the World (Christmas Initiative) cards and she said she would check it out and that we could come back the next night. When we went back the next day, she did watch the video and said it was heart warming and brought tears to her eyes. And then she chatted with a lady from England on mormon.org and they are staying in touch to see how everything goes with meeting with us. We are going over again tomorrow to see her.
We are still meeting with Melissa and Leah and have started to teach them the commandments. They are the two on date for January, but that might have to move a little bit back if they don't start coming to church soon! Still working on getting them there. One of our investigators dropped us yesterday because they just aren't interested at this time and the Book of Mormon wasn't coming together for her. But when you lose one you gain one, and we got to meet with the daughter of another member who just moved in with her and committed her to baptism in February! Good things are happening. and Zone Conference was last week which is always good.
Hopefully it snows more this week!
Love Elder Woodward
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