Well hello there!
So I'm gonna start off with the transfer news. My time in Lakewood is coming to an end and I am continuing my journey eastward to Alliance with a new companion, Elder Amparan. Elder Weekes is going to be staying here and taking over the area with Elder Stohs. I do know that he just finished being trained so he's been out for about 3 months now, and he was trained by my MTC companion, Elder Walker. So things are going to be good and life is moving on here.
So going back a couple of weeks to fill you all in, we had zone conference a week ago, and like I said last week, it was different. They spent a lot of time talking about and giving us ideas to use the colleges in our areas, but the only problem is that we don't have a single college or university in our area. So that whole time I was listening and paying attention, but it just didn't really apply to me at the current time, so we couldn't really apply the things we learned. Other than that zone conference was good and then topped it off with getting a car and then going on exchanges with our zone leaders. It was the first time that I've been on exchanges with the zone leaders since being here and it was one of the best days we've had in a long time! They have some sketchy areas which I was in, but it was all good. There were some people that we were talking to as we were biking around that said, "You feel safe riding around on your bikes in this area?" So we just said yup and kept going after we talked to them. But we had a lot of people to teach and we did some service at a Baptist church food pantry helping people take food out to their car. That was a neat experience doing that. We were biking around a lot and Elder Hunt is amazing at talking with everyone! There was nobody that passed that he didn't just go up to and talk, and we ended up getting them a bunch of new investigators. I could go on forever about how great the day was.
So the car that we got last week, it was just for a week. And we didn't know that until after we had cleaned the entire thing top to bottom and put our stuff in it and finally enjoyed having it. It had to go into the shop, so yesterday during district meeting, the vehicle coordinator took it in to have the battery checked because it kept dying on us. The only problem is that we weren't told that we weren't getting it back until it was at the shop with all of our stuff in it AND our bikes on the back of it. So now we don't have a car and we currently don't have bikes to do anything with, and we don't have bus passes because it's a new month and we didn't buy them because we thought we would have the car for a little bit longer. But my new area is going to have a car, I just don't know when I will get my bike back to use. I'm not complaining though!
Last Wednesday, we had a really cool experience. There was a recent convert that we hadn't seen in a long time or that hasn't come to church in a long time, so we decided that we were just going to go stop by and say hi and set up an appointment for another time to come back. The living situation is a little complicated, but she lives with a member who has like 7 grandkids that she watches all the time. When we got there, one of the little boys who is only 10 starting pulling chairs around the table and gathered all of the other kids because he wanted us to teach them all a gospel lesson. Him and all the other kids were all sitting there and we had no idea what was really going on, but he wanted to read from the Book of Mormon with us. There were 4 little kids there that we were reading with and they all wanted a turn to read and they all wanted to volunteer to say the prayer so we ended up having two opening prayers and two closing prayers so they could all say one. It was super neat because they are still young but have that enthusiasm to read from the Book of Mormon and have the missionaries over, and now we are going back every Sunday to read with them. The grandma, Sister Thomas, had been having a hard couple of days and said it was an answer to her prayers for us to go over and be with the kids. They are a super family and they kids are all studs.
Friday we were at the temple which is always amazing. It's a smaller temple, but it's all the same work! Doesn't matter how big or how small a temple is, it's all the same. It was a long drive down and long drive back, but it was totally worth it!
We haven't had any run ins with Gary the Goose lately, sadly. Yesterday we were doing more service at our Bishop's house and had some extra elders there that we were on exchanges with. We didn't plan to be there since it was my birthday, but the Bishop's wife was making waffles which are my favorite food so we had a double dinner of a huge pizza at 4:30 and then waffles at more dessert at 6:30. It worked out perfectly for everyone involved, especially since they had the goods from the bakery. It was too much food in too little time though. I ate so much food that I literally threw up. It's never happened before, but now it has. And the sad part was that even after I threw up, I still felt like I was full, that's how much food was in me. But I only gained .4 pounds. Don't really know how, but I was stuffed.
There's some pictures, as promised, of the district at the temple last week. You can enjoy them! Maybe more pictures will be sent later in more emails. Also, hopefully this is long enough to make up for last week. I think it is.
Love, Elder Woodward
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