Well, we had a little bit of a sad week, but there was also a lot of good that came out of it. Gonna give you a day by day run down.
Thursday we had a packed day. We normally do our weekly planning on Thursdays, but we had no time for it because we had so many appointments and things scheduled. We saw a less active family first thing in the morning and taught them and all their kids, and they are working on coming back to church. They were having a baseball tournament on Saturday and Sunday so if they made it to the second day, they wouldn't be able to make it to church on Sunday. They weren't at church, but when we saw them again they said for sure they were going to be there this week. It will be good if they do come back because they have eight kids all under 15 that could help the primary and the youth programs out a little bit. We were able to go over and see Crystal and help her paint a little bit of her house that hadn't been done yet, and it's always fun to do some service and switch up the day a little bit. We had a couple more appointments that we went to, then we had a member of the stake presidency in our ward that came out teaching with us and it was AMAZING! He was able to help a few of our investigators that we took him to realize that they needed to come to church (even though we've told them the exact same thing multiple times!) but coming from a normal person instead of a missionary made them understand it better. Who would've thought? We were meeting with the Dawsons with him and during the middle of the lesson, Brother Dawson said, "I've been praying about this for a year now, and I think I just got my answer that it's true. I think I need to start reading the Book of Mormon more now." It was just a great day and a great night having him come out with us.
Friday we had zone conference and it was pretty good. Took up most of the day, but when we got back we were still able to see a few people that night. It was good though, but a little bit different. Just more of a review of other things we've talked about in the past.
Because our week was a lot messed up with exchanges on Tuesday and preparation day and zone conference, we had to smash 6 days of work into 4 days, so Saturday was super busy as well, and it made it so we didn't have a ton of time to go finding. We were able to see Deena again and she has some awesome kids! She was out of town to pick them up last week, and then they were at the house that she was babysitting at with her. One of her kids answered the door and asked if we were the pizza guys, and then came out and hugged us because he thought we had pizza. Such awesome kids. She's going to start reading the Book of Mormon more and we found out that she is only at the house we found her at on the weekends, which makes the fact that we found her at that house on a Tuesday even better! We also saw Luke and he told us for sure he was going to be at church!
But.........Luke didn't come to church, Crystal accidentally slept in so she didn't come to church, but Silas and Juanita Dawson came to church! They got there right at the end of Sacrament Meeting, but they stayed for the other two hours and loved it. They've been to church in the past, just needed a little boost to come again. One of the saddest things that happened this last week though was that Monique texted us after church got done and said that "the Mormon life isn't for her". We kind of suspected it was coming since she had been avoiding us for a couple of weeks, but it was still super sad. We went over to see her the next day and talk with her, and she said she doesn't want to rush into baptism and wants to be more spiritually ready, but she will still read the Book of Mormon and she may pop into church every so often, and in the future she will reach back out to the missionaries after she moves down to Columbus.
So far this week we've been able to do some more finding than we had time for last week, and we found some potentials but not anything to amazing yet. There was a lady that has a radio ministry and said that if we had some time we could come and preach on tv. Don't know if it's allowed, but we are always told to get creative, so maybe. Yesterday was pretty good as well and we were able to meet with another investigator and read some of the Book of Mormon with her. Just trying to get them all progressing now that we have a lot to work with which can be the hardest part sometimes. But we're still working on finding new investigators too!
Transfer are next week and this one has gone by way too fast. Hopefully Elder Amparan and I are staying together because it's just a blast here together. We will see what happens, but get your guesses in on what's happening and I'll update you next week. If I leave I'm gonna be super sad because there's so much happening now. But ya. It's good.
Love Elder Woodward
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