This last week was a little bit of a slower week, but every week is good on a mission! It seemed to be the week of flames, so we had a ton of appointments fall through, but it was good because it made it so we could do some more tracting and try and find even more people to teach! We knocked on doors for probably 5 hours on Saturday along, but with Memorial Day weekend, not a lot of people were home so not many people were answering. We did find some super cool potential investigators that said to come back in a month because they are completely remodeling their house and didn't have time then. We had a couple people be a little bit mean, but it's good so you don't get too comfortable with everything. Gotta stay on your toes! In all reality it was a good week and we made a lot of progress with some of our investigators.
We've still been meeting with Crystal and she is one of my favorite people that I have been able to teach! She hadn't been reading the Book of Mormon, so we changed up what we were going to do every time we went over and we've just been reading the Book of Mormon with her. The best part is, she's loving the Book of Mormon now! Even if it is with us there, she has been able to start to read it and when she has questions she asks us because we are right there. We were supposed to go over on Monday to help her paint some of her living room, but when we got there she told us that she didn't have work on Thursday and wanted us to come back and paint then and that she just wanted to read the Book of Mormon with us when we were there. So that's what we did. Each time we are there, she's the one that asks us if we can read it instead of us asking her. Now the only thing we need is for her to be reading it when we aren't there, and then everything will really take off for her. She did say that she will be coming to visit the church in the next couple of weeks, and maybe she'll keep visiting it forever.
We've also been doing well with Jean, and she is still reading the Book of Mormon. Didn't read as much as she wanted to, but she is still going, and we are pretty sure she is starting to know that it is true. Everything that we teach her she says that it all makes sense and is really loving it all. The same with another favorite, Luke. We taught him the Plan of Salvation when we saw him on Thursday and he said it all made sense because we had talked about it before with him when he asked questions, just never officially taught it to him. He's also been praying about it and said that when he prays about Joseph Smith, everything in his life just calms down and he feels peaceful when he's praying about it. I wonder what that could be... ;) He is progressing really well as well, now we are working on getting him to come to church. None of our investigators were at church on Sunday, but they are going to start coming! Jean just needs a ride and we haven't been able to find one yet, but we have our member already picked out to come meet her with us one day and potentially pick her up for church. Monique and her brother were out of town so they weren't at church either, and the time we went over to meet with them, Monique was sick so we just met with David and talked with him some more.
Transfers are coming up in a couple of weeks and Elder Amparan could be leaving, but he could be staying. This is his third here and we are both hoping that he stays because there's so much happening here and we love it here! If he leaves, I'll be sad and if I leave I'll be sad. Hopefully we stay together another transfer. We're still working hard and having a good time here!
On Sunday, the lady who plays the organ for church didn't come to church and the back up pianist also wasn't there at church, so just in case they weren't going to be there they told me in PEC at 8:30 in the morning that I might be playing and then gave me the hymns that were picked for the day. Didn't know a single one of them and had never played any of them before, so I was hoping that I didn't have to play. But no one else was there so I got the wonderful opportunity to play the piano in Sacrament meeting. I didn't want to try the organ because I haven't played that thing in forever, unless they wanted some Christmas hymns in May. So I did play but I changed the hymns so I actually knew them and it sounded good.
No pictures this week :( but there might be some next week. I just forgot my camera. We also have a crazy packed day already for tomorrow that is going to be fantastic and then zone conference on Friday which is always good. We're getting a lot more members out teaching with us, so maybe that will help get people to church as well.
Talk to you next week,
Love Elder Woodward
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