So Christmas is only two weeks away. That itself is crazy. And three days after Christmas is my 6 month left mark (I'll be flying home on June 28th unless they change how they do it), and that is crazy as well. Also, Christmas is going to be preparation day, so that means no emailing that next Wednesday on the 27th. Remember that. Sad news, but no, the mission isn't going to be doing any mission conference like it did last year. It was all planned out and it was going to happen, but then Elder Gong who is the area seventy over the North America Northeast area doesn't want full mission conferences to be happening anymore, so it was cancelled. I don't know if it came from the mission department or just Elder Gong, but they don't really want the missionaries gathering together as much anymore, so it's not happening which is sad because that is part of what makes this mission so great, being in Kirtland for a Christmas conference. But instead of just not doing anything at all, the zone conferences for this transfer are going to be just about the exact same thing as last year, just in each zone instead of with the whole mission. It's still going to be good and that is happening next week.
I'm sure you can tell by the subject line, but it finally snowed here! We got a few little flurries in the past couple of weeks, but nothing that stuck to the ground. Until Monday night that is. It snowed a little bit on Monday, and when we woke up on Tuesday, there was a whole inch on the ground and on our truck. Unlucky for us, we also had MLC yesterday, so we needed to drive all the way up to the mission office near Cleveland. The normal hour and half trip was extended to two hours and 45 minutes because of the snow that came down and was continuing to come down as we drove. Since we were driving earlier enough in the morning, some of the roads hadn't been plowed yet so it made it a long drive up there. Luckily there were no car crashes that we saw or were involved in, so that made the day that much better. No sliding off the road, just a perfect drive up and back. It also took a long time to get back to our area so we didn't make it home until after 7 o clock in the evening. Long day with a lot of driving. It was good though because MLC is always a great meeting that is looked forward to by everyone that goes.
As for the rest of the week, I don't really remember much of what happened. The lady that came into the church a few weeks ago to do family history has been back the last couple of weeks and we have been able to continue to help her with that, and we are finding a lot of things that she didn't know about and she loves it! She always finds something new each time and is always so excited about it all. I don't know if I've ever seen anyone so excited about family history, but she is loving it all and is planning on coming again next week. We haven't been able to teach her any of the lessons yet, but she is still coming to the church. Hopefully she starts to come for the meetings soon! Our ward has been trying to find all the people that are still on the records for our ward but have moved out. So this last week we spent some time trying to find all of them and going by their house to see if they still live there. Just trying to help the ward out how we can, and trying to still talk with everyone. As we were out and about, we were trying to see someone who wasn't home, so then we went to try to see someone else who also wasn't home. BUT as we were standing on this person's doorstep, someone driving by saw us and pulled over to the side of the road and got out his car and came over to us. At first I thought he was going to chew us out for being missionaries, but then he started asking about how to get in contact with the missionaries in another ward in the mission because that's where he lived and they used to help him at a hunger center in the community up by the lake. Never would have met him any other way, just goes to show you that missionaries truly are placed in other people's paths, and others are placed in our paths so we can talk with them. It didn't help our area at all, but it was a nice little miracle to talk with that guy.
We had interviews again with President Brown which is always good, had exchanges which are also always good, just had a good week all around. Still trying to find more people that we can teach and work with, but no complaints here in this area! Ohio is the place to be even when it's 20 degrees outside and always windy, but it's well worth it each and every day!
Love,
Elder Woodward
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