I found this new song that has become my favorite over the last couple of weeks with Christmas coming up. So go watch it. Here's a link: https://www.
But on to the rest of the week. So last week I was talking about how much it snowed on Tuesday, and then also on Thursday it snowed a whole bunch. We had a couple of inches and I was very excited that it was going to be a White Christmas. And then the weekend rolled around. Saturday was in the high 30's, Sunday was in the 40's and raining, Monday was also in the 40's, and then yesterday was flipping up in the 50's! Needless to say, all that snow that came just in time for Christmas is no longer here. So it looks like we are going to have a green Christmas this year as well. Kind of bummed, but it doesn't look like there is going to be anymore snow fall out here in the next couple of days, and over the weekend it's supposed to be in the 40's again, so not much chance if you ask me. But since it has warmed up a little bit, it has made it extremely nice.
Yesterday we had our mini Christmas Conference/Zone Conference and it turned out really well. Lots of good food to start it off which is always good, and then a great meeting. Lots of Christmas music, lots of special musical numbers, lots of good singing, lots of also really bad singing but good none the less, lots of miracles because we got a book of miracles from all the missionaries in the mission. It was just a good day, and it was warm so nobody was freezing as cars were being inspected and making sure they are working. President and Sister Brown are awesome as always. No crazy news coming from it, but still good.
We were able to see Callei this last week again after we had dinner with her grandparents and were able to really start teaching her and set a baptismal date for January 20th, the weekend after stake conference. I love that whole family with all the little kids. One thing I've learned is that teaching kids is so much more difficult than teaching adults. We were teaching about the Plan of Salvation Sunday after church and were talking about the kingdoms of Glory and how they are compared to the sun, moon, and stars, and the smartest of them all raises her hand and starts to say, "but the sun is a star" and then her grandma cut her off and let us keep going haha. Kids are great. But for reals, one of the brothers of Callei is the cutest kid ever and always waves when he sees us now and it's my favorite thing ever. I love that family.
Did some service shoveling snow that all melted, but it was still nice to do some service, also helped at a member's house that we have been helping at the last couple of weeks to get it cleaned up and get the furnace hooked up, had the wonderful opportunity of being voluntold to play the piano at the Ward Christmas Party (voluntold=volunteered+told, an extremely common occurrence as missionaries). Did some more service helping some members move stuff up out of the basement of their parents who one is in a nursing home and the other passed away, and we have been doing a ton of finding recently. President Brown is making a big push for everyone to do at least 2 hours of finding every day, between 4 and 6 and then having dinner at 6 because having dinner at 5 was really inconvenient because then it would be dark and people out here just automatically go to bed as soon as it gets dark and refuse to answer the door, even if it is only 6:30. So that got changed around starting on Monday and things have been going well and we've been able to talk to a lot more people than we had before and we've been able to find quite a few potentials to go along with it.
Other than that, things are good! We will talk on Monday, and won't be able to email next Wednesday! Love you!
Elder Woodward
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