Another week gone in what seems like the blink of an eye! It's crazy how fast time goes by out here, and every week comes and goes and it's hard to remember what we did each day. But I do remember that last week was a good week for us here in the good old land of Medina! Thursday we had a meeting with our zone and a member of the mission presidency on some specific things the stake leaders would like us to do to help them know more about the people we are teaching and different members in the ward, and that's mostly the reason why we got the technology that we have. Makes things easier if it's used correctly. Afterwards, we were driving home and made a spur of the moment decision to treat ourselves to Buffalo Wild Wings. Never a bad decision I might add. We had some time before we were going on exchanges with the district leader, so we got our stuff together and headed over there. They only live about 5 minutes away so not a super long trip. Had a good day with that, and after dinner Elder Sopeña and I were helping at a member's house dig in their backyard to do some work for them, and that was some hard work because the ground was so hard. You use a pick axe to loosen up the dirt and then shovel it into the wheelbarrow, but you can use the pick axe for too long because then the dirt gets loosened up and there's too much dirt for it to be effective. It was a fun time though. Friday was the end of the exchanges and it was a slower afternoon, but we ended it with some super amazing ice cream. Can't go wrong with ice cream. Had our Book of Mormon Study at the church with people from the ward and anyone we are teaching can come, so there were a few people at that this last week.
Saturday was the day we were looking forward to because we found a bunch of people that all told us to come back on Saturday. We had the potential to find 7 new people to teach, but like most of the time in missionary work, that didn't work out perfectly. There was one guy that we talked with for a long time on Monday, gave him a Book of Mormon and when we went back, he said he had read quite a bit of it and learned a lot of new things. We talked for a while again and were able to teach him a little bit more and talk about church, and he said he wanted to come to it this upcoming Sunday. So hopefully he is there. Most of the other people didn't answer or were busy, and there was another person that said for us to come back on Sunday instead. We went back and she let us right in and so we were able to talk to her for a little bit and she said she would want to come to church too this Sunday, so we might have two people at church this week! That would be a blessing for us if it happens. It was a good end to last week.
Like I mentioned last week, we have quite a few service opportunities this week. One of them was on Monday and it is at the local Salvation Army, and every weekday through the summer starting on Monday, they are having free lunch for anyone between 0 and 18. So they needed a few volunteers and we were able to go and help since we volunteer there quite often. It just started so it was a little bit of a slower day, but we were able to help grill some crazy good grilled cheese and made hot dogs and other random stuff to go along with them. Sadly I won't be able to help there a ton, but it was good being able to be there and helping out others that are in need, helps you to remember what we have that we take for granted. And then yesterday, we got to help a member in our area do some yard work. Her husband was the one that passed away a few weeks ago that the funeral was last week, and she is a super great lady. We had dinner there and then she had a bunch of big rocks about the size of a soccer ball delivered to her house and we were able to move them from her driveway to one of the planters in her backyard to make a border around it. It was more work than we thought it was going to be because the wheel barrow had a flat tire, so it was a lot of back and forth trips, but we had a blast. Her 8 year old great-grandson was there and he really wanted to help us, so he was what kept it fun. He would get a rock that he could carry, and then we would get one rock for both hands, and then he wanted to race back and forth to see who could get places faster, so we were just running back and forth carrying a bunch of extra weight. It was a good workout and we were exhausted after, but it was fun and it kept him busy too. We took a little break to play some basketball with no hoop (don't ask, we just had fun) and then finished the project. He's a super cool kid and loves the missionaries, comes to church every week with his great grandma and is so funny. Good to be around him, and he even asked if he could wear my nametag, so I let him. And it wasn't super hot, wasn't raining, just perfect to be doing that kind of work.
It's almost to the end of my time here, gotta save some stuff to write about next week, so I'll save some more for then! One more week and I will be getting my last tour through Kirtland as a missionary and seeing old companions again, and then flying home! Can't believe it's already that time!
Love,
Elder Woodward
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