Hi family,
Well another week has gone by,
and another transfer is coming to an end. Well not to disappoint you or anything, but I don't go
home until November 18th I do believe, so it is still a little more then
a year. I am excited that Ian and Rolando can both go soon after we
get back. You are just going to be paying for missions for ever!!!
lucky!! Good thing there are blessings attached to that.
Well for mission news lets see. On Saturday we had our wards Harvest Festival-ya know,
the Halloween party but it cant' be called that because well who knows
why. It was combined with another ward. We had a really good turn
out. They had chili, hot dogs, nachos, pies and a bunch of little
carnival games. They also had a trunk or treat afterwards. It was
good. We went all week and just invited everyone we saw to it. We got a
few less active families out.
On Saturday we saw a group of boys (about 8-11 years
old) and asked them if they wanted to come. We gave them a few flyers
that we made. When we showed up at the festival, they had come!! It was
so cool. They brought their parents and had a group of about 15 of
them. Our bishop called us rock stars. Plus he really liked us that
night because the elders in the other ward were not being the best of
missionaries, so we looked great compared to them. That helped with our
ward trust.
The Chamberlins also came to that. They were all
dressed up and had a fun time. They have made friends with other kids
in the ward and were running around with them all the time. I loved
it. We talked with Erica (mom) and she told us that she just loves how
friendly people in our church is. She can't believe that we actually
make an effort to get to know other people we are going to church with.
She is really coming along. Richard (dad) talked to the bishop and he should be
ready to baptize his family by the end of next transfer. Middle of
December. By then, hopefully things will be good with Erica. She is
the only one that is not fully on board yet, but since her kids are, she
will come eventually.
We had a lesson with them on Friday and Shelby Baker
came again. She has been coming to all the lessons with us. We taught
about keeping the Sabbath day holy and following the prophet. It has
been fun. We have another lesson on this Friday and they actually
invited us over for dinner tomorrow!! So that is good. We will get to
see them twice this week. I am excited. The kids just love church. If
they have to go to their mom's church (catholic) they complain, but
they jump for joy when they get to got to dads church (us) So that is
good that the kids love us so much better. I think that will make a big
difference for Erica. I am excited for this family. They are so
great. I just love them. I will get a picture this week with them for
sure and send it off soon.
They didn't make it to Sacrament though, but they came
to the last two hours. I think they had people over at their house from
Saturday (they had friends come to the harvest festival....funny
story. Their friends didn't realized it was a Mormon event they went
to. So they thought that Sister Pollard and I were just dressed up like
Mormons haha) But they made it to primary. That actually happened to
our other investigator, Brittney. So no one at Sacrament, but still at
church. which I am okay with. At least they were there for part of it.
That was about it this week. It was a good week for
most of it. I enjoyed it.
I love you all. Happy Halloween!! Send me some pictures of the costumes :)
Sister Woodward
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