Hey family,
Well this week has been so great!
I am so excited for this transfer and so glad that I got to stay in
this ward. Things with the ward did get better. The bishop actually
called Sister Pollard and I rock stars one night. They ward really
trusts us and we love them.
President and Sister Hobbs came to church with us one
Sunday and after Relief Society, Sister Hobbs whispered to me how much
she could feel the love the ward members had for us missionaries, and in
most wards you can't feel it that strongly.
We recently got six ward missionaries. They are all
ladies in the ward who have sons on missions. So we are excited to
start working with them and going on splits. We haven't had any until
now, so we haven't had as much help from the ward. We are happy they got
around to calling some more for us.
Our ward mission leader got called as the bishop in the
YSA ward, so we are currently out of a ward mission leader. I am
pretty bummed about that because Brother Taylor was the best one I have
had on my mission. But he will do a wonderful job as a bishop and the
YSA people are going to love him. I just hope that one day I get called
to that YSA ward. That would be a lot of fun.
So on Tuesday, Sister Riley and I went to a family's
home to drop off a thank you card for bringing dinner to us one night.
As we were talking with the wife (which she is rarely ever home at the
time we stopped by) She told us that her two girls had never been
baptized because of her ex-husband. We answered a bunch of her
questions about what happens with convert baptisms (how many lessons,
where the lessons are, who goes to the baptisms, when and where they can
be held ect.) After we did that, she said that we had calmed a lot of
her worries and she felt really good about getting them baptized. They
recently moved into our ward, so no one knew the girls hadn't been
baptized. We are planning on starting to work with them next week since
they are out of town this week. So we were so excited to hear that and
to see that miracle happen. We love it.
We had a wonderful lesson on Sunday in Gospel
Principles. We just started up the class for the Chamberlins, and last
week was really rough. (don't worry-it wasn't us teaching) The bishop
heard about it and decided to teach it himself this week. He did the
first part of the plan of salvation, and did a wonderful job. After
church, Richard text us and told us they wanted to set a baptismal date
for the 8th of December. We told him that worked and he replied with,
"Erika is really liking the idea of the whole family getting baptized
together, her included" I saw that text and ran to Sister Riley (who
was in the other room in our apartment) and told her. We were both so
excited. Up to this point, we had slowly been working with Erika, but
she had told us that the lessons, visits, coming to church was just for
her kids and not for her. So that made our day!! We were so excited.
Other then that, it was a pretty normal week. We
visited with lots of less actives and just helped Sister Riley get used
to the area and the ward. I think every dinner we had last week had
something weird happening in it. She was a little worried that all
dinners were going to be that way. On Monday, we had a family that was
just crazy and all on something. Tuesday, the family had a little boy
(about 2) whose diaper exploded and was running out of the bottom of his
pants and all over the floor. We left without sharing a message because
they had quite the mess to clean up. Thursday we had dinner with Janet
and her two sons, Nico and Julian, and man they are crazy boys. They
keep us entertained. On Friday, I thought it was going to be normal but
they lady who we ate with invited another older lady in the ward over.
Lollie is about 90 and widowed. She started talking about adultery and
how she wasn't planning on committing that anytime soon. Then she
said, Well I guess I don't have a husband, so it would just be
fornication. Every day was just crazy. Yesterday was the first semi
normal dinner we had.
Thanks for all the pictures you have sent recently.
That is a lot of fun. I love seeing the family. I hope you have a
great week. You are all amazing. Sorry I didn't write you yesterday.
They wanted us to email only family on Tuesday. So I obeyed the rules
and did friends yesterday at our apartments, and family today
Love ya all
Sister Woodward
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