Hey Ya'll!
I hope that you had a great week! It sounds like things are just moving right along in good old Utah! (: Mallo! You looked absolutely GORGEOUS! Prettiest girl at prom! I am sad that I didn't get to be there, but it's allllll good! I hope that you had a ton of fun! Goodness, everyone is growing up and continuing on with their lives... Aren't your lives supposed to pause while I am gone and then just pick back up when I get home?? (; hahaha Man do I miss you people!
This week was full of miracles! It was really intense and sometimes extremely overwhelming, but a good kind of overwhelming! (: I had been kind of down because a lot of the people we have been teaching haven't been progressing or keeping any of our commitments... It was rough! We had decided to start getting ourselves into different parts of our area and meeting new people! We decided to go visit some Less Actives. We were walking to a less actives house not really knowing what to expect...(they sometimes don't live there anymore and sometimes they really don't want to see us! it's really fun!) We knocked on Annemarie's door and she answered and looked kind of puzzled at us. I was getting ready for her to slam the door in our face, but then she looked at my name tag and almost yelled "Oh I know who you are!!" (It is ALWAYS a relief when people already know who we are!) She was really nice and let us into her home! We were talking to her and just getting to know her more and found out that she hasn't been to the church in over 10 years! She then told us that on Tuesday she had gotten on her knees and prayed. She asked God to send her some kind of help because she didn't know where else to turn. Two days later we show up!! She told us we must be an answer to her prayer!! IS THAT NOT SOOOO COOL!? So we are working with her and trying to help her get back to church! She is really nervous about it and wants to take her time! We are hoping we will get to teach her family because her husband is not a member! Then on Friday we went to visit a previous Investigator (for like the 8th time, she is never home) and she wasn't home again! So we decided to knock some doors on her street! The first door we knock on a man answers the door and he doesn't speak a lot of english, but we are able to share a message with him and get his information so the spanish elders can go over and hopefully start teaching him! He was so nice! We went to the next door and we were about to knock when this man in the middle of the street yells at us and asks us if we are "with the church" we tell him that we are and go over to talk to him! His name is Glen and he is a little bit crazy! hahaha We gave him a Book of Mormon and shared a message with him, but he gave us the Book of Mormon back and told us he was okay because he had his mother's bible... But he wants us to come and teach him! So we got his information and we will hopefully be teaching him sometime this week! We decided to knock on one more door. A man answered the door and instantly knew who we were! (Like I said, always a good thing) He told us that he was a member back when he lived in the Dominican Republic, but hasn't been to church for 25 years!!!! We invited him to come to church and got his information down so we can teach the rest of his family! The last thing was we recieved a referral from some spanish sisters about this guy named Joe. They told us that Joe has read the entire Book of Mormon and knows that it is true. He knows that Joseph Smith is a prophet and that he restored the church. HE IS SO READY FOR BAPTISM! Except he is on house arrest.... MAN ALIVE! :( We aren't entirely sure what happened, but it was something with his work. So we will be teaching his family starting this week! Joe won't be able to be baptized until the whole house arrest situation is handled, but his wife and his two sons will be able to! I cannot even wait to meet them all!!! We were told that Joe has Jesus tatoos all over his body! I am just so excited to meet him I can hardly wait! We have been texting him and talking to him on the phone and he is serioulsy the best! God really does put people in our path who are prepared and ready for the gospel! I LOVE IT! This last week has seriously been full of miracles!
I love being a missionary! I couldn't imagine doing anything else right now! Just seeing this gospel change peoples lives and help them with what they are going through is incredible! I fell so blessed to be able to be apart of it all! I LOVE THE HOOD! These people have changed my life! This gospel has changed my life! I know that it is true! I cannot wait to get to work this next week and see more miracles! I hope that you all have a fantastic week! I LOVE YOUS TO THE MOON AND BACK! WE GOT THIS!!! <3
Love, Sister Woodland
P.S. THANKS FOR THE VALENTINE'S DAY PACKAGE!!! I loved everything that was in it! Especially the necklace! (: You people are the greatest! Also, those like balloon heart things were the greatest things in the world!! Sister Page and I had way too much fun with them!! (:
P.P.S. Mom... A lady with the last name of Valdez requested to be friends with you on facebook! She is a member is our branch and she is the best! So you can accept the request if you want! The Valdez family is ALWAYS feeding us and then took us out to Chili's on Friday! They are the best! Their little kids are sooo cute too! We also got to go to Ellis Island again on Saturday and it was a ton of fun! Too bad we don't have pictures of that yet, but we are going again next Saturday so we will get some then!
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