Hey Fam!
So I am glad that
Dad is okay and that things are going well back at home! Sounds like you guys
are pretty busy! It has been kinda weird to not be home for the Fall... haha
One of our members asked me the other day... "How much longer do you have
on your mission?" I went to answer him and told him 8 months! AAAHHH. Can
you even believe that I only have 8 months left?! It kinda shocked me when I
actually said it out loud. So crazy that I have been out for over 10 months
now! Things are a little crazy over here! We have been sooooooo busy with
teaching so many people right now! Which is SO great! (: I love being that busy
teaching people! We are getting our 13 year old investigator, Isaiah, ready to
be baptized this upcoming Sunday! Everything is lookin good and he is super
excited to be baptized! We were really focusing this week on making sure that
he received an answer for himself that the Book of Mormon is true. We invited
him to pray about it and we followed up with him on Tuesday and he had not prayed.
So we taught him just about the Book of Mormon again and really emphasized the
importance of it. We invited him to pray that night and ask God if the Book of
Mormon is true again and that we would call him the next day to see how it
went! We called him on Thursday and he told us that he received an answer and
that when he prayed he felt good and that feeling just increased. He said I
just KNOW it is true! It was so amazing! We were praying so hard that he would
receive an answer. AND HE DID! (: I was so excited for him!! So we are going to
be teaching Isaiah a lot this week to get him prepared for his baptism.
We are also working
with a mother and her two daughters right now. They are super awesome! They
have been struggling though and we have really been trying to figure out what
their concerns have been. They have been invited to be baptized and both times
they were very hesitant and they didn't want to commit to an actual date until
they really KNEW. Which is something we completely understand, but the mom had
been telling us that everything she has learned so far just seems right. She
said it all just makes sense. So it has been really hard to get her to
understand that that is the Holy Ghost letting her know that what she is
learning is true. She FINALLY told us one of her concerns this week. She said
that it has been a little hard for her to get used to how our church works. She
was raised Pentecostal and has been used to having a Preacher stand up in front
and teach with a ton of enthusiasm and to be really involved. She used the
analogy of the children's story "Jack and Jill". She said it would be
a little different for you to be told one day that Jack and Jill didn't go up
the hill to get water, but that they went and got juice. And that is where she
is right now. She has been raised all her life in another church and now she is
learning different things. She also said that she has been baptized three times
and none of those times were her decisions and that she just want to really be
sure of this one because it will finally be her decision. So we were soooooo
grateful that she was finally honest with us so now we can teach her according
to her needs and concerns and now we will be able to resolve them and help her
and her girls receive the answer that they are so desperately looking for!
Those are the
people that we are working the most with right now! We are also trying to get
into all of our members’ homes and give them the "Gratitude Journal".
We just really want to let the Ward members know that we love them and
appreciate them so much! This Ward really needs that right now! This Ward has
been really blessed with some incredible members that have recently moved in
and they are seriously helping to keep things running smoothly here! I am so
grateful for them! We got to go help out the Baldwin's this week move into
their rental home! It was fun to go help clean the home and move things in! It
is so good to be able to just do some service each week!
On a random note...
People here have the weirdest Halloween decorations... It is a little creepy...
haha I think some of these people take Halloween a little too seriously! I have
realized though since I have been out here on the East Coast that people either
go ALL OUT for different Holidays or they don't do anything. There really is no
in between...
THANKS FOR THE
PACKAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously you guys are the best EVER. I was
sooo stinkin excited to get all of that cute Halloween stuff! And all of the
soaps and hand sanitizers from Bath and Body Works! It was seriously the
perfect timing for each of those packages! I have the greatest family EVER! I
seriously do feel so blessed for all you do for me! So thanks again! I hope
that you guys have a great week!
LOVE YOUS
TO THE MOON & BACK!! WE GOT THIS!
Love,
Sister Woodland
P.S. I have started doing a journal on
my camera about my day and when the SD card is all filled up I am going to send
it home so you guys and watch it and laugh and how crazy I am! (: I think it
will be a cool way to remember my mission!
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