mom and family,

     well we have the same thing. we are always challenging the members to invite your friends. and president wants us to get 20 lessons every week. and the lessons aren’t just investigator lessons. they are member lessons and less active lessons. missionary work has changed soooooo much since you and dad have gone. we invite them to be baptized in every lesson even on the first. and they really stress the importance of the members in the work. they don’t really want us to find investigators. they want the members to do it for us. they want them to invite their friends. the members find and we teach. oh and i think we got 20 lessons last week

      yesterday we had mission tour. elder baxter from the 70(i think the first quorum) came and he was the general authority there. we all got to go up and meet him and his wife and shake his hand. it was really cool. he gave us  training on the importance of members in missionary work. he said that investigators are more likely to convert and have a lasting conversion if the members are involved. he told his conversion story of him and his family. the missionaries that taught him brought a fellow shipper that was good for his family. and the member invited them to church and to sit with them. he told us that it is more powerful for the members to invite their friends to do stuff rather than the missionaries. he also talked about consecrating ourselves and loosing ourselves in the work. it was a really good experience. he was asking us questions and what we thought rather than him just teaching us. it was really cool to talk with a general authority,  i hope everything is well and the weather cools down!

love elder woodard

dad,

that is sooooo cool that tanner is doing that!!! when i was in b.c. we saw eagles and hawks and big birds like that all the time. we had 5 pet osprey. well... they had a nest on a power line next to the elk river. but we claimed them as ours and always honked as we drove by and they would always look at us and sometimes be on top of the nest and spread their wings. it was really cool.

     oh the arizona heat. i don’t miss it that much. it was about 32 yesterday which was really warm!! but that’s the hottest i have seen it.  that is crazy that emily is going to start driving. what are you going to do about vehicles? i hope she doesn’t get a brand new car!!!!! but if she does i guess i will be alright with it... in ten years! hahaha .........

love elder woodard