July 30, 2012

it’s alright. sounds like you had an exciting weekend!!! there was a storm that blew through cardston and they had baseball size hail that hit some of the windows of the temple and i guess broke them.  things here are pretty good.  we didn’t do a whole lot this week. he have had meetings and then zone conference this week. so we have been pretty busy with stuff like that. we did stop by a potential investigator and set up a return appointment. he is really busy but said we could come by next sunday. once we start teaching him he will get baptized. he is a really nice man and you can tell that he is sincere about this. how are the archibald's doing? i really like them. sis archibald is an angel. they have been home for a month now!!! the seelys were great to us. they are a family that i wanna keep in contact with. we have a weekly planning session as well as a nightly planning session that we do for the next day. we have a personal planner that they give to us every transfer that we keep all our appointments in. yes i have my personal prayers. we have companionship prayer most nights. i am in calgary. we cover the midnapore and sundance wards in the calgary south stake. the members are pretty good. some of them are excited to do missionary work and some aren’t but i have had that the whole mission. well have fun at school!!! are you teaching pre school again?

love elder woodard

July 23, 2012

well this week was alright. we had investigator lessons fall through. we taught lots of members this week and are trying to get them to invite there friends. we stopped by the stringham family and their daughters have someone for us to teach. but she is on holidays till the 5 of august. it has been pretty warm here. we had a week of in the 90's. most people around do not have air conditioning. which is silly!!!! but they only need it for maybe a week. but the house we live in has it and it is sooooo nice. i can't believe school is starting. everybody here doesn't start school until september i think. most everybody leaves for the summer and it is really hard to get a hold of people. where is daniel going on his mission? that is crazy that he is leaving! hope you have a great week!

love elder woodard

July 16, 2012

well i didn't know sam and bridgett. that is cool though that his uncle lives in pincher. I'm sure that some of the older folks in the ward would know him. i miss pincher. calgary is way different than the small farming town of pincher. there are just too many people here!! oh well i will have to get used to it. i cant believe how fast time is going!!! there are only 9 more months until i will be home!! i am starting to miss you a lot!! but i love being out here serving the Lord and the people in the area! it is going to be a sad/ happy day when i have to leave canada. we should get a cabin up here! hope your feeling better!

love elder woodard

July 16, 2012

good morning!! or afternoon!!!

sounds like you have been having a really good time!!! her name is tanya seely. their family is awesome!!  so has isaiah started his papers yet? there was a missionary farewell in the mindapore ward yesterday. it was CRAZY! it seemed like 6 months ago that was me up there doing the same thing!! i can not believe how fast time is going!! my companion is elder tabler from fairview utah. he is really funny/ goofy. i enjoy serving with him! the area is a little slow though. they just had 2 baptisms and so there are no more investigators but we are looking for them! there are 2 lakes in the

area. its kinda like val vista lakes. there is a subdivision around the lakes and you need a  membership to get in or at least know somebody that has one. a member in the ward took us there for a picnic dinner one evening. it was pretty fun. it reminded me alot of the picnics we went on. a roasted chicken with potato salad and stuff! the house we live in is AMAZING. there are 3 floors and no stairs!! just an elevator!!!! we pretty much have free reign of the house, except for the theatre room and stuff like that. the members we live with the cairns, are pretty sweet too! he really likes mustangs and has an old shelby in the garage. i wish we could drive it. hopefully things start to pick up here!!

love elder woodard

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The wonderful Gregory Family from our Arizona ward visiting our missionary in Canada!

A great BIG hug from Hayden (via )

A great BIG hug from Tanner (via Kallen)

keeping our package out of the rain!

July 10, 2012

are you still on?

yes, i am still on... that was fast... i just sent it.  how much time do you have left?  Mom

just got on. today is pday. transfers are tomorrow

are you being transferred?

yes i am. going to sundance and mindapore in south Calgary

is that a good place?  are you getting a good companion?  what is his name and where is he from?

ummm not sure. I'm not too fond of the city. and i don't know too much about the new comp. just know his name. elder tabler

Isaiah says hi. he is playing games on his computer.  i don't think dad wrote yet.  he has been sick since late sunday night.  he went to work yesterday for half a day and then came home and slept.  i don't think he went to work today.  i called him, but he didn't answer.  i think he is sleeping.

tell him i said hello back. that's alright. he just passed a kidney stone. so how was cali? did you go to disneyland or anything?

about cali....i could tell you we did not go to disneyland, but is it bad to lie to a missionary?  yes... we did go to disneyland.  we also went to california adventure, universal studios and sea world.  we were also able to meet larry's family at the beach.  they were on their way home from northern california.  it was a great vacation, in spite of dad's trip to the hospital and emily getting stung by a sting ray and all the kids getting stung by jelly fishes. 

so tell me about pincher creek...do you have any investigators?  hayden just woke up and says hi.

i cant believe you went to disneyland with out me!!!!! pincher is slow. nobody is keeping their appointments. i am going to miss pincher alot. i just love being there

i wasn't going to tell you!  we went for hayden, he is now tall enough to ride the rides he couldn't before.  they took out the maliboomer and made that area a smoking area.   we were all bummed. 

why weren't you going to tell me? we will just have to go when i get back!! i cant believe they took out the maliboomer!!!!

i didn't want to make you feel bad.  we will go again when u are home.

its alright i don't really care. i knew you were going to do fun stuff with out me!!!!

i gotta go. emails will be back to mondays at 11 am. so you can be on if you want. have a great week.

love elder Woodard

have a great week.  love your family

July 4, 2012

dad, mom and family

well sounds like you are having a rough vacation. i guess that's what happens when you go with out your favorite son!!:):) this week was pretty good. we picked up a new investigator but she is moving out of the mission on the 6th. but we took her on a church tour anyways and it was really good!!! we were able to teach her things that she had never heard before. and than last night we watched joseph smith prophet of the restoration with her at the ludwig's house. we got a new mission president on the 29 of june. his name is president  nicholas. i really like him. we went and had a meet the president yesterday and we got to know him. he is a great man. we had a council of what we liked in the mission and what we didn't like. he listened to everybody's opinions and not just the leaders. president archibald is from st. george. hope you have a great week. transfers are next week so i will be on around 11 am.

love elder Woodard

does tanner have a cell phone now!?!?!?!

June 26, 2012

dad i am sorry to hear that it is wicked hot down there. its really nice here. other than we have only had 1-2 days of sun in the past week. i got the package and i love the asu shirt. there is a sister missionary in the zone that is from cottonwood and went to U of A when she was back home. i give her a hard time for being a wildcat!  i am glad that i am able to serve a mission. i love being out here and serving the Lord. i heard that you had a baptism this weekend. that is sweet!! you don't have have to miss me too much longer. only 10 months but who is counting. time is just flying past!

love and miss you

Elder Woodard

June 26, 2012

this week was good. we did see the Gregory's. and i love the package that was with them!!!!!! i love the ASU shirt and otter pops. where did you come up with those ideas. we had a movie night on sunday. we watched the avengers.... no I'm just kiddin!!!! we watched joseph smith prophet of the restoration.(the new one that is like an hour long) we invited the ward to invite their non member friends to come to the movie. we only had 2 non members and 48 members. but it was worth it.  we stopped by a potential investigator yesterday and he let us in and we had a good gospel conversation with him. we are going to teach him on thursday while we help him with some sodding. that sounds like a really good weekend. so where is the picture of dad in his whites? dad is getting baptisms just like me!!!! president archibald is leaving this friday. its going to be a sad day to see them leave. i am going to miss them. guess what. tomorrow i turn 14 (months) time is just flying by!!!! so kyler gregory told me that tanner isn't wrestling this year? why is that. he is going to need that next year to be able to beat me!!!! hahah not sure that will work!! tell emily to slow down!!! hahaha love you all

elder woodard!