August 27, 2012

mom dad family,

That’s a cute puppy!!! What kind of dog is she? I wanna get a puppy when I get home. How are the other dogs doing? Are they still alive? haha This week was long... my companion is VERY different than me and is pretty awkward too. He has only been out for 9 months or so. It’s really hard to get along with him. It is going to be a long transfer! Nothing too exciting happened this week except the Egyptian man that came to church yesterday. He is a scientist and very smart!  We are teaching him tomorrow. He has a belief in Jesus Christ but some other things he has problems with. I can’t believe that they are going so soon!! When does Jared leave? The temple in Calgary opens for open house in like 3-4 weeks. and then it will be dedicated soon after. President Monson is supposed to come and dedicate it. I really hope that he comes and speaks to the missionaries. The libraries are going to be closed next Monday.

love elder Woodard

mom, dad, family,

this week was pretty good. we picked up a new investigator yesterday. her name is morgan. she is 16/17 and her friend (in the ward) invited her to meet with us. so we taught her. she is really open to everything that we taught her. she didn’t accept the invitation to baptism but she said that she will think about it and talk to her parents about it. she will get baptized in the next few weeks. we helped our members with some of her gardening and after we didn’t have dinner so she went and got hot dogs and smores and we had a fire. that was pretty fun. it reminded me a lot of home though. it wasn’t very good... transfers are tomorrow. i am staying in this area and am getting elder nicholson. i have heard that it is going to be a hard transfer for me. i am not too excited for this... oh well. hopefully its not too bad. sounds like you are having lots of fun!!! we are trying to have fun but not too much fun:) dad when is your elk hunt again? i talked to one of the mandarin speaking missionaries yesterday and he is from eager and coach workman is in his ward!!! it is such a small world!!! well i hope you have a great week

love elder woodard

Aug 13, 2012

dad, family,

sounds like you had a pretty good week. i wont tell you how our weather has been. but it hasn’t been hotter than 30 Celsius here!!! summers are really nice weather so everybody leaves. we did a lot of service work this week. mostly just helping sister cairns (the lady we live with) in her garden. she needs help pulling weeds and such. we stopped by lots of potential and former investigators yesterday and nobody answered the door!! but we did teach some less actives this week. work is really slow in the summer time and it makes it hard to want to do anything. but we are still trying. we have a investigator lesson this week though. a young women in our ward invited her friend to meet with us so we are going to on friday! i started writing in my journal again. i have been really bad at doing that. but i have done it for the past 2 days in a row:) we are having a multi zone pday today. the foothills zone is coming up here to play basketball with us. it should be fun!! why does time have to go soo fast? it only feels like i have been out for only 6 months! i try not to count the time but some days i just stop and think and than it hits me that i only have a little bit of time left!!! well i hope you have a missionary experience this week

love elder Woodard

August 8, 2012

well this has been a hectic week. we have had zone conferences and zone meetings and stuff. our investigator lesson this week cancelled. we are having a real hard time finding investigators to teach. summer time here is just crazy. it seems like no one is ever home!!! school starts in 3 weeks so hopefully things will pick up soon!! this week we help the person we live with in their garden pull weeds. it reminded me of all the weeds that i have pulled back home!!! i cant believe how fast time is going!!! oh one more thing. president nicholas has changed a lot of the rules. and one of the rules he has changed is a mutli zone pday. so we can get together with other zones!!! we are doing that this pday so i will let you know how it goes. hopefully this week is better for us!!! have a great week.

love elder woodard!!!

Zone pictures...Not sure what they are doing.  John thinks they are gang signs.  They are just being a bunch of young adults!