October 29, 2012

mom dad and family,

well this has been one heck of a week! i only spent 2 days (Friday and sunday) in my area. i spent monday tuesday and wednesday with one of the zone leaders cause they hated each other. and then i spent another 2 days with the other missionaries because one can't drive and the other's international license (he is from korea) expired and it snowed so we weren't going to make them walk. needless to say nothing effective got done this week (elder leany says hello!!) in our area. but we did have a mission conference on saturday with elder M Russell Ballard. i think you might know who he is. and Craig C Christianson and Elder Walker also spoke to us. it was really neat to be taught by an apostle of the Lord. he was only with us for about an hour he mostly was trying to inspire us to keep going and to light the fire again. it definitely inspired me to go and work harder! President Monson flew in on sunday for the dedication. it was Sister Monson's birthday so he stayed home for that! hope you have a great week.

love elder Woodard