January 28, 2013

 

dad mom and family!!

isn’t that amazing that every time you go to Disneyland you run into joel!!! i think you two plan that or something!!! haha we should take a trip to Disneyland when i get home!!

this week was pretty good. we taught the Korean exchange living with our ward mission leader. it was really good except she doesn’t believe in God. it was really hard and a little bit frustrating to teach someone like that. i guess i can’t comprehend the fact that some people don’t believe in God. we went on exchanges with the district leader this week. it was a lot of fun. we had lots of service to do. we went to the food bank and helped stack cans. and than we went to the red cross to help them sanitizing wheel chairs and stuff. yesterday we went to a fireside that the youth put on. all it was was singing. some of them were really good and talented. transfers are next week. on wednesday. it is looking like im getting transferred out of medicine hat and going to my last area. that is just crazy to think that this is my last area. i guess kallan gets home a few days before i do. well i hope you have a great week!!!

love elder Woodard

January, 21, 2013

dad mom and family,

well nothing exciting happened this week. we didn’t meet with our investigators because they were too busy. but hopefully we can meet with them this week!! we have decided to have a movie night and watch hunting movies to show that we need to get close to people before we shoot them!!! haha just kidding. we are going to show joseph smith prophet of the restoration. it’s about the life of the prophet and the restoration of the gospel. we have done this before in other areas and it has been pretty good finding opportunity. we are struggling with the members for them to find us people to teach. so we are giving them an opportunity for them to invite their friends to a church activity and learn about the restored gospel. we had interviews this week with president nicholas. it was really good. we discussed some ways to keep working to the end. he said to take it one day at a time instead of looking a head into the future and that the end will come eventually. i really like president nicholas. he is a great man. well i hope you have a great week!!

love elder woodard.

ps

can you put me in for elk this year?

January 14, 2013

 

good morning family,

that's good that you were able to meet with the Hagen's! they are nice people!!! i really enjoy living with them!! we had a cold snap too this week but ours came with about a foot of snow. holy moley batman that was a lot. on Thursday we went out with the lehrs to help them move their cows closer to town and it was super cold that day. that was the day that it was snowing. we were pretty much in white out conditions the whole day trying to move the cows!!! i really don't want to be a farmer in that kind of weather!!! we taught a few larcs this week and we also taught our investigators aj and jody. they are nice people but we still aren't sure about their intent of meeting with us. it is more of a Q&A when we go over there and we don't really get to teach much except the questions they ask. we only have about 2 and 1/2 weeks left of this transfer and than its only 2 transfers after that i'll be home. time is sure going fast and i have enjoyed myself but i think I'm ready for something different. i am starting to find it harder and harder to stay motivated. i hope i get a young missionary my last two transfers to keep me working hard to the end!! well i hope you get feeling better!!! have a great week!! love elder woodard!

January 7, 2013

dad, mom and family

nope cody cooper is from queen creek (or queens creek as the Canadians say) my friend that worked with me is tanner kay and he is in new york city Spanish speaking. dad we will definitely have to come back to the great white north! i absolutely love it up here!! and the people are great too!!! the people that we live with Bro and Sis Hagen are going to chandler for a week. (this week they left this morning) i gave them the home phone and mom's cell number. i think that they wanted to meet with the 2 of you while they were there. i cant believe that kianna ashlee and ammah have mission calls!!! that is crazy!!! i did get my package from grandma woodard. the zone leaders went to Calgary on Thursday and they got mail for us:) i like getting mail:) this week was really good. we taught 5 less actives/ recent converts (LARC for short) and we picked up 2 new investigators. finally!! they are from Korea and they run the local motel here. I'm not sure how interested they really are. we went over there to answer the questions that they had because they didn't know a whole lot about the church. they were really nice to us and seemed really sincere so we are going to keep pursuing until they get baptized or tell us to go away and never come back! (which never happens in missionary work because everybody gets baptized!!!) hahaha yup yup yup. we went to bow island this week too. it was pretty boring. we got there too late to go visit one of the potential investigators and the ward mission leader gave us a list of people to visit. and we asked if he invited any of them to meet with us and he said no. which is kinda frustrating cause he wants us to be successful out there cause we only go once a week but he isn't really doing anything for us to be able to be successful. but at least its a start. well i hope you have a missionary experience this week and hope you have a great week!!!

Love elder woodard!!

 

 

December 31, 2012

dad mom and family

it was really nice to see y'all on Christmas. it is going to be nice to see you again. time is just flying by!!! not a whole lot has happened this Christmas week and we are hoping to have some success next week. we are meeting with a potential investigator tomorrow. hopefully things work out. people have been really busy these last few weeks and it seems that missionary work is not a big priority. but we just do the best we can with the situation we are given. i cant believe its been a week since we talked. today is pday and we have to be in by 6 because its new years eve so its a pretty relaxed day for us which is nice. we can get together as a zone and a member said that we could go to their house so we are going to do that tonight. it should be lots of fun! all four missionaries in our ward (us and the Spanish speaking missionaries) spoke in church yesterday! we all spoke on some different aspect of missionary work. i talked on why its important and the importance of the members in the work! it was really good because we all only spoke for about 5 minutes so we didn't need to prepare a long talk! i cant believe how comfortable i am speaking in front of people. but i still don't like doing it!  hope you have a great week!

love elder woodard

 

December 17, 2012

mom dad family,

i would like to skype next week. I'm not sure if i will get another email before Christmas cause Christmas Eve is Monday and the libraries might be closed.  what is your skype name or whatever i need to find you on skype? nothing eventful happened this week. we had to go on another exchange with the zone leader because he is going crazy and he and I went to bow island which is about 45 minutes from the hat. we had an investigator lesson there but it cancelled. we went to his house but nobody answered. but that is part of missionary work i guess. transfers are tomorrow. my companion is getting transferred and i am staying here in medicine hat. that would suck to be transferred right before Christmas!! oh i thought of something else that i would like for Christmas i hope it's not too late!!! i want a gun!! like a .270 or a .22-250. or an ar 15. well i hope you have a great week!!

love elder woodard and we will talk to you next week!!

 

 

December 10, 2012

so this week was pretty good. we picked up a new investigator in bow island. his name is peter. he just moved to bow island and the bishop helped him move and invited him to come to church and he has been twice now!! we only go out there once a week. and last time we were there he was too busy to meet with us. but we are supposed to meet with him this thursday!! we also are working with some less actives. we taught one on tuesday and we thought that she was going to come to church. but she didn't. oh well. she sees the importance of church and has the desire. we think she is just lacking the motivation to go. well hmmm we will see what we can do and work out. they said that they have free long distance so if worse comes to worse i will just call you around that time. oh by the way its snowing right now!!!!

December 3, 2012

this week was pretty good. we were unable to connect with our investigator derek. but we are going to teach him this week. we had a really cool experience with a member family yesterday. at the end of the lesson we asked the question "who do you know?" and they sat and thought for a little bit. couldn't really come up with anybody. but they were still thinking about it, and than the name came to them!! it was their neighbor!! they have been looking for an opportunity to share the gospel with them and weren't quite sure on how or what to do. we had been talking about the book of mormon in the lesson so we suggested that they give a book of mormon to them. they told us that they would do that!! we had mission tour with elder evans and he told us that the missionary department has gotten a year of missionary applications!!! that is a lot of missionaries going out!! sounds like arizona is getting hard to hunt in. too much hunting pressure. but i would like to be put in for the draw this year! the time is just a flying!! for Christmas this year we are going to be able to skype!!! that should be great i get to see all of your faces and you can see me!!! anyways there should be a letter coming for emily from an elder leany. if you haven't already got it. make sure that she writes him back a good one!!! hope you have a great week

love elder woodard!!

November 26, 2012

dad mom and family,

well nothing really exciting happened this week. we went to lethbridge for zone conference. it was really good. they talked alot about our purpose as missionaries. it was really good to hear that again. we had appointments cancel but that is nothing new in the missionary world. we just taught some less actives and members this week. we have a lot more planned for this week. we also have to go to lethbridge again this friday for a mission tour with elder evans from the 70. hope you have a great week. dad good luck with your hunt this weekend. take lots of pictures!!!

love elder woodard