May 23, 2011

dear mom, (and family)

well today is pday. and i did survive my first week. my trainer is elder harris. he is from orem, utah. he is real nice and pretty cool. we live in an apartment just the 2 of us.  we live in sparwood, british colombia, canada. it is beautiful here!!!!!!!! we are at the base of the rockie mountains!!! there are deer and elk everywhere!!!! we went to a nonmembers house that we go to often.(we aren’t teaching them cause they have taken the discussions before and they don’t have the desire to be baptized yet... but they are really nice and let us go over when we want. sometimes we share messages and sometimes we don’t) but they had a buck in their yard!!!! they just started their antler growth so he wasn’t very big. but he was just feeding in their yard and i got within 10 yards of him!!!! i was getting real antsy. but i know that i cant hunt for two years!! but we are allowed to fish on pdays!!! im so excited about that!!!! but the rivers don’t open till june something. anyways that is a little bit about b.c.  we cover 3 towns. elkford, sparwood, and fernie. elkford is about 40 klicks (kilometers) to the north. and fernie is about 35 klicks to the south. so we have a car that we get to drive. our mission has a goal of 20 lessons a week. and this week we got 18. i was pretty excited. the members are really nice. we have only had to cook lunch twice and dinner once! i think im going to get fat!!!  there are a lot of inactive members in the ward. and its hard to get in and teach them cause they either dont want to listen or they work at the coal mines and have shift work and we dont know what their schedule is. but we will keep trying. tell emily happy birthday for me!!!!! and tell this boy on friday that he needs to be nice to her, and have her home by 930...915:) i cant believe that you are almost done with school!!!   i forgot to bring the mailing address... but it is in that booklet that came with my call. it’s the mission office address that you send it to. oh can you give my email address to chris stalder please. i didn’t talk to him at the airport. and tell him i found us a guide to take us hunting in 2 years!!!

love

elder woodard