So this week has been a long week. Both Elder Mitchell and myself have
been sick and dont have any idea what it is! we are also left without a
phone at the moment because ours broke yesterday afternoon! We worked as
hard as we could this week but we were so tired and sick that things
didnt feel as good as they could have been. Even though we were sick i
believe that we had a good week and it ended up better than we had
expected it to be! I still love it here in New Amsterdam and the people
are so amazing! The struggle that we are having though is our church
attendance. many of the members have been offended in the past couple of
weeks over different callings! Things that can be resolved though. It
will just take effort and their cooperation in listening and
understanding the Gospel and the reason we have callings in the church!
We know that God is a God of Order and so we have callings, President
Kirton understands that so he has been filling up all the callings in
the branch but the members havent quite understood that and got Offended
when they were released! I believe things will pick up soon and we will
begin to see the members come back and the attendance increase! i just
want to see it like it was when i got here in june with 70 + members
again! it has so much potential here we just have to find out how to
bring it out and help the branch become self reliant on the things that
run the church organization!
So other than that this week has been ok. i got an email back from
pres. Mehr about shivanie being baptized he said not to worry about it
to much it was a small mistake! and just to help the family understand
about moromni 8 and how she can be rebaptized in a year when she is 8
years old! he was really helpful about it and made me feel a lot better
about the situation. it relieved a lot of stress from my shoulders!
I
hope that this week goes a lot better and that things will begin to
speed up again! i am thankful for all of the support! oh and thanks for
all the hunting pictures! they made me trunky but also happy to see all
the fun pictures there was! i love you so much!
Love
Elder Woodruff
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