July 10, 2018

Hey:)

I remember before I came out on my mission I thought that I would start my email home each week with a cute little catch phrase... so far that hasn't gone very well haha sorry for the let down. 

You'll be happy to hear grandma that last tuesday we did a family history booth and it was really successful. We met a lot of cool people. The coolest person was this dad Michael. His sister is a member and a little while back she had her newborn baby die, she said though to him when he asked what was keeping her together that "God had something way bigger in store for that little child and the only thing she needed to come to earth for was to gain her body". He said that- that has always stuck with him. He was with his little son Gabriel and we played him and seek with him around these statues haha I just loooove little kids. One of the hardest things about a mission is not being able to pick up little kids haha honestly! Also...miracle!!! I can't remember if I told you before about madeline. I'll give a quick background just in case I haven't. So there is this mom amanda who we have been keeping in touch with since December and three weeks ago she invited us over to come and talk to her friend madeline because she was going though a hard time. Madeline lives in Halifax though and so we took her to the ysa ward and introduced her to the halifax sisters and she's been meeting with them ever since and we just found out from amanda that madeline is getting baptized on the 21st!! She is moving to Cape Breton on the 23rd and so we have been praying that she would get baptized before then!! We are so pumped. Before madeline moves she's is going to go say by to amanda and so we will be there too to say bye. Our hope is that amanda will see how happy madeline is and will finally want to be baptized as well!:D 

Also something else that I awesome that I just got a notification for right now is that charli,  alyna's daughter (alayna is the returning member that we are working with) is going to be baptized on July 18th!! What better way to celebrate your birthday abby;). Charli is so sweet, it has been such a blast teaching her. I love coming up with fun little lessons.

So much good stuff happening! I don't have enough time to fill you in on laura but last week was a little bit rough for her but we met with her and she is doing way better now!  

Love you all! 

My commitment to you is to let people know how much you really appreciate them:)

Love sister wood