Happy Easter!

Hope Everyone had a great Easter! It was actually a little bit of an unusual Easter here....unusual in the fact that i forgot until we got to church that it was easter...probably not the best thing i suppose but dont worry i repented ;) but other than that we just went to work and taught as usual. But before all of that, this week we had two baptisms! yay! it was pretty awesome, President Chipman and Hna. Chipman were able to come to the baptismal service and congratulate them both. The first was a Hna. Rosario whos daughter is already a member and really really wanted to be baptized. The second was the little boy that we found who had just turned 8. Needless to say, they were both gifts like i said before. We didnt really have to do much except teach them both the lessons and ready the baptismal font :) They were both really big blessing for us becuase this area has been really difficult in finding people that are prepared to progress. the hardest part of this area is that the people dont have much of an education, so they dont understand what we are teaching them even when we spell it out to them. Im pretty sure it doesnt help that im a gringo though...haha oh well. Like Presidente Chipman told me, its a good opportunity to learn how to teach more clearly and better. Just gotta keep working.

Lets see what else is new...oh yes we had changes today and.....ill be staying another 6 weeks here in La Union with Elder Chichia! :) Hes a great Elder so hopefully we will have a lot of success. What that means that we are both staying here for a second change is that they usually dont take both Elders out of the area at the same time so that one of them can stay there and know where everything is in the area. So that means that next change one of us is most likely going to stay here for another change. so i might be here for a while well see! One thing that Elder Chichia and I have recommited us to do this last week is be more dilligent. We studied in DnC 58 26 and 27 And we came to the conclusion that we still have some work to do in our dilligence. Even though we just had two baptisms we have a long way to go in this. so hopefully this next change we will feel a lot better about the effort we put into it.

Speaking of Elder Chichia, last night we got home from prosyliting and he went into the bathroom to take care of his business and then when he was done tried to leave and....he got locked in there...hahaha the lock somehow broke and we couldnt open it from the inside or the outside. He was stuck in there for a good 20 minutes or so while we tried to get him out. dont worry, i got a great video of it too. in the end we ended up breaking off the door knob....hope that is okay with the landlord....haha

But im glad to hear that everyone at home is doing well! Oh yeah i havent gotten that package yet because the zone leaders werent able to go and pick it up but im sure this thursday they will have it and be able to give it to me :) so no worries, im sure everything is fine Thanks for sending it to me!

Other than that the work goes on. I think now is about the time of the mission where i need to step my game up ;) haha I feel like there is a lot more i can do and a lot more i could learn so i need to work a lot harder to accomplish it all. But at the same time i understand that i need to look back on all that i have accomplished so far. I remmeber being a Ward Missionary and teaching gospel essentials to a bunch of people older than me and i felt stupid becuase i didnt know what i was doing and the lessons were subpar at best. But then just last week I gave a 25 30 min Lesson in our district meeting with a bunch of Elders that know a ton too like it was a piece of cake...oh yeah and it was in Spanish. I really have accomplished a ton with the help of my Heavenly Father. That last part is probably the most important though, with His help, because withOUT his help...oh man who knows where i would be at or what i would be doing. All that ive learned and accomplished here is thanks too him, including those last two gifts we recieved this saturday. The work goes on here. and I thorugh all of the lessons that are unbearable hot, all of the Investigators that dont read, dont pray, are two busy or just dont want to listen, through all of that, I am constantly reminded of why im here when I bear witness of how loving our Heavenly Father is, How much he wants us to have his love in our lives and that through this wonderful wonderful Book of Mormon we can find it. Oh man I love that Book of Mormon with all my heart. "We can draw closer to God through that book than through anyother on the face of the earth. I bear Witness of that.

Love you all tons and i hope you have the best week ever!

Until next Monday

Elder Woodburn