Transfers!

So transfers came in and I'm going to Wagoner!It’s part of the Tulsa Ok East Stake. Wagoner has 8,000 people and is an hour from the Arkansas border.  It'll be cool, I'm a bit sad with leaving the 3rd ward, it's like my family here! But this is just how it goes and Wagoner will be awesome. The 3rd ward members were asking me where I was going and none of them have heard of it, so Boonie town here I come!!

I'm excited for some Booney town stuff. I've been in the city my whole mission, this'll be quite the change. Elder Vogt will be staying, I'll miss him a lot. I've grown

super close to the guy.

This week was good. My highlights were all on Sunday, first Brandon Whitfield getting the priesthood, teaching our new investigator, Enna with our recent convert Brother Ward and having Amanda and her family come to church!

Amanda has probably never been talked about in emails before so I'll give you a quick run down. She's a member, been living in the ward with her family and non member husband for like 2-3 years and she has never been to church. Her parents and extended family are all very active but she just isn't. We as missionaries have been going over there for a while, I went through our planners this morning and we've visited them every week of my 6 months in the area and missionaries have been going over a lot even before I was there.

Our visits are pretty short, usually just quick on the doorstep talks and invitations to church and stuff not very pushy at all. We have a lot of work in the trailer park she lives in so we always pass by and

feel good about stopping by. But nothing has ever happened. We can never set up appointments because he works in the oil field and the rest of the family is super busy so it's hard to set up appointments. We thought nothing of it, just a family who we wanted to come to church and never would. But she finally came yesterday for all 3 hours and even talked with Bishop after. They plan on coming again next week.

I love how it's all God's plan, I remember getting frustrated with them because they just didn't seem like they were willing to do anything. But it's all in the Lord's time and I'm sure we made a difference.

A small difference, just a stop by every now and then to check in, but one of greater importance than we probably know for that family. We are instruments in the Lord's hands. We all, missionaries and any members alike make a greater diffenrece in others lives than we think. It all comes back to Elder Oak's talk for me. Simple things are the most meaningful. They make a big diffenrece. "By small and simple things, great things come to pass...

and bringeth about the salvation of many souls".

I'm excited to continue to serve in Wagoner and to do 
whatever the Lord would have me do there. I think one of my favorite things I've learned out here is that it's not about you. It's about the people who are blessed by what we do. I got frustrated when I didn't see immediate results with Amanda. I felt like our visits were almost a waste of time. I wanted to see her come to church now!!! But it's not about me. They were blessed by what we did. What did we do? Not quite sure. Maybe they liked the attention,

maybe we were reminders of the church and something they could turn to in hard times or maybe they just felt our love. I don't know. But God does in His great plans for each of us. I'm just grateful I was able to be an instrument in that.

It's funny, this shouldn't be a big deal, this is just a member reactivation. But it means the world to me. And I know God cares just as much about His Less active kids as He does His non members.

I'm having tons of fun out here. Lot's to learn, but I can say that I think I've got a hold on this now. I trust God, so I've got this!

Love Elder Wold

M

 Transfer day toWagoner, OK on April 11, 2018