First Month Back--New Area: Omak, Washington with Elder Barlow

June 3, 2019

Things are going well. The flight was good. I'm glad me and sister Stapley were flying together: it made it fun. Monday and Tuesday I was with some other Elders near Yakima. On Wednesday I drove up with the zone leaders to Ephrata. On Thursday there was a specialized training for half the mission. Elder Chidester was there so that was awesome to be able to see him again. After the training me, my new companion Elder Barlow, Elder Chidester, and his companion all drove up to Wenatchee. I got to drive because we were getting that car and I'm still the senior companion. My new area is the Omak area. It is a tiny town way up north. We're about an hour and a half away from any other missionaries. There are two Spanish Elders up here that stay with us, so that makes things more fun. We've got a summer party on the 13th where we get to go down to Moses Lake. We're all pretty stoked about that. Up here we're doing a lot of work on the Indian Reservation. My companion Elder Barlow is a Navajo Indian, so he's bomb at working with them. 

I'm doing good. I'm probably going to need some more protein powder and BCAA's here pretty quick. 

Thanks for everything.

Love,

Elder Walker

ps the pics are from Yakima. When we were doing some service we found some monster slugs.

June 10, 2019

This past week has been good. We have been getting strapped up for a baptism next Saturday, so we're all looking forward to that. We also have the mission's summer party on Thursday that we're all pretty stoked for. We've been having a hard time finding people to teach recently, so we're trying some new ways of finding to see what works in thisarea because tracting up here is pretty trash. We have exchanges with the district leader too this coming week, so we've got a pretty full week ahead of us.  

Thanks for the email.

Love,

Elder Walker

June 17, 2019

Yeah that does sound like a pretty busy week. Good that Jamie's staying busy though. We've been doing good up here. This past week was good. We've still been trying to find people to teach and trying new ways of finding. On Saturday we set up a lemonade stand for a couple of hours. We didn't see a whole lot of success from that but we did hand out a few copies of the Book of Mormon. On Thursday we had our 'Zone Conference' summer party with all the northern zones. It was pretty fun, They had it in Moses Lake in the same church I went to while I was serving in 5th Ward, so that was kinda cool to be back for that. We left at 6am and drove about 3 hours. When we got there they turned us loose for a few hours to play sports and hang out. Then in the afternoon they had some training for us, and all the missionaries leaving this transfer gave their departing testimonies. We also got a new car, a 2019 Toyota RAV4. It's super nice. We've also been making some cookies and taking them around to people, so that's been fun. 

Thanks for the email.

Love,

Elder Walker

June 24, 2019

This week has been good. We had exchanges with the district leader this past week. I was with the district leader's companion Elder Arguetta. It was alright--he's a very strange individual, but we got some good work done. We were doing some service at a food bank and the head guy over it thought I was from the Military. It was kinda funny. Crazy story from this week: we were phone tracting (we call all of the contacts in our phones that we don't recognize. It's actually pretty effective.),  and we called a lady who was having a really hard time and was suffering from domestic abuse. We had a really good talk with her and talked a lot about God's love and how she can find peace. We ended up leaving a Book of Mormon out in front of the church for her to come pick up because she didn't want us to see her. And she came and got it. We were super excited. Hopefully she reads some of it and comes to find out it's true. 

That's good that things are going well there at home.  Jamie's still staying busy I assume? It's kinda sad that the pageant is over for good now. I'm glad that Jamie was able to do it one last time. That's exciting that you're going down to BYU. I'll keep you in my prayers as always. How did Dad's team do in the Softball game?

Thanks for the email.

Love,

Elder Walker