September 2, 2019

     This week has been good. We have been teaching one lady who sent us a text the other day and had a big issue with the 'curse of dark skin' from the Book of Mormon. She also wants to stop taking the lessons. We did our best to resolve her concerns, but we haven't heard from her in a few days, so we are pretty stressed with that. Otherwise things have been good. We are finally starting to get to know more of the members in the ward. We had dinner on Sunday with the Garents, from the naches ward. (They moved into this ward). It was a ton of fun. They have a super nice dog too. 

    

      We had zone conference this week which was super awesome. We had a bunch of different classes. It was really fun to see all of my mission homies. There are 4 people from my home stake in this mission. So we had to get a picture. The other Elder is from my home ward too.

We've got our temple trip on Wednesday that we are stoked for. Because of that though, we didn't get a full p day today. Which kind of sucks.

September 9, 2019

     This week has been good. We had a much better day on Tuesday. The lady who kinda dropped us we were able to set up another appointment with her and resolve some of her concerns. Wednesday was sweet. We had the temple trip and got to drive down with the new bishop and his wife. (Bishop Ridd). The temple was awesome. I always get something new from that temple. There is some stained glass in the Celestial Room that is very fascinating to me. 

     On Thursday we had interviews with President. They were pretty good, but I was a little disappointed. They were way too fast, and I didn't really get much out of it. It was still a good experience though. 

The rest of the week was fairly good--not much happened, but we were still riding the temple high. 

     This transfer is flying by. This week I'll hit 14 months out. It is pretty crazy, we are getting a bunch of new missionaries this next transfer and the transfer after. 

     I'm doing good. I'm getting low on the collagen protein but, otherwise, I've got every thing. 

     I'll try and call today. Sorry for the late email. 

Thanks for everything. 

Love

Elder Walker

September 16, 2019

     This week has been good. We had exchanges this past week with the Zone Leaders and that went really well. We found 2 new people to teach and a few more who said we could come back. We have been having a pretty full schedule this week--which has been nice. We have a huge week ahead of us this coming week. It is the last full week of the transfer which is crazy to think about. We have a big lesson tomorrow night where we will be teaching one of our people we've been trying to work with in the mission home with the mission president and his wife there too. We are super stressed about it, but it will be awesome--I think. We have been ironing out the lesson plan for awhile now and we feel pretty good about it. We are teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ Lesson to her (Dawn) and we will be spending a lot of time on the gift of the Holy Spirit. We are planning on showing her the Patterns of Light videos so that will be sweet.  Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we have pretty packed with lessons and service which is really nice. And on Saturday we have Stake Conference here and transfer calls that night so we are really getting ready for this week. It'll be crazy.

I'll try and call this evening again, That seems like it is a good time.

Thanks for everything, I hope the house and stuff is all going well.

Love,
Elder Walker

 September 23, 2019

     This week has been a roller coaster of emotions and events.  On Tuesday we had a bit of a bomb dropped on us: Dawn texted us the afternoon, before our big lesson, to cancel due to her having Shingles pretty bad. We were bummed about that, but it was really out of our control. We found out a few days later that she ended up having to get hospitalized with gallstones, and she'll have to get her gallbladder removed. She's really having a rough time, but we're still hoping and praying for her. On Tuesday we had a pretty sweet lesson with someone we just recently found named Kelly. He had read a few chapters of the Book of Mormon and had some pretty good questions. We taught a pretty bomb Restoration lesson. On Thursday we had another lesson with him and brought a member of the ward with us. That went super good. They really connected, and he had read a total of 13 chapters from the Book of Mormon. We invited him to sacrament meeting this coming week and he said he would probably come. 

     This Saturday we had Stake Conference. Since I am a District Leader I got to go to the Leadership session for the first time--so that was cool. Transfer calls came in Saturday too, and both me and Elder Williamson are staying in Meadow Brook. I'm doing better. Talking with Dad last week was really good for me. 

     Hope things are going well, especially with school and the house.

Love,
Elder Walker

September 30, 2019

     Things are going well. It was sweet to call on Thursday. It has suddenly got very cold here. It feels like November. It was a good call to send out some of my winter stuff a bit early. Luckily it was still pretty nice for transfers. This transfer is going to be very interesting. We have two new Elders in the zone who are both really cool. They also are not taking any guff from Elder Perry (the not-cool Zone leader) All of this is compounded by the fact that Elder Perry's previous companion, who I think tempered him a lot, is now gone, so his "reign-of-terror-rule-with-an-iron-fistness" has increased and there has already been some pushback from everyone. I kinda feel bad for him, but, at the same time, he is the one infringing on us and really trying to restrict how we can work based on what he thinks--not what the rules or the Spirit say. It's really irritating, so hopefully that gets resolved in a non-explosive manner. 

     Other than that, things have been going good. We have been plugging along, a lot of our teaching pool is about to get cleaned out because we have not been able to get in contact with several of them for a whole transfer, so that's kinda depressing but a little freeing too.

     I've been really good about working out for the past few weeks and I'm starting to see some pretty good results. I've put myself on a bit of a regiment and starting this week I'll be bumping up to 350 pushups and going into the 3rd phase of a leg workout I've been doing. I'm pretty happy with all that. I'll attach a copy of the leg workout if Y'all are interested. Abby may want to give it a shot when she gets feeling better. 

     How's stuff going with school and work? Dad said the house is moving along--slowly but moving. 

Thanks for the email,

Love,

Elder Walker