With Courtney and Sister Estela
Sister Estela and I
are staying together here in Arapiraca wooohooo!! Maybe this transfer will
finally be a semi--normal one....
We had an AMAZING
week, even though it was crazy when I was traveling to different cities to go
on splits with other sisters. I also may or may not have gotten lost in Maceio
for a few short hours because I got on the wrong bus. But as usual the Lord
provides a way to help you out!
But we had a great
week because first of all, a friend of Wendel, our recent convert, has been
coming to church and seminary for a few weeks and we´ve been teaching him. And
he got baptized on Saturday!! It was so great. He’s 16 and a wonderful
kid, very responsible and really dedicated to God. I asked him in one of our
lessons why he wanted to be baptized, and he said ´´I want to be part of the
kingdom of God here on earth´´. That was a pretty good answer for me! I’m
really grateful for lessons like those that remind me why I came out here, to
find people like him and clear up all of the blank spots that he had his whole
life.
We also are
teaching an amazing 14 yr old girl named Laiza (i promise we´re not just
teaching kids and baptizing them against their will). She reminds me a lot of Julia
in how she is just friendly and inclusive. But she is sooo smart holy cow, she
asked us when we taught the restoration who the 12 apostles were that Joseph Smith
called when he reorganized the church... I was like yeah ill have to get back
to you on that one...
It’s also funny
when you find out why your area got switched to sisters instead of elders when
all the members talk about all the rule breaking they did... haha. They’ll say
´´how come you guys don’t hang out at our house?? Elder so and so were here
every day for 3 hours!!´´ Or the women sometimes say ´´sister if you need to,
you can use my phone to talk to your friends and family on facebook, the elders
always needed to when they came here´´. So that goes to show you that the
phrase ´´no one will ever find out´´ is sadly untrue! And I will be chatting
with those elders soon enough...
But really I’m
doing really good here, some of the fun elders will be transferred from my zone
this transfer but I’m sure we´ll make it fun either way. I was studying this
week about the talk that Syd sent me, and it talks about how we need to have
faith and hope for good things to come. That when the scriptures talk about how
we need to ´´be not afraid´´ or ´´be still´´, and how it is only someone who
truly has passed through all of the darkness and sickness and pain and trouble
that we feel that knows the right counsel to give us-to be hopeful! So that is
my message for the week, that if we have the gospel, we always have reasons to
be hopeful. And it is not despite but exactly because of our trials that we
come to understand the grandness of the life of the savior and the power he
promises for each one of us if we are willing to reach out our hand. How great
is this gospel! I love being a missionary and I love you guys! Thank you for
your wonderful examples and support!
Sister Walker
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