Hey party people! What
a wild week to end a wild transfer. Seriously longest transfer ever. But I
survived!
So what’s the big
secret? (let Jared fill you in on that one) I will now be transferred once
again back to the state of Alagoas, Brasil, to a little town close to Maceio
called São Miguel. I’m gonna be companions with a very tall very sassy and very
funny sister from Cabo Verde (thats in Africa people) named Sister Monteiro. I’m
leaving tonight at midnight on a bus that will take all the missionaries that
are being transferred to the other state-which means I won’t sleep at all tonight,
score! In other news I’ll have to say goodbye to Santos Dummont which is a very
cutesy area I love. But I knew I would never stay because it would be too easy
to send Sister Walker to a ward that is fully functioning in a real city. I’ve
learned that missions are a little bitter that way, you meet such amazing
people that change your life, and then one day you have to say goodbye to all
of them and continue on. That happened with Sister Barbosa this week when I
sent her off to her bus. I’ve realized I am really terrible with goodbyes, I
always have all these nice things planned out to say and then I get up there to
say goodbye and I just start crying.... then it gets awkward and I have to
excuse myself.
Anyways this week I
didn’t even work in my area, I had a meeting in Maceio where I got to see my
favorite Sister Estela woohooo!! It really is the little things that make your
mission great-I was so happy to get to see and talk to her again. But then when
I got back we spent all the other days helping at the new chapel open house
that opened up about 10 minutes from our area. The chapel there was in
construction for about a year and just opened up! I took my rightful position
outside the gates calling people from off the streets to come in and take a
looksie. I was surprised how many people stopped what they were doing to come
inside for a tour with some nice members or missionaries and only a few people
explaining too much about baptisms for the dead.
That’s all I really
have got for your guys this week. Now I get to scramble back to my area to get
all my stuff together and head out! I really love my mission. I can’t think of
any other place or event or way I could become the person I want to be and
Heavenly Father wants me to be, without going on a mission. It has changed
every aspect of my life, how I think, how I view the people around me, what I
want to do with my life. I love being a missionary! When we truly understand
how indebted we are to the savior and all He gave to us, the problems and
challenges don’t seem so overwhelming. I know that that is true! Hope you guys
have another wonderful week of summer!
amo vocês!
Sister Walker
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