JARED HAS OFFICIALLY
WRITTEN TO ME ONE TIME ON MY MISSION PEOPLE, LETS ALL TAKE A MINUTE TO
RECOGNIZE THAT. YAY JERRY!!
Anyways this week
was so amazing and crazy busy. I went on splits with 2 different sisters and
they were both new on the mish, and I forget that I’m not anymore... I remember
when the sisters told me they had been on their missions a year and I felt like
a big noob... now I have one year but have yet to shake the feeling of still
being a noob. We´ll see.
Well the going away
party for the missionaries was a success. They were all surprised, and we made
a special lunch for them at the church. We planned it all like it was a funeral
for them and we all bore our testimonies and it was great. I had even made up a
program with their pictures on it that said ´´in loving memory of... Elder
Zeron and Sister Domingues´´ with lots of scriptures about death and all that. We
killed it.
The family that
went to church last week went again this week. We are trying to get the elders
in Maceio to go visit the oldest sister so she can be baptized with her
brothers when she comes back home this weekend. But elders aren’t super
reliable unfortunately. All the elders are a little scared to get a phone call
from me here. We also were teaching a man and his wife who basically was
meeting with the sisters before us just to say he already knew everything about
the Mormon Church. I didn’t teach anything else I just told him he had to ask
god specifically if Joseph Smith was a prophet to take away his doubts about
the church. And he said ´´I’m not gonna ask god, I already believe he was! He
talked to god, received revelation, and was a prophet. I too, talk with god and
receive revelation, so I too am a prophet, just like you and you and all of
us!´´ So then came the long conversation of why he can’t be a prophet because
he doesn’t have the priesthood or the ability to receive revelation for the
whole world, and he kept saying ´´but a prophet prophesizes, and I receive
revelation!! Why cant I too be a prophet??´´ So we kinda just left him on that
one..
And this week is
gonna be a special one because Sydney’s getting hitched everybody!! I will throw
my own bouquet up into the air just to feel like I am there in the action. Wait
does this mean that in 2 years I have to get married in August too, because it
seems like it’s a Walker family tradition by now... to be continued.. But this
is the last week in this transfer so we´ll see if I stay here with Sister Monteiro
or if I leave. But I love it here! I’d be sad to go. Anyways just know how much
I love you all and am so grateful to know my sister will be getting married in
the temple this week. That is a true gift in and of itself to have my family on
the right path. I am so grateful to know that the lord loves us enough that he
gives us the choice to choose the right rather than just forcing us to do that.
He trusts in us SO MUCH that he knows we are capable of doing what’s right
without being forced. I am so grateful to know that and know our Father in
Heaven has a perfect plan for us. This church is true and His gospel is true
and perfect. My doubts are taken away every time I have the courage and humility
to ask about it! I love you all, make sure to put my head on a stick and put it
on lots of pics!! parabéns para o casal do ano!!
Sister Walker
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