Hello to the good
people of Federal Way!
Wow I can’t believe
we´re already in September. We had a zone conference this week with all the
missionaries in Alagoas, and it was so weird talking with the elders I got here
with that all were saying ´´wow Sister Walker the time is ticking! You’re
already getting on your flight home!´´ I said: can it you weirdos I still have
a whole lot of time here thank you very much! I can’t really process coming
home yet because I 1. Don’t know where I will be living or studying or 2. If I
know how to do real life stuff anymore.
This week was
really great, we had been praying and fasting that we would find people to
teach, but not just any people, but people prepared to be baptized. And the
Lord heard our prayers! It is amazing what a difference sincere prayer makes in
our life. They can be repetitive and boring and your life will become so, but
if you take the time to really talk to Heavenly Father you can have your eyes
opened to how much you were missing before. Anyways we found a great little
family, there’s the grandma Maria Jose who is known as the angriest crabbiest old
lady on the street, her son Vagner who is a little lost in life, and his
daughter Gessiara who’s the sweetest and most spiritual 9 year old you’ve ever
met, that all live together. If we weren’t friends with them, I would be very
scared of Irmã Maria Jose tbh. She tells about how much hate and anger she has
inside her heart that she can’t seem to get rid of. And she’s never liked any
sort of church. But in one lesson she felt so alleviated when we came to her house,
she felt like we had something different that all the other churches that came
to her door never had. We said that’s because our church is true! And she said
´´for the first time in my life I want to go to a church!´´ and they went! It
was great. We actually had 8 investigators there yesterday which was a
blessing. But Maria Jose said during sacrament ´´now THIS is a church! Are we
gonna get baptized today or is it next week?´´ haha; slow and steady missy!
We´re also teaching
the niece of a big family in the ward, Rayane, whose dad finallyyy will let her
be baptized this Sunday! She is so sweet, she started crying in the closing
prayer when she told us he let her be baptized. And at the end of the prayer
she ended it ´´in the name of Jesus Christ... of latter day saints amen!´´
hahaha. So cute.
Another funny story
about prayer, we were teaching a big group of people and at the end we always
have one of them give the closing prayer. I picked one guy and he said he didn’t
know how to pray so I showed him in the pamphlet the steps to pray, where it explains
how. But what I didn’t know is that his prayer would be literally reading the
steps out loud... haha. It went like this *everyone with their eyes closed and
head down* ´´address your Father in Heaven. Express the feelings in your heart
and your gratitude and ask things you are in need of. End by saying in the name
of Jesus Christ amen.´´ Prayer is important people!! Got to start somewhere.
I also got some
very nice letters in the mail this week from my nice family! It’s funny, the
other missionaries saw all the papers and I said yeah all my siblings wrote to
me and they say ´´wow I wish my siblings all wrote to me...´´ and I say ´´yeah
its actually my mom that forces them to but it’s the thought that counts´´ and
they say ´´man I wish my mom would force people to write to me...´´ lol. Go
mummer!
I hope you all know
how much I love you and appreciate you! I can’t think of anywhere else I am
meant to be right now but here, forgetting about myself for a short period of
time to just focus on the needs of others. That’s where the real magic starts. I
know that the Lord is with us as we choose to follow in His footsteps, that He knows
and loves us. An infinite power is waiting for us if we choose to ask for it. The
church is true! I love you all!!
Sister Walker
And here’s a pic of
2 districts in my zone, Zona Litoral, a less active girl Rubia that put dread
braids in my companions hair, and us enjoying an ice cold drink from a coconut
on the side of the road!
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