June 24

Hey all y'all fellers!

     That is a Texan greeting right there! Ha well this week has been awesome for me and Elder Barney we had two baptisms this week!  I said that last week but it happened and now they are officially baptized, so its still big news!  The Highland Village area is just seeing so many good things.  I think that in July there will be some more baptisms as well and this place  has only had 5 baptisms the past 2 years combined and so far in 2010 they have 5 with more to come so this area is hitting and an all time high. 

             Texas is really hot now as you saw in the title the thermometer in our little Mazda said 112 Degrees!!  It wasnt actually that hot but it felt hot.  The car was in the sun so it was reading about 9-11 degrees too hot so it was only 100 ha.  I am starting to like Highland Village a lot the members are opening up and actually being people not just spiritual robots who wont talk to us about anything except the scriptures. Not a terrible thing but its nice to be able to have a normal conversation with someone about normal life.  The work here is progressing and going great things are just a little bit harder than down in Killeen.  Rich people are kinda stuck in there ways.  The scripture about it being easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than a rich guy to get into heaven... Kinda true but i wont judge to harshly.  Just one more story that happened on Tuesday: We went out to dinner w/ our exchange and right before we sat down to eat some guy came up to us he was being nice and asked us what we believed and stuff he eventually pulled up a chair and we had about a 20-30 minute discussion and he left with a book of mormon and 3 pamphlets he doesnt live in our area or even our mission for that matter so i guess i wont know what happens to him for a while.  Also the water got turned off at the Mcintyres so we slept at our Zone leadrers apartment last night it was fun. The water got turned off because their pool overflow stopper thing wasnt working so they had to turn it off to save the house and some cash.  It was all good tho.   Well now to some of your questions/ Concerns:  Brett, man that sucks i know how ya feel man when i got trasfered out of my greenie area we had 2 dates and 3 more potentials so man i feel for ya that sucks. You could ask your pres to let ya go back for it?  In our mission if its your first or last one you can go back so it wouldnt hurt to try that anyways.  Good luck in your new area!  Aunt Helen!  Well thanks for the email i love gettin those things.  I'm actually not by Houston or the Gulf but everyone here is buzzin about it and i have seen some pictures about it but i havent jumped in it yet.  Thanks for the encouragement i love y'all thanks again.  Jeremy i will tell you when i get the package what you almost didnt let her send haha.  Well thanks for the quick little note and now i dont think you guys forgot about me i was wondering there for a while.  Ha jk well Jeremy tell JIll i love her too even tho she didnt email me.  Dillon man thanks for all the emails man i am loovin them i cant wait for them every week.  I think that all of this is a sign and you should hurry up and get those things finished!  You will love life out in the field i'm not saying its easy i am saying that its fun!  I hope that you keep busy with stuff until you go out just keep me informed.  Dad, Thanks for the Email i love hearing from you it is always nice to get the info that you send to me.  I am excited about your buisness and everything and how good y'all are doing i cant wait to get home and mak money for myself.  Have fun in SLC this week and good luck watching Aliyah!  Well i love you all and mom thanks for the package i'm sure i will loev it when it gets here. 

Love y'all

Elder Walker

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June 17: Happy Fathers Day Dad!

Hey Y'all!

      Happy Fathers Day Dad!  This is your 34th Fathers day is that weird??  I didn't realize until just barely that we have 2 baptism's on y'alls Anniversary.  I will now remember when your anniversary is haha.  I cant believe that abe is already 1 year old that means that alex had her b-day too huh?  Well too both of them happy b-day!  This week nothing momentious happened except for the two baptism's were going to have this saturday.  today we actually helped a lady move and it took us from 1-3 so thats why my email is so late today but it was really cool.  Her boyfriend wasn't a good guy and she wanted to move out and she called one of her "christian" friends who turned out to be mormon and she called us asked if we could help and of course we said yes.  It was really cool and she was really sweet a non-member but i think she will get baptized.  Not much else happened, we were the 9th companionship out of the whole mission last week i guess that is pretty cool right?  

Well brett man it suonds like your area is doing bomb thats way awesome about your dates for the 26th and the 3rd.  Its way cool yeah i got your letter and i wrote you back, keep up the good work man and play hard but work harder haha your awesome man.  Mike i am so gonna send you that letter now so just expect it from me.  Keep on truckin man and i know thats so weird that i will hit a year next transfer, you'll be there soon enough.  Mom thansk for the letter i love you but i am runnin really short on time and i am lovin the mission right now and i am so excited to write you a better letter next week Dad your the best ever keep makin money and have fun at that resort get away thingy.  Bean thanks for the letter man i am sorry about your knee and i hope to play ball with  you sometime in the future!  PORD thats so awesome man i will so be there no matter what its scheduled and i am ready to be there, Dill thanks so much for the letter and i am not that big and i dont really know how tho foght so dont worry about it and i would never hit you.  You made me Steaks that one time which were really good so we can be friends no matter what.  Okay i love you sorry if i forgot you i wont next week okay well bye bye

Love y'all

Elder Walker!

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June 10: Mui caliente en Tejas!!

Hello hello everybody!

  Well this week sure has gone by super fast, i cant believe that i am already sending another E-mail.  Well some cool stuff has happened since last Thursday, Monica (Marissa's Mom) has moved her baptismal date from the 10th of August to the 19th of June!!  So her and her daughter will both be getting baptized on June 19th next Saturday!  Its really cool, also we got a car to drive around for a while  yeah I'm so happy its not permanent and we only get 500 miles a month so we cant really drive that much but its enough to be enjoyable!  The car is a 2007 Chevy Malibu and its white and it goes pretty quick from what i have experienced so far. Anyways the title of the E-mail is true its getting hot here like super hot it hit 100 last week so yeah i miss the nice cool Rexburg weather its sad to say but its true.  For those of you who say that you would switch me you wouldn't want to stay here for one more day after one day in the 100 degree weather.  I felt like melting that day this was before we got the car so we were sweating it out on a bike and man was it hot!  

Texas is fun tho i am enjoying myself here Highland Village has some really cool people.  Also another cool thing that happened this week was that we had President Thurston's Last Zone Conference.  It was a really good one i enjoyed it a lot.  The Trainings given were really good.  Also President Sagers comes here on the 28th of June. Crazy!  Its coming really fast and its gonna be really weird when it happens I think.  Speaking of that Mom and Dad did you guys happen to see him?  If yes, how did it go?  Dad you should ask Rick if he remembers a family named the Hansen's who lived in Oklahoma his First name is Neil so if you could he wanted to know cause he knows Rick and Spencer.   Mom my address i already told you just send it to there its really close by so I will get it like one day later than i would if you just sent it too me.  I cant really think of anything that i need specifically.  Elder Barney's first name is Samuel (Sam).  Mom even with Colton gone i don't think you will ever be empty nesters I mean Jordon will come over Sean probably will come over not to mention all of the College kids like Scott who will keep coming over.  So, you will never be an empty nester ha.  I love you mom thanks for the E-mail i appreciate it!  Dad thanks for both the letter and the E-mail i recieved both of them, your letter on tuesday and e-mail today!  We always seem to have some kind of car trouble dont we?  Thats to bad about the cars and your too nice to let mom drive your CTS.  Just kidding i think that your just nice enough.  I hope that everything keeps goin up in your Buisness and i hope that you can retire comfortably when i get home or even before, that would be cool.  I feel kinda sorry for you having to mow darrins lawn but just a little bit haha.  Speakig of college tuition did you ever get a chance to go too coach miller and talk to him about the game film at all?? If you did thanks if not its okay you'll just have to pay for college haha jkjk.  I love you dad good luck in finishing out school and everything talk to ya next week.  

Mike thanks io am trying and my comp has a red spanish book the same one you have and i am trying to get him to give it to me so then i can really learn some Espanole.  It is weird that you have been out for almost 6 months!!  I have been out 7 transfers man so weird but before ya know it you will be at 7 and i will be at 10 thats creepy.  but i am running out of time and i have to say a few more thing but thanks Elder Dayley for the email.  Dillon thats good that your moving along you should probably tell her tho she might want to know when one day your gone and cant call her or email or anything that might be important.  Just a thought, and you know i was just kidding about the camera breaking thing.  Good luck with filling out your papers tho man i hope that it works out for ya.  Thanks Dill.  Pord i am excited for your letters,  and thanks for comforting my mom ha your awesome.  i hope you find those songs cause then you can take them with you and listen too them and love them like i do.  Jeremy thanks for the picture its really cool i hope that things keep going strong cause i would love to have somebody with the same birthday month as me in the fam!   Alright times up y'all love ya have an awesome week!

Te Quero,

Elder Walker

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June 3: Happy Birthday Aliyah

Hey Y'all,

    Hey aliyah i hope you read this cause i am wishing you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!Love you Leah!  

Well this week has been a real a blast.  We set a date for the 19th of June with a girl (and maybe her mom) Who has been investigating for about 3-4 months now. They are a really cool family there names are Marissa and Monica Tagleary(Tag-lee-air-ee).  Also we are having a blast riding our bikes around.  Which reminds me,  While me and Elder Barney were out Tracting we stopped by a Part Member family and we were sitting there talking to them and outta nowhere 3 crazy girls walk by and casually start too pick up our bikes like its no big deal.  I look at em and I'm like "hey whoa there chica" and they tried to tell us that they were their bike and we just like umm no, they were so weird but it was a funny experience tho to tell you.  Another Bike thing that happened too us this week well actually yesterday we were riding our bikes back too the church for an exchange and it started Raining and then it rained some more and by the time we got to the church we were thoroughly soaked and we had too go right then so we were like okay its your car.  It was really refreshing tho i enjoyed it.  

Lewisville is a really cool place i like it a lot so far the members are very missionary minded like extremely its really awesome.  Mom our teaching pool is alright we have enough people to teach but we could use some new faces and we are trying hard we have a good time tracting tho Elder Barney is and Introvert and i am a very Extrovert person so I am the loud one and he is the quite one we balance out each other very well.  My shirts are fine no matter what they look like if i have them on they look good   Elder Barney lives umm you know where the road forks up millhollow his house is the one on the right corner right next to 2nd S.  

Mike thanks for that email i really appreciate that its nice to hear that.  Your an inspiration for me as well, so you best keep on truckin man.  Te quero amigo. Brett I got you letter and i really like it buddy you sound like a missionary already ha well you should you are in the field.  So how did the 5 NI go are you still teachin them?? The work here is hard too man and i dont exactly have ballers on every corner ha its okay tho. I dont want to break anyone ankles and then have em sue the church ha.  Well man i will write you back a leter w/more info on it.  Te Quero.  Pord you always ask if there is anything you can do for me and yeah you can find a group named the Molanie Brothers.  I'm not 100% sure thats how you spell it but they are Poly's and they make good music that i can listen too so you could totally hook me up that way. amo pord.  Jill I just got your E-mail and that is so super awesome i am so EXCITed nobody else has anything in my month so thats pretty much awesome but we still gotta pray and give credit where credit is due. Right?  yeah so we should keep praying and just like Alma and his little band of followers stop in the wilderness and thank God.( See Mosiah 22ish for the whole story).Its still way awesome tho just so ya know! Hey Dill, Well man i have to say Texas is pretty much awesome adn i didnt have too eat crazy food i get too eat really good food a lot tho soits pretty much the bomb!  I would have liked too speak espanole tho thats the only thing thats a downer.  Other than that state side is the bomb-diggity.  Well man good luck on those pics, dont stare directly at the camera it might break just a work of advise.  Love ya dude. Dad i love i know your busy keep up the hard work so you can be rich and in turn i can be rich also! Haha love you dad.  Wow okay that was quite the E-mail today y'all.

Love y'all Mucho

Elder Walker

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May 27: HAPPY B-DAY MOM

Hey Y'all!

      Okay well first off HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!! Your birthday was my Month day so its like we have the same birthday. Well now I am in a place called Highland Village and i am lovin life. Its in the Lewisville Zone or stake whatever you wanna call it.   My Companion is Elder Barney he is from REXBURG  he said that he lives behind the hospital kind of by our house.  We live with Members and there house is pretty nice its way cool too.  I haven't really met the whole family yet.  We live in a pink little loft thing on the back side of there house.  The Mcintires is there name or something like that.  Our area is another bike area so yeah for me nice and hott during the summer.  This area is really really rich like everybody is loaded we went to two peoples houses last night and their homes were big.  This is quite the change from Killeen there are no ghetto's, no big rims, and no Army folk either.  I have a feeling tho that we are gonna have a lot of fun this transfer. Thats about the only change in my life now.  Jill did you ever live with members??? 

Brett man i cant wait for your letter my area is doing well as far as i know i think that we could have 4 baptisms this transfer.  We have 2 dates already but they are pretty far off so we are going to move them up tonight so yeah and 2 for miracles.  Hotlanta sounds pretty Hot tho i feel for ya i dont know how hot it is here i dont wanna know.  Pord i remember that ride it was fun when we did it i enjoyed it a lot.  Do you guys ride down poleline?  Or do you just go down 2nd E?  I cant wait for your letter back i am excited for it.  Dad thanks for the really long letter today i loved it.  Its okay that you didnt send me a letter last week i still love ya.  just as much and i got the Emv thank you.  Thanks for the encouragement and Compliments they are much appreciated.  Mom i am sorry i didnt write you a letter i will this week and it will be a good one i hope that you have a great B-day and i will continue to pray for jill i hope she has a new boy/girl when i get home.  Buddah thanks for the letter well email i liked it a lot and you can email me all you want i just cant send you a personal email back so email me away haha. MIke man thanks for the letter and happy b-day to you too i totally forgot about that but yeah your right we are getting to be quite old .  Well i have a letter just waitin for the address to send it too. Btw did you get transfered or what?? Jax thanks for the PS comment it was funny thanks.  Alright i love you all so much be safe have fun love y'all!

 

Mucho Love,

Elder Walker

P.S. Dad will you put money on card??

Thanks

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Photos: 20 May 2010

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May 20: Email Update

Hola mi Familia! Y Mi Amigos!

     Okay well this week has been a blast!!  Me and Elder Bagley have biked a ton we went too the most Northern tip of our area and then the next day we went to the most southern tip it was awesome yesterday we biked about 19+ Miles wow right?!  Also we finally Baptized Erik it took us a while but we did it and ha was also confirmed because we have Stake Conference this weekend so we decided to do it that day instead it was really cool.  Elder Bagley got to do both of them it was his first real convert so it was even better that way.  It was great to get all of your Letters its always good to hear about all y'all it makes me feel loved.  

Sean i know you can do it buddy your awesome its just a test you can make it back out people need to feel of your spirit so get better and Just Do It.  Pord i sent you a letter today cause i kinda didnt have any stamps until today so sorry it took it a while but its comin i promise and it kind of is a crappy letter so i am writing another one today so dont be disappointed with the first one i was in a rush.  I hope i set a good example for ya i am doing better now than i was before.  Congrats on Graduation Jocey hope it is/was fun.  Mike Colorado es mui Malo Tejas is Mucho Mejor Y Tejas es Mucho Bueno!! Ha jk it is pretty Ballin tho man and SLCC sounds like a plan that would be awesome if we can i am excited to do it.  Mike send me your mission address so i can write ya letter for reals okay?  Brett i kinda need your address too.  How is your trainer? Do you like him?  Do you have a door approach yet?  How big is your area?  Ha a lot of questions sorry but it is gettin way hot I got a mean sun burn yesterday cause we spent all day tracting it wa fun.  I got fried like usual.  You sound great now just give me an address.   Colton, my little brother, I would definitely put up a good fight now i am scrappy as always and now got a little meat on me.  Texas is good tho its still pretty warm and humid as always but i love it i'm getting Acclimated so it isnt as bad as it could be.  You should start school in august.  I think that way you can get done with it and get a career and move on with life.  I dont know if you can or not but you should try.  Love you Bro keep bein you and be nice to Claud or i'll fight ya when i get home haha.   

Mom, You sound very busy.  How was your trip?  I'm just guessin that its over now.  Tell Jill i'm prayin for her every night and that it will happen for her i know it will they should keep on growing strong.  Tell the Calderwoods Hi for me.  I will look that up it sounds interesting.  I love you mom your awesome you keep on keepin on life hard but we need the bitter so we can taste the sweet!  D&C 136:31  my favorite Scripture as of now.  Dad i hope school is going well and that your havin fun with it.  Just a question did you get a chance to talk to Coach Miller about the films??  Thanks if ya did and Please if ya didnt ha.  Well i love you all your awesome and i will tel ya next week where i am and if i left and all that good stuff.  Okay well i love you guys every single one of ya.

Love Y'all

Elder Walker

P.S.i need Ian's address i want to stay in contact with him so please tyr and get it. 

P.S.S. I Love you Brooke.

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