SO HOT!!

Hey everyone!

This week has been a blast!  We have had a good time just ridin our bikes everywhere and tryin not to die in the heat!  Its really fun talking to people while your drenched in Sweat and dripping it on there front porch they feel really bad for ya and they give you a Gatorade or a Water and your lovin life because of it.  Elder Wallis is doing really good he doesn't like riding bikes but he is doing it anyways!  He knows A lot of the same people that i do from Salmon, he knows Nathan Stokes and nooner and Mark and Riley and he knows the Infangers.  So we talk about those guys all the time its fun.  This week doesn't have any really big stories or anything like that.  Yesterday tho we went and biked to the top of our area not to terribly far but it was so hot and we stayed out till like 3:30 in it and got a little bit red.  I think that its kinda funny that i don't burn here like i do back home i thinking its cause the Sun is about 3000 feet farther away but ya know i could be wrong.  But we had a really good week since Thursday... I think that we should have a couple of dates before the end of this month and should baptize in August! 

Anyways, Dill man thanks for the E-mail and i'm excited for that letter so i can read what you wrote to me and i just want ya to know that your awesome and that you can be a way good missionary!  I love ya bro you gotta keep the faith cause there are some struggles going on w/ our friends.  Dad thanks for the E-mail i'm glad that you ran cause i almost missed ya.  Congrats on the whole being done for about a month thing.  You only have 2-3 more Semesters left, thats gonna be weird for ya your not gonna know what to do with yourself.  Well, a district leader doesnt do much he basically give a couple trainings a transfer too his district and he helps where needed and he takes numbers for mid-weeks and for end-weeks.  Thats it but mostly i am still just a missionary nothing really has changed for me.  The bike is awesome i dont know what to do in a car anymore probably.  Thanks for the Emv i got it just fine and i was worried about that cause i thought that i put in the wrong address so i am glad that it is a smart thingy. Thats crazy about that fire thing.  I am glad that jen is makin good money and stuff you guys wil have fun with her when she comes home.   Well papa i love you thanks for the e-mail.  Jill thanks for the e-mail but you didnt answer the question so you lose and you do to dad.  Im glad your Baby is doing okay and i hope that its stays strong but i am in the middle of writing you a letter so i will save my comments for that.  Mike my main Elder man!  Well dude i hope that i am brown when i come home and not red like a Lobster.  But a quiencenera sounds like a balst and i will definately look for those cause i love food now and can eat like a mad man.  But mike i got 9 minutes so i gotta go love you man.

Love y'all

Elder Walker.

 

 

 

P.S. tha answer to last weeks was 4!

P.S.S. This weeks question is :How many sons did Ishmael have??(One in the Book of Mormon) 

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A new companion

Howdy howdy!

       Well this week has really flown by!  I cant believe that it is thursday already.  So this week was fun we had transfers and i got a new companion (like that wasnt expected) His name is Elder Wallis, and he is from May, Idaho.  Its in the valley between Salmon and Challis.  He lived really in the middle of nowhere and he is pretty cool tho so far.  Mom i am so glad that the Dodges made it over there and got to say hi and everything its so sweet!  They are a really cool family and there daughter just went on a mission to somewhere that i cant htink of right now but she really left like a month ago.  So i think that they really enjoyed seeing you guys.  But anyways i am also a district leader now.  Thats the only other really cool thing that happened this week.  

Texas has cooled down a bit and started to rain like crazy.  The rain is awesome tho cause it breaks the humidity so it cools down a lot.  Oh, also in the transfer i lost thee car so back to riding the bike a lot in the nice texas Summer!  Woo-hoo i'm so excited to melt!  I really enjoy the bike now tho after this trasfer it will be six straight months on a bike for me : ) so i am really getting used to it.  My legs are really tough now so i cant ride my bike all day if i had too.  This is elder wallis's first transfer ona bike he has only been out for 2 transfers/ 3 months.  Its gonna be kinda interesting to see how he does in the Texas heat.  The new mission president is doing great he says its real hot, i havent like personally met with him but he seems to be doing good.  

The fourth was fun we tracted from about 5-630 and got some peppers that were stuffed with chicken cheese and onions and they were so good!  The lady wasnt interested but she was nice.  Then we went to a patriotic Fireside and i learned some cool thing about the constitution it was cool but that was my week.  So Jax thanks for the Email man its like my sister came back from the dead!  haha jk sis i still love you so dont worry about it but in my book tyhing from the fam you said you send the best packages and i think mom is definately winning in that catergory.  But that race sounds like it was a long one, and i dont think you could ever beat me in 1 on 1 ever again i out weigh you now so you have no more leverage in the post!  Ha well i love you sis and jake too and jared and lexi!  Hey jocey thanks for the Info and thanks for everything keep incouraging pord to stay out there tell him it gets better!  Hey T-bear man thanks for the address i'll hit you up as soon as i can okay?! Much love bro good luck! Jeremy wow umm that was a very Thurough Answer but corect in what i was looking for so good job i am impressed.  Hey Chris! Well good luck man if your going to join the military the air force is where to go you will love it just get a good MOS or whatever its called in the air force.  I just hope that your home for my hoecoming talk!  Mike man thats crazy but no i am just a DL nothin even cool but your mission is awesome man keep pressin forward and use that espanole!  Hey Misty thanks for the E-mail i love them.  Your house sounds like its gettin busy.  How is Abe doing? did his Fever go away? Well mist i love ya sis thanks for the Email again!  Dillon i am sorry i havent written ya a letter yet but i will try my hardest today but that just sucks and i am glad that you are willing to be patient and dedcide for reals if your going or not.  i am really glad that you are serious about this tho and not just like whatever. but my time is short and i will write to day promise!  Brooke i will write ya i am sorry i have been so busy latly and i promise nothing has changed and your not a distraction you help me just so ya know.  Love you.  Jill thanks for the pictures and no i will never get sick of hearing about it keep umm coming i love it.  I didnt have time to read your thing so i will print it and read it later. 

 

Love y'all!

Elder Walker

P.S. The Answer is 3 Manassah, Ephriam, nad Judah.

PSS the next question is:  How many cities were sunk in the ocean in 3rd Nephi??

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Happy Canada Day

Hey y'all!

     Well another week another e-mail.  This week was fun we have met our new Mission President and shook his hand.  It wasn't a personal thing it was just a meeting with about 40-50 missionaries.  President Thurston is now home i'm betting.  President Sagers and his wife and two of their kids are now all in Texas.  Did you two, mom and dad, go and meet him??  The meeting we had was kind of different in that he wasn't as excited as President Thurston was normally.  He is a really smart guy in that he knows the scripts backward and forward he taught CES(institute) for like 23 years.  Hes a great guy so I'm excited for the next 14 or so months i get to learn from him.  As for the missionary work we have found people to teach now.  We have been doing some good work this whole transfer we have averaged as a zone 10.5 Member Present Lessons and 160 Invitations to learn which is pretty good.  

This week is also transfer calls!  I've been in Highland Village for  6 weeks now its so weird how time just flies by.  I cant believe it sometimes that i have been gone for 10+ months now its so weird.  Whats even weirder is that Logan is getting Married!  All I can say is its about time!  Mom i got my package and thank you!  Wow there was a lot of stuff in it!  I liked it and i am keeping it from melting by refrigerating it.  For the 4th i think i will be going to church and then after that tracting and then back to the church for a fireside that is supposed to be really interesting.  Tell Aliyah "Hi" for me and that evebtually her mom will find out what happens at Grandma's house ha.  Dad i'm glad that Mom is sticking to her person trainer i mean i remember when you tried this before and it didnt really work cause you were dad and its kinda like when you were my coach.  Anyways, you are finally getting into the trend of it all.  What kind of phone is it?  I'm jealous only for the fact that i have to wait to get a cool phone for 14 more months.  I'm doing good on MonaVie but i would like some Emv and the address is 210 twin oaks dr, double oak tx 75077.  You can send it to that address and i guess anything else you want to send too.  Thats good that T is have a good time maybe you could get me his address so i can send him a letter.  Do you know which mission Jordon went to??  I think that i would be cool to have his address to if anyone could find it, Jocelyn??  Well dad i hope that you figuer out your phone and stuff.  

Dillon, man i am sorry your life is boring just try and stay busy cause idleness is the Devils Playtime.  You should just try as hard as you can to finish them papers and get gone my friend jusy remember that it only happens once to go on a mission and if you miss out you wont have another chance to be a teenage kid preaching the gospel!  Well man i will write ya a letter with more stuff.  Mike man thats crazy, there was a spanish missionary in my first area who ahd like the same thing except that she lived in the same place.  But really mike i a sending you a letter today i know i'm horrible but i will send it today.  Brett i got your letter and am in the process of responding.  

Jill i got the package and thanks for the Swedish fish i love them and they are delious!  I am also going to write you a letter today.  Misty thanks for the letter i am glad to hear that everybody is doing well and learing how to swim i was looking at some puictures yesterday and was like man those three are gonna kill me when i get off the plane i'm gonna get taken to the ground!  which probably will happen but i will try and get tougher so they cant.  As for the program umm i dont have access to a gym or really any workout anything so i could do much, But i have just lifted hard and havent run as much as i did back home so the weight stuck to my body and i have turned into muscle.  thats really all that i have done but i love you Misty thanks for the letter i lve y'all.

Love y'all

Elder Walker

P.S. Here is a little trivia for everyone and i expect an answer form you all the question is: How many Tribes of Israel were in America??

I Will tell y'all the answer next week!

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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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