Elder Adam Walker:

It has been a great week this week, we have had some really interesting things happen that’s for sure. It has gone by really fast as well. We were supposed to be having another baptism this weekend but she feels that she isn't ready right now. It was really kind of a bummer because we have been trying so hard to help her out in every way possible. A member took us out to eat along with the lady that was going to be getting baptized... that was just great. If you can just imagine 2 autistic kids at pizza hut... one of them puking in the process, and yelling and screaming the whole time that we were there, you can just begin to imagine how the night was. Anyways it was nice of the member to try to fellowship her. Just didn't go the greatest. We just keep going though. One of the football players, Pres Crawford that we are teaching here at SVU has finally decided that it is the right thing for him to do and he wants to get baptized. So we are happy about that one that made our week much better, we saw him yesterday morning. This past week has been good, we made cookies for all of our investigators and they all really appreciated them. The ones we made this week were heath cookies, they were really good. We made 6 dozen of them.
Last night we had an interesting experience. We were asked by this lady to go and try to talk to her sister because she was going through a hard time and she really thought that we might be able to help. So we went in last night and started to talk to them, we talked about the restoration a little bit, but then the one lady that we went to talk to just stood up and started freaking out about how God has turned his back on her, she has done everything she could possibly do but everything bad is happening to her right now. Then her sister that asked us to come in, started arguing with her. It was a mess, it was the worst argument that I have ever seen or heard. We got them to cool down for a minute and we thought that we had things under control, when all the sudden they started freaking out again. It was a mess. The sad part was that they were just being so selfish about everything, all they cared about was themselves, if it wasn't for their own good, it wasn't what they wanted. It is such a long story to explain, and there are so many details but overall I was just thinking that its so sad to see so many unhappy families, we really take for granted what we know. Many people think they know who they are, but they don’t. The neat thing is that we do know who we are, we know exactly who God is and we understand that trials are here to make us stronger, no matter who we are, whether we are righteous, or wicked, we are going to have adversity. The only difference is how we take it and how we deal with it. We all have different hands of cards, and we have to play them the best way we know how to. Everything is going really well here though, I’m happy to be alive and everything is great. Next week is transfers, so I will be getting a new companion, it will just be interesting to see whom I get. I’m exited for change, but it’s been fun being with Elder Reed so we will just have to see how it goes. Thanks for everything, I love you all. Elder Walker

Nov 17, 2009
So transfer news! Elder Reed is leaving, and I'm getting a new companion. His name is Elder Anderson. If you remember the kid that was in my ward at Utah State and he lived in the same apartment building I did in Logan, we were in the same ward, we got our mission calls the same day, we were MTC roommates, and here we are, he is now coming to be my companion. I'm exited, he is a way cool kid, we will do really well with each other. I'm exited for this transfer, we have a lot of people lined up and lots of good potential. Our Zone is getting mixed up just a little, we are getting 2 new greenies. So that will be a boost to our zone and we are getting some solid missionaries transferred in so we are pretty exited about it all. We have a lot of work to do but it will be great. Life is just going really well. Couldn't ask for anything better. Time is flying by. Month by month, I want it to slow down. Tomorrow we have to get up at 3:30 so that we can get to Roanoke for rides and everything so its going to be an early morning. I should have my new companion by 3 or 4 tomorrow so I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to miss Elder Reed but I'm ready for a change and I'm looking forward with optimism. Its going to be a great transfer. Thanks for everything, love you all.

Nov 24, 2009
I was able to go out on exchanges with Alec Fullmer last Wednesday. It was really fun, we were in Roanoke waiting for our companions to come down on the bus and we had some time so we were able to go out and do some tracting. We got into one home and taught an awesome lesson. It was really neat to be able to go out with him for a couple hours. He is still Alec but has changed a ton, he is a really good teacher, really sincere and humble about everything, it was awesome. 2000 miles away we meet up and were walking down a street, haha I couldn't believe it but it was great. Everything is going well here. My companion is great, we get along well. The work is great. Nothing too exciting has happened, just a normal week, we have been tracting a lot. Trying to find people to teach. We have a lot of good potential, people are just scared of commitment. We have a baptism Dec 5th, so that will be nice. Thanks for everything, I love you all. Elder Walker

Dec 1, 2009
Sounds like it was a great Thanksgiving there at home. Mine went well also. We had a dinner with a family, there were probably 30 people at theirs. They had quite a bit of food as well. They even had a non-member family there so we were able to talk to them. Ever since Thanksgiving we have just been eating left overs the whole time, yesterday's was terrible. I felt really bad. we had a dinner appointment with this really poor couple, and we had left overs with them. All I can say is I'm glad I am a missionary and am pretty much immune to bad food because I'm pretty sure the ham that we ate was not cooked all the way through and the baked beans that she had made probably had more sugar and brown sugar on them than there was actually beans in the pan... the pumpkin pie, well lets just say it didn't look like pumpkin pie... haha- we are still alive though and its been a great week. I'm sure you have all kinds of stories about eating weird food, we just get a couple every once in a while. You might like to hear this, we came across this Phillipino family a couple weeks ago and they said they want to learn more, so I will keep you updated on them, hopefully we can see them sometime this week. We have a baptism this weekend, her name is Melissa Carter, so we are exited about that. We also set another person with a baptism date last night. So hopefully he will come along, his wife is a member but he is not yet. He just has to quit smoking and he will be ready. Pres Crawford is a college student that we are teaching here, and he will most likely get baptized at the beginning of next month, January. Then we have the Mkinya kids, remember the black, less active man we tracted into, his kids. They said they will hopefully have permission from the mother by Christmas. So things are looking good here, things are going really well. We just keep on going and hoping for the best every day that we go out. Thanks for everything. I love you.
Elder Walker