Hello wonderful people!
You know how it is like really cold in Idaho? And really
windy here in Twin Falls? Well President Glen R. Curtis decided it
would be wise to put me and my newbie companion on BIKES right when
winter is starting.
How wonderful:) So transfer morning at 4:45 we
sent my lovely Sister Denkers home on a plane.
The mission office
couple drove us. It was super sad and I really miss her. IT is weird
how close you get to your companions. We I didn't have a companion for
the rest of the morning and just hung out with Sister McQueen, the
office secretary. So we went to the transfer meeting and there were
tons of new missionaries and then tons of trainers. I couldn't even
look at any of the newbies because I was scared of them and who was
going to be my trainee haha.
President would call up a trainer and have
them stand in the front...then he would call up their companion and
tell them where they are going and if they would have a car or a bike.
So He called me up and I was soooo nervous! Then he said..."Sister
Walker, you will be training Sister Meyer......and you will be riding
BIKES!" haha I didn't realize that I was so shocked until everyone
laughed because I was like frozen still. Then I kept asking
President..."wait, are you serious?" "You aren't kidding right?" haha
he laughed so hard. It has been really fun being on bikes, besides the
cold. My new companion is so great though!
She is from Blanding Utah
and was raised on a farm. She is a total farm girl who loves horses and
boots. We always race on our bikes and laugh because we look so
ridiculous. Sometimes it can be weird living in a tiny place with a
person you don't know haha but we are getting used to each other. It is
weird training and fun at the same time. I HATE telling people what to
do so it is hard for me. But hopefully I can just lead by example and
invite the spirit to teach.
FUNNY STORYYYYYY
There is this old lady we see sometimes (name not included) and she
wanted us to help her paint her house. So we went over there and
started scraping off the paint. She left to go do something in her room
and she didn't come out for like 20 mins. She is really old and has
oxygen so I was kind of worried. I yelled out her name and she didn't
respond. So I followed her oxygen tube and it led to the bathroom, the
door was open and I kind of thought she had died on the floor, so I got
my courage to look in and see a dead body. When I looked in, she was
full out asleep on the toilet!!!!! haha it was super sad and super
funny at the same time!! I didn't want to embarrass her so we came up
with a plan. We decided to grab her cat and throw him into the bathroom
to wake her up! IT worked and she was never embarrassed:)
For conference we went to the McMullens house and invited our
Napoli investigator over to watch it with us. Conference was sooooo
great as I'm sure all of you know! The more I read in the Book of
Mormon about the great and nobal prophets, the more I love OUR prophet.
I like to think our modern day Nephi or Alma, because he is. I love
being with the McMullens though. I feel lik they are my family away
from home.
Our family of investigators that we set baptism dates for have fell
off the face of the earth! They are never home and won't return our
phone calls. It is very dissapointing and I'm not sure what we are
going to do about it. Our area got split so we are over 2 wards now,
which we lost our 2 other progressing investigators with baptism dates!
It's pretty dissapointing.
We are going to go buy some boots today and then play some
volleyball with our zone:) I love being on my mission so much, the only
times I want to come home are when I am tired and cold! I will never
live in Idaho or anywhere where it is cold! BLAH! I love you all!!!!!
Sister Walker
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