April 20, 2011

Hey mom, can you do me another favor and send this to dad, Shan and everyone? I am starting to get mad at my ldsmail account. Last week it wasn’t working and now it is working but my password does not work. I have changed the password three times and it still doesn’t work, so I am getting a little frustrated at the moment. So how is everyone doing? Well, things here have been good. Well, we have had some fun things happen here. It has been about 2 weeks since I last wrote because of my email. Well things are going good. Transfers are coming up this next week. We will find out Saturday if we are staying or going. We had interviews last week and by the sound of it Elder Whitecar and I might be staying another one here in Le Havre. But we will find out this Saturday. So, well the weather here is great. I know back at home there is a bunch of snow and it is still coming. Here it is freaking hot. We haven’t been wearing our suit coats and we are also wearing short sleeves shirts. It is good though, things are great. Well some things that have happened - We went to the cliffs of insanity or Etretat this past week. It was so cool. The water there was crystal clear and the cliffs were freaking tall. The best part of it all though was that there was a golf course on the cliffs right next to it. JK the cliffs were pretty cool. I will see if I can send some photos. Well, we also got a bus ticket not too long ago. We got checked on the bus. So, I pulled out my pass and the guys told me it was April and I said, “Yes” having no clue why he said that. Then we found out that we forgot to get our bus pass for the month of April. We just had it for March. So we got a little ticket. It wasn’t much though because we had a pass, but it was something to laugh about. Last Saturday there was a member getting married so we had the opportunity to go to a French wedding. It was actually pretty cool. We didn’t go to the actual thing but after they came to the church and did something there where we were. It was pretty cool. The groom is not a member. His family came and some of them liked how our church was and they were a little interested. We didn’t do any contacting though because they would have probably got mad at us. It was cool though to see how it was.

Well let’s talk about our investigators. We have one named Joseph. He is from Ghana, Africa. He is sick. He trusts in God so much and he told us the only reason why he was here was because of the blessings of God. He has had so many trials and he has had so many miracles in his life. He is awesome. He loves our church and is reading and praying about the Book of Mormon. Our other investigator, Donatien, is doing awesome. He has been in Paris for a little bit visiting his family down there. So we haven’t seen him in some time. We should have a rendez-vous with him this week. So, hopefully things will be good. We have another investigator, Françoise Daniel who is great. We had a rendez-vous with her yesterday and she is doing great. The work here in Le Havre is going really good right now. Things seem to be great. Elder Whitecar and I are getting along just fine and we are loving the work. Well, I love you family and I hope you have a great week and a HAPPY EASTER this Sunday. Well I love you. TTFN ELDER WALKER

April 13, 2011

My account is not working. Can you send this also to dad and Shan. I am sorry. Well, I don’t have much time but this week was good. Everything went great. I had my interview with our president yesterday. We had to spend the whole day in Caen because there was no bus going back to Le Have. It was great. I think this was our last interview with him though before he leaves. We will have zone conference and training but no more interviews. It is good though. It is also cool news that Wendi had her baby and that everything is going great with the family. I am happy for them. The family is great. I know that I have drawn closer to all of you while I am on my mission. I love every one of you. I have a strong testimony that families can be together forever and that is a great gift. I am so happy here. I love serving the Lord. Well family, sorry this is so short. My LDS mail account is not working for some reason. Hopefully next week will be better. I have a lot of things to talk about like getting a ticket on the bus, general conference, my story about the cliffs of insanity or Etretat and our investigators. I will just have to fill you in next week. Well, I love you and just wanted to write telling you that I am great and everything is going good. I LOVE YOU LOVE ELDER WALKER

April 4, 2011

Hey family, how is everything going? Did everyone love conference? I sure did. We only got to watch the Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, Priesthood, and Sunday morning sessions. I didn’t really understand a lot of the Sunday morning one. The reason why is we had an investigator come to church and watch it. So I watched it in French with her. Let me tell you I had such a headache. Trying to convert or translate all the talks in my head. Oh, my head was throbbing. I understood a lot, but they were using words I have never heard of. The next part was it was freaking hot and I was falling asleep. French didn’t help that at all either. It was still good though. When President Monson came on though, I ran back to the English room to watch it. I still loved all of conference. It was really good. I have truly come to love conference. I remember when I was at home and thinking, ”yes, conference, going to the family room in my pj’s then pulling out my game boy and playing games while watching it or listening to it.” If I was in fact doing that. Now I am like YES GENERAL CONFERECE! Grab my note book and a pen and take pages of notes. I also love reading and going back on the internet to listen to them over and over again. I have truly fallen in love with General Conference. I liked all of the talks. They were really good. Talking about the temples and loving one another and how we can give service to one another also. So, how did everyone there like General Conference? I hope everyone had a good one and they learned a lot. It is a great time to learn and grow.

Well, this week was also great. I had to go down Wednesday to Rouen to give their investigator a baptism interview. When we got there she told us that her family found out and they are not happy with her. So, she wanted to wait and see what was going to happen. She is cool though and she is ready to be baptized. I hope everything goes well. I know they have a rendez-vous with them today so, hopefully it goes well. Well, our investigators are doing great. We had one of them come to the Conference. It was Françoise Daniel. I think she loved it. I also think Elder Bednar’s talk was great for her about revelation and all that jazz. Our other investigator, Donatien, is doing good. We have not been able to have an appointment with him in some time though because of school. He just finished his tests so maybe soon we can meet with him. His friend though that he brought to church is elect. We had an appointment with him and it was sick! I can see him getting baptized soon. Well, things here are going great. Our investigators are doing awesome also. Well, today we went and saw some cliffs out by the coast. They were pretty cool. I will have to see if I can send some pictures home. They were pretty cool. We went with the elders from Rouen and it was awesome. Well I have got to go. Love ya -- TTFN LOVE ELDER WALKER