April 26, 2011

Hey family, how is everything going? I hope everyone is doing great. Well, Happy Easter. Did everyone have a fun time and a great Easter? Did you all do something fun - like go Easter egg finding? Well, we didn’t do much here. In church though we did have 9 investigators there, which was really cool. In church we didn’t do anything big. We had a couple of talks but I didn’t really pay attention, because I was stuck between to investigators who kept talking, but it was all good. We did however have the Easter bunny come. He didn’t come to our house but apparently he went over to a members house and hid chocolate bunny’s in there garden. They had a note that said, “Give to the missionaries”. So that was cool.

Well, we didn’t do much this week. We had a good meeting with some of our investigators though. We have this one investigator who lives here that moved to Canada. He is back for a couple of weeks however, so we went to see him. The cool part is he is deaf, but he can read our lips. Another cool part is that he was a mute and couldn’t talk, but he taught himself to talk. He is really cool. He is an artist and he told us before we leave that he will draw us a picture of Mont Saint Micheal or Etretat. He is cool. He has come to church for a long time as well. We finally had a rendez-vous with the investigator who we wanted to set a baptism date with. We went over there and he told us that he may be leaving to go back to Africa for 3 months to do an internship. So that was some sad news. He is also really stressed out because of school. I hope that everything will go well with him and everything will work out with his internship. HIs friend, Joseph, who he brought to church, is doing awesome. He even brought a friend to church which is more awesome. We have been teaching Joseph. We taught him about the Plan du Salut (plan of salvation). It went well. He had some good questions. Some questions got in to some deep doctrine, but we fixed it and it ended up being a great rendez-vous.

The work is going really good here in Le Havre. Elder Whitecar is really excited to be staying another transfer together. We have some great investigators and things are really going strong here. So, funny story or stories. Elder Whitecar and I are wondering were president has sent us. There has been some weird stuff happing to us. First, we had a less active live in this one part of town. So, we go there. While there we found a drunk guy who ends up stealing my plaque and the only we could get it back was to give him a BOM. We finally got away. So we go back a couple of days later...might I say bad mistake on our part, but we go back and we ended up having a drunk prostitute start hitting on Elder Whitecar. She put her arm around him. So, then we hurried and just got out of there. It was so bad. So, we don’t get to far away when we stopped and we were talking. Just then a bird poops right between us - we just ran. That place is cursed I tell you, cursed. We decided to never go back there again. Next time we don’t know what will happen. There have also been a lot of other things that have happened this past week. We were walking and we heard this shatter sound - like a window breaking. So we turn around and saw this guy steal a purse out of a car. He then walks right between us and he meets his friend that was in front of us. They start walking off. We were following them and then they saw us. They ran and when we found them again they didn’t have the purse. They ran into a part of the city where we dared not be going. But I mean it was in the middle of the day and he breaks a window and steals a purse! He walked right by us and these other 5 people and we were just in ahh! We didn’t do anything else after that. There are some weird people here man - weird people. This place is funny, but I love it. Well got to go family and friends. I hope you have a great week.

Lots of Love - ELDER WALKER