August 29, 2011

Hey family, how is everything going? Well, I have some news for you..yep..some transfer news that is. Well, transfers are this Wednesday and I bet you will never guess what is going to happen. Well, there have been a lot of things that have changed. President Poznanski has made some big changes, but they are good. He has been talking and wants missionaries to stay longer in a ward to get to know the members more and the investigators better. So, with that I am staying another one in Paris and I am staying another one with Elder Dick. This is the first time I have stayed 3 transfers with a companion. It will be good, we are excited. Things should be good. We get along great. There are also a lot of missionaries who are staying 3 with their companions. It is a big change. We did have 12 zones in our mission, but now only 8. They have gotten rid of 4 zones and combined them with the others. It should be good, easier and more efficient, so that is nice. It is a little weird though since this is the first time that the Paris ward is not changing missionaries. All 10 of us in the ward are staying the same which is pretty cool. We will get the chance to work with them a lot more. Well, we have had a good week here. Actually we had a great week. Yesterday we had another concert at our church. It was so good. It was based on the Book of Mormon. We had copies of the Book of Mormon out on the chairs and we had 3 speakers who read out of the Book of Mormon before each song. We went through and picked out some very good scriptures and had them read. It was so powerful. You could just feel the spirit when they read the scriptures and then when they sang it was just awesome. It was a good concert and everyone loved it. We had a lot of investigators come and a lot from other wards also like Versailles, St Ouin, Paris, Lilla and more. There were a lot of people there and our Mission President was there with his family. It was very good. It was so spiritual and everyone loved it. We are planning to do one more. This one will probably be one of our last ones also, because next transfer we will be separated and will go somewhere else. So we will make it a good one. Another good thing is that vacation will be over soon. Everyone is starting to come back to Paris and home to go to work and school. It is awesome. We will have some investigators coming back so we are excited for that. It should be fun. One of them we had asked to be baptized and he said yes, but then he left and we had no idea. So we called and called and called again. Then guess what? We called again, but this time we left a message saying if you’re not interested you can just let us know. Then we will stop calling you. Well he calls us back and said no, no, I am interested. It is just that I am on vacation.....Oh! Ok! So he will be back on Wednesday and we can start teaching him again. Oh ya! We are excited. We also have our friend from Egypt and he is doing great. He is so cool and he knows this church is true and wants to be baptized. We just need to work some things out first before we can fix a date with him. He will get baptized soon - hopefully this transfer. He loves this church and comes every Sunday and reads the Book of Mormon and so much more. He is just elect!!! We also had a great rendez-vous with another one of our investigators, but then we found out he lives right outside of our area. So, we will have to pass him but we will still see him around. We asked him if he knew it to be true to be baptized and he said yes. So hopefully the other elders will be able to work with him. Things are going great here. Elder Dick and I are happy that we are staying together and we will have a great time. I love this place and I know this church is true. I LOVE YOU!
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TTFN LOVE ELDER WALKER