January 28 Letter: Last Week Companionless

Dear Family!

Hello Hello! Momma, Dad thanks so much for the emails that you send every week. The ones that you just sent were super great. They made me feel close to you and a part of what was going on. They brought a warmth to my soul. The excitement of new missionaries, the strangeness of the freezing rain, the sadness of Woody's passing.  That does make me sad. My thoughts and prayers are with them. Thank you for what you shared about it Momma. 

Man! That is so cool how many missionaries we have going from our ward! That makes me super happy. Dad! That is so cool that you've got your first deacon with his papers in! Man you've been there a while. :) Super sweet. It is super cool how great effect this change in age is having. Its going to be having a great effect in this mission! In not this transfer but the next, 18 new missionaries will be coming into the mission! The most this mission has had was 71. We are a few under that right now, but in this March transfer we will get up to 82 missionaries! Super awesome! President talked about all of this on Thursday in our Zone conference, which was super great. So with so many more missionaries we are going to need more areas open. Whoo hoo!! So sweet! So we're hoping to have a couple more here in Chuuk. There are some good options and I'll talk more about that as the time nears.

But! This past week! Zone conference.  It was sweet. Elder Sofele hasnt come back. President is just leaving him there untill transfer. So he'll be coming back, but he probably wont be my companion any more. That makes me pretty sad because I havnt been his compainion for almost 4 weeks now. Yeah I'm pretty sad about that. But, I'll probably stay on Romanum. Thats what I think at least. Elder Sofele has been hinting to us that this transfer is going to shake up a lot of things here in Chuuk so it will be exciting to see. 

This week! Elder Obray, my MTC buddy is training again so he went to Guam yesterday. So I am now in the Michitiw area (north side of Weno) with his companion, Elder Rainy! So I've been all over the place this transfer! Man I've loved it! Good times.

Well my family! I love you guys so much! I say it every week but I really mean it. I pray for you daily. Have a super great week! I probably wont email next week. I love you guys!

Love,

Elder Walters