Mon, Feb. 25, 2013
Family!
Hello!
The time continues to go and here we are at the end of February!
Yesterday all of the Branch Presidents and District Presidents were in
Guam for a meeting/training thing (They left Thursday and get back
today. Elder Russell M. Nelson was there!) So I ended up getting
assigned to conduct sacrament meeting. I agreed to do so. (Ha the
previous two weeks I had been asked to give talks, one of those was
after the sacrament had been passed! Ha ha! Good times) Now I remember
that conducting a meeting in English can be a little nerve racking and
difficult. But then getting up there to do it in Chuukese . . . whoa . .
. Ha ha not super easy. My Chuukese seems to be a little slow behind
the
pulpit. Ha ha good times. :)
Elder Vehikite and I are working
great together. His language is great. He knows so many words, just
figuring out the grammar and how to use them in Chuukese is where he is
at. So I’m trying to do what Elder Sofele did to me to get me to learn
quicker. Good stuff. The work is good. Finding new investigators is
what we’re really wanting.
Today I read your letters from Feb
10th, the envelope with the cute little girl and the cute little pig on
the back. :) Sheesh sorry you guys were out of the loop for so long on
what’s up with me! Oh man! I am so happy to hear about Ben Fordham!
Please see what other info you can get about him. Taran Bailey too
please. Man I love them. A lot. Also maybe about Jacob Hillman too
please. Taran sent me two short little e-mails a long time ago bit I
didn’t respond. Man I miss him, and hope he’s doing well.
Kara Allred! That’s so great! She’s going out just about the same time
I did! Oh man I’m excited for her. Send my congrats.
And 8 months . . . Yes, amazing. Sometimes the thought is :
How’s it been that long?” Other times “Wow, I’ve made it this long but
still so much farther to go. . .” But all in all, it’s super great.
It’s been quick and I assume it will continue to be quick. So now’s the
time to work and not worry
about time too much.
Well got to go. I love you lots family. :) You guys are in my thoughts and prayers.
Love,
Elder Aaron Lane Walters
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
February 18 Letter
Dear Family!
I got the package you sent! The Eakins brought it out to me last Tuesday. (They teach a temple prep class). Man such a super great package. :) ... So great. Thank you so much. Elder Vehikite and I have really enjoyed it. :) Eating dry mangoes right now! He loves them too. Thank you so much for the love you send - in letters, boxes, and prayers. I really loved Woody’s funeral program. Thanks for that. It makes me sad he won’t be there when I get back.
I got my first new letter from you guys, I hadn’t previously read, since I got back out here. Thank you so much for the Valentines! They made me so happy. I sure do love and miss you guys. Stake Conference sounded awesome! Thank you for the letters from my buddies too. Man I have some super amazing friends. I am so grateful. It’s so cool how we’re all out doing His work. Though we’re all in different places, different languages, and with different people; it’s super cool to see similarities in the work we’re doing.
It was a good week with some great experiences. We had a super cool lesson with a man named Deini. Tarsisio (Branch President Walter) joined us along with another strong priesthood member. We taught the plan of salvation. It was super cool for a number of reasons. One that we had two strong priesthood members there with great gospel knowledge who are native language speakers, to really help make it clear. Another, that Deini’s questions were super good! They often led right into the next part or it was explained in the next verse. Also it was just super nice that he actually asked questions! Ha ha. But really a super cool part about the lesson and some of the others throughout the week was it is starting to feel a little bit like teaching in English was. Being able to understand them a little more, use scriptures, and teach to their needs. So awesome. Heavenly Father has been helping me so much with my Chuukese.
Three people got baptized on Saturday and I was blessed to baptize them. :) A man who was already baptized in the 80's but records were lost, his son who is 8, and another neighbor boy who is 8 as well. So just one “convert” baptism. But it was still great. :)
Heavenly Father really helped us out this week. There were multiple times where plans fell through and then he put something else in our path that worked super great just as we continued to work. It was a slower week, lesson wise, than last, which was hard, but He really helped us through. And by His tender mercy we made our goal of 12 ‘member present’s at the last minute. :)
One more, ok two, super great things about this week. Rodney is doing great and really really wants to go on his mission. So that’s awesome. Also! It had been several weeks since there had been rain here in Chuuk. Probably since mid January. So everybody was super low on water. We were too. Thursday we looked and saw we were at less than 8 inches in our tanks. Not good. So we remembered to pray for rain as we went about the day. Friday morning came and so did the rain. :) Really big rain. Our tanks were full again by noon and all the wells and tanks around the island were over flowing as well. It was beautiful. I’ll tell you what, I know Heavenly Father really cares about us and answers our prayers. :) Mormon 9:21
Well family I sent my love. Thank you for all the love you send me. I hope to send more love soon. Thank you Momma for all that you do. I love you. Pops, you too. :) Thanks for your example. I’m truly grateful to be your son. Kids I love you all too. Keep working and praying hard.
I love you guys!
Love,
Elder Aaron Lane Walters
I got the package you sent! The Eakins brought it out to me last Tuesday. (They teach a temple prep class). Man such a super great package. :) ... So great. Thank you so much. Elder Vehikite and I have really enjoyed it. :) Eating dry mangoes right now! He loves them too. Thank you so much for the love you send - in letters, boxes, and prayers. I really loved Woody’s funeral program. Thanks for that. It makes me sad he won’t be there when I get back.
I got my first new letter from you guys, I hadn’t previously read, since I got back out here. Thank you so much for the Valentines! They made me so happy. I sure do love and miss you guys. Stake Conference sounded awesome! Thank you for the letters from my buddies too. Man I have some super amazing friends. I am so grateful. It’s so cool how we’re all out doing His work. Though we’re all in different places, different languages, and with different people; it’s super cool to see similarities in the work we’re doing.
It was a good week with some great experiences. We had a super cool lesson with a man named Deini. Tarsisio (Branch President Walter) joined us along with another strong priesthood member. We taught the plan of salvation. It was super cool for a number of reasons. One that we had two strong priesthood members there with great gospel knowledge who are native language speakers, to really help make it clear. Another, that Deini’s questions were super good! They often led right into the next part or it was explained in the next verse. Also it was just super nice that he actually asked questions! Ha ha. But really a super cool part about the lesson and some of the others throughout the week was it is starting to feel a little bit like teaching in English was. Being able to understand them a little more, use scriptures, and teach to their needs. So awesome. Heavenly Father has been helping me so much with my Chuukese.
Three people got baptized on Saturday and I was blessed to baptize them. :) A man who was already baptized in the 80's but records were lost, his son who is 8, and another neighbor boy who is 8 as well. So just one “convert” baptism. But it was still great. :)
Heavenly Father really helped us out this week. There were multiple times where plans fell through and then he put something else in our path that worked super great just as we continued to work. It was a slower week, lesson wise, than last, which was hard, but He really helped us through. And by His tender mercy we made our goal of 12 ‘member present’s at the last minute. :)
One more, ok two, super great things about this week. Rodney is doing great and really really wants to go on his mission. So that’s awesome. Also! It had been several weeks since there had been rain here in Chuuk. Probably since mid January. So everybody was super low on water. We were too. Thursday we looked and saw we were at less than 8 inches in our tanks. Not good. So we remembered to pray for rain as we went about the day. Friday morning came and so did the rain. :) Really big rain. Our tanks were full again by noon and all the wells and tanks around the island were over flowing as well. It was beautiful. I’ll tell you what, I know Heavenly Father really cares about us and answers our prayers. :) Mormon 9:21
Well family I sent my love. Thank you for all the love you send me. I hope to send more love soon. Thank you Momma for all that you do. I love you. Pops, you too. :) Thanks for your example. I’m truly grateful to be your son. Kids I love you all too. Keep working and praying hard.
I love you guys!
Love,
Elder Aaron Lane Walters
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