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
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