Monday, September 29, 2014

What Up

Well... I don't have lots of time to say stuff.

But basically I'll tell ya the good news.

I started driving like two weeks ago. It's pretty stressful driving in the city. But I love the countryside. It's super cool and chill and stuff. Haha. We have this french amie named Danielle. She is like sixty, but we gave her mom a blessing a couple weeks ago to walk. I did the oil. Well, like last week, her mom walked, and she called us and was super excited, and she said she knows our church is true! She's getting baptized onNovember 1st! I am SOOO excited. I'm staying in Val de Saone for the next transfer with Elder Swenson.

I basically feel fluentish in french. It's just that I can't understand 100 percent of the time, and I really have to focus. But I can talk and stuff. Isn't that weird? Haha. 

Love you all. Choose the right.

Elder Walker

Monday, September 22, 2014

9/22/2014 - Hello

So I don't have a lot of time this week to do emails, but basically I'll tell you the biggest juice that cracked down.

Elder Nye got emergency transfered out of town. My companion is now Elder Trenton Swenson. He is from Pleasant Grove, and he dies this November! I hope I get to kill him. Haha. That just means be the companion when he finishes. But he is super cool! I got to go down to Toulouse to pick him up. It was sick. We stopped in Montpellier for an hour, and got to walk around there for an hour. We got a nice kebab for lunch.

I hope that I stay around in Villefranche next transfer. I want to see Danielle and Bernard get baptized! Well, basically I'm like out of time. So love you all and peace.

Elder Walker

Sunday, September 21, 2014

September 15th!

What up yo.

This week was cool. Basically, Elder Nye and I are baller missionaries. We go hard in the paint. All day. Everyday. HAHA

Last Thursday I went on an exchange with Elder Sorenson. He is from Draper, and he has class off the wall. We worked in his ville, St Etienne. We visited this CRAZY less active guy. Like, his little apartment had so much clutter and everything in it. It was stacked up to the roof with just stuff. But it was fun.

So I think our ami, Danielle, really has potential. This last week, we taught a lesson with her with Frere Marco. It went super good. She loved the Plan of Salvation. We weren't able to see Marie Jose this last week. IT'S A BUMMER. But that's fine. We are seeing her on Wednesday, and we are going to Plan of Salut the living lights out of her. Haha. And Soeur Harlette is also accepting the lessons really well and progressing and stuff too. And Bernard. And Rita. And Sebastian. Kind of. We are also having our first lesson with THE ONE AND ONLY MICHAEL JORDAN THIS WEEK! Just kidding. Just a dude that looks like Michael Jordan. HAHA, HIS NAME IS BALARD. Woops, the caps. We also met a lady who met the missionaries 40 years ago, and we have a rdv with her tomorrow! We are really picking the work up. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!

I am going to start driving in like two weeks. Isn't that wild? I will be driving in the countryside of FRANCE! haha. I will be driving because Elder Nye isn't legal, but I am. So yeah.

The other day, we have a lesson with a less active family, and I was bearing my testimony, and I started crying (of course). It was so embarassing. I wanted to die. 

I like working in Villefranche more than Lyon. It's just a chill place, and it's fun to contact because we meet the weirdest people haha. Like two days ago, we met this guy from Czech who was just making huge bubbles in the street for all the little kids. And I don't really know what it is, but Elder Nye seems to attract all the middle-aged women with tons of life problems. But I'm fine with that. Haha Elder Nye is always like what the.

Well... Peace.

Elder Walker

This is from September 8th. (sorry -kimber)

Hello! :) How is everybody doing?
I love being out here. It's kind of weird to think about how much my view on everything has changed. It's weird. Haha.
Yesterday, Elder Nye and I taught a lesson in the most french place you can imagine. With the most french people you can imagine. Haha. We had straight up raspberry juice out of a wine glass with ice cream. It was so weird. We read 3rd Nephi 11 with them, and she said she really wants to be baptized. That's exciting, but Elder Nye and I feel like she really needs to have a testimony of everything. That's kind of how it is with our Congo engagee, Marie José as well. But I think Marie José has a good understanding of the importance of scripture study and everything. We also have another baptism engagee. Also from congo. Her name is Soeur Harlette. She has the cutest little boy! Haha.
So I don't know if I told the story of when I was frustrated the first week about not being able to speak french then placing the Book of Mormon... Well we taught him again! His name is Sebastian, and he is a real cool cat. I don't know if he'll accept the Gospel right now, but I have faith in him and believe that he'll accept it one day, hopefully soon.
So our area is kind of new. It's only been open for a few months, so Elder Nye and I have to really build Villefranche up, but we sure are! The people there are super nice, and we are already starting to get great amis!
My favorite thing is eating a baguette with cheese.
Yogurt here is crazy.
Spiders here are crazy big. We named one Aragog.
I went on an exchange last week! With Elder Adams from Texas. He is awesome, it was so much fun!
My testimony has really grown on teaching by the spirit. Yeah, I can actually understand people (for the most part) and I can speak in lessons now in broken french, but we wouldn't have the success we're having if the spirit wasn't there. Love it.
High five.
Elder Walker

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

France pictures!







Hello.

Well... Hi.

So this last week went super well! 

I think my french is getting better and everything is really just starting to go better. It was rough getting into the mode of things, but that's fine.

The other day we gave a sister a blessing. I anointed the oil. It was weird doing it in French. It was a super spiritual experience. I loved being able to be a part of that so much. It was just super cool.

So I don't know if I said this last week or not, but I live in a little town called Villefranche. It's like 30 minutes away from Lyon. We live next to this big apostate Catholic church, and the bells ring every hour. It's pretty cool.

I gave my first baptism invitation the other day. The investigator is named Marie José. She's from Congo. The goal is September 27th. I hope she goes through with it. That'd be cool. It's be a cool way to start my mission.

I am so sore everywhere. On Saturday, we played soccer with some amis and other elders in the zone. My body is like broccoli. I just can't handle it. My legs and arm and everything are sore. LOVE IT.

Call traffic the bouchons.
Little rats (legit ones) are real.
Baguettes are a thing.
I met Albert Einstein the other day.
Eat a kebab.

Elder Walker.