Antofagasta: Soccer with the pres

I love you tons mom! The work is going great here! If you could pray
for Margarita and Rodrigo. They are two of our investigators who have
received an answer about the Book of Mormon but live together and
aren't sure they want to get married. They are very liberal but also
very good people.

Today we played soccer again with the mission president. The office is
still part of our zone and I haven't been able to completely escape. I
think I'll be kind of part of the office till I finish. Things are
going well here but we're struggling a bit to find people to teach. We
are talking with EVERYONE but something is lacking. We'll figure it
out though with help from the spirit.

Antofagasta: Visit from a Seventy

Hey Mom and Dad!

This week was a roller coaster but we passed through all right and
were able to see some miracles as well.

Some things that happened this week:

We were blessed with the visit of a general seventy this week.
President put me in charge of preparing the chapel and getting
everyone to the chapel that we were going to use. Long story short a
miracle happened and we found a member who owns a bus to take the more
than a hundred missionaries from the bus terminal to the Orígenes
chapel. We got everyone there on time and everything turned out well.
I was worried things would be more hectic than they were.

At the end of the conference President Ferreira asked me to stick
around and I had a one on one interview with Elder Brag (the seventy).
We talked a little bit about the mission and he asked me what my plans
were after the mission. I gave him the normal "go back to study and
get married". He chuckled and told me not to worry about getting
married quickly but that God would put someone in my path. Pretty
interesting that even a general authority is talking to me about after
the mission!

Speaking of after the mission, I'm planning on giving my buddy Austin
 freshman year the responsability of finding me somewhere to
live for me. I wrote him a quick e-mail and asked him for permission
to be bugged a little bit by my mom. I'm pretty sure he's living in
Liberty Square and that's where I wanted to live before the mission. I
have an interview with the Mission President this Thursday morning.
I'll get the recomendation done and start planning for which classes
I'm going to take. I'm thinking he'll give me permission to scope out
a little bit.

The rest of the week was pretty calm. We, by luck, had an investigator
at church but the week was pretty hard for us. We just split the
sector and gave half of our everything to the other Elders. They are
cool though.

I'm getting along great with my companion. I've learned it takes me a
little while to warm up to people but I'm bit by bit opening up to the
missionaries that live with me.

I love you guys so much!

oh! I know I've been pretty low maintanence in the mission and haven't
really asked for much but could you take my electric guitar into
Guitar Dan's repair shop to get fixed up? If I remember right the
bridge needs to be taken down a little bit but they should know better
than me what needs to be done.

Love,
El primer Élder Walker ( o el segundo si papa cuenta

Antofagasta: New companion

Everything is going good for me here in Miramar! I'm with my new
companion, Elder Faúndez from Santiago. He has about seven months in
the mission and we had the same "papito". He seems really excited and
ready to work so we're going to work hard till we drop!

Everything is going well with the zone as well. I think I'm growing
into the role well. We have really experienced district leaders as
well who are helping out a ton. In other news a seventy is coming to
Antofagasta this week and we'll be here with half the mission for a
special conference! He's going to have a special meeting with all of
the zone leaders and sister training leaders as well. I'm super
excited!

I love you tons mom! Thans for your love and support as always!

Antofagasta: People are interesting

Haha, that makes me laugh about Camille's investigator. I feel like as missionaries we have giant crazy people magnets floating over our heads. I'm not getting her e-mails but I think I'll write her now and tell her to put me on the list or something. 

Yes we keep seeing miracles here. I think this has been the ward where I have seen the most action, we have the most willing members, and the attendance is the lowest. This ward has serious potential. The only problem is that there are many members who move to other wards. More than half of our recent converts over the past year have moved to other wards. 

Sometimes I miss dancing but then I remember that I'll be home pretty soon. I'll probably take another dance class the semester when I get back. I always had a ton of fun in the social dance classes.  It's kind of crazy how close I am. Spencer will finish his training when I go home. One of my good mission friends, Elder Anderson, finishes this week. He's in the office as an assistant right now and he's taking the whole going home thing pretty hard. I hope that when the end comes for me I can go calmly haha. It's like dying. Everything just wants a slow, painless death.

As far as the Portuguese is going, eh. I kind of hit a wall and haven't learned any more. If I stay with the same companion that I have now I'll commit a little bit more. 

I love you tons Mom! Be sure to scout out future potential wives for me!

Elder Walker