Haha loren. she is funny. Claire is hilarious too. We all used to watch out for Claire at high school. Im pretty sure no one wanted to be mean to her with all of us on her side. Anyways yea that kid in art was real cool i loved him. For some reason the art teacher always sat me by him. Anyways yea those spiders are huge we had two in our house. One still lives there but is a fugitive i havnent fond him yet. But tell ganon that the monkey was someones pet. and you can buy them here for about 20 bucks. some of them are meaner than heck though. like when you get by them they try and bite you! its nuts.... My comp has settled down now taht he realizes ill kill him if he is stupid or that ill tell on him if he does anything dumb. so things are going good right now. I miss Brother Smith. I love how you call him kyle. He would never be kyle to me... always brother smith... He is a big part of me being on a mission now i love him. Anyways i wish i was there to see adi and gan. Especially to be with gan when he starts ball. That will be the funnest thing of his life. I miss those two. I was looking at pictrues last night and was like man i miss those kids. For now i have to settle for pilipinos. Im gonna probably cry when i leave this area. I love my converts and their daughter. freak she is a girl version of ganon. Wherever we go she is always holding my hand and asking me questions. and when we pass stores asking for candy. whenever her mom tells me to spank her im like she is still a kid. her mom thinks im so nice cuz im nice to her daughters. The mission has definitly changed my outlook on little kids. I used to get impatient real quick. But im patient now with people. Thanks des for your prayers i appreciete them so much i love you guys so so so much. i miss you and hope your doing alrgith. Just remember however much you make in a month is more than the average family makes here in ayear.... i love you and miss you kell

4-13-09

Huge Spider!


Polynesian Dress

First Baptism

YEs i loved conference. It was Amazing... There were some pretty stern warning given. Especially the one at the end by President Monson himself. About Pornography. He is so right. Porn does destroy the soul. Its not a maybe it might destroy the soul, but the definite WILL DESTROY YOUR SOUL. Ive seen it happen many times on my mission now. Porn is sold at every dvd shop here. RIght now i have a very close friend in the mission struggling with it. It breaks my heart that a messenger of the lord could give in to such a temptation and ive seen it ruin his mission so far. It is such a dangerous habit and ruins lives i hate it!!!! anyways My companion didnt get sent home. President thought he would give them a second chance. i dont agree with his decision but i accept it and uphold it. But i have another story for you... so the day of transfers we came back.and i was expecting to work hard so i took my companion to all the people i knew. When we came home at night there was someone in our apartment. It turned out to be other missionaries. they told us they were sleeping over. but the next morning my companion and one of the other elders woke me up at 5 and told me they were leaving and left me with the other comp. Well the other comp decided he wanted to skip areas and go somewhere else. But i wasnt having any of it. I told him off, but he left without me. So i sat there contemplating what i should do. i prayed about it and decided to go text the Assistants to the Pres. so i texted and eventually the lambsons came and picked me up. I ended up staying at the mission home ( which wasnt bad cuz they have hot water and amazing food) but anyways the next day all 3 showed up and we had interviews with president. because they all went and visited there girlfriends. yea it really makes me wonder what the freak people come on missions for! i mean honestly. why would you come on a mission if you just want the same things as before your mission. I mean honestly the reason i came here was to never do the things i did before. and to serve teh Lord...... anyways im very thankful for the strength i receive from my family and from the Lord. Without it i couldnt take it here. Anyways mom thanks for the journal it was perfect and teh scriptures too. i probably wont use them though i dont think cuz i already have my other ones marked how i like them. but thanks so much... i loved the candy!!! it was amazing!!! i hope you all get better and get rid of your cold. I didnt think that i would ever get a cold here becasue its so hot. but then i realized that colds are a sickness not because of the weather... yea im an idiot.... But the other day i had a cool expeirence we were teaching out recent converts and it was a black out. and out of the darkness came a 28 year old man. he asked if he could join. he was way good with the questions and at the end of the lesson asked if he could be baptised. haha it was cool. of course he has to come to church 4 times and learn the lessons. but he is way cool. he just got out of jail for smoking weed. But really wants to change his life... so if we can help that will be awesome.... anyways fam i gotta go i love you all. Thank you so much for your prayers they are much needed.. i miss you all.... gotta run... Elder Walker... love you

First Baptism!

First off sorry mom, that i idnt write you i dont konw what i was thinkin! im sorry but Happy Birthday, i love you and your beautiful! anyways as for me and my life here. THis week was CRAZY. first off my companion and his poly friinds decided to go on a road trip to sorsogon a far away part of the mission. anyways they all got caught but instead of giving up , they decided tehy were mad at the people who caught them, the Assistants to the President, so they went on a search for them to try and beat them up, they were fugitives for 4 days. until finally they gave themselves up and went to the missoin home. they even threatended the Mission President himself... anyways while all this was happeing i was baptising souls... so on saturday.. i woke up to no electrictyand couldnt iron my shirt, and we had the baptism at 10 so i was freaking out cuz i had no good shirts they were all wrinkly so i was stressed, but then i learned that the entire philippines was having like a no electricity day! so i stopped stressing and accepted it... then wehen we went to the church everyone was siting out front of the gate. the bishop wasnt there he was sick and we couldnt get in, so we tracted and found the key, we finally got in to realize we couldnt turn the water on because it works on an electiric pump! so we were bummed, then we got an idea to go the the CWC, its a wakeboarding park with swimming pools! so we all agreed on it and got baptismal clothes and headed to the CWC. Now normally the CWC is off limits to missionaries, for the obvious reasons of evilness and temptations. But the bishop agreed, so we arrived and payed to get in. We held the opening excercises in a tree house, filled with grafiti, but no one payed attention to it... after that i baptised Jona and Evelyn Bantog in the swimming pool right underneath the old water slide.. haha it was amazing! sister Bantog came up squeezing my hand and crying out of the water. She said she had been praying to know if the church was really really true. And she said that when she came out of the water that she saw a White light behind me and that she in her mind knew it was the answer she was looking for. She was so so so so happy. If only all of us could have the happiness she felt at that time. She bore her testimony afterwards to us and i almost started crying. She loves the church and her family so so much . Anyways they were confirmed in church sunday. Because conference, is a week late here. So we are all going to Naga so they can listen to a prophet speak... im so pumped... ill try and send pictures but it takes along time on the internet... so probably just in the mail... i printed some out today... but yes my weekend was crazy. my first baptism was nuts but turned out perfect. i wouldnt change it for the world... i love being here. this is the Lords work, and with prayer and faith we can overcome any obstacle. Like their baptism was full of things that could of stopped the baptism from happening. But the Lord provided a way. Anyways family, i love you all and have to go ... thanks so much for the easter candy and my atm card.. i need the pin number though... and does the Credit union need to konw ill be using it out of country? i plan on buying a few things so i need it. but anyways i love you all and have to go thanks for your support and prayers i love you and keep you in my prayers too!... Kapayapaan sa labas! (peace out)