Sister Abby Walker

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

I Love Being a Missionary Photos

My intercambio with Hna Lockling!!!

We are in the process of making Christmas Tree bread.... cuz it is winter here!! :)

I Love Being a Missionary

This wast week flew by, wow!

Tuesday and Wednesday until Thursday we had comp exchanges!!! I feel bad sometimes I am never with my comp it feels like! But I had some fun intercambios with Hermana Lockling, from Chile, and Hermana Chappel, from Phoenix!! Go Arizona!!!

Friday we had interviews and Saturday we weren't in our area cuz we helped out with a capilla open house! So basically the week flew! But even when we were running around like chickens with our heads cut off, we were able to have some spiritual experiences!

We went and taught a lesson to Julia again, the girl who we taught to pray and basically she is super awesome! She has been reading the Book of Mormon and had lots of good questions for us! And when she said the prayer again at the end of the lesson the Spirit was so strong. It makes me realize how amazing it is that God lets us talk to Him and that He really does hear us.

Also, something really neat happened in the chappel open house. So in the morning all the missionaries from the Stake went out contacting to invite people to the open house. And while traveling to their assigned zone to contact, a few sisters invited a man on the bus. And a few hours later (when it started pouring) he showed up! The chappel open house started in the chappel with a giant poster of the Christus statue and my comp and I pretended to be Visitors Center Sisters and we welcomed everyone and gave our little spill and then we all listened to the recording of the Saviors words... after our little part everyone learns from other missionaries a bit about the Restoration and then they get shown the baptismal font by 2 elders in all white. And while this man was in the room in the baptismal font with the elders he started asking about how he can get baptized and what he needs to do.... now he has a baptism set for next Saturday.

Sometimes it amazes me how ready some people can be, and how the Gospel really does change lives. I imagine that man had no idea when he took the bus in the morning that by 4 that afternoon he would be planning his baptism in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The Spirit truly does prepare people. And it helps us missionaries every day. I am very grateful for the Holy Ghost who helps me know what to say, where to go and that helps me in all the moments in between. I know this is the Lord´s work because I feel His love every day. I love being a missonary-

Hermana Walker

Monday, July 10, 2017

What a Week!

This week was full of great experiences I will remember forever!

One, I fell down on my rear end in the mud..... that was fun! :) haha I had to wash everything after! My backpack and skirt and jacket and just about everything! But we just laughed it off - I passed by our apartment to change and we continued working! :)

This week to celebrate the 4th of July my comp made apple pie for the district. But the real party was on Saturday when we celebrated the 9 de julio, the Independence Day of Argentina. I went to the first ward activity that I have been to in a long time and it was a blast! Plus a ton of less active members came! We ate locro, a typical holiday dish! It is garbanzo beans and maiz pisado and pig stomach and pototaes and squash and luckily the store was out of pig feet!!! Hahaha, but it was yummy! After the Primary danced typical dances and the Stake Pres talked and everyone sang the very long elaborate national anthem and one hermana lip sang to ¨dont cry for me argentina" and it was hilarious!! A great day!!

I had two intercambios with new sisters in the mission from Brasil this week! I think I may be speaking a little in portugeus now! But haha they were so excited for the work - it was contagious!! With one of them while it was raining and there wasn't a soul in the street we pet some horses just casually wandering around! :)

Magali our investigador has been progressing! She is so different now from when we first met her. She seems to have matured 5 years in 5 weeks.... she is reading the Book of Mormon and praying and we just have to figure out how to help her come to church!! Prayers for her and us as her missionaries would be very appreciated!

We found a new investigator named Julia this week! She is 19 and teaches yoga and is super nice but as we were teaching her we learned that she believes that Jesus was a real man who lived and came to Earth, she didn't really believe in him as the Savior or in God really. We taught her to pray and then to finish the lesson we asked her to give the last prayer and, when she prayed, the Spirit was so strong. I listened to someone for the first time reach out and talk to our Heavenly Father. It made me so grateful for prayer. I know that in every moment I can reach out and talk with my Maker and that He hears me. I talk to him all day long and to think that Julia had never talked with him before almost broke my heart. But she really liked how she felt when she prayed so hopefully we will be able to help her.

I am so grateful to be a missionary and be on the Lords errand. He has a perfect plan for every one of us and will always be there for us! And I am grateful for prayer and that my Heavenly Father is there for me.

Hermana Walker

What a Week! Photos

Happy 4th of July

well Dad you told me to take a pic if I fell in the mud cuz it would be funny..... here they are!!! :)

the primary dancing

with cute Candela, an ex investigator - her dad won't let her get baptized :(

typical Argentine clothing - as in traditional, no one uses it now.... well the hats we see.... well sometimes in the country when they ride horses

exchanges with Hna Cautu from Brasil!!

the ward activity for 9 de julio, independence day

locro - the traditional Argentine food

the ward activity for 9 de julio, independence day

Monday, July 3, 2017

Hermana Hernandez Photos

Hna Martinez from Salvador

reuinted with the bestie!!! Hermana Hernandez!!!

cows interrupted our lesson

someone set the sky on fire

living life by the candlelight!

Hermana Hernandez

This last week was a crazy one but a good one! :) My comp and I are working hard and talking with lots of people trying to find those ready to accept the gospel!! And in the meantime we are working with lots of other really great people, we started teaching a lady from the Caribbean the other day who is super open and accepting!

I had two fun days this week! I got to spend a day with a new hermana in the mission from Salvador (a super tiny country in Central America). We spent all day tracting in the cold and then when we got home ready to just be warm... the power went out haha but it was fun!

Also, I got to spend a GLORIOUS 24 hours with my best friend ever Hermana Hernandez!! Oh how I miss her! Being back with her felt so natural! I love her so much. Haha, we had a flashback to the good old times - lunch of hamburgers and ice cream - and while we weren't teaching crazy investigatos about the gift of tongues (and how we don't believe in the just screaming unintelligably that lots of churches here do) and teaching the ward FHE night we were caught up and just enjoyed being together again! We cried when it came time to say goodbye... cuz it may very well be our last time together in Argentina! Gonna miss that crazy! :)

Hopefully I'll be able to make lots more memories and help lots in the time I have left! I love serving the Lord and helping his children here in Argentina!

photo: Hna Martinez from Salvador