March 10, 2008
Angela’s baptism on March 1st was great! Her boyfriend Aaron did the baptizing and some of his family came in to give their support, including Aaron’s dad who flew in from California and did the confirmation. Angela had asked me to speak on baptism.
I realized how similar her story is with my Mom’s and it made me want to learn more about my Mom’s baptism. Mom sent me an email describing in detail how she’d always noticed something different about members of the church. She had many friends who were members in her youth and chose to go on a semester abroad to Salzburg through BYU where she met my Aunt Nan. Later, my Mom and my Dad began dating. Like Angela, Mom wanted to make her decisions of getting baptized and marrying Dad separate.
I promised Angela about the amazing blessings and consequences that would come from her decision, that she had received a witness that this was the true church and that her decision would also benefit her children and their children so much. I also told her that of Mom’s five kids, two have or are serving missions and three have been married in the temple so far.
In other news, we heard that there was a shooting in Chapel Hill on Wednesday. We didn’t learn until Thursday that the victim was Eve Carson, UNC Student Body President. She was a senior doing Pre-Med and everyone commented on her bright, positive, energetic attitude. She was graduating next month. As you can imagine the students and community have been shocked and the police have few clues about what happened.
In the wake of unexpected acts of violence or accidents or disease, people always have the tendency to ask why. We often feel confused and out of control or helpless. The truth is that we aren’t in control, God is. Our part is to focus on what is in our control and leave the rest up to Him.
Thank you for all of your support, prayers and letters!
Elder Walters
106 Shadowood Drive Apt. D
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Monday, March 10, 2008
Monday, March 03, 2008
What an Amazing Week!
March 3, 2008
What an amazing week! At transfers our district had a couple of new Elders. Elder Skidmore is coming from Boise, Idaho via the MTC and Elder Cardinet is coming from Falls Lake. He is from Northern California and is a very hard worker and is really easy to get along with. I knew him when he was district leader for the Durham District. Our whole district has had a fun Preparation day together so far, shopping, emailing and exercising.
We taught Zodi again, she’s a UNC student working on her dissertation for epidemiology. She is very fun and loves talking with us, we’re trying to show her how to exercise faith, she has more of a ‘seeing is believing’ mind frame.
When we came back from talking to students at UNC a couple construction workers waved at us. At first I thought they knew us, but they started asking us about which church we go to. The cool part was that it was all in Spanish, and I was able to talk with them about the Gospel. Hector and Jorge asked if I believed in the Bible and people like Pablo and Juan, Paul and John. I said that I did and I also believed in other people who believed in Christ and lived in the Americas whose words are recorded in the Book of Mormon. We also talked about the Restoration of Christ’s Gospel. It was so amazing! I’ve got to practice my Spanish gospel terms because I doubt “apostalos’ is a real word.
I’m running out of time and I don’t want to rush important stuff so I’ll talk about Angela’s baptism next week. In short, it was terrific!!
Thank you all for your love, prayers and support!
I hope you are all feeling the joy the Gospel can bring into our lives!
Love, Elder Walters
What an amazing week! At transfers our district had a couple of new Elders. Elder Skidmore is coming from Boise, Idaho via the MTC and Elder Cardinet is coming from Falls Lake. He is from Northern California and is a very hard worker and is really easy to get along with. I knew him when he was district leader for the Durham District. Our whole district has had a fun Preparation day together so far, shopping, emailing and exercising.
We taught Zodi again, she’s a UNC student working on her dissertation for epidemiology. She is very fun and loves talking with us, we’re trying to show her how to exercise faith, she has more of a ‘seeing is believing’ mind frame.
When we came back from talking to students at UNC a couple construction workers waved at us. At first I thought they knew us, but they started asking us about which church we go to. The cool part was that it was all in Spanish, and I was able to talk with them about the Gospel. Hector and Jorge asked if I believed in the Bible and people like Pablo and Juan, Paul and John. I said that I did and I also believed in other people who believed in Christ and lived in the Americas whose words are recorded in the Book of Mormon. We also talked about the Restoration of Christ’s Gospel. It was so amazing! I’ve got to practice my Spanish gospel terms because I doubt “apostalos’ is a real word.
I’m running out of time and I don’t want to rush important stuff so I’ll talk about Angela’s baptism next week. In short, it was terrific!!
Thank you all for your love, prayers and support!
I hope you are all feeling the joy the Gospel can bring into our lives!
Love, Elder Walters
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