Can you tie my shoe?

January 12, 2009

We are emailing at Davis Library and there are finally students here! After about a month long break for most students, classes started today, and we are excited! We will be able to work in our own area now!

Last week we were on exchanges with some Elders in Durham. Elder Milovich and I were with Elder Banner. We stopped by a lady that had requested the Joy to the World DVD. We had already dropped of the DVD so we were teaching her about the Restoration of the Gospel through the prophet Joseph Smith.

She was 25 years old and had 6 kids. The last two were really cute twins about two years old. They were eating cereal and milk, spilling it all down the fronts of their shirts. The young lady really said that what we were teaching made sense. She is excited to read the Book of Mormon.

When we were about to leave, one of the two year-old twins, Tyquell, asked me to tie his shoe, which had fallen off. He did so by holding it up, with this sad puppy-dog face and said a string of almost English words. I thought, ‘buddy, I can’t even tie my own shoes!’ We managed to get it on and as we were leaving, he and his twin sister said ‘Thank you’ in the language of two-year-olds.

It has been fun teaching the Gospel to some who are slightly different than those I talk to on UNC campus.

Thank you all very much for all your love, letters and prayers!

Elder Walters