Sister Hannah Walker

Hello Everyone :)
Man, this week was amazing...we had a Zone Conference on Tuesday and a Zone Training Meeting on Thursday...Both awesome meetings :) I was able to play for a musical number which consisted of Sister Szilagyi and two other Elders singing.  Man, it felt great to play again :) I've definitely missed using my talents!  They sang The Lord is my Shepherd by Rob Gardner for those of you who care.  It is BEAUTIFUL!  And I encourage all of you to listen to it :)

In these meetings, they talked about several different and seemingly unrelated topics...I'd like to mention one specifically that connects back to General Conference.  One of our awesome zone leaders gave a training on loyalty.  This is something that I've thought a lot about lately...as missionaries, we are taught that our loyalties lie first to the Lord.  That should be true for every single person here on this Earth.  God gave us everything.  We owe it to Him to be pointed in His direction with everything we do in life.  We should "fear no man."  This training talked a lot about the principles that were mentioned in the conference talk "Where do you Face?"  which I absolutely loved!  It applies to so much and man it was just great :) I've been focusing on applying it daily :)

haha this week was an interesting week filled with many interesting experiences... it was great though :) haha Saturday night we went over to Brother Phillips's house (our old Ward Mission Leader).  We went out in his field to feed some of the horses....they were a good long walk away from the house on the other side of his pond.  Haha when we got out there, this white one came right up to us and started nosing us for the apples.  haha she decided she didn't like the green ones, but got a little frustrated when she found out that's all we had!  After trying to feed the pony who wouldn't have anything to do with us, we headed back across the field to the house.  haha the white one decided that she wanted to follow Sister Anderson which kind of freaked my companion out a little bit.  We would walk a little ways then hear this big horse coming after us.  She'd stop and turn around to show this wonderful creature that we did not have anymore apples. This went on the entire way up to the gate. At one point in our journey across the field, the white horse came up to us and got spooked or something and started bucking away.  She wasn't too close to us, but nevertheless, we felt the need to quicken our stride.  haha we get to the fence and climb over it (there was a big gate, but because of the closeness of the white horse, we didn't want her getting out, so we climbed it :) (thank goodness for long skirts!) haha upon getting over the gate, the white horse reached her neck over at us and realized she had an itch...she started moving her head back and forth scratching her neck on this fence...hahaha then apparently satisfying that itch, she noticed another one.  She turned around and started itching her butt on this fence. haha this lasted for a good minute...her just swaying back and forth,  itchin away. haha it looked like she was dancing :) ohh man Sister Anderson and I were busting up.  It was great :) Definitely a memorable experience ;)

This week, I also tried frog legs for the first time and they were delicious!  Last night we went to the Wagstaff's for dinner and they made us bacon wrapped chicken and pineapple cream pie...both were DIVINE (to quote my mother ;) ).  sooo stinkin good!

Anyway, the work is going.  Sister Anderson has been getting some anxiety problems with the area...we both came from a booming area, and coming here is definitely a humbling experience.  She's still trying to figure it out, but she's getting there :) we both are.

Life is good, life is grand. :) :)  Hope it's the same for y'all!!  Remember where you're facing and who your loyalties lie with :)

Love,
Sister Walker