End of the week

Hey everyone!  Just finished up a another pretty good week here.

So I got my new companion last week Tuesday.  His name is Elder Peixoto and he’s from Rio Grande do Sul.  Hes really awesome and I’m stoked to be able to train him.  It will be nice having a brazillian this time haha.  I can tell he’s going to be a really good missionary so I’m doing my best to be a good example to him and help him.  Its crazy how fast time is going by though.  It feels like yesterday i was being trained.  While we were all waiting to get our new companions i was sitting next to 2 new American Elders who had just arrived from the MTC and one of them asked me if i knew Brandon Mecham and i freaked out and told him he’s in my home ward and stuff and he told me he was his roommate at BYU idaho which was pretty cool.  I didn’t have  a whole lot of time to talk to him but it was pretty sweet.

So we finished up a good week together.  We have gotten to know each other pretty well in such a short amount of time.  But were out working hard and trying to find some more new people to teach.  We knocked on this one ladies door and she said we could come in and teach her and at the end of the lesson she told us she has been really stressed because her house sits right on this little river and it had rained super hard about a week previous and the river over flooded and and bunch of water got in her house and she said she thought she was going to lose her house and everything and i was just thinking after that i could never imagine that happening!  But I’m glad we found her.

It has been super hot which makes doing contacts pretty hard.  But everything is paying off.  I’m stoked to be training again.  I really like my comp and i can tell we will have success together and have fun.  This week were just going to continue to try and find more new people and hopefully get some baptisms marked.  Its crazy how much of a difference it makes just forcing yourself to have a good attitude when it gets tough.  We spent a lot of these past days walking around talking to people and knocking doors in the super hot sun and after people lie to you or tell you they don’t want to listen or stuff like that and you know how awesome the message is your tying to give it gets frustrating! But I have focused on just keeping a good attitude and it helps a ton.  We knocked on this door and this kid answers and says we come in so we walk in and were waiting for one the parents and the Dad comes out and talks to us and we told him who we are and everything and after he just said NO.  and it was awkward because we were already in his house hahaha but its was fine.  There’s so many churches here so its hard to talk to people who are members of other faiths because they just think we want to convert them.  But its nice to get those people who listen. 

But that’s our week pretty much.  It has been good overall and it will just keep getting better!  I miss you guys! Thanks again for all your support!  I love you all.  Talk to you all next week!

Love Elder Erickson