Ola’

Oi Gente! 

Crazy how fast the weeks are going by.  This week was a lot better and we got lot’s of stuff done and it seems like the weeks are getting better and better.

So to start off, we have continued doing more contacts to try and find more people to teach.  We ended up finding 9 people this week which i was happy about.  Our President came and visited our zone on Wednesday so we all met together and he gave a little training which was awesome.  I always like hearing the President speak and he does a good job of getting people excited and stuff.  We have some good goals established for next month which I’m stoked about!  I guess Carnival starts on the 8th because we have been told we have to be in our houses at 5pm for the night for about a week which will take a lot of time away from teaching which sucks.  But I’m pretty excited for February.   We started teaching this group of 3 teens who are 14 and they all go to the Catholic church but they are super smart and know lots of stuff so its fun to teach them and they are really receptive to what we talk about and they really listen and its awesome teaching them. 

Sunday was sort of a bummer because we had a baptism marked for a lady who lives super close to the church and for her to get baptized she needs to go to church 2 times so we were planning on her getting baptized on the 3rd but we went to pick her up for church in the morning and she came out and told us she couldn’t go and we ended up talking to her for 20 minutes and she told us that it wouldnt be a good idea for her to go because it would cause lots of attention to her other church because her other church is right next to our church and she said the Pastor of her church would humiliate her in public and call her to repentance in front of everyone and embarrass her and all this stuff which was super sad and frustrating because she says she thinks our church is true and she loves talking to us when we go visit her so were going to have to go back this week and try and get her to go to church this week.  But that whole thing kind of frustrated me for the rest of the day.  Its crazy to think that her church would do something like that!  But hopefully we can help her out. Its been a good week though!  Were going to try and mark 3 baptisms this week for those 3 teens.  We started visiting the family of Adalberto again so I’m excited about that. its always fun going over there and talking with them. 

Nothing too crazy really happened this week.  Tim, i never heard of that fire thing that happened down South.  That’s crazy though! 

Hope you all have a good week!  i miss you and love you all and appreciate all the support you continue to send me! 

Love Elder Erickson