Past week updates

Hey everyone!

i have been horrible at emailing these past few weeks but its just been so crazy with the new years and Christmas and stuff so the internet house wasn’t open because nobody works here on holidays. so i will do my best to fill in everything from the past two weeks!

Well we had the baptism for Wellington which was super awesome! none of the baptism clothes would fit him because he has a huge belly so he wore my companions white pants and just wore his shirt during the baptism. But it all worked out! I don’t know if i said this already but the morning of his baptism we got up extra early and got all prepared and right as we were leaving we realized we didn’t have the key to get out of our house so we were running around looking for it and it was no where to be found. i couldn’t believe it was happening. locked in our house on the day of a baptism! so all i did was say a simple prayer with my comp to get us out of the house and within 5 minutes after the prayer we were on our way to church! My companion realized he left it in a shop right down the street and we talked to a guy walking past our house if he had the number of the owner of the shop and he did luckily so we called and the guys wife answered and said the owner was gone and had the key but she would try calling him and then all of a sudden the owner pulls up in his car with our key! so that was a huge relief. So that day was full of complications but it was nice to have gotten through them.

We also had a baptism for a girl named Nelly yesterday who we have been teaching for the past 3 months. The baptism went super good and i also ended up baptizing this little girl in our ward who just turned 8 which reminded me back when i baptized Samantha when she turned 8. It was a really good day though. Its also nice to start 2013 off on a good note. so happy new year everyone! the day of new years we had a BBQ with some other missionaries then went back to our house and stayed up studying outside of our house until the new year and watched all the fire works that everyone here was blasting off. People here love fire works so we got to watch a good show. The only bad part is they like fire works way too much so we had to listen to them all night long. i woke up and people were still lighting them off. But we woke up the next morning to go to District meeting and it was a ghost town outside. The only people walking appeared to be hung over or drunk from the night before haha. But i had a nice Christmas and New years. Thanks for all the support!!! But now I’m super excited for this year! i got some goals established and stuff.

Transfers are coming up next Monday and i have no idea if i will stay or leave so we will find out Sunday night. Everything is going good though! I’m liking the area and the people. I’m finally getting used to all the hills and stairs now. Just not the sun. Well that’s about it for updates that i can think of...i miss you guys and appreciate all your support for me. Its helped a ton! have a good week and i will talk to you next Monday!

TCHAU!

Elder Erickson