Some updates

what’s up everyone!

This week has been pretty sweet.  Lots of stuff went down so hopefully i remember everything.  I heard about the attacks in Boston.  Crazy stuff. i heard something today about an attack in Texas? Good thing the people here keep us Americans pretty updated haha.  Not very reliable as far as information goes though haha. 

So we spent part of the week with another missionary in our group and he got transferred on Wednesday which was a relief because it got pretty complicated with 3 people, especially 5 people in our little apartment so I’m happy about that.  Church was really good yesterday too.  We met a bunch of teenagers who live close to us and we have been talking to them a bunch and they are all really cool and fun to talk to.

Yesterday i got a call from one of the assistants and he told me that there was a bunch of confusion with 2 other elders in another area so they are splitting them up and he said I’m getting transferred and i will be with one of them so that really caught me off guard because i was thinking i was going to stay here till the end of the transfer but its all good.  So I’m getting transferred tomorrow and I’m going back to my last zone but a different area so that will be interesting.  I’m taking the district leaders spot there i guess but it will be cool because i know the zone pretty well and some of the missionaries there.

But the coolest thing happened this week!!!!  So 2 elders in my district called me and said they have a baptism this week but they aren’t sure if the guy wants to get baptized yet but they wanted to do the interview anyway so we marked it for Saturday and we went over that day and before the interview we talked with them a little about the guy and his name is Daví and he’s 43 and likes the church a lot and the teachings but there were a few things that happened in his past that are pretty serious so we had our mission president call and talk to him real quick then we talked to the President and he said the guy can go ahead and get baptized if he wants to after i went and did the interview with him and we ended up talking for almost 2 hours!!!!!!!!!!  it was one of the coolest experiences out here on my mission though.  There was a really really strong spirit as we talked and i could feel the spirit working through me as i talked to him.  At points it felt like i couldn’t control my mouth but it was so cool. He’s a really sincere guy and i read to him chapter 2 in Acts  at the end of the interview and long story short he said he would get baptized the next day!!!!!! it seemed like a miracle and i couldn’t believe it but he ended up getting baptized and confirmed yesterday so i was really happy about that.  Its hard to explain the whole situation over email but it was super awesome!!!!  It was one of those moments that really increased my testimony and love for the mission and the importance of missionary work. 

SO there’s that!!!!  its been a good week.  Looking forward to some of the changes that are about to happen.  Miss you guys though! have a great week!  much love!!!

Elder Erickson