o melhor semana!

What’s up!!!!!!!!!!

Just finished up the best week of my mission! yes, THE BEST!!!

I don’t really know where to start off haha

So on Friday Jacques and Patrícia who i baptized last year got sealed in the temple!!!!!  Seriously i cant even describe the happiness i felt seeing them in the temple and doing such a great thing that they have been preparing for, for a really long time.  I will never forget my first day in the field, seeing Jacques smoking a cigarette by his apartment.  Its crazy to thing how far they have come.  Knowing them i think has been the biggest privilege of my mission.  Patrícia has one of the strongest testimonies of someone i have ever met.  It was also nice to see a bunch of members from my first area.  They are so awesome and supportive.  I don’t think i have felt so happy in my entire life when i was watching the sealing.  It was so cool!  I cant even explain it!

Also, we marked a baptism for a married couple last week.  Their names are Edivaldo and Mariceia.  Their entire family are members and we actually met them about a month ago just knocking doors.  So we have gotten to know them pretty well.  They were a little concerned about the baptism being so soon because they didn’t feel prepared.  But we talked to them about it and when we went to visit them this week, they were super excited about the baptism!!!! i was shocked!  They drink so they have stopped doing that and it was really cool to see the change in them, especially in just a couple days.  The Lord is helping them a ton. so the baptism for them will be on Saturday morning so were super happy about that!!!  They are really cool people.  Another person we are working with a lot is this girl named Deise and she’s living with a member but they aren’t married so they got to get married first them we will have the baptism for her so hopefully in 2 weeks if everything goes right.  its super fun to go over there and talk with them though.  They are super cool people!

We also helped with a service project that the ward has been doing for a while.  They have been re doing this house for this lady in our ward.  so we went over there and i got put on roof duty and got to help finish the roof which was pretty sweet.  I was nervous at first because i felt like i was going to fall through at any second because the only thing holding us was a couple pieces of wood.  But we laid down the clay tiles and finished that.  So I learned how to do that!  Everyone thinks its funny that all the houses in America are made out of wood. I really don’t know what to say back to that...  But it was cool to be able to help with that.

So everything is going really good here! Our mission is going to baptize over 200 this month which is good because our president has been wanting that for a while!  I’m super stoked about my area and the people were teaching!  These next couple of weeks should be super good!  São João is on the 24th so there’s going to be a bunch of fire works and fires in the road.

Love you guys!  Hope all the Daddies has a good Fathers Day!!!

Talk to you soon! love Elder Erickson!

Another week!

hey everyone!

Just finished up another week here.

It was pretty good. We went and dropped a bunch of investigators because there are a lot of people who aren’t progressing and were getting super focused on just finding and teaching the people who are really needing the gospel in their lives and the elect.  Its not easy but we have  a few investigators who are super awesome!  They just need to get married...that’s the hard part.

One night we were walking home and it started raining so we took cover under this little over hang thing to wait for the rain to pass and this guy on the other side of the road calls us over and he had an umbrella and we were like okay and we went over and he just gives us the umbrella!!!! i was like what?? He was like yeah take it i have a bunch.  I was shocked because that type of stuff doesn’t happen really often especially to us.  So that was really cool.  So were going to go back and talk with the guy.

Yeah so its June now and its almost São João here so there’s gonna be a lot of fireworks and fires and music and stuff.  Last year was pretty cool so it will be fun to see it again.  Everything is going good though. Were working a lot more with the ward which is helping a ton.  Lots of people went to church this weekend.  SO this week should be super awesome!

Love you guys! have a great week!!! talk to soon.

Love Elder Erickson

Updates

Okay so sorry I’ve been such a slacker at writing!  Its been like 3 weeks.  Time is flying by.  But its been pretty busy around here.  But I’m back on track and stuff.  I cant remember the last updates so i will try and think of stuff that has happened or will happen in the near future.

I’m still here in Cajuiero Seco/ Prazeres.  I will most likely stay here another transfer to finish up training then probably get transferred to my 4th area (i hope).  But everything is going super good.  We had the mission tour this past week and an area 70 came and talked to us and it was super sweet.  I liked the things he had to say and l left feeling pretty inspired.  I got to see some good friends who i haven’t talked to for a while which was cool also.

The work here is going pretty good.  Were finding a lot of people.  We have  3 investigators who need to get married to get baptized which is tough but worth it.  It will just take a little longer but its fun teaching them.  I have been going through the area book a ton and finding a bunch of people who have been taught already and that seems to work really good.  Its just annoying having to find addresses here because all the numbers are messed up.

I cant believe its already June.  Time is going by super fast!  Its started raining a little bit more which has been nice to get a break from the sun.  But its still super hot.  Were working more with the ward which helps a ton!!!  Its nice when you take care of 2 wards so you have twice as much people to help you haha.

Lots of missionaries are starting to come to our mission and the groups keep getting bigger so i think the president will put another pair in our apartment this next transfer to try and make room for everyone so we will see what happens.  The work is increasing a ton and its easy to see which is super awesome.  Everything seems to get better and better ever week.

Love you guys! have a great week! talk to you soon!

Much love!

elder Erickson