Merry Christmas!

 Hey everyone hope you guys are all doing well and having a merry christmas! I mightve delayed the email a bit so you guys all get the best christmas present ever(this email ofc) ((jk i just totally forgot to write it monday😅)) anyways not much haopened this week again haha but there were some highlights, the work is really really slow here for christmas and everyone we contact either isnt interested or is only here visiting family and they just want to speak english with me haha!

Highlights!😁

Went to texas roadhouse again🤠

Zone con with baller food(fire🔥)

Intercambios w elder trejo

Played basketball for p day with a bunch of elders🏀

Im playing way too much ping pong🏓 (watch out grandpa and justin)

Christmas gift exchange with the zone!🎁

Spiritual thought:

"Be ye therefore perfect, eventually" 

This is a baller talk given by president holland and an awesome reminder to just keep doing our best and trying our hardest every day, because we wont ever be perfect until our savior comes again. Give it a listen because its such an amazing talk!

Thank you to everyone who wrote me notes and sent me emails this past week for christmas, you guys are the best!

-elder ericson

Inside joke of the week: "howd you get the wolf stuck up there?" "Idk i just threw it 😅" we took like 20 minutes trying to get that little thing outof there haha and he never knew anything ever happened hahaha!n

Miracle!!

 Hey everyone hope you guys are doing well! This week was pretty rough haha my comp has been pretty sick because we still dont have his card to pay for his food from when we got robbed and we dont know when itll get here, then i think i got food poisoning on saturday and that was terrible haha didnt sleep much and that bathroom has definately seen better days😅

Miracle!! This friday we walked past a guy (whos name is jesus david) and about 30 feet after my comp said hey weve got to talk to him and i was like okay so we turned around and went and talked to him and he wanted to learn more and he even accepted a baptism date! His date is january 4th so lets hope he comes to church this next week! 

Saturday miracle! We talked with one of our friends named jesus perez lopez and we put a baptism date with him for the 4th of january as well! Hes so dedicated to be baptised its insane, he wants to be baptised so much that he bought a different house he can live in so that he doesnt have to live with his girlfriend and he can get baptised! 

This week was good for the work but really hard for me and my comp haha weve both been really exhausted both physically and mentally, but the work is progressing and im really excited for this coming week! 

Spiritual thought!

This ones been on my mind a lot lately, i just finished mosiah in the book of mormon and a verse in chapter 24 verse 14 stuck out to me a lot, for a little context this is when alma the elder and his people are taken into bondage by the wicked priests of king noah. It says, "And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions." Even when we have the hardest weeks or days in our lives there is always hope through our saviour jesus christ and our loving heavenly father. We can accomplish everything through christ. 

Love you all and hope you have a great week!!

-Elder Ericson

Interviews

 There wasnt too much that happened this week im ngl because i spent 4 days traveling to qnd from my area because we had interviews with the mission pres and his wife(they were baller and theyre such goats tbh) so we worked in our area for 2 days this week haha had some really cool lessons but noone came to church so that was muy triste but its all good theyll come next week!

Highlights!

Ate at texas roadhouse again and learned snow by zach bryan on the guitar so thats fire. Played a bunch of chess with my zone leader, and took a whole lot of bus naps so that was baller!

Spiritual thought:

I invite you all to read or reread the living christ, the testimony of that declaration is so powerful and you can feel the spirit and power of the words and i want to add my testimony to it. I know that jesus christ lives and he is our savior, in and only through him can we be saved and i know that he loves us. Jesus christ lives! I hope you all have a great week and sorry this emails coming a little late again haha!

-elder ericson

Bonus inside joke of the week

(Im a lobstaaa iykyk and the farmers tan from the missionary attire is so horrendously bad i have no idea what im going to do about it haha)

143 For Forever

 Sorry this email is probably going to be very short haha and sorry its coming late again but i love you all and hope you had an awesome thanksgiving!

The day after thanksgiving (which was just a normal day here) we had a piñata at one of the members houses to celebrate my birthday a few days ago so that was awesome and we had 6 elders there that came to the fiesta so that was awesome too! After that we had intercambios in san felipe with all 6 of us and my comp and our zone leader put a baptism date for the 21st with our friend conception! (And she came to church on sunday too so score!)

For p day we played basketball with like 15 elders in the state of san luis and it was so so fun and we got to play on 10 ft rims too so that was fun as well, my muscle memory kicked in and lets just say i had a few buckets haha so that was awesome!

Spiritual thought!

The importance of the book of mormon in our lives.

The book of mormon is one of the greatest blessings that we have in our lives and i am realizing how much i took that for granted while ive been gone. The book of mormon has so many answers to any question we could ask and completes the gospel of jesus christ. Take time this week to read the book of mormon and i promise you your mind will be opened to things youve never seen before!

Also shout out to my guy gage vance for his baptism! You a goat bro!

Thats it from me thank you to all of the messages ive gotten from everyone it makes my week! Love you all!

Elder Ericson

(Inside joke of the week is 143 for forever iykyk)