Fecha Fest

 Im going to start trying out a different form of email so i can send out the emails on time every week haha!

Monday! For p day we got some pickup ball in and it was so baller! Then we went to texas roadhouse and played pingpong a ton before heading back to the house for a devo!

Tuesday: we had a baller district council from my comp elder valencia and then we got some dominos pizza! Then we took the bus ride home where i had a baller nap before visiting some of our friends. We put our friend conception on date for baptism for the 8th of February!! Shes awesome and wants to learn way more! We also helped one of our friends whos getting baptized get medicine from a doctor haha and her grandson wants to serve a mission! Im so excited for him hes such an amazing young man with tons of room to grow!!

Wednesday! Dont remember too much but we did put one of our friends hugo on date for baptism!

Thursday! Met with a family in the morning and put all 5 of them on date for baptism! We also put one of our friends cesar on date for baptism! Then to end the night we visited another family and started teaching them when the spirit told us to change our plan and we extended a baptismal invitation! All 4 accepted and we closed out the day having pizza with them!

Friday! Today was pretty fun and we had some lessons in the morning which went well and at night we got to go play in a basketball game! I may or may not have started to feel the rust come off and i ended up with 40 points in the game haha! It was awesome and we got a few new contacts from it!

Saturday! Today we just visited all of our friends and invited them to church and had some baller lessons!

Sunday! We had 2 baptisms today for our friends michael and luis! We ended up having to chase down michael and find him because of a miscommunication haha but he did end up coming and getting baptized! I also had to give a talk in church so thats fun haha but it went great and some people were crying by the end of it sand the spirit was so strong! Also had some baller tres leches and horchata!

Spiritual thought: based off of my talk i had to give in church there was a scripture that id like to share with you all today! In alma 32:41 it says, But if ye will nourish the word, yea, nourish the tree as it beginneth to grow, by your faith with great diligence, and with patience, looking forward to the fruit thereof, it shall take root; and behold it shall be a tree springing up unto everlasting life.

I encourage you all to act on your faith and allow it to take root in your souls because if we dont have faith rooted in the gospel principles it will be impossible to like in accordance to the gospel principles as the second coming comescloser and closer. I encourage you all as well to read the book of mormon again anad again and again, because the book of mormon is the most correct and most true of any book to have ever been written. We need our testimonies for the coming trials so dont put it off! A wise sensei once said "never put off until tomorrow what can be done today"

Love you all! 

-Elder Ericson 

Memory of the week!

Hitting up service for a few hours helping neighbors move and then going to canes at like 12 in the morning because we were starving and the whole fam came too! Cant wait for good fried chicken haha! 

The Waters of Baptism

 This week was crazy! I havent sent an email for a little while but im hoping to get back on track and be writing a little bit every day so im not trying to fit everything into one long email when i want to enjoy p day haha! But transfer calls came in and im staying in san felipe! My new comp is elder valencia and basically just imagine a mexican version of me and youve got elder valencia! Hes amazing and ive had the most fun on my mission in 4 days with him hahaha! I learned a lot from the first two transfers ive had in the mission and im really excited for this coming transfer!

Well... i hit a game winner in a basketball game hahaha so that was fun(presy approved it haha)

We got invited to play basketball with one of our investigators and we went and it was a full on basketball game! We were down by 9 with a minute left and we came back and won!! 

We also got to carry 2 pallets of wood like 2 miles so that we could use them as a bridge to make it to our baptism spot because we had to cross a little river😅 lets just say that straat did me good with those plate runs, i never thought id apply them to a real life situation but... i guess you really did know what you were doing when we had to do plate runs coach!

Me and my comp have been working our butts off this week and we had 9 people come to church and we put 5 people on date!! It was such a successful week and i am so excited to be able to see the lords hand in my area San felipe!! We also had a baptism today! It was our friend jose and i got to baptize him in a lake! It was such an amazing experience and i cant believe that i have the opportunity to watch people come closer to their heavenly father first hand. Its a joy that i cant describe and im so excited for this coming week!

This week we have 3 baptisms planned for our friends martina, michael, And luis! If you guys could keep them in your prayers that would be awesome! 

Spiritual thought (thanks elder obispo)

"Dont let the world change you when you were born to change the world" Bradley R. Wilcox

We all need to remember of our divine potential as gods children. We have the opportunity to set the example for the world. this world becomes worse and worse every day, If we let the world change us our souls will be further away from god than ever before. We have the blessing to know the only way to recieve happiness for eternity, so i encourage you all to remember your potential and your blessings, and share them with people. Even if they arent perceptive to the gospel yet, every knee shall bow in remembrance of the lord our savior jesus christ when he comes again. So let us all try to give everyone the same joy we have knowing that jesus christ is our savior and we will experience eternal joy with our families through this everlasting gospel!

-Elder Ericson

Inside joke of the week!

For all of the bingham basketball players, did we ever get our dinners for winning comps? Like i swear black team owes me a few pizzas or something haha!🤷‍♂️

Happy New Year!

 Whats up guys happy new year! Sorry its coming late again haha i think me tyler and jared hung out too much before the mission because our emails are always late haha (or im just living up to the ericson name, might as well apologize to whoever my future wife is now cause idk if ill ever be on time hahaha) Hope you guys are all doing well amd are enjoying spending time with family and going to all the fun parties! 

This week was baller! Our friend juan jose(who we but on date in the first contact) came to church and hes progressing so much and so fast that we moved his baptism date up a week so he can get the holy ghost sooner! Hes awesome and such a lovable guy, i hope i stay here in san felipe for another transfer to go to that baptism! (Yeah transfers are next week finally and i couldnt be more excited and sad haha!)

Highlights!

Texas roadhouse as always! 🤠

Service in a laundromat (bruno mars was clutch) 🫂

Christmas shenanigans!🎄

Home alone🏠(dont worry pres allowed it)

Ping pong demon🏓

Gotta see and hang with the goat elder coley!🔥

Spiritual thought!

I found one of my favorite talks of all time on the bus yesterday its so baller and you all should gove it a listen! Its called, "The Touch of the Masters Hand" by President Boyd K. Packer!

If you guys ever feel inadequate or like you arent good enough for our savior remember your worth in the sight of our loving heavenly father. He Loves us without end, and the poem at the end of this talk shows us our divine potential as sons and daughters of god when we allow the master to work through us!

Love you all and miss you guys tons!-Elder Ericson

Inside joke of the week: The bean boozled challenge has got to be the worst challenge ever invented, i swear i can still taste liver and onions combined with the flavourful taste of old bandage🤮 never again will i eat a jelly bean without checking the package!