Hola todos,
Well this week was an adventure. This Thanksgiving
week was definitely one to remember. We will start off with the hurricane.
Hurricane Otto was pretty much a few drops of rain. But this is how it
started, we heard about the hurricane coming, and were told by our leaders to
buy food for 48 hours and get water ready. My food storage consists of Oreos, Ramen, bread, chips cheese and ham. We filled every container in the house
with water, and then waited and . . . nothing happened. Literally. We
were watching the radar and it was right on top of us and it wasn’t even
raining. Go figure. But now I have lots of cookies and garbage cans full of
water. And that was a cool miracle that we were all okay here in Granada. Other
places got hit hard but we are all good here. And then the day of the hurricane
there was an earthquake in the north mission, my companion said he felt it but I
didn’t. So overall it was an eventful day.
Then the next day I decided that
the weather radar had mistaken the hurricane for a massive cloud of mosquitos,
because all day we were walking through clouds of mosquitos. It was crazy, I
have never seen that many bugs even. It was like a plague from the bible. We
clapped our hands and killed like 10 every time. Another miracle is that I didn’t
even get bit!
This week I also realized that I have been eating cow liver for a
while. They give it to us for lunch a lot. I always thought it was steak. wow,
how I have changed. I like cow liver. what a life! Oh, and all the water here
is unsafe so to purify it we put bleach in it. So, my water tastes like bleach.
And the best part is, among all this weirdness, and wild living, I love it! I
love it here! I love this country! I am so happy to be here and to be serving
the Lord and the people here!
We have got some investigators and we are finding
new ones too! The work is hard, but it pays off way more than I give. I see
miracles every day, learn more about the gospel every day, and learn to love
the Savior more every day. This really is His work and His Gospel. I know with
all my heart that it is true! I know that He lives! Remember this month His
birth, and why He came into the world. Don’t give up! He is there! Thank you
all for everything! Have a good week!
Elder Erickson
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