Weird Week - June 5, 2017

Hola Todos!

This week has been a weird week. I am finally 19 now! It was a good b-day just different! 

We went to Managua on Wednesday and that was a great meeting like always. Friday and Thursday were normal and then Sunday was strange because we got stranded in Boaco at night without a way to get back... so we slept in the other elders' house on the floor. not my best night of sleep ever. Then we left the next morning. 

Today it started to rain like crazy, so we started to run back to the house but it started pouring we were soaked so I thought it would be a good idea to go a short cut through a dirt path and up a big flight of stairs. It was like running up a waterfall. We are lucky that no one slipped and died. Fun day. 

Life is great here! There were a ton of tender mercies and miracles this week. The Lord is always watching and answering our prayers! Thank you all for everything!

Elder Erickson

Managua and Back Again - May 29, 2017

Hola Todos!

The trip to Managua was good. It was long as always, but it was good. I learned a lot from the AP's. Funny story this week. One of our investigator families got two new dogs and they didnt have a name, so naturally we told them to call the dogs Erickson and Black. They totally did! Good times. 

This week has flown by. We are doing well out here and it is raining less... that is good. June is looking like we will have a lot of success. This week we are going back to Managua again. Woot! Life is good! I love it out here and I hope you all have a good week!

Elder Erickson

Multi Zona - May 22, 2017

Hola todos!

Life has been crazy for the past few weeks so I haven’t gotten a ton of time to write... but here we are now! Life is going awesome right now! This week we had a multi zone in Managua. It was a super spiritual experience, and we learned so much. Then we worked the rest of the week like usual! 

We are headed straight into the rainy season and it has rained every day for the past two weeks. at least it doesn’t rain all day! Things are going well with our investigators and we baptized a sister of one of our recent converts this week! Her name is Isabel and she is really awesome! It is so cool to see people progress and change their lives and be filled with the gospel! Well right now I’ve got to get going to Managua... we are doing divisions with the APs tomorrow, so because of the travel we have to leave tonight. 

Thank you all for everything! I hope your week goes well!

Elder Erickson

Mother's Day - May 15, 2017

Changes and Traveling! - May 8, 2017

Hola todos!

This week has been kind of crazy but a little normal at the same time. Wednesday was changes and Elder Scott got changed. My new comp is Elder Black from Montana. He is super cool and I am excited to be his comp. The only rough part was that for changes I had to go to Managua on Wednesday which is a 7-hour roundtrip journey. and then we got a text from the APs that we needed to go back the next day for the leadership council. Which equals another 7 hours of travel. It was good though because Elder Black and I got to talk and rest a little. 

We have entered the rainy season hear and it rains every day. It is actually pretty nice because it cools down then. Things are going really well in the area and this weekend we have district conference with Pres Brown and Area Authority Seventy. That should be really cool. We have quite a few investigators and we are really trying to find some news this upcoming week. Funny story from this week is that we got the house fumigated for bugs and when we went back in after it was done in the kitchen there were like 30 cockroaches all over so I had to go crazy and kill them all with a broom and some permethrin. That was fun. 

It has been a good week spiritually too. I finished reading Jesus The Christ again. It is a great book and I have really come to love and learn a lot from the New Testament and the Life of our Savior! I love Him and I am so grateful to serve him! Thank you all for everything! Have a great week!

Elder Erickson