Far and Wide His Love Proclaim: Elder Erichsen's Emails

Hey guys!! So woot woot I actually have time to write and put pictures in now! This week was definitely a lot more relaxing than the last one haha.  So first of all, all of the members here are AWESOME! We have lunches every day and a lot of time people want to give us dinner too haha. There's a bunch of members that love taking pictures of me and my companion and then they send them to my mom and I KNOW she loves that. A lot of them also give us referrals a lot so we always have a lot of people to visit which is always good. Right now we have one investigator with a baptism date and his name is Ezequiel. He's 12 and he's awesome. He went to church yesterday and really wants to get baptized. I guess the missionaries in Obrero have already taught him all of the lessons, the only hard part is getting a signature from his dad. I guess his dad is SUPER Catholic and doesn't want nada from us. PERO, we talked to our mission leader in the branch and apparently he ...

Hey guys! So I have like legit no time to write this week, but this week was freaking CRAZY!!!! So I'm here in Obrero with my main man Elder Gomes and he's AWESOME! He's from Brazil and he has one less transfer than me and he's still learning spanish and knows Portugese so it's super goofy talking with him because sometimes he'll just start speaking Portugese but I can kinda understand him because it's really similar to Spanish. But ANYWAYS, on Thursday, we had to go to the hospital. He got an infection on his toe a few weeks ago and has had to go to the hospital every week for it. We we go to the hospital, all fine and dandy. But then we walk out and it's POORING. And we don't have umbrellas. But he had to go get him drugs for his infection and the pain, so we got DRENCHED going to do that. Then I totally forgot about my camera, so it got wet and no longer works, so I'm like great, how could this day get any worse?? OH WAIT!! We get ba...

Hey Mom! I'M FINALLY LEAVING REPUBLICANOOOOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! HOWEVER, I'm going somewhere suuuuper close hahaha. In fact, I'm staying in the same zone. In fact, THE SAME DISTRICT. I'm going to an area called Obrero. I BELIEVE I'm also sharing Sajonia, so I'm gonna have 2 areas, which is crazy. I love Sajonia though, so. I still don't know exactly how it's working, but of course I'll know by next week. My next companion is gonna be Elder Gomez. He's from Brazil. I already know him super well because we've been in the same district for the past 12 weeks. He just finished his training, so I have 1 more transfer than him. I know! I already feel so old haha. He's super cool though and I'm excited. Elder Gutierrez is staying here and he's actually gonna be my District Leader which is kind of funny. So I'll still be in good contact with him haha. He's training this transfer, so that's f...

Hey guys, This week was suuuuper duuuper boring. No mucho happened. We talked to a ton of people who super didn't want to talk to us. So that was fun. We're still hanging in there though, ya know? One thing that's super goofy here is that like everyone is low key rude hahaha. Not like rude, but a lot of things they say would be offensive in the States and I LOVE IT. For example, people will call people fat ALL the time. Like we'll go to a member's house and they'll be like ¨Tú pareces gordito hoy dìa¨ (You look a little fat today) FOR NO REASON. It's hilarious. We bought these fake glasses and almost everyone told us that we look ugly and terrible. It's suuuuper funny though. But yeah, sorry I have like literally nothing to talk about this week. I feel like I've talked to literally everyone in our area already, so it's really hard to find new people. Luckily I'm probably going to a new area in a week, so we'll see how that goes. H...