I'm ded

November 25, 2019

I'm soooooooooo tiiirrreeeeddd guuuyysssss oh my goodness. This week was super fast but WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it was tiring. We had something to do like literally every day. I'll give you the run down.

Tuesday - We painted this member's patio GREEN in like the whole entire morning. We also had painted his fence green the week anterior. We're planning on painting him green next week.

Wednesday - I went to Paso Yobai on splits to do a baptismal interview for this guy who was actually baptized Saturday. I flippin DIIIEEEEDDDD. It was SOOOOOOO HAAAAWWWWWWWWWTTTTTTT and I have like NO leg strength to ride a bike up hills and it was really DUUSSTTYYY in the aiir and AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I NEVER WANNA GO BACK AGAIN.

Thursday - ZOONNEEEE CONNFFERRRENNCCEE. We went to Coronel Oviedo and had a pretty good conference.

Friday - My man Elder Smith woke up with a super bad fever and we stayed home the whole day.

Saturday - Ok nothing really happened Saturday, ngl.

Sunday - We had DISTRICT CONFERENCE (stake conference). THat was super cool seeing a bunch of members.

But overall just a lot of stuff and as usual, nothings really happening here in Villarrica. All of the people we were teaching just kinda disappeared, but I don't really know why. Like literally we're here trying to SAVE YOUR LIVES, why don't you just DO IT. But we all got our albedrío I guess.

One thing I've definitely learned from training a gringo who just got here is out out of the loop I am. I feel like I've been in Paraguay for a few months, but BAM, just like that there's BILLIONS of new memes, every artist I know has a new album, and Fortnite is STILL A THING. Also, what the heck, when did I get so old?? They're making all of these changes for the youth in the church and I'm like...NINETEEN!!??? whaaaattt tthheee heeecckkkk maaannnnn. I'm gonna get back going to ELDERS QUORUM having NO CLUE what the cool kids are doing. I might not survive.

Anyways, this email was super lame, sorryyy aabbouuutt thttaattttttttttttttt. I have definitely learned a lot about HOPE this week. As well as patience. As well as...well....pretty much every christlike attribute

, it's been pretty challenging. But one thing my companion told me is that if the work were easy, we wouldn't get the satisfaction we get when something DOES happen. If EVERYONE I taught got baptized, it wouldn't be any fun! You look at stories in the Book of Mormon and the Bible and some people were put in jail, some even killed JUST for teaching about Jesus. At least I don't gotta do THAT. That would suck

. I know that Thanksgiving is coming up, and I'm just really thankful for everything in my life. I'm extremely grateful for my family for giving the chance to grow up in this gospel as well help me come here in Paraguay to TEACH people of this gospel. I'm also very thankful for all of my friends that have helped me before and through the mission. I'm also VERY thankful for all of the food we have in the United States. I really miss getting fast food every day.

HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING! BBBBBBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Elder Erichsen

p1 - This is Paso Yobai. No hay nada.

p2 - There was this really cute dog that this member had in Yobai. Yes, this was at the very end of the day and I was VERY sweaty and VERY tired.

p3 - Just one shirt after a good ol day in Yobai.

p4 - I got my Christmas package and I'm waiting to open everything until Christmas, pero there was one thing unwrapped and it was the nectar of the gods. Yes. Mountain Dew Code Red. I definitely had to cope with my sadness after I finished it. Thanks Mom.