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

Heeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyy everrryybbooddyyy!!!! Voces falam portugues? Está bem! Eu tambem nao. Mas vou seguir aprendendo kkkkkkkkkkk.      So we had transfers and I'm back here with my boy Elder Rodrigues and we're just having a grand ol' time here in the Floresta. I remember my first week here I had to adjust quite a bit. In Villarrica the people are super nice, but here they're a little more frío. So Elder Rodrigues kinda had to go through that same adjustment. But I think he's doing pretty good now.      I'm pretty glad that Elder Rodrigues is here with me. Last transfer my companion didn't drink any soda and only ate out once a week, but now we're back to eating out every day except Sunday and drinking soda for personal study in the morning, so life is good. I honestly have NO idea how I have not gained weight since I've been here. I checked my weight actually a few weeks ago, and I'm still sitting at the same 160 pounds of skin and bone tha...

Itttttt'sssssssss hhhhooooootttttttttttt guuuyyyyysssssssssssssssssssss ssssssss oohhhh mmyyy goooddnnesssssss.      This week was SUPERRRR BUUEENNAAAAAAAA. It was Elder Cook's birthday and we had a party with a member with cake (3rd foto). He's now 19! Wow! So old! Might as well be an abuelo now.       Transfers tomorrow! Woooo. So my new companion was with me in Villarrica for like 5 weeks in a trio and his name is Elder Rodrigues. He's awesome. We're already really good friends and I'm super excited. He's from Brasil and I'm ACTUALLY gonna try and learn a little portuguese this transfer. Wish me luck. But this transfer will definitely be a good one.      So story time: Elder Cook and I were looking for this member and we went into this kinda sketchy apartment building and starting knocking on doors (Yes, we were actually KNOCKING on doors. It was weird). We knocked at this one on the 3rd floor but nobody came out. Then this Mom...

Wwwhhhhhhhaaaattttt isss upppp ya''''llllllllllll. How was everyone's week? Swell? Fantastic? Amazing? Oh, sorry...I was just talking about how GREAT our week was because EVERY week is great here in PARAGUAY.      Ok that may have been kind of an exaggeration. It was a pretty normal week  . Nobody went to church, but hey, Sarah still has a baptismal date for the 29th, so we're all gucci. Taught some people. Ate some food. Good stuff.      We did have Zone Conference on Thursday and that was pretty cool. They did make a change to how we count "New Investigators." So we used to count them if we taught a 5 minute lesson with a return date to come back. But NOW we have to teach a FULL lesson for it to count. So our average new investigators is probably going from 15 to a fat 3. I also got to see a lot of Elders and old companions and that's always fun. It was also the LAST zone conference of the hermanas from my MTC district, which is super weird....

Heeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy gggggggguuuuuuuuyyyyyyyyssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ss. We just had our district activity, so this email is gonna be a short one.      This week was pretty fantasterific. We found a lot of pretty solid people and guess what happened? I bet you won't guess right. SOMEONE CAME TO CHURCH! WOW I KNOW IT'S CRAZY. SOMEONE IN THE FLORESTA CAME TO CHURCH. It was incredible. It's this girl named Sarah and she's the novia of this one menos activo but she's super cool. She currently has a baptism date for the 29th of February.      It's been sooooo hootttttttttttttttttttttttt. I'm really excited to not wear missionary clothes when I get back home.      There was this huuuugggeee storm on Wednesday and we almost died (photo 2). All of the streets were pretty flooded. That was pretty cool.      Ummmmm yeah. We had our district activity just now. We play...