Hello Family!
Well another week has gone by extremely quickly. It seems as though time has sped up and there is nothing I can do about it. Even the days are going by very fast, usually they go slow and weeks go fast but both are. We had zone conference this week in Redmond which is like 20 minutes from here. It was extremely spiritual and I loved it. The biggest thing that was talked about was the Holy Ghost. We talked about the Holy Ghost and how he will teach you the truth of all things. We focus on being worthy to have that spirit with you all the time. President Young talked a lot about pride and how the pride of our hearts keep us from having him in our companionships. He said that there were a lot of missionaries who were saying that it was them who was having the success and were slow to remember who it really came from. It was amazingly spiritual. So after that we made goals with our companionships to give thanks more often each day and week.
I made it a goal to say my nightly prayer and only thank him for things. After the first few minutes of prayer you run out of things and you have to really think about what you're thankful for. Not just the superficial things. It has been awesome so far. Also this week we had a really good experience while tracting. We said a prayer and asked for guidance about where to go and we both felt good about a street. We went out and tracted the street no one was really interested and we were getting kind of discouraged, but we went to the very last house and it looked kind of like a bed and breakfast or a little store and so we were kind of unsure whether to knock on it or not. Well we did and the ladies name was Angie Peebles. She is awesome! She knows like 10 people who are in our ward and works with them all the time. We got talking to her and she loves our church and really the only reason she hasn't been baptized yet is that she was never really invited to come or to listen to the missionaries. Some of the members had jokingly told her that she couldn't go inside the building because she wasn't a member and she took it as being serious. But it seems like it is definitely her time to receive the gospel. She asked us if we would help her mother put up some Christmas decorations and told us that she would feed us in return so that is awesome and we are going to try and get her to church this week. So it was a pretty good week.
So I had my first bike wreck this week also. We were flying down this hill and I went to turn onto this street and for some reason my back tire just came off and I slid and got some good road rash on my hands so that was fun.
For Thanksgiving we are going over to the Thompson's. Sister Thompson is awesome. They just recently got back from serving a mission in Canada and they feed us all the time its pretty sweet. I'm pretty excited. Well I have to get going I love you all and hope everyone is doing well.
Love,
Elder Erickson
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