Email: November 7, 2011

Hello Everyone!

Well I did get a few letters this week so that is awesome. You are all undisowned except for Mckay. Just kidding. I got all of Maggie's 6 letters so that was awesome!! Well this has been a very long week. We had a lot of appointments that we had set up fall through and it was very discouraging. It is a good learning experience though because we are now finding out what we need to do better to get people to stick to their appointments. We have been getting phone numbers and giving them a reminder text the day of the appointment which has seemed to work a lot better. Yeah I don't know if I told you but our mission is one of the testing area's for texting on the phones. It has actually been awesome. So many people are on their phones all the time and they use technology more and more so it is easier to do it that way. Have any of you been on mormon.org? Not lds.org but it is its own site. If not I would highly recommend it. It is actually very cool. It is used for members to make profiles about how they found the church and how they live their faith and it has a ton of videos from people around the world who are or have been in the public eye that talk about how they are Mormon. It also has all of our basic beliefs for people to read and a way that you can talk to missionaries right there in a chat room kind of a thing. It's very cool. It's good to see that technology is being used for good rather that all of its other downfalls. They have a campaign going in new york city and Chicago and Boston and a few of the cities where they have advertising all over the city its very cool. So we are supposed to get on there an hour a week and share the gospel that way.

Well sounds like everyone had a good Halloween. I saw the pictures of the babies and they looked so cute! I tell everyone I can that I have the cutest nieces on the planet. We had to be in the house on Halloween by 7 so we just played some games and just hung around. The weather is rapidly deteriorating. It is very cold here now. We actually had it snowing a little on Sunday morning. We do a car share so we have the car Friday through Sunday and the other Elders get it Tuesday through Thursday and we are on bikes the other half. It is very cold on the bikes lately. It seems as though it gets colder the days we are on the bikes. We are still trying to find the other Elders a place to live but nothing yet. Well is was good to hear from a few of you and hope to hear from you soon. I would love some family pictures if anyone wanted to send some.
Love you all very much!

Love,

Elder Erickson