Dear Family,
Well the end of another transfer is already here. I can't believe, nor do I want, time is going so fast. We had a really good week this week. We are trying to get more organized over in the Grand Prairie YSA branch. It is super hard because there are so many people who are moving in and out all the time. We have been taking advantage of the fact that school for them doesn't start for a few more weeks and have been getting a bunch of the guys to come out to lessons with us and help us find people. It is going really well. We found two new investigators this week while we were going through formers and potentials and visiting them. We have a jam packed day tomorrow and I am so excited about it. There is no substitute for good hard work and that's what we have been doing. We will find out at the end of this week whether we are leaving or staying. I am not excited for it. I love our little district and I don't want it to change. We made a lot of progress with them just this past week. We have been having some issues with the other set of elders in the district being rude and making sexist comments to the sisters so we sat down with the zone leaders on Friday and had a big talk and I feel like we are all finally on the same page and now there are going to be big changes.
We set a baptism date with a guy named mason that we have been working with. He is trying to quit smoking and is struggling but really loves the gospel and Jesus Christ and wants to change. He accepted to be baptized on October 6th. We didn't realized at the time that that is general Conference so we are going to try and make it work but if it doesn't we will just do it the next weekend. Issac got the priesthood on Sunday, it was awesome! He is so excited to pass the sacrament and he also gave his first talk as a member of the church! He did amazing and was asked to talk about why he chose to be baptized.
I was reading through the scriptures during sacrament at the Takena ward on sunday and found an amazing set of versus that go right a long with what I have been studying. It is Mosiah chapter 2:21-22 it says
21 I say unto you that if ye should aserve him who has created you from the beginning, and is bpreserving you from day to day, by lending youcbreath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own dwill, and even supporting you from one moment to another—I say, if ye should serve him with all your ewhole souls yet ye would be funprofitable servants.
22 And behold, all that he arequires of you is to bkeep his commandments; and he has cpromised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth dvary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do ekeep hisfcommandments he doth bless you and prosper you.
No matter what we do, we will still be unprofitable servants and we can do nothing to earn our way back and that is the Grace of god that everyone talks about, but yet all he asks of us is to keep the commandments. Such a simple thing yet we have such a hard time doing it. If we could just swallow our pride and do what he asks, EVERYTHING would be alright. We would be prepared at the last day to meet our maker. And how are we supposed to expect him to do things we ask if we aren't willing to do what he asks.
Well I am glad to hear that everyone had a good week at Lake Powell and that everyone is safe. It was a trunky week for me thinking about it ha ha but its all good, I'm glad im where im at. I dont have a ton of time left so I have to make it count. Which I will! Love you all!
Love,
Elder Erickson
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