Dear Family,
This week was an incredible one. It was filled with the spirit and lots of miracles! It started off with having interviews with president young on Tuesday, which was awesome. I always love getting to talk with him and share the progress I have been making. He and I talked for a good half hour it was funny. Anyway, we also had one of the assistants to the president come down and do an exchange with us. He was one of the Zone leaders down in Roseburg when I was there and was made AP this last transfer. He is an awesome missionary and super inspiring. He is like 25 and hasn't been a member for too long.
We were challenged by President on tuesday to instead of doing family history as much as we were to teach everyone we possible could the message of the restoration. We took that to heart and have been doing that as often as we can this week and I feel that that was the source of all the miracles that we are receiving. It started when we were at dinner with the Tranthums on wednesday night. It was our first opportunity to teach an active family the restoration and so after dinner we sat down and planned to teach it. We asked bro Tranthum to share with us his conversion and what stuck out to him the most when he was taking the lessons and became a member. They have been members for about 9 years now. So that ended up taking all of the time that we had but they had signed up for this wednesday also and said that we could do it then and they would invite a non member over to hear it. We were stoked because it was the first time we had done it and we already were receiving blessings.
We then were tracting and ran into this guy named Trona. He is super awesome and actually knows our ward mission leader Brother Beer. He walked out and was like oh good, I have actually been planning on converting to become a Mormon. It was incredible! I have never had that happen before. He has been around a lot of members and said that there is not much else to it because if it wasn't from God then why are we such an amazing group of people. He said he was moving this week so we thought we might not get to teach him but he's not moving out of our area! We are super excited for him. We also got an appointment with a girl named Lucy who has three little girls like 5 and under but she is a single mom. She loves us and was so excited for us to come back. Brother Allred was outside while we were tracting on his street on Saturday and introduced us to his neighbor who we actually set up 2 appointments with. And she actually lives two houses down from Lucy. We taught this older couple Ike and Delores, they have a daughter who is a member and Delores told us the only thing that has held her back from becoming a member was smoking. She was very excited and we are going to help her quit and they committed to come to church next week already. It just blows my mind again that the lord has blessed us with so much when we listened to his representative and had faith and acted. My testimony has grown a lot in the past few days.
Transfer calls come in the weekend so I am just hoping and praying that I get to stay and work with all of these incredible people that we are finding. The rain wont stop us! We are going to use that to our advantage! ha ha just kidding, I am still not a big fan of it! Well I think thats all I had for this week. Thank you all for the good example that you are to me!
Love,
Elder Erickson
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