Week 3: Birthday Week

Well its been 3 full weeks now. Feels like ive been here longer. but it also feels like i just got droppe off...so i cant quite figure out what it is. Sadly i dont really have a funny story this week except for Elder Jarman told this joke that made me laugh pretty hard I can't remember exactly what it was at the moment, but he is a stud, he is the only man that can school me at 4 square. But i do have a new thing that i do here. Me and another elder, Elder Huges i told mom a little about him but we made some friends with some kids a few floors down from us. we are on the top floor which is the 4th floor. In 6M for anyone who cares to know. But on the second floor there is a room of 4 Elders who are from Mexica and Peru. They came here not knowing any English and its crazy how much english they have learned since they are surrounded by it. It makes me jealous of the people who get to go to the MTC's in other countries. But at night we get back to our rooms around 9:30 and we hurry down there and we talk with them are they help us with spanish and we help them with english. Its been really cool cuz the last few nights we have been practicing teaching lessons to eachother. the first time we did it we taught them in englisht then they taught us in english then the next night they taught us in spanish and then we taught them in spanish. Its so cool. its my favorite part of the day and sometimes the time i feel the spirit the most. Last night we tried a new way of teaching eachother...we will say our things in spanish and they will reply in english that way we both get practice. its so cool I love doing it so much. and they kids are so funny! they say the funniest stuff and i ask about phrases that make zero sense. One night though we got carried away teaching and didnt even realize the time and we were there unitl like 10:35 and were supposed to be in our room at 10:15...i didnt think it was a big deal because the spirit was still there and all so i didnt feel bad about being late. But we just got new zone leaders and one of them is super power hungry and has a stick up his butt "thats one of the phrases we taught the spanish kids" but he was like waiting in front of our rooms and now its become a big deal between some of the elders. But its all good ive avoided most of the heat of things and just make sure to watch the time better! But i think it will really help me by acutally listening to a navtive speaker talk a lot. But other than that nothing else has really happened this week. Just more spanish and more teaching. We had TRC again this week and it went better, i dont know if i told you about the last week when we got ripped apart of not. But we did but this time was a lot better and the reviews were a lot nicer. Im feeling a lot better about my spanish, I feel bad for my compainion though. he is learning at a different pace than everyone else and still has a hard time pronouncing everthing. He usually has to read everything off in our lessons so it makes it really hard to teach a lesson and we have been going to an empty room to try and get phrases down so he his progressing just slowly. But at least he's working right! I dont know if i even told you anything about him so if i did here it is again. He is from pocetello Idaho and his name is Elder Satchwell. Love the kid but he is kinda a nerd and always talks about Spider man and compares the MTC to Harry potter's Hoggwarts its pretty funny but kinda nerdy! haha..,,,he is a diabetic and loves sugar. haha my other room mates are Elder Kener who is way cool and we get along pretty well. He is from Arizona but just recently moved to Holiday Utah like 3 months ago. my other room mate is Elder Mallard how also has diabeties and is from Idaho falls. But i dont know what else to tell you! if you have questions feel free to make a list and ill print it off so i can hit every point. Because every week in here is the same so most my emails are going to be the same for the next few weeks anyways! haha OH i almost forgot it was my brithday this week huh! im 19! i totally forgot! well it pretty much sucked most of the day. because i was super frustrated with things haha. But the letters and boxes i got helped me a lot! thanks for the bouncy balls mom! ill be sure not to get in too much trouble!  and ill be sure to let you know what we do with the beach ball! haha Thanks you everyone who sent me a card or letter or something! i Love all of you!

I LOVE YOU ALL!!

Con Amor

Elder Erickson