Week 28: Elder Viitanen

Hey! so my new comp.....His name is Elder Viitanen. I've talked about him a little bit! Nacio en Espana! It's sweet! He loves everything about Spain. I think he was born in Barcelona or somewhere close to that. He has the lisp when he talks and in some words that he uses that are new to me. I'm starting to use it on those words! haha. It kinda sounds gay. I'll stick to my dirty Mexican Spanish with made up words haha. He is a way sweet elder though. He moved to Utah when he was six so his English is better than his Spanish but he is still fluent in both. He said they just use Spanish in the house. His mom and all her family are from there. His dad is from Norway or Belgium - some place like that. His dad learned Spanish to talk with his mom by reading the Book of Mormon. haha crazy stories from his family! but we have been having so much fun together! After two days I felt like we'd been comps for awhile. So comp wise this transfer is starting good. 
Investigator wise its going not too great!...we didn't get any investigators in church yesterday and Elsa canceled on us again!!!!!!!!! I was so upset! She still sounds like she is interested but she has told us two weeks in a row that she has gotten called into work! so I don't know what to think there. We have an appointment with Ana tonight, hopefully that one comes through! sometimes the "golden" people from the first lesson don't make it past the first lesson! Dad's letter and story about his "professional investigator" gave me some good hope! cuz we have a few of those! We are still teaching Jesus, my first lesson, and other people who have been seeing missionaries way before i got here. 


Stories-
So there are a couple good stories this week. First is our problem we ran into with some trains....and the picture. haha. There is a train crossing with about 6 tracks...one day we had a lesson on the other side of the tracks and there were two trains stopped right in the middle of the crossing. The second one was moving a little bit and there is a gap of about 100 feet or so between the two trains. So we decided to go under the first train. It was  a little bit higher so we just turned our bikes on their sides and went under them. It wasn't anything too bad. Kinda fun just to say I did it. But then the second train kept moving a little bit back and forth and never cleared the road. It was about 20 minutes so finally we just decided to go over the train in between the cars. We had a lesson to get to. So we went over! haha right after Elder Viitanen got over it started moving again! it was fun and made for a good picture. 

Second is our BB-Q we had. One night at about 8:30 we didn't have a lesson cuz it fell through so we tried our back up and got nothing. And no one really opens their doors to strangers pounding on the door here after 8:00. So we saw a bunch of guys standing around listening to super loud mariachi music! They had a huge grill out and tons of food. So We rode up to them and were just going to try and talk to them and jokingly we said...you cooking for us? and they guy was just like "yeah I'll tell the senora to make you a plate" so he told his wife and she made us a huge plate with tons of meat and rice and guacamole! it was dang good! i wasn't really hungry but what do you do....haha. It was so funny to just talk with this group of drunk Mexicans. They thought we were so cool! All of them were talking pictures with us and just wanted to share their life story with us! haha 


Con Amor y Respeto
Elder Erickson


Trivia: Where in the book of Mormon Is the Angel really the Devil?