Hello family mia!!
Break down of this past week.
Tuesday we had a pretty normal day! We got to work in our area and study in the morning so that was great! We left that evening and stayed the night in Liberty Texas so we could be up early to set up for a leadership meeting. We had that meeting with all the leaders of the mission and introduced the "Texas Houston East 2nd ward" I'm not sure if I told you about the 1st ward? but its where we count reactivations and baptisms and set goals to make an entire ward. Our goal is 427 people by the end of the year! Its pretty cool to watch grow!
As soon as that meeting was over we went out to Vidor Texas to work with the zone leaders out there! I wish I would have know that Preston's family lives out there. Elder Walser served almost his whole mission in the Vidor wards and says he knows it here really well. It was a new experience for me to work out in the country! Vidor is the home of the KKK in Texas so that makes things interesting and it fits just about all the stereotypes you can think of for East Texas! haha. It was really fun!
After we got back to Kingwood we unpacked...then elder Walser repacked and we drove to Pasadena and exchanged with the Zone leaders there and we had a good exchange! It is really fun to work with so many different elders! It was my first time in the area for a full day leading so it was a little rough because I haven't been in the area too much to know who to try and visit and what not but it went well! We found some very nice people!
This week in between exchanges we were able to do the Hour of Power in our area! We found a very nice man! and the first to be so willing to take us up on our offer of service!.....we said what can we do to help and he had us pressure washing his fence and then we built a whole rack of shelves in his garage! We are going to see him right after this! He was nice but had read a lot on the church from PBS and had some true things all out of context! but he is open to our message!
This Sunday the Lasyone family came to church! They are such a great family! just slow progressing! they have been 4 times now. The last time was about 5 or 6 months ago. The dad really likes the church and would probably be baptized if he had a wife with equal interest!
We also had a dinner with the Yanez family, this is the family that came to church last week from the church tour, with the members who invited them. They are super nice and have a great social conversion to the church already now we are trying to establish the teaching pattern with them and help them to see the spiritual side! They are super busy but we have an appointment with them this Friday!
While we were driving around Houston we were also able to help one of the office staff find housing. We were driving in the area closest to downtown where we are going to add another set of elders and found this awesome apartment! It isn't a big complex but a nice homey place. We were looking at it and ended up helping a guy move out and made really good friends with him so quick. He was a soccer players and traveled through Europe playing. He ended up showing us his place then we helped him move out. I had a crazy realization while I was standing in there house waiting for Elder Walser to use the bathroom. We had only met him for 20 minutes and he was already letting us into his home and trusting us with not only his home and wife but also personal beliefs that he was sharing with us. The spirit is a great thing! I know there is no other way we can do this missionary work than by the spirit! everything we do is all to have the spirit with us more and invite it into every activity so others can feel the peace and comfort that it brings! and from my new realization Trust! The spirit brings trust. Whatever trial in life we are going through praying and feeling the spirit gives us trust in our Heavenly Father and that gives us what we need to go one more step!
Thanks for everything family! I Love you! :)
Con amor y respeto
Elder Erickson
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