Elder Erickson's Mission Adventures: Week 100: "Master Teacher"

Buenos Dias!!!!!!!

Sounds like all is well with the family! Glad to hear everything is working out! This week here in Texas was cold! and I'm just getting soft to the colder weather, but it was a great week either way!

We had zone conferences Tuesday and Thursday this week and saw over half the mission! They were really fun, we taught a part on "master teachers." We were trying to be creative so we taught a funny presentation on "Healthy Smoothies" (Sister Crawford is always trying to get missionaries to be healthier, it's kind of a joke around the mission) so we each taught a different smoothie and told them we were a "plug-in" for Sister Crawford. Elder Hepworth taught it really well and it most the points a "master teacher" this was a sheet given to us by Elder Callister that lays out these points. When I taught it I tried to teach as poorly as I could! It was so funny. One of my favorite things was when we would give them a taste and I "ran out of cups" so I gave them one cup and let them pass it around. haha. I got some really weird looks. But it made a great point after we told them that it was the same smoothie just presented different so the other was more appealing. Our point was that each missionary is teaching the same gospel but we present it different, we need to make sure we are doing the best that we can. Its really fun! This week we will be doing the same thing in Vidor Texas.

My favorite part of the week was right after the first zone conference President Crawford got a phone call from Salt Lake telling him that 5 missionaries on the way to the West Indies mission are going to have a 30 something hour lay over in Houston so we needed to go pick them up. We dropped everything and left to go and play Hide and Go-seek in the airport. It was fun. We got to ride the train that runs under the airport from terminal to terminal! It was so funny! We were laughing pretty hard! The miracle of it all is the best part. We had a dinner appointment set with a Recent Convert in the area name Bro. Lyons. When he cooks, he cooks to feed an army. We stopped by his house on the was to ask if we could invite 5 missionaries, he so happily invited them over. He said he had a prompting to cook 2 turkeys instead of 1. and that's not to mention the ham, brisket, 3 serving trays of stuffing, mashed potatoes, 3 cakes, rolls, and jello he made! He had invited another family of 5 form the ward but had to cancel last minute because of a fire at work. So it work out perfectly, it was so awesome to see how the Lord watches over his missionaries and provides for them.

As for Brandon Early! we were able to teach him Thursday night! He had read and prayed and was so solid! He had a question about the Holy Ghost, He said that at other churches he felt that everyone gets the Holy ghost "too much" and wanted to make sure that wasn't going to happen here. We set a date with him for the 15 of Dec.!!! He also came to church yesterday and he had taken his corn rows out of his hair and wore a white shirt and tie! He looked so legit! He had read the first 3 chapters of the book of Mormon. I Love him so much!

Saturday we were on exchanges, I was able to go to Pasadena and speak Spanish again! It was fun! I'm a little rusty though! but other than that it was a pretty quiet week ;)