March 23, 2015
Well hello my good friends. It’s that time of week again
where is sit down at the computer and spit my brains out with random nonsense.
Just kidding. It’s random, but not nonsense.... usually.
Well I was trying to think about a subject for this email,
and that subject randomly came into my head. Don't really know how it applies,
but I did think of something that kinda applies. So we are getting these little
black boxes attached to the inside of our windshield from the insurance
company. Apparently they monitor your driving and tell you when you are driving
unsafely. I think that you can then save on insurance for good driving. Well, I
have a feeling that this may backfire on them. Sure, we drive carefully and
all, however we are still 18-21ish year olds driving out on the road. We are
bound to have to slow down quickly or swerve to not hit a dog or something (or
deer... that happened to me a couple weeks ago. Big ol' deer went flying across
the road at night. I had to put the brakes on pretty dang hard. It was pretty
sweet). So this should be interesting. At least we will be much more
accountable to go the speed limit since they can track our speeds and such. In
fact, one of our zone leaders got pulled over for going 14 over on the freeway
a few weeks ago! Hahaha! Don't worry, I don't speed in mission vehicles! So
that’s cool. Speaking of cars. So we had to get one of our tires repaired about
a month ago because it had a nail in it. And then today that same tire had to
be repaired again because there was a nail in it. And on
Thursday we had to go get our windshield replaced because it had a crack
in it. And then last week our car told us that it needed an oil change. So
Jeepy isn't being very kind to us right now. Ugh.
Anyway, other interesting/hilarious news. Last Monday we got
a call from one of the assistants and they told us that they had been notified
by the church after they sent our baptism report in that Larry is already a
baptized member of the church! Hahahaha! He told us that he had been baptized
twice before in Big Spring, which is just an hour or two down the road, but
didn't make the connection. Which is weird, because me and Elder Stringham
prayed a lot to know if we needed to baptize Larry or not and we both got a
very distinct answer to go ahead and do it! So we must have done it for a
reason. Not sure what that reason is, but we did. They told us that it was
totally fine though and said, "Good reactivation effort guys!". So I
was pretty pumped about that.
We had a pretty good storm one night last week. It started
raining pretty good after we came inside for the night, and as I was lying in
bed with my eyes open for a few mins I saw a sharp flash of light coming
through the blanket that covers the window that is right above my bed. And then
just a split second after the lightning came the sharpest roar of thunder I
have ever heard! Back at home we would get some pretty good thunder that shook
the whole house, but that stuff was deep sounding. This was a really sharp
crack that basically shook the apartment! It was nuts! And I am right against
the wall to the outside of the apartment and am right underneath a window so I
got a pretty good feel of it! That was the only lightning or thunder for the
night, which was odd, but I woke up at 4:30
to some lightning and some pretty good thunder. Apparently we are getting to
the time of year where we'll get some pretty good thunder storms around these
parts. I am PUMPED!!!!
We had interviews with President Heap this week. My
interview went pretty well! Our zone leaders didn't tell us to prepare anything
and said that they hadn't heard of anything for us to prepare for, so we just
went unprepared for anything. But come to find out when I sat down with
President, we were supposed to prepare to share and teach him something we've
studied in Preach My Gospel recently and then also teach him something from the
scriptures. I did a pretty beast job for not preparing anything! And usually
with interviews he just has the same interview over and over again and they
usually aren't very long. But I was in there with him for over 20 minutes,
compared to other missionaries who sometimes only go about 5 minutes. So we had
a good visit and I feel pretty special that I got a little bit more of an
interaction with him that most. He is the man! He is no doubt called of God to
do the work he does!
So just a few funny quotes from the last couple of weeks
over at Dianne's. So she has a friend that has been coming with us for the last
month or two. Two weeks ago when we were over there, I sang something, can't
remember what it was, and she just said, "Oh gosh... you sound like a sick
cat." hahahaha! And then last week we were talking about something, can't remember
what, and she looked and pointed at me and said, "I'd like to see this one
as a woman." hahahahahahaha! I died with laughter. And for those of you
who don't remember who these people are, they live at a house for special needs
people so they all have different types of disabilities. Its great fun going
over there! I have so many funny quotes from here in Sweetwater! I even started
a quote book. So far it has about a million hilarious Bro Patton quotes, but it
will get some diversity here throughout the rest of my mission. I just am not
quite sure if anywhere else has anyone like Bro Patton! That man is FUNNY!
We got two new investigators this week! Finally. Both are
interesting cases. One is this guy named Troy. He says that his relationship
with Jesus Christ is just about as good as it can get right now and that
nothing can make it stronger. We may be having a lesson on humility with him
soon. Some people just amaze me. And then we taught this other lady named
Melissa and she is just really interested in learning about different religions
but not big into practicing organized religion. She is a really nice lady and
gladly accepted to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. In fact, when we
showed up, she was sitting on her porch reading a book about Islam! So she is
just very interested in learning stuff so hopefully she can find truth! We also
are teaching a girl in our branch who is turning 8 this week. Her mom wants her
to learn everything and have "more Jesus" in her life. Haha her mom
is hilarious.... anyway, so that’s fun teaching an 8 year old. And then we have
the usuals that we teach including mainly Larry and Paul. We mostly just go
over and visit Erica these days but are trying to add some teaching into it.
She had just stopped doing anything we invited her to do and such but she needs
good solid friends to talk to so we fill that role and add some spiritual stuff
to it.
Now for the food update. Pretty solid week this past week! I
had my first chicken pot pie! It was quite delicious! Sis Hunt is famous for
her pot pies and I got to partake of one! Very good! We also had Mahi-Mahi at
the Patton's! Boy was that good! I haven't had too much fish but Mahi-Mahi is
apparently one of the best fishes to eat! It was blackened with some sort of
cajun spice that basically made you cry and not able to breath when you were in
the kitchen while she was cooking. But it tasted amazing so the tears were well
worth it. We also had homemade lasagna at the Thompsons. My goodness was that
amazing as well. I have always been a store bought lasagna kind of guy but this
stuff blows it out of the water! And yes, I have had store bought lasagna
recently. I have bought a few like two serving sized lasagna's for dinners. But
this homemade crock-pot lasagna is unreal. Also, we will be helping the Relief
Society with their booth at the Taste of Sweetwater event here in a couple
weeks. This thing has been described as "a buffet on steroids" by the
local newspaper. All the local restaurants go and give away free samples of food.
They said that we would get a free meal ticket so I am pumped to have endless
options of amazing Texas food!
That's all for this week! I hope y'all have a good one and
may God bless you as you go about your days doing good!
Love,
Elder
Reed Ericson
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