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| Leaving Mexico City |
I
arrived in Las Vegas around 4 pm on Tuesday. My mission president and his wife were
in Texas that day for a conference, so we were met by his counselors, APs, and the Sister Trainer Leaders. We went to the Mission Home
(which was beautiful!), and were interviewed. They asked me to say the prayer,
and it was so hard in English. I was tripping over the words, and it felt so
foreign to not be saying it in Spanish! One of the counselors asked me what my
goal was for my mission. I realized that my goal is to do whatever Heavenly
Father needs of my for the next 16 months. He said that if I do that, I will
find so much joy and that all my experiences will be for my good.
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| My new companion and trainer |
Afterwards we met our companions! My new companion is from Wyoming. She has been
out 7 months, and she is amazing! She is exactly what I needed. She is ready to
work and is so excited for our time together. She is an absolute sweetheart,
and I love her already! That same day, we had a dinner appt and lesson to
teach. The dinner appt was nothing like I had ever experienced. It was so
quiet....! I did not know what to say because I was so nervous, and they
probably assumed that I did not know any Spanish (which at that moment I felt
like I didn't). Ha ha! They were very sweet, so I am excited to become more
acquainted with our ward.
We
taught a man who has a date for baptism, but has a lot of
questions that make it hard for us to teach a full lesson. He is very nice, and
he attended Church with us on Sunday. We have 4 investigators at the
moment. All are Spanish-speaking, and we
are not allowed to have English investigators. At the end of the day sometimes,
my head hurts from trying to constantly translate in my head.
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| The Las Vegas Strip (from a distance) |
For
most of this week, we have been contacting. No one was answering their doors.
When they did, they either weren't the right person, or weren't interested. We
did a lot of street contacting (I had some people basically run away from me.
Yay!), but most weren't interested. I thought I would be really depressed about
it, but it just made me and my trainer work harder. Because of our hard work
and faith, God blessed us with an amazing miracle! We recieved a referral from
a recent convert who wanted her mom to be taught. We almost did not have time to go to the
lady's house, but we decided to stop by really quick. When we knocked on the door,
she answered and said "I've been waiting for you! Come in please!!!". My companion and I could not believe it. She is an inactive member of 21 years,
but wants to reactivate. Her goal is to go through the temple with her
daughter. She was so happy, she started to cry, asked us for a Book of Mormon, and took a
picture with us. A true miracle!
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| Bikes! |
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Love,
Hermana Erickson
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