49th Epistle from Elder Kaleb Erickson serving in Brooklyn, New York

Quick Update     written August 5, 2013

There's really not too much to report this week. It's the end of another transfer and we're headed into another transfer. Where hopefully we can finally get the ball rolling with missionary work in Midwood Spanish.

Our quest to re-activate people in the ward continues. We met with a less active from Honduras last week. People from Honduras are the best. He made us baleadas. Which are a Honduranean food. It's essentially a flour tortilla with mashed beans, cream, and cheese on the inside. But they are incredible. He likes to throw chiles inside of his baleadas, that was a good call too.

We continue to work with Efrain. We had a break through, then we suddenly lost it all. We met with him on Thursday and had a really cool lesson with him. He was confused about a number of things, so I convinced him to kneel with us and ask a prayer for direction. He did and we waited a bit to receive an answer. Afterwards, he told us that he felt something different this time. He wasn't quite sure what it was. But it felt like when he takes the sacrament. I brought up baptism again and he was willing to consider it as an option. He committed to go home and pray again about getting baptized in this church. We thought that all was well. But then when we met with him again on Sunday, everything had changed. He had an entirely different thought on the whole matter. And no longer was he willing to put baptism on the table as an option. It was a really disappointing lesson. We may have to drop him this week because he more or less told us that he doesn't have an open mind to accept the story of Joseph Smith. It's really sad, but hopefully he'll figure it out someday.

I think the best part of the week was on Sunday when Ramon Luna passed the sacrament. He's the young man in the less active family we've been working with. He just received the Aaronic Priesthood last week and it was so cool to see him passing the sacrament. The Luna family has really come a long way since I first met them.

Life is going well out here. The work is slow, but it's starting to progress. This Tuesday is the start of a new transfer. We're only losing one of our two sisters here. We will miss her, but it will be fun to have somebody new in the area. Aside from that, we're all staying the same. I'm excited for another transfer with Elder Rodgers. He is great, I couldn't ask for a better companion.

Here's to another transfer of good times!

Elder Erickson