After four and a half months with Elder Rodgers, I finally have a new companion. His name is Elder Spencer. He's a way cool guy from Arizona. He's been out for almost five months, I'm his second companion in the mission field. He's been way out on the tip of Long Island for his mission, so he knows what it's like to have slow days and not much success. Which is good because that's the norm here in Brooklyn. Though we get the lovely addition of crazy people and subway performers. Those are the best.
Let it be known that last Tuesday we set a record for the area of Midwood Spanish. We had 15 people at English class, shattering any and all previous records of missionaries in this area. So we are definitely moving up in the world. We just need to start teaching people from it. If this keeps up, we will have no problems finding people in the future. My fingers are still crossed.
We got to meet with a less active family last week that haven't been to church in a long while. The wife was very excited to tell us that she had recently changed her work schedule so that she would be able to come to church now. We were pumped about it. We even told them we were going to come by Sunday morning so we could walk with them. So we show up on Sunday morning and nobody was home. We gave them a call and their phone is disconnected. So that's always good. Just another day in Brooklyn. Hopefully we can find them again.
We did, however, get to do some solid teaching with a member named Miguel. He is 25 years old, a return missionary from El Salvador. We help him learn English and he helps us learn Spanish. He doesn't do too much during the evenings, so we call him up if we ever need somebody to come teaching with us. It's great. He is the coolest guy ever. He helped us teach a few lessons and we invited him to come play soccer with us while we tried to do some sports finding. I'm not a big fan of sports finding, but my companion loves to play. So I figure it's worth a shot one more time. We met some cool people and got some decent exposure, but nothing too exciting.
There's still not a whole lot going on yet, but things are on the up, so I'm happy about it. The ward council met yesterday and things are finally starting to happen with them. So with just some more time and patience, we'll be flying in no time. And especially with this new companion. I'm so excited to work with Elder Spencer, he is great. I could not ask for a better companion.
Let it be known that last Tuesday we set a record for the area of Midwood Spanish. We had 15 people at English class, shattering any and all previous records of missionaries in this area. So we are definitely moving up in the world. We just need to start teaching people from it. If this keeps up, we will have no problems finding people in the future. My fingers are still crossed.
We got to meet with a less active family last week that haven't been to church in a long while. The wife was very excited to tell us that she had recently changed her work schedule so that she would be able to come to church now. We were pumped about it. We even told them we were going to come by Sunday morning so we could walk with them. So we show up on Sunday morning and nobody was home. We gave them a call and their phone is disconnected. So that's always good. Just another day in Brooklyn. Hopefully we can find them again.
We did, however, get to do some solid teaching with a member named Miguel. He is 25 years old, a return missionary from El Salvador. We help him learn English and he helps us learn Spanish. He doesn't do too much during the evenings, so we call him up if we ever need somebody to come teaching with us. It's great. He is the coolest guy ever. He helped us teach a few lessons and we invited him to come play soccer with us while we tried to do some sports finding. I'm not a big fan of sports finding, but my companion loves to play. So I figure it's worth a shot one more time. We met some cool people and got some decent exposure, but nothing too exciting.
There's still not a whole lot going on yet, but things are on the up, so I'm happy about it. The ward council met yesterday and things are finally starting to happen with them. So with just some more time and patience, we'll be flying in no time. And especially with this new companion. I'm so excited to work with Elder Spencer, he is great. I could not ask for a better companion.
Cool story for the week. Last week I was on an exchange with Elder Adams. He was thirsty at one point, so we went to Walgreens to get a drink. And these two people stopped us in the store, a boy and a girl. They looked to be 18 or 19 years old. And they asked us a lot of questions about Mormon beliefs. It was weird because they asked all of the Mormon bashing questions, but then they would never follow up after our answers. Normally people like to ask the question, then when we give an answer, they will try to tell us what we believe. It's great. But these people would just say oh I didn't know that. It was weird. But we talked for some twenty minutes and then they ran out of questions, so they said goodbye and left. We invited them to church, but they didn't seem too keen on coming. A week later, I was walking down the street with Elder Spencer and the same girl from before chased us down to talk with us. She had some girl with her, who looked about the same age, maybe a little older. The girl from before told us that her friend had some questions about Mormons. So I talked with her a bit and explained our beliefs. Then offered if she would be interested in sitting down with missionaries and she said that she would love to. So I gave her the phone number for the English sisters and she gave me her number to have them call her. It was just cool that a random encounter that I had a week before would end up with somebody meeting with missionaries. And that's the cool story for the week.
Hope you're all doing well and best of luck out there!
Love, Elder Erickson
Hope you're all doing well and best of luck out there!
Love, Elder Erickson
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