Hi Mom!
We´re teaching a girl who lived in the US for like 5 years when she was little, and her dream is to visit Portland! And she speaks English fluently, without an accent at all; it´s nuts. The first time I saw her she said, "You can talk to me in English if you want, I can understand." All in English and it totally freaked me out. We ran into another woman the other day who´s an Evangelical sister (she dresses like a nun) and she started talking to me in English, too. WEIRD. But it´s interesting, and there´s really never a dull moment here.
I was thinking about you guys coming to get me, and I realized that, if we wait a little bit, we could all come to the sealing of some investigators we´re going to baptize next week! They´re really great, and they´re going to get married at the chapel the same day as their baptism! It´s been awesome to see how they´ve grown; the wife quit smoking, and the husband was there for all 5 sessions of conference! Even the Priesthood session, which was from 9pm to 11pm! It´s so awesome to see people really accept the Gospel, and I think it would be really great if we could all go through the temple together. What do you think?
I´m really loving being here, and each day brings a new learning experience. We did a division with the Assistants to the President yesterday, and we taught a deaf man with an interpreter. It was so cool, because even though we couldn´t exactly understand everything that was going on, we could feel the Spirit testify of everything that we discussed. He was interviewed, and is going to be baptized tomorrow night! It was incredible.
Every day I´m getting better, and I know that the Lord is blessing each one of us. He told us He´s a God of miracles, and the only thing we have to do is believe, and do what He tells us, and we have the right to ask for anything good we want! Just like the 70 that asked for a quarter on the ground to get some chicken. I loved that story! Everything´s great here, and Elder de Jesus got your package, so we´re all great. Love you Mom!
Love you!!!!!!!!
Love, Eric
Hey Dad!
Our investigators are doing really well; we´ve got a wedding and a baptism set for next week, and it´s going to be awesome! They´re so excited, and we´re going to get everyone in the ward to come and watch! The bishop said that this is the first time in 10 years they´ve had something like this in the ward, so we´re really trying to make it great. We´ve also got some other people who are progressing really well.
We´re always trying to find new people to teach, too, and we´re going to start trying some new techniques to make it easier. We can´t just go into an apartment and knock doors here, unfortunately, so we´ll have to be creative. It´s going to be great, I know it.
There are doormen that have to open the door for you from the inside, and here you don´t ever knock on the door; even if you´re at a normal house, you clap. So you have to know someone that lives in the apartment complex or get permission to go in, and because there are so many thefts and break ins and stuff, if you don´t have a really good reason, they don´t let you in. And apparently the Gospel´s not a good enough reason. But we make it work, so no worries. Things will all work themselves out; Monday I got stopped in the street by two girls I´d talked to in my last area, who both moved into the area I´m serving in now! Crazy huh? We´ll definitely be headed over there.
This is the last P-day of the transfer, so the Zone´s probably going to be a whole lot different the next time I write you, but there´s pretty much no way that I´m leaving or my companion, so no worries about that. Don´t work yourself too hard, and keep me posted on how everything´s going. And if Aaron won his game! Love you dad!
Love you!!!!!!!!
Love, Eric
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