I made It!!! (Week 7)

Mon, Nov 25, 7:28 PM (16 hours ago)

Hey everyone! 

After being on my mission for a month and a half, I finally made it to California! I left the MTC early Wednesday morning (early enough that I didn't go to sleep the night before...not my best idea). The travel day was pretty uneventful. The most exciting things that happened were they printed the wrong tags and tickets for me since there 

was another Erickson on my flight, so I was a little worried my bags would go to the wrong place, but they fixed it. And Elder Anderson managed to give away a Book of Mormon in the airport which was pretty cool!

At the airport I met my mission president and his wife and they are amazing! They're so so nice! They even let my grandma and aunt meet me at the airport, which was an awesome surprise! The rest of that day was pretty much a bunch of meetings that I did my best to stay awake for. I was mostly successful...

I got my first area and met my trainer on Thursday! For those of you who know California, my first area is Yucca Valley. It's definitely a desert but the weather is really nice here! And the members seem really nice too! We have dinner appointments pretty much every night which is amazing. They give us a ton of food though. It's actually kind of crazy how much they think we can eat...And my trainer is Sister Dean and she is so sweet! This is also her third transfer, so she just finished her training. It's all good though. The days are definitely long, and they probably will stay that way for a while. We do a lot of door knocking in my area, which is the one form of contacting I really did not want to do. But it's not as bad as I thought it would be. My Spanish is alright, I can usually follow the conversation (depending on who's talking) but I don't really say much. It's a little bit hard to practice talking since a lot of the people we meet are english speakers. But I'm happy I'm finally here! And the language will come with time!

Anyways, let me know how you guys are doing! I love hearing from you! 

Love ya! 

Hna. Erickson