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 January Transfers! Kallie stayed in Fontana, but is a follow up trainer to a Hermana Kennard who is waiting on her visa to Peru!

Tengo Gripe (Week 68)

 Hello all! Good morning! Welcome back to my (almost) weekly updates  I hope you all are doing well and enjoying this winter season  It still kind of feels like spring/summer here, so I'm loving it! 

Okay, so a couple of really cool things have happened these past two weeks! 

1) A couple of Mondays ago (the 12th) We had a family home evening activity at the church and our best friend Ramiro came!! He absolutely LOVED it and got to talk to a lot of the ward members  But the coolest thing that happened it we invited him to make a covenant with God on Sunday and be baptized! He was so happy that we couldn't stop smiling all night and he told everyone about his baptism 

He's so excited to go to the temple on February 5th!! He is just so cool and he has such a strong testimony of Jesus Christ. He asked us yesterday if we'd been able to see an difference in him since his baptism, and we have. It's been incredible to see how the gospel has blessed his life!

2) You might notice in the photo above, that my companion is different. The other big thing that happened was transfers! I said goodbye to hna. Núñez  But she's now serving in San Jacinto (which is one of my favorite braches ever!) 

I'm now following up training hna. Kennard from Germany! She's actually American, but she's lived in Germany for the last 4 years  She's really cool and we get along really well! She's actually waiting for her visa to go to Peru, so she'll probably be leaving at the end of February 

3) The third big thing that happened is we got to go to the temple with Cesar! It was his first time going through the temple and he absolutely love it. A lot of the ward, and even sime past missionaries, came to support him which was awesome! Then, on Sunday, he baptized Ramiro! Overall, a pretty big week for him 

I think the covers all the big events. Other than that, we found some pretty cool people tracting , I've been helping hna. Kennard learn Spanish (she was trained in an English area ), and we both got sick 

(Us last night because we weren't able to go out) 

And now, onto my spiritual thought 

This week, I've been studying the Atonement of Jesus Christ. And I have learned so much. Honestly I'm not sure exactly what I want to share here, but I do want to testify. I know that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. I know that it is because of Him that we have joy, that we have peace, that we can be with our families forever. He is the light of the world, the prince of peace, and my older brother. There is nothing in this world that can separate you, or me, or anyone from His love. I encourage each of you to seek for that peace in your life. If you don't have it right now, you can have it. If it's something that's already a part of your daily life, share it with others. 

I love you guys! Have a great week 

 Hna. Erickson

No Letter, Mom Note (Week 67)

 

Potential Stalker?!? (Week 66)

 

Kallie Erickson	Mon, Jan 12, 11:01 AM (3 days ago)
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Hello again! Another week flew by. And what an eventful week it was! The main event being  We moved!! We are finally bed bug free! 

This week we also had another lesson with Lourdes and her family (where we met even MORE of her family members). They are the sweetest and they have such a strong desire to learn more. We taught them about prophets and they we're so interested! 

He had a lesson with our bestie Ramiro who is sooo cool. He has so much faith and he has grown so much. When we met him he didn't know how to pray or anything. But his testimony is so strong now! 

We spent most of Wednesday helping someone named Nancy move. It was fun! A little weird. We got to the house and no one was there, so we called her and she told us just to go in and start moving stuff out... so we did that for like 2 hours. And then the people that were moving finally arrived  It was a little weird to say the least. 

And now, for a fun story...

The day after we moved in, our roommates called us while we were driving home and they were freaked out. Apparently we left our back door unlocked (oops...) and someone went through the trouble of leaving two half eaten boxed of pizza on our patio, which is not very accessible from the path. So it was just weird that they went through all that trouble when there's a dumpster nearby. And it was kinda scary that they could've just walked right into our apartment. But not a big deal right? Well, Saturday night we get home and there's another pizza box. But this time outside our front door. Half eaten, from the same place, everything. And then we got a little scared. Who the heck is leaving half eaten pizzas outside our apartment? Do we have a stalker? What do we do? So we called the ZLs and have them come over and they're lowkey a little freaked out too. They start inspecting the pizza box and they find a sticker that we didn't see. With the name of one of our members on it. And it just so happens that this member bought the elders pizza earlier that day. So, needless to say, they got us pretty good with that one. We were a little bit terrified. And when they found that out they felt soo bad, they even wrote an apology letter. 

Anyways, that is my week in a nutshell! Love you all 

- hna. Erickson 

The repentant elders

District breakfast

Hna. Verdugo

Tracting

Moving day!

Us after filming an ad for the church (we're gonna be famous )

Our seran wrapped car (#PrankWar) (President got a phone call from our apartment complex about this too!)

Happy New Years! (Week 65)

 Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a very merry Christmas and that your new year has been FANTASTIC! To those of you who were awaiting my email with bated breath last week (aka my mom), I'm truly sorry to disappoint. Our apartment has been having a not-so-little problem with bed bugs recently and so we spent last Monday prepring to move! Despite all that preparation, we did not end up moving last week and we're moving tomorrow instead. And, after we move, I'll be a bike missionary again!! But in the last two week, quite a few miracles happened, so lets get into it!

Ramiro:

We decided to send out a text to all the people that have been taught in the past and invite them to our Christmas church service and Ramiro responded! He wasn't able to come to church that Sunday, but he came to a movie night our ward had and we've been teaching him since then! He has such a strong desire to follow Jesus Christ and to change his life and it's incredible to see. He's already come to church twice and he's preparing to be baptized this Sunday! He even came to one of the english baptisms and we translated the whole thing for him. It was a little different than what he was used to, but he loved it!

Hermana Paz:

We spent Christmas Eve delivering cookies to some members and friends! The last member we visited was hermana Paz. She lit up and soon as she saw us and immediately invited us inside and offered to feed us dinner. We said we couldn't stay for dinner since we already had something else set up, but that we could stay for a little bit a talk with her. We start talking and find out that she was going to spend her Christmas eve alone, despite having family nearby. While we're talking we get a text that something came up with that family that was going to feed us dinner and they can't anymore, so we told hermana Paz that we would love to try the chicken she made. And she got so happy. The whole time we were with her, she just kept saying how happy she was. It was probably the best Christmas eve I could've asked for. 

Christmas:

We had a zone activity! We ate pancakes and I watched my first movie in over a year  (it was Klaus and it was really good) and then we spent the rest of the day with members that had invited us over and talking to our families

Last Sunday we had some people who came to church for the first time! It was so good and it made me so happy! They all liked it and some of them even came to a baptism the spanish elders had later that day! We also spent basically all Sunday at the church which was crazy. After our service, we had a meeting to plan the missionary activities for the year, then the bike elders dropped off our bikes at the church, then we stayed and I played the piano for a baptism the english sisters had, then we went to dinner, then we went back to the church for the elders baptism and ended our night there. It was a crazy day, but so good!

Lourdes and her family:

For whatever reason, we've been getting a TON  of online requests for our english class (I think we got like 15) and so we spent most of last Monday visiting the people who hadn't responded to our texts. The last visit of the night, we met Lourdes. She immediatly invited us inside (before we could even introduce ourselves ) and we got to know her. As it turns out, her whole family was being taught by the missionaries before COVID, but then she got cancer and they stopped coming to church and responding to messages. But they still had interest. So she saw the ad for english class and reached out to us! They all have such a strong desire to learn and I love teaching them! Now Lourdes, her mom, one of her daughters, and several of her grandchildren have Books of Mormon and they're planning to come to church next Sunday!

Sulma:

Sulma is an inactive member that we ran into when we were knocking doors! She is super sweet and a little bit lonely. It was just a miracle that we met her and we're planning on going back this week to get to know her better!

New Years Eve:

Happy 2026 everyone! We got permission to go to a part of the new years party our ward was having, and it was a lot of fun! Some inactive members came so we got to get to know them!

Noe:

Noe is someone that we've been teaching for a while. He's been going through a hard time recently, so we haven't been able to get in contact with him as much. But this week he texted us and asked if he could get baptized this Sunday! He still has a couple more things to learn, but he definitly had a breakthrough! 

Okay, you'd think after such a long email I'd have nothing left to say! But as I was writing this, I realized something really really cool. Almost all of these miracles didn't happen right away. When we met Lourdes, I was honestly discouraged. We spent 3 hours visiting and trying to find people who 1) weren't interested or 2) were unfindable (we couldn't find their house). And so, when we knocked on Lourdes door, I thought it would be more of the same. But it wasn't!! When we were delivering cookies to members a lot of them weren't there, so we ended up leaving the cookies outside their house and I thought the same thing would happen with Hermana Paz. But it didn't. So what I've learned in these past two weeks is that we should never give up. Never suppress a thought that inspires you to do something good, even if you think nothing will come from it. I know that those thoughts are from God. That He is guiding us through this life, even though we have to face challenges and disappointments. There are miracles awaiting every one of you!

Love you all

 Hermana Erickson