Nos Vemos Pronto (Week 78)

 Hello Everyone! Happy Monday  I hope you all had a wonderful Easter  I hope you all had the best weekend EVER and that you got to watch general conference, and listen to the prophets voice. I had a great week, lets get into it:

 We had a lot of really good lessons this week with Fransisco (he's been taught for 10 years), Helena (she's been taught for about a week), Diego (he got baptized a couple months ago), and Javier (we just met him this week)!

 We had a blast inviting everyone to come to General Conference

 Our friend Helena gave us a lot of bracelets and rings. She LOVES giving us things  and she gets so excited when she sees us wear them

 We ended up being exactly where God needes us to be on Sunday night and we taught a lot of people about the Book of Mormon in the laundromat. It was pretty incredible to see God guiding us to where he needs us. 

 General conference!!! 2 of our recents converts came and 3 people we are teaching! One of them saw our card on her door and just showed up at the church! I have never ever had that happen before in my mission. It was such a miracle and she's going to come to our family home evening tonight!

As a lot of you know, this was my last week as a missionary  If you couldn't tell from the emojis, I have a lot of mixed emotions...

I am SO excited to go home and see you all and have free time. But at the same time, I have absolutly loved being a missionary. I have felt the spirit so strong during this time and I have grown so much. It's going to be hard to leave all of that behind. I wouldn't have traded even my hardest day as a missionary - and there's been some pretty hard days  

One thing that's come up a lot in my studies this week, is that the light always comes. Especially in my studies of the Holy Week. Good Friday was one of the darkest days in history. Even the sun refused to shine and darkness covered the earth. I can't even imagine how it would've felt to be there. But three days later, the light came back. Jesus Christ rose from the dead and fulfilled the prophecies in the scriptures. 

And that applies to our lives today. No matter how dark the night gets, the light ALWAYS comes in the morning  You just have to hold on. And that's one of the most important things that I've learned. There's been times where I've wanted to go home - but thanks to my family, good companions, and God I stayed. And because of that I've seen so many miracles and I am so grateful for all the people I've met 

I love you all 

See you soon 

 Hna. Erickson