The End of the World!!! or maybe of Brasil!!

This week has been crazy! On Thursday we had to do divisions with the sisters in a city that was about 2 hours away from ours. I went with Sister Johnson who is the other sister training leader. It was at about 9:00 at night when all of a sudden the Elders told us we had to catch a bus back to Curitiba because of a strike that is going on here where the truck drivers have stopped bringing products into Brasil because the gas prices have gone up dramatically. So literally Brasil is stopping everything. People don’t have any more gas to get around so everything is running out. This has been going on for 8 days and I hope it will stop soon. Anyways at 9:00 at night Sister Johnson and I took a bus back home to Curitiba. There was no one on the bus--only a couple scary looking people and this old lady who wanted to know what bus we were gonna take home. We ended up getting home at almost 11 pm. 

On Saturday we had the chance to see ELDER HOLLAND. He came and talked to our mission. We all got to shake his hand!! I haven’t washed my hand since..............Just kidding! It is so awesome to see an apostle in front of you!! I got to sit on the front row. We were so close we could see his spit hahha. He is such a man of power and authority. He helped us feel so loved. He motivated us to be better. He shared a poem that talked about how God always pushes us to be better and the poem goes like this:

"Come to the edge. 

No I might fall.

Come to the Edge.

 No it’s too high.

 COME TO THE EDGE.

 AND THEY CAME.

 and he pushed us.

 And we flew. "

I love this poem and it was exactly what I needed to hear. God pushes us to be better and to trust in Him even more. He will always be by our side to help us in everyway. 

We were supposed to have transfers today but because of this strike that Brasil is having we are extending the transfer one week. I think this is the start of the Second Coming (haha). This is why it is so important to always be ready. 

Sorry this is sooo long this week! I love you all! Everyone pray that we will be alive to talk to you guys next week! hah

Love,

Sister Erickson 

Early PDay

This week we had a really cool experience that happened with listening to the spirit.

Last week Sister Tuttle and I left our house early to go to work on pday. We both felt really strong to go start working earlier than normal. So we left and started walking on our way to an investigator’s house. We were talking to everyone we saw on the street. We were walking past a house when all of a sudden Sister Tuttle told me she wanted to go talk to a lady. I didn’t see this lady anywhere. Sister Tuttle walked up to a house and I followed her thinking to myself, “where is this lady? I don’t see.” So Sister Tuttle starts talking to this lady through the garage thing. The lady was in the very back cleaning. I have no idea how my companion saw her. We starting talking to her about the plan God has for us and about the Book of Mormon. She said she wanted more guidance and peace in her life. We marked a visit to go back to her house. We went back on Saturday and she was there with her husband. She told us about that day when we walked by and she said she saw Sister Tuttle and I pass by and she had a feeling that we would come back and talk to her. Sister Tuttle as well had a feeling she needed to talk to the woman. It was a cool experience that we had with the spirit that day. In the lesson when we were teaching she started crying when we talked about how she could see her mom again one day. The gospel is perfect. The Lord knows his children. We were prompted to leave our house early that pday and we found her. Always follow what the spirit tells us to do. 

Even when everything is not going the way we want them too. There are always these experiences that make us know that the Lord is in the work. I know we have to be patient with the success. I know the Lord will bless us especially if we are obedient and do exactly what he wants us to do and more.