FW: Halloween, etc,
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Loren J Erickson
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Hey Elder,Before I write you again Halloween will have come and gone. Hope is super excited but she's still trying to make up her mind about what she's going to be. Only Hope and Parker are still young enough to go trick-or-treating, if you can believe that. Zach is headed to some friend's party dressed as an English gentleman, complete with top hat, sash, cane and monocle. I have to say he certainly looks the part. Ethan is also headed to a friend's party but I have no idea if he is dressing up or not. The kids are getting old, that's for sure. We're carving pumpkins for FHE tomorrow.
Heard about your little "run for your life" episode last week. I hope that ended well. I know what it's like to have an over-zealous member (or non-member) take too close an interest in the missionaries. In one area I was at there was this older lady who kept calling the missionaries (us) early in the morning, like 3am. Not fun when you have to get up at 6am. We finally had to get the local branch leadership involved. Anyway, I hope you don't have a stalker problem. Be careful, and understand that not everyone has your best interest at heart. "Be wise. What can I say more?" Now who was it that always used to use that scripture in FHE? Oh, yeah. :)I installed a new light switch in my office. Not one from my company. It's from a company called Belkin and the product family is called WeMo. Not sure what that stands for, but it's pretty cool. I can control the light switch from anywhere in the world with my phone. I can also set schedules for when it turns on and off, including what it does when we're away. It's supposed to support motion detection too I think, but that function is not available in the mobile app, so maybe that's something else.
I think my company may be in a little bit of trouble because it's kind of ignoring the home automation mass-market, which is growing like crazy right now. I think if they don't do anything, they could find themselves in a position where they have a very limited potential market. That's what they call being a niche player, and that's not a good thing. Anyway, it's good to keep up with what's going on in this space. I also applied at a company called Vivint, which is a competitor to Control4, and had a screening interview over the phone that I thought went very well, but I haven't heard anything in over a week, so who knows.Bishop Gooch asked about you today. I told him you were working hard and doing well, but that there was a little friction between you and your current companion. I hope that's getting better. Maybe that has changed, or is in the process of changing. How are your suitcases holding up? They were recommended by missionary moms, so I hope they are serving you well. What do you want for Christmas? Any other durable goods that you need? Stuff you can't find over there? Gotta get that box off soon.
Send pictures when you can. One thing to consider about emailing pictures to yourself is that your hotmail account (if that's the one you're using) has a limited storage capacity, and you don't want to lose any pictures because you overflow that. If you are using that account and the password is still the same (the one about the car?) then would you mind if I logged in and put some of those pictures in a safe place? It's completely up to you and I won't do it if you don't want me to.Not much else has happened since I last wrote. I'm going to have to take the van in for service, because the transmission is shifting really hard. That sounds expensive. I hope it doesn't turn out to be a lemon. :[Take good care of yourself physically. Be mindful of who you come into contact with. Watch your personal hygiene. Be obedient to the mission rules and listen closely to what your mission president counsels you to do. You are on the Lord's errand and He will protected you if you give him your whole heart, might, mind and soul. I love you deeply, and am proud of the example you are setting to your siblings and others.Love,
Dad
Things are going well here in Uganda, the work is going well, we have 4 investigators that are progressing and we also have a mission tour coming up soon with one of the 70 so that will also be fun. we also had transfer news and me and my companion will be staying, but there is a elder in the district that is driving me insane i have just resulted to ignoring him and pretending he is not even there anymore. besides that not much has happend.
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Sounds like you have a lot going on haha. everything is going well here we had transfer news and my companion and i will be staying together and there is also another elder staying that is driving me insane, i guess we will have to come up with some way of solving this haha. umm so we are also having a 70 come to uganda to talk with us and take us on a tour. that will be fun! besides that we have 4 progressings and so that will be nice! but thats about all. not much has really happend
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Traci Erickson <tracirerickson@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hey Elder E,
What's up? Have you see anymore of your stalker? Hope she doesn't get to creepy.So, I was just thinking that I should be getting a Christmas box put together for you. Do you need anything special? I know you want food-but what else? I can't believe that is already so close to the holidays.We bought hope a princess costume for halloween and now she wants to be a builder. We'll see what she really goes trick or treating as. Parker hasn't decided yet, so he thinks we need to go shopping tomorrow.Zach was asked to Sadie's-yup, he was. It was by a girl in choir that he doesn't really know. And of course, I can't remember her name. Hopefully, Zach will email you and tell you more.Paige is keeping busy-working 5 days a week. She got a call from the school district to see if she wanted to be a teacher's aid-she did apply for a few positions months ago. But since she is liking smash burger's and only has a short time left, she isn't going to do it.Ethan tested for his orange belt on Friday. He was the only one his level testing, so he had to do it all by himself. he did a great job and remembered everything. They gave him his sparing gear in a huge bag-ya know, like you had- but fancier, since they bought everything for him. He is pretty excited about it.Fall is really here. It is getting colder and darker way to early. The sad part is, that day light savings is next week and then it will be darker even earlier.Hope that things are going well for you and that you are staying healthy and happy.Loe ya, MOM
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:37:04 +0300
Subject: Re: Another week
From: braden.erickson@myldsmail.net
To: tracirerickson@hotmail.com
Okay, thats good. So something very interesting happend yesterday! we had a crazy girl come to FHE at the church, i already know her because one of my old companions and i tought her anyway. lets say she likes mazungu (white people) and she ended up staying the hole time the scary thing is what happend after FHE, she remained behind as we talked with some of the members to see if there were any referrals. we realized that she was still there and asked her why she was still there. she said she wanted to see where we stay!!! we told she that visitors are not allowed and she asked why not after sometime of trying to help her realize that she would never know where we stay we told her to go home, wait and ate some fries that the members made for us. after eating she was still there!!! we went up to her and told her GO HOME! very boldly she just looked at us and said okay......you think she would get the point, well she didn't she was determined to find out were we stayed. it was then we realized we had to get her to talk to a member so we could leave without her knowing. as we got her to talk to a member she saw us heading out and ran to the gate and tried to meet us on the road, well i saw that and so i started to run so she would not find us. luckily she didn't find us or we would have had a long time trying to get her to leave us.So your probably wondering why i am emailing on tuesday...lets just say we got a call from the ZL saying we had to fill out a survey that we have to do and i finished and have to wait for my companion to finish as well.
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Traci Erickson <tracirerickson@hotmail.com> wrote:
Your jar of quarters are safe in their jar, up high in the kitchen cabinet.
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:52:43 +0300
Subject: Re: Another week
From: braden.erickson@myldsmail.net
To: tracirerickson@hotmail.com
So about the pictures i wont be able to send them today because i forgot my camera...next week i hope the internet will be ok because today it is really fast.So, just wondering you know the quarters that i had did you save those or did you just give them to zach or something??? I saw the pictures of the coins and it reminded me about the quarters i had haha.Sounds like your having a fun time, with everything going on. So about Ebola it has not come to Uganda yet, but we have had its twin here for a little but now that is gone as well. Mission president has had a very close eye on it, and he is handing out hand sanatizer to everone. he gave it to us first (the zone) because the the twin was in the hospital was in the area. by the way the twin is MALBERG or something like that if you wanted to know it has the same simtrums as Ebola but just kills you slower. but like i said its not here anymore.My companion and I have been doing better we have been working hard and i think that helps a little.
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Traci Erickson <tracirerickson@hotmail.com> wrote:
Braden, Sorry that you are having so many problems with slow computers. Hope that they are working better today. How are you doing? Have you heard of anything about the ebola virus lately? So some guy that was infected by it in Africa, got on a plane and went to Texas…he died and now so has a nurse. Scary times in Texas.
On a brighter note, we went to the R's to start our yearly family service project for Christmas. We are making hats out of yarn. Dad even figured it out. So, hopefully, we will have lots made for Christmas.I subbed in primary for the chorister. It was fun doing my old calling again. Hope decided that she had to stay with me both hours. Dad had a rough night and didn't make it to church. Oh ya, Ian Miller had his farewell today. He gave a good talk. He joked about if he stutter a lot, it was because his dad has horrible handwriting. Pretty funny. He is going to the Philippines, he leave this week. I don't know which MTC he is going to. Guess I'll have to ask. They'll have two missionaries out for a while.Grandma E. had a hip replacement this week. She is home now walking with a walker and in lots of pain. But hopefully when she heals she will be out of pain.We had fall break and the kids don't go back to school until Tuesday. It has been nice to have a few days off-even for me.Hope you are doing well and teaching lots. Send pictures when you can.ove ya lots, Mom
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:47:09 +0300
Subject: Re: Another week
From: braden.erickson@myldsmail.net
To: tracirerickson@hotmail.com
So we will get to see general conference on the 25 and 26 of this month they have to send the dvd's to us because of time difference its hard. the baptism was push back to next week though. umm me and my companion get into a little fight but now it is all settled down and we are working hard. besides that not much happend
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