Busy week

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Dear Braden,

How are thing going? Did you have water this week? I hope so. If not, go buy some to drink! You don't want to get sick from germ water.

So the other email I sent you is your pin number....the numbers are in order.  And that reminds me, you bought shirts for everyone when you got out, You need to buy new ones before you come home because everyone has grown.  Ethan and Parker now wear children's large or size 12-14, Hope wears a child's 10 or medium. Yes, she is big for her age.

This week was pretty exciting-or at least the weekend was.  Dad and I made a fast trip to BYUi to listen to Paige sing.  Knowing her, she told you all about it already. She and Zach had a conspiracy going, to make sure that we came to hear her sing and to make dad cry...  So, she sang a song called "I know, because my father knew" it was a beautiful piece, and yes, dad cried! Okay, I did a little.

Zach stayed home and got Parker off to scout camp and Ethan to his karate test on Friday.  And then he took Ethan to a card tournament on Saturday. He has really gotten into MAGIC the card game.  It is kinda funny, he and a few of his friends love it and go to games on Friday nights when they can.  They are the youngest ones there and don't win much. But they like it anyways.  Ethan has even started staying after school to play it with other kids.

Tina volunteered to have Hope sleep over and stay at her house, so Dad and I could go alone. It was the quietest drive ever.  It was nice not to have to listen to a movie and hear kids complain the whole way.

Paige introduced us to another friend she has made. Apparently he has cancer and is on med's for it. I would never have guessed. He is a pretty up beat guy and happy. It's great to know that Paige has made some great friends that will keep her on the straight and narrow and look out for her.

Today was another ward conference and I guess that the topic will be the same for every ward again this year.  However, the Stake Pres. has an open discussion and asked questions during the combined meeting and it is interesting how different they go. 

"By the ordinance [of baptism], we become part of the covenant people of the lord and heirs of the Celestial kingdom of God".-D. Todd Christofferson

Love ya, Mom

Things are going well here, we have water and we will never run out of water again because they installed a extra pump in our compound so the water will always have enough pressure to go to the tank. Sounds like you have had a lot of stuff going on. Im sure paige did a good job with the song. Not much has really happend we did get a few invesitgators again in our teaching pool but still have a lot of work to do. We also have interviews with pres. again on wednesday

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 Dear Braden,
How are you doing?_______________________ Who is your new
 companion?______________________Where is he from?_____________________
What is something different you ate this week?____________________________
 The number of investigators you are teaching___________________.

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 I visited another wards Relief Society today and the Sister missionaries
 were there. I was going to ask them if they had some where to eat dinner
 tonight or tomorrow but they left 10 minutes early so I didn't get the
 chance. We have had Sister missionaries in our area for over 1 year now.
 They do a tour through the Stake Center every Tuesday evening for anyone
 that is interested. They love it when members show up to help out. This
 means that we have to clean the building every Monday. Okay, not just our
 ward but 2 others. We take turns. This month is us, so I will be taking kids
 with me tomorrow to help out. They have the day off of school.
 Zach was asked to give a talk today on D&C 8, however he got ill Saturday
 and was still running a fever this morning with a sore throat. So he stayed
 home. I forgot all about it until the Bishop mouthed to me from the
 stand,"is Zach here"? me"No, he is home sick". Then it hit me that he was
 supposed to speak. So, I pointed to myself and then to the stand to let him
 know that I would do it if needed. The Bishop just smiled. Thankfully, they
 had scheduled 3 youth speakers and 2 adult speakers and I didn't have to get
 up and speak.
 Talking about speaking in church...I finally got a copy of the schedule for
 the Stake and when and where everyone talks for the year. Guess what, I'm
not on it, yet. But you are on there for June and July. The haven't filled
 in the last 3 months yet-so I may end up talking but it won't be 2 or 3
 times like usual.
 President Spencer wants all of our talks and activities to be on the basics
 and doctrine of the church. He says to many people are afraid to teach the
 doctrine because they don't know it. Also, that we need to have more then
 just a testimony---we need to be converted. The world is getting harder on
 religion and we will have to stick up for it and our believes.
 General Womens Conference is coming up at the end of the month again. I'm
 excited to see what all of the messages will be on and who will speak. The
 Stake RS presidency was in charge of advertising this time---so less stress
 for me. I made poster and hung them in every building and then made
 handouts for the RS president to handout at church. I'm sure we will still
 be there to help set up and then stay and help clean up-just comes with the
 calling.

 I hope that you are doing well and sharing your love of the gospel. 

Love ya lots, Mom

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Things are going well here, not much has happend we have been tracting
a lot to increase our teaching pool. we only have about 4
investigators at the moment. My new companion is Elder Hardman and he
is from UT. Something i ate that is new is Nutella SHH dont tell zach
or paige...haha they tried to get me to eat it befor i left on mission
and they failed.

So the only Not exciting thing that happend this week was we didnt
have water for 6 days we were using a big tank that fills with water
from the rain so we had to boil water all the time. it was not any fun
we also had to take splash baths. Turns out one of the elders was
playing with the water nobs and turned the water off to the house we
finally figured it all out when it was sunday evening i decided to
look at the nobs out side and i found the problem. but thats about it
for the week.

I knew i would be on that list in june....its a missionary thing you
know how it goes.

New companion

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Traci Erickson Dear Elder Erickson, How is mission life treating you lately? Any new, exciting stories to tell us? Aunt Tasha's daughter Elizabetha was baptized on Saturday. Grandpa Rindlisbacher did the ordinances. Hope and I were the only ones from our family that attended (The boys and Dad were at Pow wow at BYU). Of course Hope had all kinds of questions and now want to be baptized NOW-not when she is 8. It was fun getting together afterwards at Mike and Tasha's house for lunch and being able to visit with everyone. It seems that even though we all live with in a few hours of each other that we don't see each other very often. Paige's room mate pulled a prank on a friend Matt & Paige. Matt left his phone at their apartment and the room mate posted on Face Book that Matt and Paige were engaged and tagged Paige in it so it showed up on her face book Page. She called us to make sure we knew it wasn't true. But we had a lot of people at church today congratulating us on our exciting news. We then had to tell them it wasn't true. If only her roommate knew all of the excitement she caused. Oh well, life is fun. We had a pretty normal week this week without a lot of excitement. It has decided to be winter again after a long teasing taste of spring. We need the snow though, so we have enough water for the summer and to grow a garden. Hope everything is well with you. Love ya lots---hugs,Mom Re: It's March Braden Erickson 3/02/15 Keep this message at the top of your inbox To: Traci Erickson So not much has really happend mission life is treating me alright the only fun that has happend was transfer news thats it i am now going to be companioins with elder hardman hes a funny guy. so it should be interesting haha Sounds like the family is having fun though thats good. Never be ♯ Never be ♭ Always be ♮