Erekson, Emma

Hi yall!!  This week has been so fun! Lots of Halloween activities. I love it.  We had a Halloween activity with the YSA and then the ward fall festival! We carved pumpkins with the YSA. I did the Salt Lake temple, well I attempted to carve the temple, and I found out that no one out here knows what the Salt Lake temple looks like lol. Or maybe I'm just bad at pumpkin carving. Probably that. The ward fall festival was awesome! We got to try bear chili. Bear is not too bad. There were lots of cute costumes and it was seriously the highlight of the week to hand out candy to all the kids!  We also had interviews with President Graham this week! He is so in tune with the spirit, he said everything that I needed to hear. Funny story, we talked about our friend Tosha and how she has a rough past. President Graham says he wants to meet with her next week to see if she can get baptized! When we told Tosha this, she said "I can't wait to meet your prophet!!" Sooooo yeah. Lots ...

Hi yall!!!  This week was the longest fastest week ever. Time is so weird haha This week was full of cancellations, replanning,  and feeling the spirit!! My absolute favorite moment of the week was with our blind friends Betty and EJ!!! We were talking with the senior couple about them and turns out, Betty and EJ were about to be put on the do not contact list before we met them. They were just not wanting to be talked to at all. Fast forward to now, we go over two or three times a week! How awesome is that? Betty was very pushed into baptism and doesn't really know anything about the church so we've been able to go through the lessons with her and answer all the questions she has! This week we went through the plan of salvation and HOLY COW it was so good. When we got to resurrection and how our bodies will be perfect, Betty realized that one day she will be able to see her daughter's face. LITERAL TEARS WHAT. I was just in awe of what I get to do as a missionary. I got to...

Hi yall!!! Tennessee beat Alabama this week !! How awesome is that? First time in like 15 years. I heard they crowd surfed the goal posts out of the stadium and into the river haha. Knoxville is crazy.  Anyways, the ward was the happiest I've ever seen them at church. Everyone ditched suits and ties and were flat out wearing tennessee orange HAHA. The talks that were given were insane. One guy related how he gave cpr to his sheep to the Atonement of Jesus Christ. And the other guy related trials of faith to a play by play of the tennessee-bama game. I love it here.  On a sad note, I lost my favorite ring this week HAHA rip. I've had that ring since a young women's activity when I was like 12. It had a good life. I've noticed that when we read the scriptures with people down here, they add yall to the verse. Like for example, 2 Nephi 31:20 "20 Wherefore, YALL must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God an...

Hi yall It's cooling down here in the south and it's so pretty. The leaves are changing colors and everything is so pretty. All I do is take pictures of the trees haha.  We had a zone pday today and it was a blast. We just played sports and ate pizza. I loved it. My zone is so fun, I love all of them. The missionaries here are all seriously so awesome. I'm very blessed to be in this mission!  We've been teaching our friends Elena and Tosha all week and found out both can't get baptized for awhile wahoo. Also pulled a fat zero for sacrament attendance for our friends this week woot woot. We are killing it yeehaw. We are on the find grind and it's been a party. Somehow we've talked to every rude person in Tennessee this week HAHA oh well I'm so blessed to be serving in the Lakeway ward. The families are seriously so awesome and loving.  My favorite scripture I've been reading this Alma 26:27 "Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about t...

Hi yall!  Another week down here in Talbott and it turns out I get to stay for another 6 weeks YAY! Sister Merritt is staying too so we get to continue to party and bring people to christ yeehaw  General Conference was literally so good. LIKE SO GOOD!!! How cool is it that we have a living prophet on the earth today to give us direction and guidance?! I just love it. I would talk about all the stuff I liked from conference but then this email would be too long haha We watched conference with our friends Betty and EJ. Both of them are blind and they're so cool. They fed us after and made us eat with blindfolds on so we can see how they feel everyday. Haha I love them lots  It was Sister Merritt's birthday this week WAHOO. We had a blast. We lit 20 candles on a cupcake and the flame was huge. I didn't find out that we weren't allowed to light stuff on fire until after we did that and the STLs showed up at the house to give Sister Merritt a gift haha. Whoops. It was fun th...