I have received great letters this past week and emails, so
I will try to catch you up on the life of Elder Eric. Here are a couple of stories in his words:
Things have been getting pretty interesting with the whole
election thing and we are always asked what we think about it. One night we
just left an appointment and we were walking down the street and this guy
jumped out of his car and ran up to us.
He asked us if we were missionaries, I looked at my tag and said “duh”! JK
I said “yeah”. He then asked me if I was
going to vote for Romney? After he said
that I knew that this was going to get interesting. Especially when I noticed that his
breath stunk of alcohol. I told him that as missionaries we have no political opinion
and that we do not share what we think. He then said I didn’t ask you that,…
who are you voting for? I repeated my first response. He then got so upset at
me because I would not giving him the answer that he was looking for. He then went on to talk and preach to us about
everything under the sun, that we live under a rock and that we need to be us and
that we are floating through space, literally everything under the sun. During
this time I just thought “oh my this is not going to end”. He preached to us for 45 minutes on the side
of the road! We told him that we needed to go and he still would not leave. I
happened to glace down and I saw that he had a camera and he was recording the
whole time! I asked him what the camera was for and he got really awkward and
finally left. THANK YOU!! So if you see
me on YouTube you now know why. haha
This week in the mission was a little slow, but I did have
one cool experience that was a bit different.
We went to go teach a family that is less active with hopes to get them
back to the church. We got to the house
and knocked and all of the lights were off, which meant that they of course
ditch on the appointment. We knocked
once again and this old Lao guy opened the door that happened to be blind,
which explains all of the lights being off. We started to talk to him and he invited us to
come in and talk more with him. The
lights remained off for the whole time that we were teaching him. It was
definitely a different experience, but hey we got a return appointment
with him I guess it doesn't matter whether or not the light are on because the
light of Christ will always shine on :) it was so cool because as he was
talking with me, he asked me if I was Lao. I told him “no I am white” and he
was surprised! He thought I was Lao!!! How sweet is that!! He said that I sounded Lao! haha I think that he is just being nice but
still it made me feel good.
Another cool thing is that I got my adult Lao name which is “Sombat” which means everything good of treasure of great worth, gees these Lao people just know me so well! haha :)
We heard the very sad news about the Blodgett’s little angel who was called home. My heart truly broke for them. I did tell Eric about their story and he said that he thinks of Steven all the time and feels for their heartache at this time. Please keep them in your prayers at this time of grief and Steven; I still believe that your family is pretty darn lucky to still have you here! You are a winner and we have felt honored to have known you! Keep up being such a great example to everyone around you! And as Sonja says, “Please hold your loved ones a little tighter tonight”
Another cool thing is that I got my adult Lao name which is “Sombat” which means everything good of treasure of great worth, gees these Lao people just know me so well! haha :)
We heard the very sad news about the Blodgett’s little angel who was called home. My heart truly broke for them. I did tell Eric about their story and he said that he thinks of Steven all the time and feels for their heartache at this time. Please keep them in your prayers at this time of grief and Steven; I still believe that your family is pretty darn lucky to still have you here! You are a winner and we have felt honored to have known you! Keep up being such a great example to everyone around you! And as Sonja says, “Please hold your loved ones a little tighter tonight”
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