Hey family!! I love you!!
How are you all doing?
I'm so happy that today is pday! I have missed you guys so much and I am so
thankful for email communication so that I can talk with you guys! This has
been a crazy week. I don't even know where to begin. Last Sunday was a really
cool experience being in the MTC. Bonnie L. Oscarson the General YW President
came and spoke to us and it was great! It was basically about how when the Lord
asks or calls us to do something, he ALWAYS provides a way for us to accomplish
it through the enabling power of the atonement. 2 people can accomplish anything
as long as 1 of them is the Lord. That was a perfectly timed message
considering I left the next morning to go out in the field. We woke up at 2 on
Monday morning getting ready to head out. We took the front runner at 3:30 so
we were all really tired:) It made for a long day of flying but It was so great
to talk with you guys on the phone! It was hard im not going to lie but it was
so great to hear your voices and encouragement!! I really appreciate all of
your support to me!
MOM! get on facebook and
become friends with Zoe Anne Weston!! She is the mission Pres wife and she
posts pictures of us on there for our family!
When we arrived in Omaha
there was a crazy storm welcoming us in:) I have never seem so much thunder and
lightning and rain in my life in one setting! Its crazy! There are literally
rivers running down the street and the sky was purple with all of the
lightning.. I am definitely not looking forward to the winters here.. haha but
all is well:)
So I am serving in west
Omaha in an area called Lake View. It is really pretty and the people here are
very wealthy. There are a lot of trees in Omaha which I didn't expect! Its
really green and pretty:) So I live in a members home and it is
really nice. My trainer is Sister Frisina from Arizona.
We were able to go to the
Trail Center on Tuesday and go on a tour. It is by the temple grounds and it is
so pretty! On the temple grounds there is the cemetery with a lot of the
pioneers buried that died there. There is such a special spirit on the temple
grounds there because of that that you don't find anywhere else. After all of
that we teamed up with another missionary and went on splits. My first tracting
experience was getting a knife pulled on me.. That was welcoming..:) haha the
guy was a little crazy and he hasn't had a good experience with Christians in
the past. So He said, "I've got my eyes on you and my hand on this.."
as he pulls out a knife. So we ended the conversation and quickly went off:)
haha but don't worry I'm safe:) That night we had dinner at the Mission Pres
home and had a testimony mtg before we got our calls where we were headed.. :)
It was a very spiritual experience. It is always amazing being surrounded by so
many missionaries.
Thank you for the emails!
im going to read them later so it doesn't take up my email time and I'll reply
later! Thank you though!! I really appreciate it!
The address of the home I
am living in is:
16611 L Street
Omaha, NE 68135
I think I'm sending
home pictures today through mail.. so hopefully that gets to you soon:)
LOVE YOU!!!
Sister Erica Lynn
Christensen
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