Dearest Friends and Family,
I’ve pondered quite a bit about what I want to share with you when talking about my 20th birthday. And well, I have decided to just make a list of a few highlights and then after that I want to share some feelings. It’s interesting that a week has now gone by and I am sitting with the perspective of looking back on the week. I think it should help me get my point across to all of you.
Birthday highlights
- Elder Castagno: This guy is awesome seriously. When I woke up at 6:30 am like always, we got a text that he and Elder Cruz were outside. We opened the door to find them standing there with hot Almohabanas (those buttery Colombian biscuits that I love. Who knows how Elder Castagno figured out how to make them) I was happy eating well. Later we got dressed and went to work on our duties in the office. I was sitting there on the computer looking at a financial report about mission credit cards, when all of a sudden, I hear exciting chanting and laughter rolling out of the elevator as Elders Morton, Chevariaga, Cruz and Castagno come skipping and posing with cinnamon rolls. We all loved it.
- President and Hermana Murphy: The excited moment calmed dow briefly and President and Hermana Murphy arrived and brightened up the moment more.
- Saca La Resaca: Walking in they wished me a happy birthday and President announce that it’s not often that the office celebrates a birthday and that eh wanted to take us all out to lunch to a crowd favorite Saca L Resaca. It is a coastal food restaurant and the name makes a reverence to getting rid of a hangover. I am not sure what it means, but we all loved the food. I am realizing that everything I have to say is about food. I am sorry.
- Before ending my discussion of events I need to tell you about the amazing cake and song I had this year thanks to Hermana Murphy. It was very different than last year if you recall the photo of me sitting on that little bench with my set purchased cake.
Anyway, my feelings. All in all this year was much less humble/simple than years past. I really didn’t feel so out of the norm and I loved it! I was so surprised and full of joy all day long and I will certainly never forget it. All that being said, when I got home I was feeling different. I felt relieved and really loved, but in the same instance I felt like the kid who gets and A on a group project for just being part of the group even though he didn’t really do anything for it. I felt like some sort of memory wanderer. Stuck between to objectives. I felt like I don’t matter or at least I shouldn’t matter. Right now in these 2 years, I am not here for me. It is the other for right now. Another example: Technically, I supposed to be writing essays for college and that is so well off and not part of of my brain. It feels so against the grant be thinking of that far off time. At this point I would rather just going on living day by day here in Ecuador. But life goes on. I love guys. This weeks let’s get everything done that we to, but also really focus on what is important. Talk soon
Elder Ericksen
Other news
Today was another fun pday we went back to the woods and made a fire and cooked hotdogs with avocado and played more of that mountain cricket game. Ive been really enjoying it! We also had a baptism today which it always fun. it was a 9 year old girl. we got the mom to start going to church again and then she wanted us to teach her daughter and so we baptizes her. All good stuff.
If you look closely you can see the Grandpa Phil’s patented paper airplane being used even in Ecuador.
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