Our Mother's Day talk with Erik

Here are some things we learned when we talked with Erik on Mother's Day:

He sleeps under a mosquito net.
He has a cook, a member of the church who lives nearby, who makes him and his companion lunch everyday. We asked what she makes and he said he's not sure. He said his companion says it's something to do with "pig fat." He said it's OK and it's not beans but that he didn't know what it was. She also does their laundry.
He and his companion do their own breakfast and dinner. I asked what they make for dinner and he said they cook a lot of pasta. He said that one night they even made the kind of spaghetti I make at home. Woo hoo! The training paid off!
They take showers using water out of a bucket.
On P-day they go into Coatepeque and play soccer with the older elders in their zone.
He and his companion are the only Americans in his district right now.
Erik's companion is the District leader right now.
They do a lot of walking and they also travel by bus. They are small buses, more like big vans. He likes the buses.
He said the weather is pretty hot and when we talked to him it was just the beginning of the rainy season. They had an earthquake about a week before we talked. They were in Sacrament meeting when they felt it.
He said they study the gospel and the language a lot.
He really likes his companion. His companion is from Dallas.
While we were talking we could hear his companion in the background talking to a neighbor.
If I think of more I'll add it later.............