Jord Arrives in NC!

Sister Jord along with President and Sister Thomas, July 2010


Below is a message from President Thomas about Jord's arrival:

Dear loved ones of Sister Erickson,



We are pleased to inform you that your daughter arrived in Charlotte and to mission home safely and in good spirits. She was a little tired from arising early and a long flight. Sister Thomas fed her a nice warm meal which included Banana Pudding dessert, a southern favorite. I had the privilege of interviewing her. She is full of potential! Our assistants did a little training and our office Senior Missionaries were able to join us for dinner and an introduction to the new missionaries. We are so glad that she was assigned to this mission. She slept in the mission home.

She has been assigned a ‘trusted’ missionary to oversee her introduction and training into a proselyting area. Hopefully, when she arrived at her new apartment, they opened the door just far enough to push her luggage inside, and then went out to work! She will make a difference here as she puts her feet on the ground and yields her heart and will to the Lord and her sacred call.

Boy, will she love it here! The landscape is so beautiful and the people of North Carolina are wonderful. Southern Hospitality is alive and well. Members and leaders of the branches, wards, and stakes love the missionaries and we are working hard as a mission to assist them.

We recognize that the first 3 months of her mission will be personally demanding and rewarding as she makes many adjustments. We will do all we can to help her get her feet, shoulders, and heart established here. We are extremely loyal as a mission which means she has many strong and loyal friends already. Supportive letters absent the affairs of home will help her cultivate a strong start.

We are laboring with our might, completely dependent on the merits and mercy of Jesus Christ, in a unified effort with the Stakes of Zion here; to help gather Israel and establish both Zion and a Zion people. Additionally, we will do all we can to help your daughter grow, change, and progress into a bold, humble, and charitable missionary who is “fit for the Master’s use.” We love our missionaries! We will love, watch over, and care for her as if she were our own.

Thank you for helping her prepare. Thank you for the sacrifices you have made on her behalf.

Faithfully yours,


Lindsay A Thomas, President
North Carolina Charlotte Mission