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Elder Sorensen's Current Mission Address:

My address is:

Just send everything to the office, where you send packages. I live right by the office and go there every week.





Mission Home Address:

New York, New York North Mission
700 White Plains Road Suite 315
Scarsdale, NY 10583

Packages should be sent to the mission home address to keep our elders safe.

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Thanks for reading his letters. I'm sure he would love to know how many people ARE reading and how much we all love him and what work he's doing!

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

5.28.09

Hey family,

So I'm staying here in Kingsbridge with Elder Smith! I am excited to stay and we are going to do a lot of hard work this cycle. I am going to do everything I can to push Elder S in his last cycle and we are going to see a lot of miracles. We have a lot of high goals this cycle and we are doing our best to find families to baptize.

We had a really great week in which I feel I did my best. I am learning a lot about missionary work and how to really help people. We had a total of 23 lessons, 9 new investigators and 5 lessons with members, which my area hasn't done since last year. We are doing everything we can to hit standard of excellence for our goals. We had a great week and we are going to have an even better week this week.
Fa**y is set to be baptized this Saturday and we are planning everything out to make it a great service. It should be a great! I am excited for her and we are really working hard to keep her protected this last week. An eight year old that we have been teaching will also be getting baptized. He doesn't really have a dad so bishop asked us to teach him all of the lessons before his baptism.

We had a great week and found a lot of good potential families to baptize. Also on Monday we found another family so we are doing a really great job finding. Now that I've learned how to find I have to work on helping them progress. I am doing every thing I can to really work on my teaching skills.

Sorry but I'm really short on time this week. I love you all and I will write more later.

Elder Sorensen
congrats nick on the new job!

5.28.09

Hey family,

So I'm staying here in Kingsbridge with Elder Smith! I am excited to stay and we are going to do a lot of hard work this cycle. I am going to do everything I can to push Elder S in his last cycle and we are going to see a lot of miracles. We have a lot of high goals this cycle and we are doing our best to find families to baptize.

We had a really great week in which I feel I did my best. I am learning a lot about missionary work and how to really help people. We had a total of 23 lessons, 9 new investigators and 5 lessons with members, which my area hasn't done since last year. We are doing everything we can to hit standard of excellence for our goals. We had a great week and we are going to have an even better week this week.
Fa**y is set to be baptized this Saturday and we are planning everything out to make it a great service. It should be a great! I am excited for her and we are really working hard to keep her protected this last week. An eight year old that we have been teaching will also be getting baptized. He doesn't really have a dad so bishop asked us to teach him all of the lessons before his baptism.

We had a great week and found a lot of good potential families to baptize. Also on Monday we found another family so we are doing a really great job finding. Now that I've learned how to find I have to work on helping them progress. I am doing every thing I can to really work on my teaching skills.

Sorry but I'm really short on time this week. I love you all and I will write more later.

Elder Sorensen
congrats nick on the new job!

5.28.09

Hey family,

So I'm staying here in Kingsbridge with Elder Smith! I am excited to stay and we are going to do a lot of hard work this cycle. I am going to do everything I can to push Elder S in his last cycle and we are going to see a lot of miracles. We have a lot of high goals this cycle and we are doing our best to find families to baptize.

We had a really great week in which I feel I did my best. I am learning a lot about missionary work and how to really help people. We had a total of 23 lessons, 9 new investigators and 5 lessons with members, which my area hasn't done since last year. We are doing everything we can to hit standard of excellence for our goals. We had a great week and we are going to have an even better week this week.
Fa**y is set to be baptized this Saturday and we are planning everything out to make it a great service. It should be a great! I am excited for her and we are really working hard to keep her protected this last week. An eight year old that we have been teaching will also be getting baptized. He doesn't really have a dad so bishop asked us to teach him all of the lessons before his baptism.

We had a great week and found a lot of good potential families to baptize. Also on Monday we found another family so we are doing a really great job finding. Now that I've learned how to find I have to work on helping them progress. I am doing every thing I can to really work on my teaching skills.

Sorry but I'm really short on time this week. I love you all and I will write more later.

Elder Sorensen
congrats nick on the new job!

5.28.09

Hey family,

So I'm staying here in Kingsbridge with Elder Smith! I am excited to stay and we are going to do a lot of hard work this cycle. I am going to do everything I can to push Elder S in his last cycle and we are going to see a lot of miracles. We have a lot of high goals this cycle and we are doing our best to find families to baptize.

We had a really great week in which I feel I did my best. I am learning a lot about missionary work and how to really help people. We had a total of 23 lessons, 9 new investigators and 5 lessons with members, which my area hasn't done since last year. We are doing everything we can to hit standard of excellence for our goals. We had a great week and we are going to have an even better week this week.
Fanny is set to be baptized this Saturday and we are planning everything out to make it a great service. It should be a great! I am excited for her and we are really working hard to keep her protected this last week. An eight year old that we have been teaching will also be getting baptized. He doesn't really have a dad so bishop asked us to teach him all of the lessons before his baptism.

We had a great week and found a lot of good potential families to baptize. Also on Monday we found another family so we are doing a really great job finding. Now that I've learned how to find I have to work on helping them progress. I am doing every thing I can to really work on my teaching skills.

Sorry but I'm really short on time this week. I love you all and I will write more later.

Elder Sorensen
congrats nick on the new job!

5.28.09

Hey family,

So I'm staying here in Kingsbridge with Elder Smith! I am excited to stay and we are going to do a lot of hard work this cycle. I am going to do everything I can to push Elder S in his last cycle and we are going to see a lot of miracles. We have a lot of high goals this cycle and we are doing our best to find families to baptize.

We had a really great week in which I feel I did my best. I am learning a lot about missionary work and how to really help people. We had a total of 23 lessons, 9 new investigators and 5 lessons with members, which my area hasn't done since last year. We are doing everything we can to hit standard of excellence for our goals. We had a great week and we are going to have an even better week this week.
Fanny is set to be baptized this Saturday and we are planning everything out to make it a great service. It should be a great! I am excited for her and we are really working hard to keep her protected this last week. An eight year old that we have been teaching will also be getting baptized. He doesn't really have a dad so bishop asked us to teach him all of the lessons before his baptism.

We had a great week and found a lot of good potential families to baptize. Also on Monday we found another family so we are doing a really great job finding. Now that I've learned how to find I have to work on helping them progress. I am doing every thing I can to really work on my teaching skills.

Sorry but I'm really short on time this week. I love you all and I will write more later.

Elder Sorensen
congrats nick on the new job!

Thursday, May 14, 2009

5.13.09

Family!

Hey it was great to speak with you all last Sunday even though time was short. It was really good to hear from you all and it encouraged me to work harder and strive to be the missionary you all think I am. We had a pretty good week but like in most cases we are just having a hard time getting people to church. Fa**y and her family came but none of our other investigators were able to come. We have a lot of really solid investigators and they have so much potential we just need to be better guides in helping them a long the way.

So Fa**y finally has a solid date for the 31 of this month and now we are just trying to help her build her own testimony. She feels like she has to be perfect after baptism and is a little scared to fall after she joins the church. We are reassuring her that we all fall and that's what makes us grow as we lean on the Savior. I really hope that I can be there for her baptism but I will go where the Lord wants me to go.

Mi**el and P**ricia are also doing really well. They didn't make it to church last Sunday because they were running late and didn't want to show up late. What they didn't understand that everyone shows up late in Spanish wards but its good that he wants to be prompt. He is really eating up the book of Mormon and he really likes what he sees. He has read King Benjamin's discourse along with the first fifteen chapters of Nephi. Next he is going to read Alma 32-34 which should be really good for him.

Ro**rt and C***lina aren't doing as well. They didn't have time to meet with us this week and they didn't come to church last Sunday. I hope we can get them back on tract because they are really cool. J**ith has also dropped off the face of the earth and has no time for us. I hope they come back and realize the importance of coming to church and reading the scriptures.

President has promised us all that we will find a family this week and be able to give them a date for June so Elder Smith and I are working really hard to find them. A lot of the elders have already found families this week and a tom of miracles and showing so we are pretty excited. I have seen a lot of miracles on my mission and I can't wait to see more. I think this area is going to have a really good next couple of months with all of the cool people we are finding. The goal is to baptism monthly and we are pushing to get it started.

So last Friday we had a ward party, which we had some investigators coming to, but we also had an appointment at the same time, so elder smith and I went on a split with the bishop and ward mission leader. I went with Isaac our ward mission leader to this media referral named F**nando who we had an appointment. When we got in there we learned that his brothers are members and one of them is a return missionary. His wife didn't know much about the church but he knew a lot and he has seen the Hill Cumorah pageant a few times. I taught his wife and him along wife there eight year old son the restoration and gave them a baptismal date for June. It was a little weird teaching almost by myself but at the same time it was kind of fun. They seemed like a sweet family and they live in the same building as two member families. What are the odds? They should be pretty sweet and we will see them again this week.

So it sounds like you all are doing really good and having a good time. Congrats on making the scene for the play Mandee and keep it up. It will be fun to talk you guys again and here more about all that you are doing. Keep up the letters! Well I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Elder Sorensen

Thursday, May 7, 2009

05.07.09

We'll be talking with Daniel this Sunday. If any of you have any questions for him, send them to me via e-mail and I'll send you his response Sunday afternoon.
-K.

Family,

Hey everyone- how's it going? Well I had a great week with a total of 22 lessons which is really great. The standard of excellence for number of lessons taught is 20 so this week we did better than excellent on lessons taught. We also did really well with other goals in which we had. We had three at church which is great but Fa**y and J**ith didn't come so that was a little frustrating.

I am really learning a lot of patience teaching Fa**y. She was supposed to be baptized this coming Sunday but she wants to wait a little longer so I'm not sure when that will be. She is ready she just needs to feel ready so we are doing all we can to help her and try to be patient. We need to work on getting over to her house more often but we are doing our best. J**ith is also giving us a hard time she cancelled our appointment last week and then skipped church. We know she is really busy but she has to make time for Heavenly Father so we are going to give her a nice talk.

We are teaching this really cool Dominican family right now who was a media referral. They are really cool and they came to church last Sunday which was great. They also fed us a really good Dominican breakfast last Saturday. They both have a really good understanding of the Restoration and Plan of Salvation and so hopefully they will keep reading and coming to church so they can get baptized next month. They have a date for the end of June.

Last Saturday we had a great miracle in finding a part member family street contacting on the way home from the day. Elder Smith contacted them and after the husband started telling us that they were catholic and happy ect. The wife told him that our lessons were really nice and that our church is perfect for there little girl. So they set up a appointment with us for the next day. When we taught them we found out that she was baptized six years ago and since moving here, lost contact with the church. The husband accepted a date for the end of June and they are really sweet. He read the pamphlet we gave him the same night and was excited to read the Book of Mormon.

We are really working hard to find families and more dates for June and July. Elder Smith and I have been working really hard and are excited by all the results we have been getting. I am afraid I will be transferred before I see the fruit of all of my hard work here. But I guess Heavenly Father knows what he is doing so I should trust Him. We have had a good time and had some really good trainings on how to find more new investigators and be a better teacher. We have been working on teaching when we find rather than setting up appointments later. It is a lot harder than it seems because you really have to be persuasive to the people to get into there home after talking to them for two minutes. But we did a really good job with it last week and I am excited for this week.

I am doing really well and I am excited to talk to you guys this Sunday. I won't have a lot of time but I will try to call around 4 my time 2 your time. I hope that is ok with your church schedule. I think you have early morning church but I don't remember. I'm glad your trip to Utah went well and you had fun with Clair. I love you all and I will talk to you this Sunday!

Elder Sorensen

Monday, May 4, 2009

Elder Bednar's CES Fireside May 2009

I just wanted to share this with you. I'm glad that they KNOW! it is totally scary that we are in a world such as this. Click here to hear his message.

Friday, May 1, 2009

4.30.09

Hey family!

Hey we had a great week and not a bad start to this week. The Yankee's game was a lot of fun even though it rained the whole time! It was a lot of fun to get together with all of those missionaries and the stadium was amazing. While you guys have been seeing winter I got a taste of summer this last weekend. It was above ninety on Sunday and because it so humid here it was miserable. I can't wait for summer!
We had a really good week and our whole zone hit standard of five new investigators last week. Elder Smith and I only had two news by Saturday so we were praying big time to get some more. We ended up having a amazing day on Saturday and we got four new investigators that day.

We also had a really great experience and miracle with new investigators Sunday too. Our zone leaders were pushing us all to get five news this week and only a few companionships didn't have them by Sunday morning so Elder Smith and I volunteered to go help one of them out. Because their area was so far away we only had twenty minutes to find two news. Elder Smith and I split up with them and started tracking buildings. The first English person Elder Smith knocked on let them in and they taught a ten minute restoration. All the buildings I tried to get into were locked but I saw this couple sitting outside so I decide to go talk to them. The Elder I was with and I taught them both right there outside starting and ending with a prayer and so within twenty minutes we found three news for these two elders. It was a really cool miracle and it was great to see.

Monday was a great third day in a row when we had six sit down lessons and two new investigators, one from a old investigator who didn't want the missionaries to come back and one from a member referral. It was three really great days in a row and I feel really grateful for all that Heavenly Father has given me. This is also going to be a great week because of the great start and we have mission conference on Thursday.

So I have to give a big shout out and congrats to everyone! First off, congrats to Nick for graduating! That is really cool and I'm sure the Lord will bless you with a great job after graduation. Congrats to Deb and Clair for the first teeth! Soon she will be walking! Congrats to Greg for making the dance team! You continue to amaze me with all of the stuff you are doing and I know that that team is no small thing so congrats! Mom congrats on being the best mother to ever exist and doing everything that you amazing! Congrats Dad for doing such a good job as a bishop and not going crazy at home! Congrats Mandee and Savanna for yet another school play and doing so well in school, keep it up!

It sounds like you are all doing amazing and I am proud of all of you. Being on a mission has really helped me grow to have an appreciation for my family. Keep working hard and remember if you're not moving forward you are moving backwards! I love you all and hope you have a great week. Sorry I have to cut it short I've run out of time on the computer. I love you all have a great week!

Elder Sorensen