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