Hey family,
Sorry I didn't get this letter to you yesterday; it was a very busy day. Yesterday was probably the most fun I've had on a p-day. I tell you more later, but before I forget; I tried to send out a letter about the trip but failed to do so. I wanted to include a picture from Teddy's baptism but there wasn't a convenient time to print one. I will send it out tomorrow. But in a nutshell; I think we should just put the trip off and go spend time with Nick and Deb. It's not a big deal for you guys to come out here and I'll hopefully be too tired to do anything. We can all visit NY when we are all rich and not expecting babies. It would be more fun if we were all together anyways, it doesn't matter if we are in Utah or NY.
So yesterdays p-day: yesterday was one of the APs last p-day and since Elder Swan served with him and wanted to hang out with him we decided to get together with them. We went down and ate a free breakfast at a hotel, went to the top of Empire State Building and saw The Lion King. What a day! Right? It did cost me a lot of money but I figured I had been saving every penny of what people have given me and this was a good present to me. For Christmas and my birthday for the next few years.
Lion King was super amazing! I had never seen anything like it! The costumes and props and stage were crazy! It was a really good time and even though it cost a lot of money it was so worth it. The ES building was really cool too. The view was awesome and it was fun to point out things that I knew. We also went to the largest store in the world. Macys
Well I don't have a lot more time but this Saturday Dora, Darius and Nick are getting baptized. Nick is 18. Teddy's wife isn't a member, yet. We had a really sad thing happen where Luisaâ's boyfriend called and told us that she wasn't coming back to church. That hurt.
President asked us to give this sick baby a blessing. He told us that we needed to heal this baby so that the mother and father's hearts will be softened and they will join the church. I felt impressed to say an expression of Heavenly Father's love for the baby and that she will grow strong and be a great example to others.
I hope I got all of your questions, oh, Patricia brought the cookies but she hasn't accepted a date yet. We will get her tonight! I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Elder Sorensen
First day
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
1.20.2010
Family,
Your guy's letters pumped me up! Especially good job Mandee! Make sure
this guy isn't just interested because you're pretty. We call that flirt to convert; things do not end well...lol. We had another great week with six people at church, and we had a surprise baptism! We moved Teddy's date up a week so that his wife could attend. It was a great service and a ton of members came even though it was last minute. One of our investigators brought most of the refreshments without being asked it was pretty sweet. That's two in a row!
As far as our other investigators:
Nick is doing really well; he will go down on the 30th for sure! He is
going to serve a mission when he turns 19, which will be so sweet.
Dora and Darius are also doing great. There aunt from North Carolina
came to visit them and prier to that visit we gave her a BOM. She is
going to be reading the BOM with Darius over the phone because he has
trouble reading. The aunt is really cool and we got her address to send
to the missionaries in Charlotte, which is sweet because a few people
from my MTC group went there. They also are looking solid for the 30th.
Luisa and her family aren't doing as well due to a sick little girl.
They could go to church and had to skip out on some of our appointments
because of it. They are still progressing really well; I'm just not sure if they will be ready by the 30th. We shall see!
Patricia is doing better. She came to her second baptism, which always
makes a huge difference. Elder Holland said that 80% of the people who
go to a baptism service usually have their own, so we will get her in!
She still hasn't accepted a date, but she is asking really good
questions.
We are struggling finding new people while we are teaching all of our
investigators; I guess that's a good problem. We need to find more
people so our teaching pool doesn't disappear on the 30th. Elder Swan
and I have been giving a lot of trainings on finding so maybe we can
actually apply what we teach. Lol.
I'm glad to hear that everything is going so well with all of you. Keep
me up to date with how everything progresses. I love you all and hope
you all have a great week!
Elder Sorensen
Your guy's letters pumped me up! Especially good job Mandee! Make sure
this guy isn't just interested because you're pretty. We call that flirt to convert; things do not end well...lol. We had another great week with six people at church, and we had a surprise baptism! We moved Teddy's date up a week so that his wife could attend. It was a great service and a ton of members came even though it was last minute. One of our investigators brought most of the refreshments without being asked it was pretty sweet. That's two in a row!
As far as our other investigators:
Nick is doing really well; he will go down on the 30th for sure! He is
going to serve a mission when he turns 19, which will be so sweet.
Dora and Darius are also doing great. There aunt from North Carolina
came to visit them and prier to that visit we gave her a BOM. She is
going to be reading the BOM with Darius over the phone because he has
trouble reading. The aunt is really cool and we got her address to send
to the missionaries in Charlotte, which is sweet because a few people
from my MTC group went there. They also are looking solid for the 30th.
Luisa and her family aren't doing as well due to a sick little girl.
They could go to church and had to skip out on some of our appointments
because of it. They are still progressing really well; I'm just not sure if they will be ready by the 30th. We shall see!
Patricia is doing better. She came to her second baptism, which always
makes a huge difference. Elder Holland said that 80% of the people who
go to a baptism service usually have their own, so we will get her in!
She still hasn't accepted a date, but she is asking really good
questions.
We are struggling finding new people while we are teaching all of our
investigators; I guess that's a good problem. We need to find more
people so our teaching pool doesn't disappear on the 30th. Elder Swan
and I have been giving a lot of trainings on finding so maybe we can
actually apply what we teach. Lol.
I'm glad to hear that everything is going so well with all of you. Keep
me up to date with how everything progresses. I love you all and hope
you all have a great week!
Elder Sorensen
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
1.6.10
Family,
Hey I had an amazing week and the baptism on Sat was definitely the highlight. We had about 25 non-members at church on Sunday, 10 of which were our investigators! That is definitely the best I've ever done with people at church. Our ward is super missionary focused and as a fruit of that our bishop has a goal of 50 baptisms this year. Last year they had 12. He plans on calling 20 ward missionaries to get it done. That is super crazy! The ward mission leader tried to talk him down a little by which he replied, "Brother, where is your faith?" I love it!
We are finally starting to have to success I've dreamed about my whole life. For the end of this month we have 6 solid more people to be baptized! I have made a goal to be able to baptize 10 more before I go home, but if all goes as plan I might have to adjust that goal. In order to actually get those people baptized I know that I will have to do everything I can and exercise more than a mustard seed of faith. I know it can be done I just have to pray and have the faith that Heavenly Father will protect them.
We had multi-zone conference yesterday at which Elder Swan and I gave a training to our zone. The first presidency's focus is to get all of the missionaries able to have 10 contacts and teach 20 lessons a week. So our training was on how to build an area to be able to achieve the 20 lessons a week. I feel it went fairly well and hopefully we were able to help them. We will be following up with the training at our DLDM this Friday to further help the missionaries.
So we found this super cool family last week who came to church last week. Luisa and her two kids Bryant-10 and Brianna-6. There is also a husband but he works like crazy and is never home. They loved church and felt the spirit strongly both there and while reading the BoM. The kids are both in a Catholic school but yesterday Bryant said, "I have decided that I want to be baptized" lol it was great. After church he also said, "Hey mom, did you know I can be a missionary when I'm 19?" They are a super cool family and I hope everything goes well for them.
Dora and Darius who was suppose to be baptized last month finally came back from their vacation and with a new, stronger determination to get baptized. Dora told us a really cool story on how she was able to quit coffee. It is really hard with Darius because of his ADD but we are doing all that we can to help him and his mom.
Teddy is also doing really well and has improved so much. He has quit drinking tea, just like that and he also has made a lot of progress with his gambling problem. The church has changed him so much and I can visually see the difference the gospel is making in his life.
So the work is going well as usual and all is well here on the battle field of the Lord's work. None of this is easy and I sometimes feel like there are more challenges than success stories, but all is well. I am going to be making some goals for the last six months of my mission to insure that I sprint to the end. I don't want to be comfortable with where I am at and who I am. I must focus on what I can become.
I love you all and hope everyone is ok. Don't worry about not being able to send me an e-mail. Life is really great for me here on the mission field but I feel it is moving to fast for me. I still have a lot I need to do. Thank you for all of your support and all that you have done for me.
Elder Sorensen
PS Thank you all who sent me Christmas packages! I am sorry I can't write to you all personally but know that I deeply appreciate the love you have shown toward me. I have enough candy to kill a person but I really enjoyed hearing from each one of you.
PPS attached is a few pictures from the baptism. This is Nestle and his amazing family who was baptized a few months ago. The kids sung a song, gave one of the talks and one of the prayers, it was pretty sweet. We also had a ton of investigators there who loved the baptism.
Hey I had an amazing week and the baptism on Sat was definitely the highlight. We had about 25 non-members at church on Sunday, 10 of which were our investigators! That is definitely the best I've ever done with people at church. Our ward is super missionary focused and as a fruit of that our bishop has a goal of 50 baptisms this year. Last year they had 12. He plans on calling 20 ward missionaries to get it done. That is super crazy! The ward mission leader tried to talk him down a little by which he replied, "Brother, where is your faith?" I love it!
We are finally starting to have to success I've dreamed about my whole life. For the end of this month we have 6 solid more people to be baptized! I have made a goal to be able to baptize 10 more before I go home, but if all goes as plan I might have to adjust that goal. In order to actually get those people baptized I know that I will have to do everything I can and exercise more than a mustard seed of faith. I know it can be done I just have to pray and have the faith that Heavenly Father will protect them.
We had multi-zone conference yesterday at which Elder Swan and I gave a training to our zone. The first presidency's focus is to get all of the missionaries able to have 10 contacts and teach 20 lessons a week. So our training was on how to build an area to be able to achieve the 20 lessons a week. I feel it went fairly well and hopefully we were able to help them. We will be following up with the training at our DLDM this Friday to further help the missionaries.
So we found this super cool family last week who came to church last week. Luisa and her two kids Bryant-10 and Brianna-6. There is also a husband but he works like crazy and is never home. They loved church and felt the spirit strongly both there and while reading the BoM. The kids are both in a Catholic school but yesterday Bryant said, "I have decided that I want to be baptized" lol it was great. After church he also said, "Hey mom, did you know I can be a missionary when I'm 19?" They are a super cool family and I hope everything goes well for them.
Dora and Darius who was suppose to be baptized last month finally came back from their vacation and with a new, stronger determination to get baptized. Dora told us a really cool story on how she was able to quit coffee. It is really hard with Darius because of his ADD but we are doing all that we can to help him and his mom.
Teddy is also doing really well and has improved so much. He has quit drinking tea, just like that and he also has made a lot of progress with his gambling problem. The church has changed him so much and I can visually see the difference the gospel is making in his life.
So the work is going well as usual and all is well here on the battle field of the Lord's work. None of this is easy and I sometimes feel like there are more challenges than success stories, but all is well. I am going to be making some goals for the last six months of my mission to insure that I sprint to the end. I don't want to be comfortable with where I am at and who I am. I must focus on what I can become.
I love you all and hope everyone is ok. Don't worry about not being able to send me an e-mail. Life is really great for me here on the mission field but I feel it is moving to fast for me. I still have a lot I need to do. Thank you for all of your support and all that you have done for me.
Elder Sorensen
PS Thank you all who sent me Christmas packages! I am sorry I can't write to you all personally but know that I deeply appreciate the love you have shown toward me. I have enough candy to kill a person but I really enjoyed hearing from each one of you.
PPS attached is a few pictures from the baptism. This is Nestle and his amazing family who was baptized a few months ago. The kids sung a song, gave one of the talks and one of the prayers, it was pretty sweet. We also had a ton of investigators there who loved the baptism.
1.7.10
Family,
So the internet wasn't working yesterday so of course I have to do it today during my lunch hour. Sorry, but this is going to be short. Real quick to answer moms questions, yes we did get hit with a snow storm but it's all gone by now. I did get the picture card but both my camera and someone else's showed that the card was blank. That was a bummer; I was looking forward to see it.
This week was good we had a lot of success with different things. We did struggle finding new investigators this past week but we are working hard to find them. Nestly, one of our investigators, is going to be baptized this Saturday; we moved up his date because he was ready. He already passed his baptismal interview so he is excited to make it happen.
We also had two investigators who were suppose to be baptized in December finally come back from vacation, so it shouldn't be a problem baptizing them this month. That was Dora and Darius and the only reason they didn't get baptized was because of some things that the members were concerned about and their vacation.
Teddy, our other solid investigator is doing really well and accepting the lessons really well. We just need to help him get an answer for his prayers and he will be good. He has a date for the 23rd of January.
So as you can see this is an exciting time for me with a lot of success. Things are going really well and I'm doing just great. The mission life sure isn't easy but I see the blessings of it everyday. I hope you are all doing great and working hard to achieve your goals.
Elder Sorensen
Ps: I ate dinner with a sister Sorensen the other day, weird right?
So the internet wasn't working yesterday so of course I have to do it today during my lunch hour. Sorry, but this is going to be short. Real quick to answer moms questions, yes we did get hit with a snow storm but it's all gone by now. I did get the picture card but both my camera and someone else's showed that the card was blank. That was a bummer; I was looking forward to see it.
This week was good we had a lot of success with different things. We did struggle finding new investigators this past week but we are working hard to find them. Nestly, one of our investigators, is going to be baptized this Saturday; we moved up his date because he was ready. He already passed his baptismal interview so he is excited to make it happen.
We also had two investigators who were suppose to be baptized in December finally come back from vacation, so it shouldn't be a problem baptizing them this month. That was Dora and Darius and the only reason they didn't get baptized was because of some things that the members were concerned about and their vacation.
Teddy, our other solid investigator is doing really well and accepting the lessons really well. We just need to help him get an answer for his prayers and he will be good. He has a date for the 23rd of January.
So as you can see this is an exciting time for me with a lot of success. Things are going really well and I'm doing just great. The mission life sure isn't easy but I see the blessings of it everyday. I hope you are all doing great and working hard to achieve your goals.
Elder Sorensen
Ps: I ate dinner with a sister Sorensen the other day, weird right?
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