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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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2. In most cases, the names will be changed to prevent too much personal information from getting out.

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!

Monday, May 31, 2010

companion letter 5.28.10

Here is yesterday's letter from Daniel's mission companion, Elder Ames, to his family:

Querida familia!

How is everybody?! I don't think that there will be anybody there to receive my message, but that is okay. You will just have to write an extra long one this next week! (some of us were at girls camp) This week has been great! We are continuing to be extremely blessed and we are so grateful for all that we have received. The Lord truly does love His missionaries! We are going to have the baptismal service of Delmira this coming saturday. She is so ready for baptism. I have never met anybody as solid as she is. She finished up her finals and dedicated a lot more time to reading the Book of Mormon. She is going to be a kingdom builder. I think that she should serve a mission. She would be great! We are going to try to teach her sister. She is not as interested as Delmira though.

We are also working with a man named Rafael who is getting over an addiction to acohol, we have helped him to develop a personal relationship with the Lord and he is really seeing and feeling the difference. If all goes well, he should be baptized on the 12th, but he may need a little bit more time. We have a pretty cool teaching pool right now. We have representatives from quite a few countries.

We have:
Dominican Republic
Mexico
Peru
Colombia
Ecuador (Maybe)

I think there are more, but those are the ones I can think of. That is one of the coolest parts about being in this mission. It makes it super hard to develop a good accent. So I stick with gringo. :)

So I have a question for all of you. This is a concern of one of our investigators... If someone has done something to you that has made it really hard for you to forgive them, how can you develop the courage and the love to forgive that person? How can you let go of those negative feelings that are built up inside of you? The concern is, she doesn't know that we know that this is her concern. It is a delicate situation.

When we do not forgive those that have offended us, we are letting those people have control and influence over our life. It is when we sincerely learn to forgive that we find freedom.

Well, I have to get going... I hope that you all have a great week! Have fun at your activities! Take pictures! And I will send mine home after the baptism! I love you all so much!

Con Mucho amor
Elder Ames
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1 comment:

deb sorensen said...

Wow, very delicate...

I would say that praying to 'let things go' might be a really good strategy. But, honestly, if she's not ready to try, then maybe praying to know what other steps she needs to take to follow Christ??? Or praying to follow Christ's example of serving others?

May 31, 2010 at 4:45 PM

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