Tanner Sorensen's LDS Mission in Bolivia and Colombia

Hola, Hola!! This week was pretty awesome. A few ups and downs, but that’s how life goes right. We found a lot of really good, new investigators this week.  We found this lady Yackilina and her husband Rovilson. It was an awesome contact, and then when we went back for the appointment, we talked a bit about the life and the need for Jesus Christ and the gospel. It was an awesome lesson and at the end she told us that she has lots of dreams and recently she had a dream that she didn’t understand very well, but she said “everything you just said has helped me soo much, I understand so much more now. I’ve been praying God would help me to understand.” WOW!! We had several awesome citas/appointments with our investigators that are progressing towards baptism. We had a good cita with Rainir. He is awesome. He is struggling a little with work and unfair treatment and pay (‘cuz they’re from Venezuela). But he never forgets God and keeps reading the Book of Mormon and prayin...

Hellos!! THIS WEEK WAS AWESOME!!! Hahaha. We worked super hard and are seeing lots of progress. Attitude is everything in the mission. A good attitude and hard work will always bring good results. GOD IS GOOD.  We have several awesome people preparing to be baptized soon.  Nicol (13 years old) is going to get baptized this Saturday. She’s incredibly smart and is really taking this seriously. She is sooo ready to be baptized. We had a really good talk, telling her to be nicer to her mom, because that’s what Christ would do and if she wants to get baptized she needs to be more Christlike. She understood :) and took it really well. She’s very mature. Mucha nicol (an expression that means “way to go” “you’re awesome”). Rainir is a baller. He’s an industrial engineer and very smart. He’s planning to get baptized the 21st. He just wants an answer from God to be sure. He’s reading and praying every day. GOLD! He’s awesome. We found this lady named Alba...

New missionaries with their trainers with President and Sister Whitesides. HELLO!!! This week was pretty crazy and super awesome!! Last week we had transfers. So I spent Monday and Tuesday with Elder Norton. (He was my comp when we were in Bolivia. Now we are in the same zone, and we are both training.) We worked super hard together, and we had some awesome lessons. We were both super happy to finally have a good comp and lessons that flow well. It was awesome. Wednesday we went to Cali to receive our new comps. They are brand new, fresh out of the MTC. And turns out... we are both training two new elders. So now I’m with Elder Ortigoza from Guatemala (from San Felipe) and Elder Ferreira, from Cartagena, Colombia. Elder Ferreira is going to the Ecuador Quito Mission, but he doesn’t have his visa yet so he will be here for a while. We don’t know how long.  They are both awesome missionaries and super excited to work hard. We got back to Cerrito Wednesday night.  ...

Hernando & Karol's baptism by Hernando's son (& Karol's dad, who is also the 2nd counselor in the bishopric) with Elders Sorensen & Flores. Hello everyone! How was your week? Our week out here was AWESOME!! Like always, we worked crazy good and we are starting to see A FEW of the fruits. A few awesome people we found this week and several awesome others that are progressing really well. God is good.  This week we had the baptism of Hernando (the father of our 1st counselor) and Karol (the son of the 1st counselor). They are an awesome family. The rest of the family is progressing pretty well. One lady really likes the Pentecostal church, but the Book of Mormon has lots of power. ;)  We found several awesome Venezuelans this week. Rainier (this guy we found last week) is AWESOME. We had several appointments with him this week, and he came to the baptism on Saturday. He is progressing and reading the Book of Mormon a lot and looking for the truth. We...

Elder Sorensen - Sunday lunch at his pensionista's house HEY! How’s it going?! This week was pretty AWESOME! We worked super good and found a bunch of awesome, awesome people. Things are getting better. God is good. We had interviews with President and a class from the assistants. Something that really stuck out to me is that Jesus is the center of EVERYTHING. I learned that we need to make sure this is clear as missionaries. But I think it applies to everyone. Elder Holland gave an awesome talk in October 2019 General Conference that explains it really well. A few new awesome people that are really starting to progress. We found this super awesome family a few weeks ago, and they are really starting to take this seriously. The dad is named Demetrio, and his wife is Ana Maria and their three young kids. We´ve taught them a few times, but this week, while explaining better the importance of the Book of Mormon, the Spirit was super strong in the lesson, and we were able...

Elder Flores, Elder Sorensen, y Elder Ypushima Hola hola!! This week was pretty good :) Still working good and finally starting to find a lot more and better people to teach.  A few good investigators we found:  We found a lady named Lady (haha) and her boyfriend Daniel. They go to a different church but are super interested. They had tons of questions and really want to learn about what we teach. While teaching them, Daniel read 2 entire pamphlets and the whole introduction to the Book of Mormon!!! WOW!! He began asking tons of really good questions. They are awesome. Another lady we found is named Jennifer Lopez. Hahahaha, en serio (Seriously!). She also goes to a different church but really wanted to learn more, especially what doctrines the church is founded in. We had an awesome lesson with her, and she really wants to find the truth.  Also a lady named Erlinda, who was waiting for us when we went back to her house for the appointment. She is a teache...