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| Me and Hermana Sorensen.
She is from Cedar City, Utah, and I don't think we are related but still pretty cool. |
This week was super awesome and went by super duper fast,
mostly because we were only in our area for like 3 days. But still we did a lot,
and it was great.
Pasado lunes/Last Monday in the night, I went to Sucre and
then to Cochabamba martes/Tuesday in the morning. I spent the day in Cochabamba
sitting in offices and signing papers for tramites (like my country legal card
stuff). I got home martes/Tues in the night and I was pretty tired.
Miércoles/Wednesday, the morning was a little slow, but in
the afternoon we went out and visited the family that came to church last
Sunday (Raul y Nora y their kids). We had an awesome lesson with them. Later we
visited more contacts and investigadores we had out there. That night we took a
bus to Betanzos.
Jueves/Thursday we spent all day in Betanzos. In the
morning, I worked with Elder Salinas. Both of us are learning Quechua, so it
was pretty cool. After lunch, we went out to this little pueblo called Tacoya.
It’s kind of like Aguila to Wickenburg. It was super green and pretty. I worked
with Elder Baros, and we visited a few cool people and helped them plant some
cebollas/onions. It was sweet. It was super pretty. We walked a ton too. Hahaha.
That evening we met at a house out there, and my comp (Elder Cabrera) did a
baptismal interview with an 11-yr-old boy. It’s pretty cool, the elders have
re-activated the dad, and now his 11 yr old and 8 yr old kids got baptized (on Saturday).
That night, Baros and I took some sweet night pictures. He loves photography
and knows what he is doing so it was super cool. We also made cinnamon rolls. Hahaha,
and they were super duper good.
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| Night pictures with Elder Baros. |
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| Elder Baros' night picture. |
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| My night picture. |
Viernes/Friday we got back to Potosà and visited Raul and
Nora and their family again, and it went super good. We also visited a few
other past contacts and then contacted a little. That night we had a Noche de
Hogar/Family Home Evening with our ward mission leader, and we invited a recent
convert and her younger siblings who we have taught a little bit. It went super
good.
Sabado/Saturday we went back to Potosà (mainly just to bring
them baptismal clothes but also to be there for the baptism). It was super nice,
and partly in Quechua and partly in Spanish, so that was sweet. We got back to
Potosà and went to visit the other super awesome family (Familia Cruz), but
they weren’t home, and when we called they had forgotten. So we started
contacting around there and past Raul and Nora's house, and they were outside
digging a trench for a water line. So we stopped and helped them for a few
hours. It was fun, but something that kind of bugs me is they are all short
shovels. Hahaha! My whole time here I have never ever seen a normal shovel. Oh
well. After helping them for a while, we confirmed they were coming to church
the next day. Then we went to the dentista for my comp.
Domingo/Sunday we went to church, and Raul and Nora and 5 of
their kids came. (We don’t really exactly know how many kids they have. Hahaha.)
But 2 of them, we have taught several times and are pretty cool. Also the 2 siblings
that were with us at the Noche de Hogar Viernes/Friday came. And then several
other friends and family of miembros came. Soo.... in total we had 14 investigadores
at church!! It was crazy but super awesome, and we were super excited. We made
sure to get all their names and set up citas/appointments for this week. After
church, we had a few good citas with a few investigadores who are interested
but not really progressing too good. We stressed the importance of attending
church and learning and helping others. I love 1 Corinthians, I think chapter
12 or 13, where it compares the church to a body. Just like the eye or ear or
hand are all different members of the body and do different things, each one is
necessary and benefits the others. Similar to people in the church, we are all
different, but we are all essential and can really help the other members.
Last night we were going to go to Betanzos, and then this
morning we were going to hike a mountain there, but... there’s like some big
manifestations and blockades there sooo ... we didn’t go. Darn. Oh well. Today
we hiked some mountains here in Potosà and went up to some lakes, but they were
mostly dried up. It was kind of tough because we are so dang high in elevation
and we are all out of shape. Hahaha. It was lots of fun though.
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| Sacrament prayer in Quechua. |
Elder Sorensen
sorensen.tanner@myldsmail.net
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| Pictures of Tacoya (a little farming town, 20 minutes from Betanzos). |
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| Fields in Tacoya |
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This is Cerro Rico--the hill they have been
mining for like
years and years.
The miners also worship the devil
in there sooo... hahaha. It's
pretty big though.
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