Tanner Sorensen's LDS Mission in Bolivia and Colombia

 Well this week was awesome and crazy at the same time, hahaha. Me! On top of a cellphone tower. Betanzos behind me. Tuesday/Martes was pretty good, but we didn’t teach anybody since none of the citas/appointments we had scheduled actually happened. It was kind of disappointing, but I don’t know why but we still felt happy and normal. I don’t know it’s kind of hard to explain. Wednesday/Mièrcoles was a lot better. We had some really good lessons and found 2 new investigadores that seem pretty interested so that’s exciting. Thursday/Jueves was awesome and crazy. We usually go out to a little pueblo called Tecoya. And since we've gotten our bikes fixed a little bit, we've been biking out and back. Well anyways, when we first got near our first cita, there were people loading big fat sacks of carrots in a truck to take into town to sell. So we helped, and man I’m pretty weak. Hahaha. It was a super awesome workout though, and I loved it. Then we helped our invest...

Elders Bird, Salinas, Sorensen & Grotepas Hola everyone :) This week was pretty normal, but still super duper awesome. I love Betanzos a ton. I did eat a few crazy things. I’m getting pretty out of shape, and I’m super tired but ... that’s the life of a missionary I guess. Hahaha. Well, last Pday my comp cut my hair and did pretty good. Then while cutting his own hair, the power went out (hahaha), but then after a few minutes it came back. No worries. It was just funny to see him with one side cut and the other not at all. Tuesday/Martes we spent the entire day looking for people. We looked for the people we had scheduled, and they weren’t home. Then we looked for the people we had for backup plans, and they weren’t home. Then we looked for every single other past contact or less active members, hahaha, but didn’t have any lessons with anybody. Oh well, it was still a super awesome day, and I didn’t feel the least bit disappointed. Hahaha. Sounds crazy, I know. We...

Baptism of 8-year-old girl from Tecoya Well, the weeks seem to pass super duper fast. I love my area and my comp, and we have a ton of fun but also work like crazy, and I’m always super tired. Hahaha. Well, martes/Tuesday we got back to Betanzos (after going to Uyuni). We were pretty darn exhausted but after lunch we got to work. Literally everything we had planned fell through except one cita/appointment in the late afternoon but still it was a good day. While walking home, we laughed because we were both super tired and hungry but like super happy and Elder Salinas was like 'today was a good day'. I laughed and was like 'all our citas cancelled and we really only visited one person but you’re darn right, today was awesome.' Hahaha. Mièrcoles/Wednesday was kind of the same thing. We didn’t have any really set citas, but we looked for a ton of old investigadores and several less active members. We found several and set different citas but most of them wer...

Me, Remedios, Virigilio, and Elder Salinas Saturday, December 1, 2018 Hahaha! Well, this week was amazing. I’m loving Betanzos a ton and my comp (Elder Salinas) is super awesome. We work hard and get a lot done. Ok so for this week, martes/Tuesday was super interesting. After returning to Betanzos (from Potosi for our district meetings), we had some really good citas/appointments (however a little interesting). We met with this one investigator that has tons and tons of questions. It’s interesting though because he doesn’t seem to want to accept the help we are trying to give him. We have tried to teach him the truthfulness of the scriptures and of the power of prayer and receiving answers from God, but he didn’t really like those answers. It was really sad to see somebody so distracted by Satan that he wouldn’t open his heart. We shared our heartfelt testimonies, and I felt the Spirit super strong, but still he didn’t believe us or have a desire to do the things we were invi...