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| E. Puma (from Peru) and E. Sorensen |
Hello!! This week was pretty good and passed super-duper
fast. It always seems like just yesterday was pday. Hahaha. The weeks pass
quickly.
Well, ok so lunes/Monday night we got back to Betanzos from
Potosi, and my comp wasn’t feeling too good. He was sick all day martes/Tuesday,
so we didn’t do much that day--just lots of studying :) I really liked 2 Nephi
10:24 how it says we need to align ourselves with God instead of with other
people, and then after we make that decision and take that action, then God
will help us in the rest of our troubles and problems. I also love 2 Nephi 11:6.
I am coming to recognize how much I love teaching people about the importance
of Jesus Christ and His Atonement for us. I really feel the Spirit the strongest
whenever I’m testifying or teaching about our Savior.
Mièrcoles/Wednesday we had a super awesome day. We decided
to contact (basically looking for new people to teach) the whole day (since
most of our investigators aren’t really progressing at all). So we literally
contacted the whole day, and it was super awesome. We talked to and met lots of
pretty awesome people, and it was amazing how quickly the day passed. We also
visited Max and read with him and then later visited with Virgilio and
Remedios. They are super awesome but have a hard time coming to church because
their parents would rather have them work and help.
Jueves/Thursday we visited Hermana Daría and read 2 Nephi 24:3;
I love that verse. Then we went out to Tecoya (but in a car because my comp’s
bike is broken). We looked for several kind of less active members but none were
home. We had a good day though and visited with the Estrada family, and we read
in Matthew 25 about the analogy of talents.
Viernes/Friday we went to Potosi for our district meeting.
The leaders shared a great lesson about do we do things out of obligation or
out of love for God. Something good to think about. After the meeting we did
intercambios/exchanges, and I stayed in Potosi with Elder Keate (from
Colorado). It was an awesome day. We visited a lot of people. In one cita/appointment,
while teaching the Plan of Salvation, the guy asked why God would send us away
from Him and why we had to leave Him and come to Earth. We explained that
first, we didn’t have bodies, but second and more importantly, we need to learn
for ourselves and progress. While explaining that and afterwards, it made me
think about a mission. I have spent my whole life learning about the gospel and
such, but now I’m out here really learning it so much better because I’m
learning it for myself in my own experiences and studying and teaching people.
While teaching, I learn so much more I feel then the people I teach. I think,
of all the awesome blessings that come from serving a mission, I think that
being able to learn for myself the gospel and teachings of Jesus Christ and
become really truly converted is one of the biggest blessings.
Sabado/Saturday around 12p we finished the intercambios, but
then Elder Puma (my comp) and I we stayed in Potosi for training for teachers
of seminaries and institutes (since we teach institute class). It was pretty
good, and the guy teaching mentioned that every lesson we teach should bring
people to think and remember Christ more. In any lesson, we should learn from
other people and the stories and such, but ultimately we should apply it to
Jesus Christ because really He should be our focus in everything.
Domingo/Sunday was kind of goofy. One of the members in the
ward was getting married and most of the people went to that instead of church,
so there were only like 30 people in church, :( and we didn’t teach the temple
prep class because most of the members weren’t there. After church, while
walking home, we passed a church and there were a ton of people there and some
guy invited us to come in and like “share the word of God.” I thought he was
meaning like listen and learn from the word of God together. However, when we
entered the church, he lead us right up the middle and just kept going to the
front. Instantly I thought “Oh boy, he was meaning that we talk, that we share
the word of God.” Hahaha. Man, we got pretty nervous walking up there. However,
he led us right to the second to front row and we sat there (and didn’t have to
talk). Hahaha. I was sitting there thinking about what I would say if I did
have to talk, and I remembered a talk by Hank Smith where he talked in another
church and started with something like “When we lose a soul, the whole world
loses,” and then some lady shouted “Amen.” I kind of laughed to myself and
thought I could say that because the people were shouting out Amen every 30 seconds.
Hahaha. Later that afternoon we taught the institute class and then came to
Potosi.
And that’s about it for our week. :) We stay pretty busy,
and sometimes it gets tiring. But I know this is the Lord’s work, and He helps
His servants and all those who come to Him. I love being a missionary and being
a representative of Him and His gospel.
Les amo
muchísimo!!
Elder
Sorensen