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| Elder Caceres & Elder Sorensen (Elder Caceres is serving in Potosi. He came to Cochabamba for training.) |
This week has been
awesome.
Martes/Tuesday I
took a 3 hour taxi ride from Potosi to Sucre and then a 30 minute flight from
Sucre to Cochabamba. It was pretty crazy to think that after more than a year
in Potosi, I was leaving. I got to Cochabamba around 11:30ish, and then it took
almost an hour to get to my new area and house. I’m in the Rosedal Ward in the Sarco
Stake. We dropped of my stuff real quick at the house, and then we went to
lunch and then we went to work. There weren’t many citas/appointments planned
for the day, but we went to work and started contacting and looking for lots of
investigators and people to visit. We worked really hard and had a super good
visit with this lady named Salomé. She is super cool and really wants to get
baptized and come to church, but she wants to do all this with her husband and
he is kind of lazy (she says). Hahaha. She is awesome though.
Miércoles/Wednesday
we went to work again. In the morning we went to visit a contact that they had
found the week before. They are a super awesome family. Well, actually, there
are like 5 families that are living in like the same house but in different
rooms. They are all super, super good. We visited with Nely and Victoria. They
are two super awesome ladies who really want to get baptized and learn more
about Jesus Christ. It’s always a fun visit there because there are so many
people, and we always visit with lots of them and they are all super excited.
After lunch we had a few citas and a lot of contacting. We also had correlation
meeting that night, and it was pretty good. The ward is pretty established and
has people in callings. There was the ward mission leader and then the elder’s
quorum first counselor and the relief society first counselor too. It was
sweet. Also we share the ward with hermana missionaries, so that’s a little
different but cool.
Jueves/Thursday was
good. I had a really good personal study on faith. I learned how big it is that
we act. Faith is not just believing. Even devils believe in Jesus Christ, but
that doesn’t change their actions. We need to apply our beliefs and live in accordance
with them. I learned that knowledge is useless if we don’t apply it. Wisdom is
applied knowledge, knowledge in action. Faith is applied belief, living
beliefs. It was a super good study, and I learned a lot. We had a super good
day visiting the casa de oro (the house that has 5 families). We taught a few
different people but mostly with Nely and Victoria again. We had a few more
citas in the afternoon that went pretty good. We had a sweet lesson with
Jhonathan and Melissa. They are an awesome couple that is sooooo ready to be
baptized; they just need to get married. And they are working on that and
almost done with the papers. They are awesome investigators. Later we went to a
member’s house, Sergio and Jasmina. They are really good members, and they have
a very nice house. Hahaha. And Jasmina cooks extremely well. We had dinner with
them, and it was sooo good. Also I had to remember what manners are and how to
have them. Hahahah. I’m not out in the country and fields anymore, hahahha.
After, we had a really good visit with Salomé’s spouse. He seems pretty cool,
and we explained our purpose and a little about how the gospel applies to him
too.
Viernes/Friday we
had meetings with districts and zone. They were pretty good. It’s a bit
different to have hermanas in the zone but they are cool, and I’m getting to
know everybody. In the afternoon, we had tons of citas. We worked super hard
and several good visits with investigators.
Sábado/Saturday we
worked crazy hard again, of course. It was a little interesting because there
were a ton of missionaries from other zones who were in Cochabamba because they
were training. So they arrived at our house around midday. So we had to take
care of them and also work and get all our citas done. We had several really
good visits. One was with this investigator named Alieta. She has been
investigating for a little while and has tons of questions. We had an awesome
visit with her explaining the Gospel and how much we need Jesus Christ and how
it all fits together and what our part is. She understood really well and
really seemed to enjoy it and then actually came to church (for her first
time). It was awesome!!!
Domingo/Sunday was
pretty good. The ward is really good and really wants to help and be a part of
the missionary work. They are awesome. Domingo we had a really good visit with
this psychologist lady named Veronica. She is a really good investigator and
really smart and understands a lot, but it’s interesting because she has a
different manner of learning and thinking so it’s fun helping her learn.
I love my new area and
my companion, Elder Norton. We are both super, super excited and willing to
work and give this all we got. We are super excited for this cambio and the
things the Lord has planned for us. God is good.
Les amo,
Elder Sorensen
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| Elder Lopez, Caceres & Sorensen |
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| All the new missionaries & their trainers with President & Sister Montoya. |