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2019-10-21: Learning Lots & Bolivian Elections


This week was pretty awesome. I love being a missionary, and I am learning tons! God is good.

This week we had zone conference Tuesday. It was pretty awesome. President gave a good class about how the mission is a sacrifice, and we can’t receive all the blessings possible if we aren’t sacrificing everything. We are not here to have fun or enjoy our time here. We can do that at home. We are here to do what God wants and help each one of his children live closer to Him. Conference was awesome.

This week we worked super hard. We have finally learned working with the members and less actives is way, way, way more effective than contacting. Most part-member families are already familiar with the church, and we are seeing a bunch have been prepared to be baptized. We spent time getting to know the bishop and then the presidents of some of the organizations, and then asking them about the people in their organization, the less actives they know and who we should visit.

This week was awesome. I think this might be the answer. We have been sprinting full speed on ice, and it’s because we are doing something wrong. We have been contacting like crazy, which is great, and we have found lots of really good investigators, but they either drop us and tell us not to come back or don’t seem super interested. It happened again this week. Alieta called us and told us she no longer has time to visit with us. DANG. But my comp and I are realizing there are people ready and wanting to be baptized. We just need to find them. And I guess it just wasn’t her time yet. “The field is WHITE and ALL READY to harvest.” The field isn’t ready to plow or ready to seed and plant, NO there are people ready to be baptized. So our job is to be way more in tune with the Spirit and trust that God will lead us to those elect. We feel that most of them are in part-member families or less active families. God is good. This week was awesome. It was kind of disappointing about Alieta but we are moving on to people that are ready.

Sunday they had elections here for the president. It was kind of crazy, and there wasn’t church and we had to stay in the house all day. We had cambios/transfers, but Elder Norton and I are staying together. We are super excited for this cambio and ready to give it our all. I love being a missionary. Bolivia is awesome. I am learning how to better apply the things I’m teaching to my own life. I love studying and learning more and then being able to share my testimony and the things I learned.

Love ya guys!!
Elder Sorensen

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