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2020-03-02: Craziest Appointment So Far

Hellos!! THIS WEEK WAS AWESOME!!! Hahaha. We worked super hard and are seeing lots of progress. Attitude is everything in the mission. A good attitude and hard work will always bring good results. GOD IS GOOD. 

We have several awesome people preparing to be baptized soon. Nicol (13 years old) is going to get baptized this Saturday. She’s incredibly smart and is really taking this seriously. She is sooo ready to be baptized. We had a really good talk, telling her to be nicer to her mom, because that’s what Christ would do and if she wants to get baptized she needs to be more Christlike. She understood :) and took it really well. She’s very mature. Mucha nicol (an expression that means “way to go” “you’re awesome”).

Rainir is a baller. He’s an industrial engineer and very smart. He’s planning to get baptized the 21st. He just wants an answer from God to be sure. He’s reading and praying every day. GOLD! He’s awesome.

We found this lady named Alba on Wednesday.
She was like “What do you guys have for me?”
Us: “Well, what are you hoping for?”
Her: “I don’t know, good news.”
Us: “We have a gift for you FULL of good news. It’s called the Book of Mormon.”
I’m not really sure why I said that but quickly found out. She got really quiet and started crying. Then said, “I’ve been rebelling against God my whole life, and lately I’ve been praying lots to know what God wants me to do. I had a dream, and God sent me you guys (she saw us!), and God told me that you’d give me a gift from Him.” WOW!! God is awesome! We had an awesome lesson, and she is planning to be baptized the 28 of March. She came to church on Sunday with her 3 grandkids!! Alba is the best. God is good. This is His work, and we are only tools he uses to answer prayers. 

We found lots of other really awesome people this week. The Book of Mormon is the word of God. If you haven’t read it, I strongly invite you to do so. It will change your life if you let it. We are using the Book of Mormon a LOT. And it’s working miracles.

Craziest appointment of my mission. We have this awesome family we’ve been visiting. It’s a grandma (named Cecilia) and her 4 granddaughters. They are awesome. They are really looking for the true church. We had an appointment, and we showed up a few minutes late. Turns out, some preachers from another church had been knocking doors on that same street, and the family thought they were us, just that we sent different people. So when we showed up for the appointment, the other preachers were in there teaching already. We sat down and immediately the other guy started trying to prove their church was the true church. Okay. We let them keep teaching, and then I began asking him a few questions (about things I’ve learned must be part of the true church). I’ve studied a bit about their church and know they claim to have an apostle. So I began asking about him, and instantly he started on a spiel about how Joseph Smith is false. He didn’t answer my question, so I asked it again. We weren’t really saying much, and this guy was just going off. He wasn’t even focused on teaching the investigators or anything; his only goal was to show how wrong we are. At some point, the poor old grandma got way too into the conversation and got stressed out and.... she PASSED OUT! Hahaha. She was sitting on the bed with one of her granddaughters, and then all a sudden she just fell back. AHHHH!! Haha. Her granddaughters explained it’s totally normal and happens often. Man it was crazy. The guy finally stopped talking for a second. She was out cold for a solid 5 minutes. After like 2 minutes the guy was like, “Anyways, as I was saying…” WOW! I told him that’s enough and let’s leave. Hahahahaha. While we were leaving, grandma woke up. We ushered the other preachers out, and then we had a good lesson. Hahahaha. By far the craziest appointment I’ve ever been in. Lessons learned: DON’T BE LATE TO APPOINTMENTS. Hahaha. Also, Bible bashing ain't for the weak. Haha.

This week was awesome. My companions are learning a lot. They are the best. Life is good. I’m starting to imagine how nice it would be to never go home. I love it out here.

Les amo 
Elder Sorensen

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