Hola,
Hola!! This week was pretty awesome. A few ups and downs, but that’s how life
goes right. We found a lot of really good, new investigators this week.
We found this lady
Yackilina and her husband Rovilson. It was an awesome contact, and then when we
went back for the appointment, we talked a bit about the life and the need for
Jesus Christ and the gospel. It was an awesome lesson and at the end she told
us that she has lots of dreams and recently she had a dream that she didn’t understand
very well, but she said “everything you just said has helped me soo much, I
understand so much more now. I’ve been praying God would help me to understand.”
WOW!!
We had several awesome
citas/appointments with our investigators that are progressing towards baptism.
We had a good cita with Rainir. He is awesome. He is struggling a little with
work and unfair treatment and pay (‘cuz they’re from Venezuela). But he never
forgets God and keeps reading the Book of Mormon and praying. And he came to
church on Sunday! WOO!!
Nicol was supposed to
be baptized this last week, but her mom still isn’t sure if she wants her
to get baptized yet. Dang. Nicol is awesome and super ready. We just got to
help her mom see that now.
We also had a cita
with David. He is super ready for baptism. He’s a little special, but still
very smart and really wants to be baptized. We talked a bit about President Russell
Nelson and watched a video of Pres Nelson talking to Colombia in Spanish. Pres
Nelson is awesome. I know he is God’s prophet here on the earth today.
Yuly (the lady that
went to Venezuela a few weeks ago), she came back this last week. She is also
very ready to be baptized. God is good. We’ve got several baptisms planned for
the coming weeks. We are working hard finding new people to baptize in April.
Training is awesome. My comps are very young, hahaha, and sometimes it’s very
obvious. They want to work and learn everything though, so it’s
awesomeness.
Thursday we had an
awesome zone conference. One of the best I’ve ever had. Some gentleman came
from the Mission Department and gave an awesome class talking about faith. He
talked about how the prophets and people that lived before Christ had
testimonies of Him and said, “We have received the remission of our sins” before
Christ had even been born. He talked about how faith is trusting in God’s
promises. Then he compared that faith and idea to our missions. We are here to
baptize. We should see more people as “already baptized” or “already in
the temple” and with that grand faith, work to help them reach that
potential. Focus more on the future and look to things to come, not so much to
the past. It was an awesome lesson, and I really learned a lot.
Also, our branch here
is the best. We are planning Family Home Evening lessons to prepare for this
coming General Conference, and the members are awesome and inviting their
friends to join us. We have been having FHE almost every night of the week, and
it’s been a great help to our investigators.
Life is good. The
mission is awesome. We’ve heard a bit about the coronavirus and it’s
pretty close; it’s in a city like 30 minutes away. I really hope it won’t affect
the work in any way. We have lots of awesome people progressing really
well.
Les amo,
Elder Sorensen