Jan 9, 2012 
Hola Familia!!
It’s been a crazy week this week I will have to admit. We have taught over 36 lessons this week, and we had 5 investigators come to church with us this last Sunday. It was a Sunday that I’ll never forget. We had one baptism with a Sister named Rosario she’s real cool. She had a awesome experience, she started crying about 40 sec after she came out of the water, saying that she just felt so clean. But that’s not what had the biggest impact on me this week.

We recently found a Young Man (27) named Cesar. He lives alone with 2 dogs, his family lives about 4+ hours away, and he’s just been working. We knocked on his door and he told us through the door he was showering, so we moved on to the next door. No one after him opened up, but after about 5ish minutes he shouts at us and told us to come and talk to him. We told him we were reps. of Jesus Christ and he said “Pásense” or “get in here” in English. To make long storry short hes talked to Jehovah Witnesses, a bunch of different Christian churches, and even lived in a Catholic Seminary for a year, he’s a catholic by birth. when we taught him lesson 3 (baptism) we found out that he didn’t think that any one church is true, and that salvation was a individual thing, he even said, “if you tell me that your church is the best, what a deception” so we explained to him that we can find out for ourselves through prayer and our purpose is to teach a man to fish not give him a fish.... so that was a powerful lesson. He was one of the investigators that came with us to church. To be honest nothing seemed like it went right for Cesar to have a good impression about the church, because it was fast and testimony meeting. And as you know everyone talks about how this church is the only true church, the Prophet and the Book of Mormon. After that meeting I asked him what he thought, he looked at me with an I don’t know what to say smile and just said that he needed us to explain some more things to him and that everyone said that this church is the best. So I told him were going to explain everything that happens in church to him at our appointment at 4:00. So my comp and I somewhat got the feeling that he wasn’t feeling to great about how we do things.

So at the last class, Elders Quorum, we were talking about Saints, and what makes a saint a saint. It went ok but Cesar made a comment that really made me worry about the members starting a war of words with him. He essentially said that a saint should be humble, and that he felt that every path leads to H.F. (we hadn’t taught him about the Restoration yet). That’s a really easy thing to nail someone for saying. But there happened to be 2 RMs in the class that did a great job, normally members are new and don’t know how to respond nicely to questions like this. They essentially explained that every person can pray and receive a testimony from Heavenly Father, and another said that it’s like if you see a crash it makes you a witness of that crash, and once you receive a testimony like this you’ll want to share it with people. And the response of Cesar was really cool he said he really did like what he saw in us as a church and really complemented us Elders, he said that the only reason that he come to church with us was because of what he saw in our eyes, he called it the truth and word of God. And that he felt the peace that he had been looking for with us. And that every member should try to be like us. It was a way huge complement.

So we taught him lesson one later on Sunday and he accepted everything really well. He told us I believe you and told us how we really did have something special. That he’s always been able to see if someone is teachings are of god from their eyes. I think that may be one of his gifts to say. He hadn’t seen the truth in anyone till we came along, and that he had a thought of savior knocking on his door when we knocked on his door and that he needed to check and see who was out his door, and that he felt that somehow he already knew us from somewhere, like we were friends before we came here. The spirit was so strong.
Well it sounds like everything is going good at home, thanks for all your love and support.
Love forever
Elder Sorensen