April 2, 2912
Hola familia

Its good to get to hear from you again, and to hear that everyone is fine. Sounds like you had a great vacation. Everyone here is on vacation for 2 weeks. Its Semana Santa here in Mexico or "Holy Week". From what I have heard they have demonstrations of every stage of Christs ministry. So I will have to let you know how it goes.

Its still shaking here in Mexico, about 10 min ago we felt another one. Nothing has fallen.

Conference was awesome! I only got to watch the sunday session, and i missed President Uchdorfs talk. :/ But I loved it none the less. We wached it in english, with about 6 american Elders. We laughed a bit at a few talks. For example when Elder D Todd Christoferson said real plainly that if you don't get baptized you will be damned. We were in unbelief but laughing at the same time. When he said that long word followed by translate that! We just lost it, we laughed our heads off. It was awesome.

We ended up having a descent number of investigators come to conference. It was great. The Prophet and Apostles really talked alot about lesson 2 this time. They talked really strong about baptizm it was awesome. We also had a Sister who has been studying with the Jehovas Wittnesses, she let us in to explain to her about how she could find out who had the true church..... and i think she got her anwser. :) but i do have to ask what the new temples they anounced?

Love you guys a Ton

Elder Sorensen

March 19, 2012
Hola!
It sounds like you all are doing great this week. I am glad to hear it.
It has been a super busy week and it ended super! I couldn't stop smiling all Sunday. This week David and his wife Elizabeth got baptized, its been a fight 

but they finally got there. Everything went off with out a problem, the service was Saturday in the morning. It was so cool. 

Also Marisol got baptized Saturday before David and his family. She is defiantly a very interesting investigator. She came to church on her own and loved it! She just thinks that you should wait 3 months to get baptized. We finaly talked her into getting baptized to show a good example to her kids. She has 4 kids and her husband has 3 kids and all of them came to church this last Sunday. It was really cool to see her finally get baptized. Now we can work on her kids.

Sunday we had another service for Christopher. He is the son of Erika who got baptized last week. It was a really great experience for him. He basically said "I am ready to change my life, stop doing stupid stuff and start doing good stuff." His mom and him don't have a very great relationship at all. She was not a great mom and was involved in some bad things and neglected her kids. Now she is doing everything she can to try to fix it. It is going to take some time, but you can already see and feel the change that has happened in their family. His mom didn't come to the baptism because they had 

a fight, but it helped her to see where one of her errors are and shes going to fix it. Christopher's uncle came up to support him get baptized and the baptism was really special.

Its been a really hard week to stay humble, we had 9 confirmations this week. It just so happened that the BYU study abroad program came up to our church today with like 25 returned missionaries. Nine confirmations is alot in one service, The bishop had all the investigators come and sit up front and we confirmed them one by one. It took about 30+ min. After all was said and done most of the students from BYU came and congratulated me for all the hard work. They were also saying things about miracles.... it was probably something they have never seen before. Then all the members came and congratulated me for all the hard work. To be honest it kind of bugged me. I ended up sending everyone (who was from the ward) who talked to me to the new converts to support them. We also had the opportunity to talk the Christopher uncle. He talked us up a ton for baptizing his nephew. It really brought to mind what Elder Uchtdorf said in his talk "Pride in the Priesthood", where he talks about the counsel that he got when he was a new Apostle. The members will say really nice things about you, and to you. They will do nice things for you, and to just not breath it in. So that is what I've been trying to do, not let all of it go to my head. 

We had interchanges this week too. My new comp is Elder Jimens. He is a cool kid. He lives about 3 hours from where we are at in a town called Nealtican Puebla. He has been in the mission for about 3 months. It will be a cool opportunity to get to be his companion.
Well my time is up. Keep up the good work.

Love ya forever

Elder Sorensen