Hola Familia
It was great to get to see you guys, I loved all the little stories you all told me. And it was great to see how everything is going. Tell Jake that if he wants to fix up a sports car he should start with the Jeep. I want to go mudding when I get home. ha ha

My new area is great! We are finally starting to get it moving. My companion is starting to hit the "this is hard phase of Mexico" I think. It is hard and I have to admit I've seen some really hard weeks. But its only to make us better more convicted missionaries. Its not the best 2 years of my life. Its the best 2 years for my life.

I love you all a ton and I miss you a ton. You kind of made me home sick, at least for a moment or two.
Elder Sorensen

Heating water for a shower.

May 7, 2012

Hola Familia

O.k. first off, I get to call you guys this Sunday at about 3:00 to 5:00 pm 5/13/2012).
If their will be any problem please send me an Email ASAP, and I'll see you 

soon :D
It has been a crazy this week. I have been just about lost this whole week. I have had no idea where I've been. I don't even have a map that I can carry around. But its been good and we brought one person to church last week and he is really exited to get baptized this next Sunday.

My new comp is Elder Burt. He is a cool kid from Bakers Field California. He is older than I am too. His Spanish isn't that bad either. He was in Texas for 5 weeks before he came here. He told me that they didn't really teach him that much there, but hes still a cool kid.

Being a trainer is so cool. It makes me feel that I don't know anything sometimes. We have a 2 hour companion study everyday where I get to teach all that he'll need to know. Its kind of intimidating, but so far they have turned out o.k. Teaching investigators is interesting too, Elder Burt is still learning Spanish so i get to teach a lot. I let Elder Burt teach as much as I can, and he does a good job. I still just can't believe that my first English speaking companion I get is brand new, and I get to teach him Spanish. I thought i was going to train a Latino. At least is sounded the most probable.

I can't believe that I'm about to hit the year mark. I think I might try to get an extension. We will have to see what the President says.

Sounds like everything is going great at home. Keep up the good work.
I'll see you Sunday.
Elder Sorensen

¡Hola Famili

I am glad to here that everything is good back home.

I am going to be a Dad! Or in other words I am going to be a trainer. When you train someone your are that Missionary's mission Dad and his your kid. I don't know who my new comp is going to be but will get to find out tomorrow. I am also opening an area called Molinito 1B. From what I have heard I am going to baptize a lot here. It is a poor area and there is always a lot of baptisms here. I will let you know how the area is. I have no idea how it is - except that I am going to have to take a shower out of a bucket.

Hey just a FYI I pulled out some money this week. I needed a little extra, and i bought some gifts for some converts I am leaving behind. I bought a Spanish triple, a little future missionary name tag, Jesus the Christ in Spanish and a few DVDs. Thank you for keeping a little bit of money there for me. I shouldn't need to pull any more out for a wile. Thanks a million X 10 again for that - it really helps.




We had 2 Baptisms this week. Amalia Sanchez and Dolores Bautista. Amalia was a old investigator we found a while ago and she told us she wanted to be baptized, so we worked with her and everything came through. The other is Dolores. She is way cool! About 4 - 3 weeks ago I got a call in my District meeting from the USA and a Member gave me a reference. Delores was that reference. Shes way cool! She is the one where i have a picture of us in the water. It turns out that her brother passed away and she had been asking all the questions like where is my brother... so we taught lesson 2, she was so ready to hear it. She accepted every word that we said. We had many spiritual lessons with her but we could never ask her to accept a baptismal date. For some reason we could never get to the question. But this last Tuesday we went over and she told us that she told her family that she was going to get baptized. It was awesome. She also made friends with Luz Maria at conference. She is a convert who is awesome. They were super happy to be there. It was a great day.

Real quick our mission had 425 baptisms and 433 confirmations this month :) We have about 90 companionships in the mission. What a miracle! The president is pushing us to 500 - that's the goal.



It was some what hard to leave the area, I have lots of friends here. David and Elizabeth made me a birthday cake. it was awesome and gave me a Angry Birds pillow (i gave them the triple). They are great people.

Thanks for all the support.

Love you forever.
Elder Sorensen

hola familia mia

I have had a good week. I can't believe that i have bee 10 months in the mission. It is crazy!

We had a couple of baptisms this week. We had baptisms on Friday and on Sunday.  Brandon Brad and Alondra got baptized this last Friday and Laura and Felicitas got baptized Sunday.  It was a good week. Brad and his family have been coming to church for about a week and finally committed to getting baptized a week ago. It was cool! Once Brandon was set on getting baptized he wanted his family to follow him, so he went and started to talk to everyone in his family to get them to get baptized. He is a quarter back for a some what famous Mexican football team. So hes given up a lot to make this decision to get baptized.

Laura and Felicitas are real cool, they were Catholic but they went inactive. So they came to our church and I have to say that I have learned a lot teaching them. They understood and accepted everything. They accepted a fecha but as the day got closer they were less and less firm in their decisions. Sunday came and they changed their minds. It was sad but we keep after them. My comp and the District Leader went on interchanges and  re-committed them to get baptized and they did. It was really cool.

We had interviews with the President Sunday too. It was a really good interview. I have been blessed with a descent amount of success in this area. The President told me that it isn't usually seen in the area that I am in, so he checked me on my humility. He told me what i need to do to take it up and notch and put power and humility in my teaching and being. I am  kind of anxious to know what I'm going to do in the next change.

I loved the Ester package! It was a great surprise when i got it! I had forgotten about how awesome jelly beans are. :) Thanks a ton!

Make sure that you wish dad and Abby happy birthday for me!! The pictures look great.

Love you forever
Elder Sorensen

April 16, 2012
Hola Familia!!

It is great to get to here from you guys again. It has been a good week here in Mexico. The work is moving on here in Roma. We have had 35 lessons this week and 140 contacts. We have just been working hard, and we have found a lot of cool people.

David got ordained to the priesthood last Sunday. They are going to present him in front of the stake this next Sunday to give him the Melchizedek priesthood. I am really excited for that. I am sending a picture of them and me. They are the ones that i took to get married. It is great to see them keep going. They are still planning on visiting me/us when i come home. They are one of the coolest families that I've had the opportunity to get to teach.



Luz Maria got confirmed Sunday too. It was cool she showed up all by her self and is doing everything. She told us that when we first found her she didn't think that we were that great, because we talked about things different than the Jehovah Witness, but she then said how great full that she was that we keep after her (we dropped her for 2 weeks) but then went to invite her to conference. From there she just lit on fire. Ha ha, it was sweet.

My friend Elder Lee found out today that his brother (working in the MTC) got to teach David Archaleta. ha ha that would be a really cool opportunity.

We got to play soccer today and i got fried. Ha ha ha. I forgot sunscreen. I still don't get how I can work all day in the sun and I don't get burned, but i play soccer for an hour and i get fried to a crisp.    

This week we have just had a full week of lessons. We did at long last commit a family to get baptized. It was sweet we had the weirdest interchanges too. The district leader came and changed with my comp to do an interview Sunday during church. Then Elder Lee and I went and taught 2 teenagers. They were awesome lessons the spirit was so strong in each one of them. We talked to Brad about a few commandments and answered all of his questions. At the end his only question was "how can we get my brother to get baptized with me?" I told him to just tell his brother and to ask him to do it to. So we pulled his brother out of class and they went and talked. 5 minuets later they came and told me that they were going to do it but they wanted to talk to their mom. She was somewhat star struck and really happy. The ward is now really exited for it too. The family has so many problems with everything. But you can tell that things are getting better. They are another amazing family too.

I have no idea how the people manage to have good strong families here. The families in the church are close to the only families that are secure. I've gotten to see how the gospel has helped many families. Its great! Its a huge testimony builder.


Love you forever
Elder Sorensen