PAVING THE WAY

Hola peeps!!!

WOW! Can I just say thank you all so much for your sweet, sweet letters and emails this week!!! I have been so blessed with the greatest support system. If I don´t write you back personally, it´s because I don´t have any time. But know that I love you and appreciate the time you took to write me and let me know that you are praying for me..Seriously helps! This week as been crazy...we have the best slash funniest investigators in the world. I´M TELLIN YA, THESE PEOPLE ARE A RIOT...

So first I want to tell you all about Eduardo!! He was the one who was baptized last month..and his wife is a member...all that jazz. Well he got the priesthood yesterday! It was so beautiful, their entire family was beaming. I feel so blessed to have been able to witness that miracle in their lives. Oh and some background...he has been taught by the missionaries for the past 3 YEARS...and it wasn´t until two sister missionaries came in that sparked something in him.. just a huge shout out to all the sisters out there!!! WOOOOT! I love him and his family so much. I don´t ever want to leave Carmelo. The good news is, that next December when they go through the temple...we get to go with them! Best Christmas ever!

K I have to tell you guys real quick about Marta. She is a member, but not active and we had THE FUNNIEST visit with her this week. So my companion loves to sing...so naturally we start almost every lesson with a hymn. So when we started singing..Marta, bless her heart..put her hands in the praying position and got a huge smile on her face, started shaking her head from left to right..with her eyes closed..How is someone supposed to sing while she´s doing that!? I was shaking I was laughing so hard. haha THEN..she wouldn´t stop talking...like we couldn´t get a word in..really in total we probably said 13 words in the entire hour..so assuming that she would love nothing more but to talk some more..we asked her if she would say the prayer and she turned her voice all scratchy, grabbed her throat and said that she couldn´t because she didn´t have a voice..hahaha you guys. This is what I´m working with. But I love it. 

Since my mom and grandma are probably scanning through this bad boy looking for the update on my health...here it is. Things are not ideal but I know that I will make progress this week! So my mission president called and he said..¨The worst thing for me, would be to not have you here. To me, you are one of the brightest young missionaries I have ever seen. I want you to have this opportunity. So lets get you well.¨ WHAT A SWEETHEART. I seriously felt so much better after talking to him. I know that we will get this all worked out eventually...so I am not worried. On the phone he decided that I should stop taking all medicine, and only eat at the cleanest, nicest restaurant that we could find for the week and see if we could get my tum tum back to remembering how to digest..(can you say spoiled? I had salmon like..every day.) He said that if it didn´t fix itself, that I would come to Montevideo for tests next week, and that if I continued having bad pain..to get to Montevideo as fast as I could. WELL...despite my pain, I didn´t feel like we had time to go to the doctors this week or next because we have really really reallllllllllllllly important lessons and people to visit this week. But yesterday after lunch, I almost died. haha okay that was a bit dramatic, but seriously, I was in immense pain. Luckily we were with the branch president and his wife at the time (who are also missionaries) and they called President Smith and he said to come immediatly. E N T O N C E S....I got to the ER about 10 O´clock last night and did the worst test ever..use your imagination ladies and gents. Anyway..I am now at the mission home bed ridden until Thursday with three different types of medicine. One for nausea, one for pain, and one for my digestive system. I am on a very specific diet..I think in some places it´s called anorexia. Jk. Kind of..haha seriously can´t eat like anything..But it´s okay because my companion is loving Becky Smiths cooking...while I chow down on raisens. Coo.  Anyway, I am not loving being locked up, but I am getting a lot of studying and rest in. I am worried sick about our investigators, and feeling like I am wasting the Lords time. But I understand that I need to get better now, so that I can give 110% again later. I so greatly appreciate all of your prayers!! You are all so great, and I know that I will be okay!! Positivity is key, I´m telling ya..IT WORKS! :) Please pray for the wonderful people of Carmelo. I miss them haha. I miss you all too. 

AH! Real quick..funny story. So we had a combined lesson with the elders and Elder Makinlay who is brand new was trying to explain the lamb of God...and he kept saying ¨Corneta¨ de Dios..instead of ¨Cordero¨de Dios...So he was saying the ¨horn¨ of God...instead of lamb. I was dying but it was awkotaco to correct him in the middle of the lesson..so we just waited til after:..? Good thing it was with a less active instead of an investigator. Oh! Also!! BREAKING NEWS. I learned how to lead music for real this week and now I am always volunteering myself because I love it...Anyway...despite my health...Everything is great. I AM HAPPY. I love Carmelo and the mission. I am learning so much...besides all of the domestic wifey stuff...the spiritual lessons I am learning are things I wouldn´t trade for anything. ANYTHING.I love my companion, the elders, the people, and my Savior! 

Food for thought: if you want some good insight..read ¨Prayer¨ in the Bible Dictionary. Such a good find! :)

HUGE SHOUT OUT TO MY TIMMY SNOYYYY FOR GETTING BAPTIZED. CONGRATS BABY GIRL, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND COULD NOT BE MORE HAPPY AND EXCITED FOR YOU.

Con amor,

Hermana Sorenson

   Okay..ignore the part where I´m not wearing makeup and that my hair is on top of my head (I´m sure my grandmas lovin it haha.) BUT this is my set up for the next four days..Still happy as a lark! Remember! We can always find something to smile about!!