SOS

Well my New Years kiss this year was AWES..non exsistant. But that´s okay because with great sacrifice....comes great blessings. ;) Just kidding..kind of. Anyway..I hope everybody had a safe and happy New Year and that they wrote down some goals to work towards!!! It´s a good thing I started out this year working on the Christlike attribute of patience..because this week has been one for the books...No really, I read a l o t of books. 

r e w i n d.

The first four weeks in Uruguay..my stomach couldn´t digest anything. OW. So I got put on some meds that seemed to do the trick. Well once the meds were gone, it was back to not being able to digest. SO I got prescribed other meds..and meanwhile got a parasite...so that destroyed my stomach. We we´re out talking to this old man and I just casually passed out. y i k e s. It was the weirdest. I got way hot, then way dizzy..then black. I woke up like 30 seconds later haha...seriously embarassing. I really think it was just a mix of the heat, the medicine, the parasite..I was just exhausted. So the elders got me back to the house and gave me the most beautiful priesthood blessing ever and I felt much better after. The next day, and the day after I was put on HOUSE ARREST. Kill me. Oh my gosh, I was dying in there you guys! It was one thing to be locked up, but another to feel like I was wasting the Lords precious time... THAT IS NOT A GOOD FEELING. But now, I am on my third prescription and feeling better..ish. I am getting an ultra-sound this week to get to the bottom of all of this! So please keep me in your prayers. I know that it´ll all work out how it´s supposed to. I´m not worried. (only a little) ;) Word here travels so fast...seriously the e n t i r e branch knows about my stomach issues. haha the details too...and testimony meeting was like ¨please keep Hermana Sorenson in your prayers...her stomach, her this, her that..¨I felt so stupid..but they really are so sweet..and so accommodating. The good news is the whole town knows I am on a special diet of only fruits and vegetables...and every one is bringing us all this healthy stuff. YOU´RE WELCOME HERMANA CHEN!! 

f a s t f o r w a r d.

Nothing too exciting happened this week..our investigators are progressing and nothing makes me more excited than that! Oh good news...we can teach Margarita as long as the elders are with us..So we´re going to continue with that! I am happy. We contacted this lady named Maria and found out that she was a member. We´re helping her quit smoking with a program that the church offers..We started with the elders giving her a blessing, throwing away her smoking supplies, and cleaning her house. That was hands down one of the grossest things I have ever had to do in my entire life. NOT BEING DRAMATIC. Her walls are cynderblock and she has ten years worth of cigarettes stuffed in the walls...it was that mixed with this thick gooey snot crap..I seriously was gagging you guys. SOS. BUT...I am happy to do what I can to help her quit smoking, and come back to church...as much as I NEVER want to have to do that again. Like ever.

We had a girl in our branch leave for her mission to Mexico today. Her name is Lorena and she has one of those ¨I hate the world¨ faces but she´s actually really nice. haha just not much of a jokester naah what I´m sayin? Anyway, Hermana Chen and I helped her pack this week and it gave me the worst flashbacks of me packing the night before I left at 4 AM..what of it. But all she is bringing is every color of turtle neck you can think of..haha I was like..Uh you know that Mexico is hot right...? She´s like yeah but I need to be modest..haha OKAY...don´t mind us sitting here in our scoop neck t-shirts. We sent her off, and her mom was so sad. I felt so bad! I hate goodbyes.

I wish I had more goods for you guys this week..but I really just don´t. I love you all so much and appreciate your letters, emails, and prayers! I can´t believe that on Thursday I will have been out 3 months. Oh heres something interesting..I retired my cheetah flats. The saddest. But don´t worry, I bought a cheetah headband to replace them!! I´m wearing it in the pic I attached with Garfield...since I know you all really care to see. I love you all so much, and I love being a missionary! Although the work is hard, this has been so rewarding. 

Food for thought: ¨It is through our extremeties that we become aquainted with God¨ I testify of that!! We can do hard things ladies and gents!! The Lord is only as far away as our knees are to the floor. ¨..I am Jesus Christ, and I am quick to come. Even so, amen.¨ He really is SO quick to come..He´s here for me, and he´s here for all of you! He loves us so much, and only wants to help. HE LIVESSSSS!! I KNOW IT!

Con amor,

Hermana ¨Chiste¨ (means joke...all the kids in the branch call me this because I´m always making jokes with them.) aka Hermana Sorenson.

haha I´m five!