Dear _______,
First. Happy 48th
Birthday to the main man (Elder) Brian Sorensen. BALLIN!
Another solid week
come and gone...the weeks here in Solanda have been going crazy fast. Feel like
I just got here and already have a month here and am in week 5 of the
change...crazy!!
Well, got hit with
back-to-back crazy weeks. After everything that happened last week and capping
it off with my bday, this week ended up being a lil crazy also. On
Saturday (3 days ago) we received emergency changes--my companion Elder F
left to a ward about an hour north of here, (and is comps with Elder U, one of
my best buds in the mish from the MTC...awesome! and the same ward as A, my
comp from MTC...dope!), and I am staying here in Solanda and received a
companion from Tena (the jungle like 7 hours east of here). He is a really
nice/humble dude. He’s from Peru and 27...so it is definitely a change of pace
from my last companion but it is all gooood, we are gonna do work!! He has had
a lot of health/stress problems so far on his mish, so President sent him here
a little closer to civilization and to a comp who’s gonna help him relax and
baptize ;) (hehe jkkkk). But we get along great and its gonna be a nice change
and great chance to learn some new traits out here!!
Well...really I kinda
forget everything else that happened this week because of the e-change....but I
promise it was a good week and we worked hard! Haha! We are currently teaching
a handful of people and have 3 progressing and attending church with baptismal dates
for next Saturday. Yay!
Today was an AWESOME
PDAY--full of English. We went to the Offices/middle of Quito to get lunch at
this super good burger place. The owners (2 brothers) lived in SoCal for 30
years so it was cool chatting with them and feeling American again (even though
they are Ecuadorian). Afterwards, on the bus back I met/chatted with a 22 year
old roadie who has been travelling all over South America for 6.5 months now
(Brasil for the World Cup, Colombia, and now here). He was playing guitar and
sung WAY GOOD. Did a sick version of Hotel California. He basically told me his
whole life story in a 5 minute chat so that was cool. ´´I came down here to
find myself but am now more lost than when I left´´...but he was a homie..I got
faith in him ;)
Lastly, talked to 2
Jehovahs Witnesses on a different bus, they are from Finland but spoke English
(and like 4 other languages). It was a 23 year old dude and his 21 year old wife.
They were down here for 3 months and are now heading to South Carolina. I love
talking in English hahaha.
Well hope you all
have a great week. Love yall!
Elder Sorensen
Birthday dinner with the ´´fam´´
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