Just kidding..okay
not really. So if you know my father or me/my sibs, you know in our family we
get ingrown toenails pretty frequently. Ive had a nice one of my left foot for
a few months now, and after doing a lil weekly cutting/digging every week or two...
I decided I might as well take advantage of our convert who is a foot doctor.
So I rolled in there a little before a lesson, and she took a look at my toe.
Before I knew it she was sticking like 4 needles in my toe to numb it...and
then went to TOWN. Turns out a fat piece of nail has been chilling in the
sidish of my toe, so she took care of that and it bled for a handful of minutes
pretty hard, and at the end said ´´Okay you cant walk for the rest of today and
all of tomorrow. Stay in bed.´´ Sooo thats what ended up happening. It hurt a
TON once all the shots wore off..but the next day it wasnt too bad. Thanks to
Ibuprofen and some disinfectant stuff she gave me after those 1.5 days I was
all good (kinda...had to rock flip flops for 2 more days after that). We are
supposed to call the nurses and only use the hospital that our mission has a
deal with...but luckily both the Sister Nurses are my homies so they weren´t
too mad--they were actually cracking up as I tried to be smooth as I told them
what happened and how I cant work for 1.5 days....but its all good. And I am
back in shoes so dont worry about me!! I also took advantage of my day in bed
and read Preach my Gospel from cover to cover. That was fun.
Okay...the good news.
G´s baptism was amazing!! She was so excited all week and was so ready and gave
such an awesome testimony afterwards. She talked about how in the beginning she
wanted to meet with us to help her sons ´´find God´´...and little did she know
she was the one who needed to find Him. Her son E is also super happy and has
had such a huge change! He had his interview right before the baptism of his
mom, and this Saturday at 7.30 (after a Stake dance he and all the youth are
going too) he will be baptized! He is such a sweet dude and I am so happy to
have helped him be able to change his attitude and his relationship with his
mom. He is a beast. Now we just have to help him help his younger brother quit
being like he was (he says its probably his fault his brother doesnt want to
listen to us...because thats how he was for years up until a few weeks
ago...with time!)
Baptism of G, and her son who is getting baptized next
week!
Oh yeah...changes.
Last night we got changes. I am staying in Solanda with my companion Elder T
who came to me 2 weeks ago. Buuuuut, we are getting a third comp--Elder M from
Colombia. Trios are super rare and there is only 1 right now in the mish...so
itll be a fun change and an even bigger/better chance to learn and develop
patience! He has about 21 months and has had a rough mission up until now, but
Im sure we’ll all get along well and keep working hard/having success!
Also, something
AWESOME happened earlier today. We were walking to the super market to buy food
for the week...and ran into one of our less-actives and her daughter (who we
are baptizing next Saturday) in the park reading the Book of Mormon and taking
notes...talk about STUDYING THE SCRIPTS! That was awesome to see. We are super
excited for the chance they have been having and are excited to be able to help
the daughter prepare for this awesome stepping stone in her life!
As a mission we are
doing this thing called ´´Fe de Febrero, Milagros de Marzo´´, which means
Faith of February, Miracles of March. As a mission we are making a handful of
sacrifices for these next 2 months, in order to see miracles in the month of
March. We are doing 5 things....1) Reading the Book of Mormon start to finish
and marking every reference to Christ. 2) weekly service activities 3) Mission
wide fast on the 14th-15th of both months (join us if you
want!!) 4) Focusing personal studies on chapter 6 of PMG, Attributes of Christ
(there is 1 for every week) and 5) Personal Sacrifice(s). My personal
sacrifices are 1) Im not gonna talk English this whole change...which isnt too
tough except for District meetings and Pdays....but hopefully itll help my Spanish
a lot! And 2) always carry a Book of Mormon on me for these 2 months. A ton of
missions do that but literally NO ONE here does it...so thanks to a lil
inspiration from Big Jeff, im gonna go for it these 2 months and see what
happens!
Speaking of Big
Jeff...finished his MASSIVE stack of mission emails. What a mission the first
of the Kent R Sorinsins had!!! Def has given me some new motivation to be
better and work harder! I am blessed like crazy to be down here in Ecuador.
Good work Elder;)
Well, im outta here.
Love you all and thanks to each and every one of you for all the
love/support/everything!
Elder Sorensen
....Rocking the sandals.
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