Sister Sorensen Orlando Florida Mission

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Saying Goodbye to our
recent Convert.

Little party I threw for Sister A Painting a guy gave me.

McCullough

for finishing training.

(Don't freak out mom, I'm kidding about the title) sorta… ;)

Hello y'all.

Listen, Daytona and Windermere are not the same.

I literally went from mansions to trailer parks. But I love every inch of it. I've never heard "I reckon" more in my entire life.

Let me tell you about Daytona, it's awesome. I honestly feel like it has so much potential. It's much bigger than my last area. We share the area/Ward with the Zone leaders. And the senior missionaries live in the apartment below us so that's pretty cool.

DAYTONA!!!Driving to our next appointment. Pure bliss. This is my area!

When I first got here, my third companion (Sister Stevenson) wasn't here yet, so I just got to unpack and get to know Sister Peterson, and she's awesome. I adore her.

Sister Peterson

Sister Stevenson

What did we doooooo this week?

We helped this one less active sister clean up her house and then had a lesson. Lots of…older people live in Daytona. So there are tons of retirement communities. She lived in this tiny house and she's a bit of a hoarder. So she wanted us to help move all these bags of food on the floor to another side of the kitchen. Ah, I would pick one bag up and cockroaches would flee into the wilderness like Laman and Lemuel.

We also went to do service at this Jewish church. We were giving bags of food to the homeless people. It was slightly disappointing if I'm going to be honest, because it seemed more like a publicity stunt. Like the news was there making us take so many pictures. Come on! Ha-ha-ha. One of the local news reporters was so frustrated that I would only say my name is "Sister Sorensen."

The rest of the week was pretty crazy honestly. We're just trying to figure everything out. We visited a bunch of less actives and met a bunch of members of the Ward. One of my favorite Ward members so far is DJ. He and his stepson live in the Ward, and he's seriously the glue. He will do anything for anyone. He's this red neck ex-Baptist preacher from Georgia. And listening to him talk is hilarious. Aw man, I wish you could all just be here. It's amazing.

You know me being super OCD, I've been going through every inch of our area book and making lists this week of who we need to go see. And members of the Ward and info we have on them. I'm very excited for this upcoming week! I just want to go out there and work hard and see all the miracles that I know God has in place for us.

The Most Solid Family
Their Daughter just got Baptized!

My first week here and the parents are so
excited to be baptized as well in a month

Young Women

I've just having to be patient with myself, because you know how I feel when I don't know what's going on… I hate it. I just want to know everything about this area already. But I'm so surprised how much I've come to know in just a week.

I know Heavenly Father is mindful of me that I'm sure of. I’ve learned that this week.

Thanks for sending me pictures of Hailey’s return. Hailey looks amazing! I can’t believe she’s home.

Thank you for all the prayers for transfers, certainly I could feel them.

I know our Savior is on my side, I know he lives.

Thank you so much family!This was the best gift of my life.

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THE ZONE

Hi 👋🏻

I love you all.

The time has come, I'm leaving Lake Crescent. We got transfer calls on Saturday.. : ( . Sister McCullough will be staying here in the L.C. Ward and I am going to.... THE BEACH! 🌊Daytona Beach🚦 to be exact.

I'll be in a trio as well. I'll be back with my MTC comp and a Sister who's been out just a little shorter than me so I haven't met her yet. I'm super excited, nervous, and sad. Mixed emotions. I love this place, it's become my home and I love my members, and we've been seeing so many amazing miracles lately. I know Sister McCullough will do an amazing job. But one of my favorite Sisters, Sister Brady is an STL down there by the beach, which means we get to go on exchanges so I'm really stoked on that.

Anyway, back to my last week in Orlando South. This week we got L on date for baptism! And we did a temple tour with her, she absolutely loved it. We just had the most outstanding lesson. Every time we invite her to be baptized she just says "No I need to learn more." But this week I felt very strongly that we needed to invite her again.... And she said yes! Then she started to say,"Yes I will be baptized because I love you two, and I know you want me to be baptized." I didn't want to just ruin the invitation I had just made, but I wanted it to be more personal for her. So we told her, "L we will leave someday, you might leave someday, you can't be baptized for us. It has to be for you." and I had probably one of the most amazing moments on my mission thus far. When I was able to look her in the eyes, and truly tell her that I wanted her to feel what we feel, and I wanted her to feel it for herself. Well she started to sob.. she kept repeating "I get it now, I get it now, I feel it."She said "Every time we were at church and I see these people all emotional I wonder what are they feeling, and I get it now." Then she admits to us..... and says, " I now know why you are here, I had a dream about you two before you came, but now I know what you're here for. You're here for me." It was amazing.

A testimony to me that I'm on the sidelines of the greatest game ever played. I get a front row seat, watching the spirit work his mighty miracles.

The rest of the week was full of adventure. We picked up new investigators had a lot of solid lessons.

"He Got Up"

We went to a huge service event here in Orlando called "He got up" they have all the homeless people come in as guests and they give them clothes and food and help with their legal work. It's amazing

Another serve project, We were helping make fancy wine glasses, hope that's okay. 😁

Also we had stake conference and Elder Parker an Area 70 came. He talks like a baptist preacher, it's awesome. He was the stake president at the time in Meet the Mormons

"Alter of Sacrifice" tie burning ceremony with my district"

I'll be honest, before my mission I didn't entirely expect that I would want to go on a mission because I loved my life. I knew the gospel was a big part of my life and I wanted others to experience it too. I loved God. I loved my neighbors. I wanted to serve and I wanted people to be happy. And I wanted to be better. But I think I only wanted change in certain degrees. What I'm learning now is far better than anything I've learned before. I want to be a concerted missionary and I understand now the things I have to leave behind.

I think the Lord smart in blessing us with more than just a couple of weeks of a mission. Not only to find more people, but our possibility of change is greater within our selves. We need time and diligence and a whole lot of patience. And we need to change. I needed and I currently need to change.

I didn't come here strong enough to serve the best mission I could. But God qualifies whom he calls and the key to qualify is desire to change. He called me on a mission. He called me for who I am, to come. But I don't believe he called me to just be this, 18 months of just mediocre. I have been called to THE WORK.

It reminds me a lot of repentance. Anyone can repent, everyone is asked to repent. But as we repent we change. That's what makes it actually count. The change. We are called to serve, but as we serve, we change.

There's a quote I found this week. And I love it

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. …"President Ezra Taft Benson, Ensign 1989

I got my sushi kick!

Life happens:Comp put my dress in a bag with an open water bottle..Opps

This is an added note from her email just to mom.

Also get this. Our investigator Herb wrote me a letter It says

"Sister Sorensen, your passion for your belief is remarkable. Don't be afraid to express your emotions it is what makes you so special. And the words our Heavenly Father filters through you carry deep meaning. Thank you and bless you for bring and sharing with me those special qualities that make you so unique. I have gained much personal and spiritual growth because I had the opportunity to meet you."

It was very sweet.

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