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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.
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| "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
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| 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
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| "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
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| I got my sushi kick! |
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| Life happens:Comp put my dress in a bag with an open water bottle..Opps |
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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