Email from August 4th

Week 8: Hopefully Three Baptism in the Next Six Weeks

This week has been pretty crazy! Our lesson with K-- (metro guy) didn't really go as expected....He was really confused and wouldn't even accept a Book of Mormon....He more wanted dating advice than religious advice; hopefully he comes around. But we had lots of cool lessons besides that one this week! 

We got a referral Wednesday morning after the going through the temple. It is this guy who moved from Ukraine and is super interested. The sister missionaries who had been teaching him until the point where he was just about ready to get baptized! So, A-- will have a baptismal date after our lesson on Wednesday. 

We’re staring to meet with J-- twice a week to finish up the lessons and his baptism is going to be on August 24th! Then C-- should be getting baptized soon too! So, if all goes according to plan we should have at least three baptisms this transfer! :D (the transfer that starts on Wednesday). 

We had lessons with two of our really cool less active members this week, and both of them are trying to get Sundays off of work to come to church. Hopefully they get to come, because they are both super cool people!! 

We had the best district meeting ever on Thursday! We had cookies, and we got to play with kittens!! Yay!! But we found out our district leader is getting transferred; so some sadness ensued. For a little while we thought Elder Rummler would get transferred too because five of our Spanish speakers are leaving and we’re only getting one new one! President Cooke asked Elder Rummler if he wanted to go Spanish speaking. He told him the he wanted to finish training me first, but we were still a little

worried...Turns out he's staying, so that's good. 

We had lots of fun at the Nats game! I got to see Hailey Harris because the DC south mission was there too! Woot! Yay for having friends! Plus the Nats creamed the Phillies 11-0, so that was good. I hung out with my MTC district for most of the game! It was fun to see those guys again, because I don't get to very often anymore and we were such good friends in the MTC! It's been a great week! But my bet is that the coming weeks hold even more crazy awesome stuff for me!!

Love,

Elder Sorensen