This week’s email might be shorter cause I'm writing for a couple less days due to our p-day change this week! Wednesday was really exciting. We had three lessons and then a dinner. Our first lesson was with a less active member who we had seen the week before. It had been a while since the missionaries had visited him and he was feeling pretty down. This week however he looked so much better, and I know it's because he read his scriptures and prayed during the week. The change of his countenance was so visible and had such stark contrast from the week before. It was awesome. We shared another lesson with him and invited him to church. Then we went to a recent convert's house and talked a little bit about our favorite parts of the Book of Mormon! It was really fun. Then we went to another less actives house and talked more about the Book of Mormon. Then we went to our weekly dinner appointment.
I think I explained this last week but just in case, there are 12 missionaries in our ward, so we all get fed together Wednesday nights, then have our ward correlation meeting. Dinner was good, but our ward mission leader didn't show up, and one of the other areas didn't show either... So... I happened to be the oldest mission age wise... which turned into me they being asked to run the meeting. It was really weird. We played get to know you games cause I'm new there.
Thursday we broke out our bikes finally, went and did some service for Ceasar and he fed us lunch and dinner. There's a huge hill right before his house, so it's a super fun bike ride. It was good to help him.
Then Friday Ceasar invited all the Elders over for lunch. We were able to do our weekly planning session. We went super hard into this time because I really want to learn this area as quickly as possible, so we did it for almost 3 hours!!
Saturday was interesting. We got a phone call from Sister Ellsworth saying they were down near Gallaudet and she wanted me to give her a blessing. They came by and we did that, then we went and tried to contact some referrals for the rest of the night. We ran into a person from Utah that just moved in down the hall from us. We're not sure if she's a member or not, but she offered to feed us! Woot! One of the referrals lived right where there was this huge party happening, so we thought we'd try and contact people in there, but we got a really bad feeling about it the more we hung around and we got ourselves out of there pretty quick. We tried contacting people for the rest of the night. A lot people ask us for directions around the city. It's pretty funny.
Sunday we went to church, and were about to walk into sacrament meeting when WILLIAM from the singles ward walked by!!! Jason Hinds was singing in sacrament meeting (another singles’ ward member) so William came to see him. We got to hang out all during church, then as we were getting ready to go to Ceasar’s for dinner, Ceasar invited William as well!! William also ran into a girl that was in one of his classes at BYU-I who I'll talk about later. We went to dinner with William and all the elders and had tons of fun! Next we had our lesson with R- our investigator.
Our p-day plans were to sleep over at Derwood and hang out with Elder Reedy, but we had no idea how we were gonna make metro-ing up there on time and everything work. As William was driving us to our lesson he came up with a great plan: the girl he knew from Idaho was with two friends and the needed a place to stay for the night, so they were gonna sleep over at his house, so while we were in our lesson he went and picked them up, then came back and picked us up, and dropped us off at home to get on the metro. That worked out.
As we were walking the last little bit to R-‘s house a car pulled off to the side of the road in front of us and a member got out, gave us a referral and some cookies... So I guess we were in the right place!! We had our lesson with her and she was solid as ever and is still right on schedule for baptism! Finally, William came and got us took us to our apartment where we grabbed all our clothes and blankets, hopped on the metro and got picked by Elder Reedy and were in before 9:30. So everything worked out great! Today we've mostly been playing Dominion and just hanging out. I love you all!! Have a great week!
Elder Sorensen
Elder Sorensen
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