This week was quite an eventful and fun week. Transfers were last week, and does anybody have any guesses?......................
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I have an awesome new companion. His name is Elder Clark, and he's from Utah. Down between Spanish Fork Payson, called Woodland hills. We had a great few days already, and we're having heaps of success! He is a miracle worker.
We had a miracle find on Thursday night. We were biking along and a girl yelled out "hi Elders". My first reaction was to wave and keep going, but I knew I should go talk to her. Besides not many people call us 'Elders' besides members. Most people call us 'brothers'. So we talked and found out she's a less active member and has a non member partner. She wants to come back to church this new year, so we set up a time for the next week and we left. about 8:45 we were wondering who to see who wouldn't be too far away so that we could get back in the flat on time. Then Elder Clark had an idea and said that we didn't even share a spiritual thought with them. So we went back and asked them if we could share a message. They said yes and we did the how to begin teaching bit where we set up expectations and share the blessings. They're pretty excited.
We also me another guy who is the person a member is working with to share the gospel with. Previously Brother Holtz had invited him and we played touch rugby for one P-day. We ran into him by chance and he agreed to have the lessons. We knew the spirit was there as we talked and we believe that if we'd had a proper lesson then we could have set him for baptism.
That, plus more, has all been just since Thursday, and so now that we have full weeks we're going to have heaps of miracles! Elder Clark is awesome, he works hard, has the faith, he's not shy, and he's anxious to help our investigators learn about and understand the gospel.
We had a massive cyclone come through this week starting about Wednesday, and went through Saturday. On Friday night there was heaps of lightning. About 10:30 before I went to sleep I saw flashes from over the mountains, but didn't hear much thunder. I stayed up about 10 minutes watching until I was so tired I basically passed out. But then 4 o'clock in the morning I wake up to a huge boom! It was right over the flat, so you could hear a couple of cracks, then the big bangs. Pretty fun, and it woke up heaps of other people we've talked to too.
So its been a fun week, and I think this transfer and this year is going to be awesome!
Arohanui!
Sincerely,
Elder Sorensen
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