Elder Alex Sorenson: Durban, South Africa Mission: August 18, 2014

Fam Bam,

Pretty long week. But Odama and i worked hard. we'd just park the car and contact and find people between appointments instead of driving to and from appointments. This week we did work! But had fun doing it. We had about 51 lessons and 22 contacts which is pretty dang good! but trainin it going pretty well Odama is starting to get into the groove of how everything works and things are nice with him cause he is so easy going. but Greene had really helped me enjoy my mission and the work these past few weeks which is nice after months of hardships. But Saturday we killed by Mormon Helping hands which took the whole day but it was nice. we went to a less active family that lives in a shack and made about 4 nice gardens for them and in a few more weeks we'll go back to improve the shack. But it was a busy busy week. Friday and Saturday night Me and Greene Stayed up talking while Mills helped me make about 150 chocolate cookies for the Baptism which we had on Sunday. We had 6 People getting baptized and 5 Asked me to baptize them so it was awesome. 3 of them were Thabile, Nonduduzo, and Senzeni Maseko 3 of the most power investigators i have had on mission. We met them on a saturday invited them to be baptized and come to church that first day and the havent missed an appointment, sacrament meeting or a commitment since. the other 3 were boy from a part member family, there names are Siabonga, Sanele, and Aphiwe. but it was an amazing baptism. not much else happened this week for me. this morning we went golfing and me and greene had a nice time. but hopefully this next week speeds up cause next pday is going to be sweet we are going to the best game park in S.A. so it'll be tight. Anyways i love you so much! and congrats to megan and jake hopefully one day i'll get and update from them. love ya

ELDER SORENSON