Posts for Elder_Sorenson

Chapter 15: Resettling

2009 November 02

And, once again, transfers is upon us. Things have been tweaked a little bit, and my replacement in this area will be here this afternoon--they've decided to have the people who have to come down from the north come on monday instead of wednesday. I won't be moving 'til tomorrow morning though... which leads to the transfer call line: Elder Larsen to Redrock as Sr. Comp with Elder Ostler on a bike. Covering: Cimmarron Yep. Area #7. Given that I've only got 3 more transfers left, this might be the last one. It feels kind-of wierd. Anyways, my new area ...

Temperature spike...

2009 October 26

Yep, it got a bit warmer than we'd like this past week. It's always interesting to be here, as the weather seems to have a mind of its own. It will probably drop again pretty soon, though, since apparently it gets quite a bit colder after Halloween. Work wise, not a whole lot that was interesting, although we do finally have somebody with a baptismal date (after 11 weeks in the area... coming from dead zero is a long process), and we had 3 people at church this week. Not a whole lot on the teaching side, though, due to ...

Zone Conference, other stuff...

2009 October 19

So this week has been pretty quiet, although things continue to get busier. I'm not really sure if I can describe it really well--I'm short on words right now. We had Zone Conference this week, and it told me a couple of things that I ought to do to make me a little bit more effective in my work. I guess that's the main idea with most of them, but this one didn't have much in the way of distractions. They also decided to shorten them a bit, which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea--it removed a ...

Cool October breezes...

2009 October 12

This week has been pretty busy -- between service projects and a couple of lessosn, it's been normal-ish. The work is going pretty well -- we're busier than we were, and we're hopefully going to stay that way. We're looking at probably another couple of new investigators this week. Yay! We had some fun this week with our ward talent show. Elder Sorenson went and wrote some alternate lyrics to "I can go the distance" from Hercules, and sung that -- I added some random commentary (and helped a little with the lyrics). It was pretty fun. I've come to ...

19 months, Conference #4, relocating...

2009 October 05

So this has been a busier week than we've had in a while. 3 lessosns, and we're picking up a bunch more things to do. It's a lot easier when things are rolling a little bit -- there's more of a reason to push. We picked up a new investigator (the sisters had been teaching her, but she actually lives in our ward), and will probably get another 2 tomorrow (we're pretty excited about that). In terms of landmarks, today is 19 months since I went into the MTC. Crazy. Also, this was my last General Conference out here. That ...

Pushing things...

2009 September 28

So, the temperature decided to spike a bunch this weekend, but it looks like we'll be falling into the 70s this week. That's pretty abrupt... Before the weekend, the weather was ok, though. We get to move again this week... we haven't heard much as to where we're going yet, but hopefully they'll figure that out soon. I figure they've got at least one possible (although slightly unpleasant) backup in case everything else fails, but it sounds like there are a couple of other possiblities, too, so we should be ok. The work has been going a little better. We ...

Chapter 14: Rebooting again

2009 September 21

NOTE: The other update that just showed up is last weeks... it perished in a log file explosion. I just resent it without putting a note on it or anything. So, once again, transfers is upon us. And this time, I'm staying. Elder Crump is done, so he's going back to Kentucky. Pretty crazy... My new companion has been out for a transfer... so he got to Vegas 6 weeks ago. I'll be his 2nd trainer. Not entirely expected, but should be fine. I've been working on getting some work going so that it isn't too depressing for the first ...