October 13, 2014

Hola Familia y Amigos,

It sounds like a lot has happened in the last two weeks. Kyle hopes to go to Germany, maybe he should learn German first before attempting to do that. Kenzie sounds like her normal self. Staying up really late doing her homework and not going to bed. Too bad Dex didn't get a deer but at least he will get to go duck hunting. He won't get that many though without me there do shoot them for him. (Just kidding, sort of) Kyle's got a girlfriend. Kyle's got a girlfriend. Kyle's got a girlfriend. Maybe he is taking the advice of Elder Cook's talk. He can get married before I come back. That just means one less night of long suffering. I have never heard of the Lamanite Ward, sorry Ron Kirby.

This week we were able to baptize a lady who had been waiting almost 2 years to be baptized. Once all her problems with marriage papers were worked out we were able to baptize her. Her testimony after the baptism was very powerful. It is moments like that that make me realize why I am serving a mission.

The language seems to just keep coming little by little. Sometimes I feel like it will never come, but then I realize it has just been three months and I can actually communicate with people. I may have to ask people to repeat a lot of things but, oh well, we can get the points across.

My companion is definately a little trunky, but who wouldn't after 2 years. He may be searching for ways to waste time a lot but I am starting to feel more confident and making him come work with me.

Conference was really good, what I could understand. It was really cool how we could listen to people speak in their native tongue. I could understand the native speakers better than I could understand the translations. I was able to understand principles of the talks but if the speaker started telling a story I would usually get lost. People here in Peru don't understand that we should go to all the sessions. The only session that was filled was the Sunday morning session. All the others, besides maybe priesthood, there were more missionaries watching the conference than there were members.

I don't know what happened to the mission blog. The soccer tournament was really fun. Everyone showed up in the jerseys they had made for each zone. Ours are the blue, long sleeve ones that are the France Jersey. You can make personal jerseys here really cheap and have your own design put on it. I scored the first goal of the entire tournament. That's right me. Not a Latino like everyone would expect, but a Gringo. There are other athletic Gringos in the mission and they can play pretty well. Everytime I have played soccer the Latinos take it very seriously and they play very physical. It was super fun.

Well I don't have much more time, but we are still teaching the Familia Villegas. We don't have that many investigators right now so we need to go find so more this week. That means contacting. Yay, not. I have heard about Mitch and Kaden. Don't worry Mom, Peru is really safe and I haven't felt threatened at all. Only some of the dogs are a little scary.

Love and miss you all,
Elder Karter Isaacson