October 27, 2014

Hola!!!!

I am glad you had a nice birthday. I celebrated it here in Peru, too. Since I knew it was your birthday I went and bought a slice of cake to celebrate. I took a picture and might try to send it if I have time.

I remember junior year in high school was crazy. Kenzie will be kept extremely busy all year round with tests, sports and the ACT. Good luck in volleyball and have fun playing co-ed soccer. I remember having a ton of fun playing co-ed.

That is really cool how Dex will be able to work closer to home and in the days, But will he still be able to duck hunt? I am so going hunting when I get back. There is a really cool elder in my zone, Elder Osborne who got here six weeks after me, and we talk about hunting all the time. Elder Osborne and I have become really good friends. We get along really well.

Good luck Kaylee taking care of the entire eighth grade. That should be fun.

That's too bad that Helen passed away. I have a lot I could write about this but I will just let you guys imagine what I would say.

Utah sports sound like they are doing alright. 4th string qb for the win. Way to go USU. Let's hope U of U can keep it up and get somewhere. That is kind of sad about BYU and Bronco. It sounds like there isn't much he can do.

I feel so bad for Connor. I can't believe he had to come home. That would be awful. I hope he gets better and can go back out and work. Wherever he gets sent is where he is supposed to be. Send him my regards and that I hope he gets well. Don't worry Mom, I don't drink the water. We have 4 five gallon jugs in our room of drinkable water that we use. And the water in the juices people make for us has been made sterile. There are no worries.

I had a really good week. Elder Ruiz recognizes he only has one week left now and is working his butt off. We just go and go and go. We taught 38 lessons this week withut doing divisions with members. The goal of the mission is 32. We work really hard and walk a ton. We come home every night exhausted. After planning, both of us just crash into our beds.

I got to go to the temple this week! It was amazing. I love the peace and tranquility I feel in the temple. I listened to the entire session in Spanish and was able to understand almost all of it. Also, I sat next to a marine in the session who spoke English. That was kind of cool how I was able to talk with someone in English while I was at the temple. The temple is really pretty but is smaller than the ones I know in Utah. I took a lot of pictures while I was there.

We did these really crazy work visits in the zone this week. They split up every companionship and no one was with their regular companion. I went with Elder Cruz in Infantas. He has six months in his mission. Between the two of us we had less than 10 months of experience in total. His area is kind of struggling but it was good that I got to talk more. Also, his area is flat which was really good. I rolled my ankle really bad that morning on some cracked cement. It hurt really bad. By the end of the night, it hurt so bad I could barely walk on it. I am glad I just didn't have to climb hills on a sore ankle. In the morning it felt a lot better and it has just kept getting better.

Since my companion is leaving this next week, he went to one of his old wards to visit people yesterday. We did divisions with members. I was with a member from 8 in the morning until 9:30 at night. I had to keep track of everyone of our investigators in the church and then I had to teach all the lessons. The member never served a mission so I had to teach everything. He talked a little bit and bore his testimony but I had to be the guide for everything.

All in all, it was a really good week.

Love,
Elder Karter Isaacson