I hope you all enjoyed conference this weekend. I know I did. I got to see all 5 sessions, although I only saw the start of the Preisthood session. We went out into the area to go get people and they weren't ready yet so we would get there late. The Peruvian time schedule is worse than Mormon standard time. We would get there to bring the people to church and they would have just started to change. We got to every session between 15 to 30 minutes late even though we left an hour and 15 minutes before conference to go get them. Since I got to conference late I only heard the end of President Monson's talk. I really enjoyed Elder Holland's talk and Uchtdorf's also. Conference was a lot better this time because I could actually understand it. I didn't struggle at all not falling asleep like I did during my first conference in the mission. Our investigators, recent converts, and less actives that listened to conference really enjoyed it, too. A lot of messages were centered in the family and the blessings that they can receive. I am pretty sure some of the messages about marriage will help motivate a few of our investigators get married so they can be baptized. It was a little trunky to listen to but it will help the investigators. :-) Even though I understood the talks I still want to be able to read them and study them so when you send a package I would like an Ensign of conference.
Mirella's mom came to conference and really enjoyed it. She was really busy this week and it was hard to get a hold of her so I am not sure how she feels about getting married yet. We have an appointment with her on Tuesday and we will bring up marriage again. In these coming weeks there will be a matrimonio masivo (massive marriage) that the mission does. A lot of people need to get married to get baptized but it is difficult to get everything ready to be married. The mission prepares everything and makes sure everything is done right. We will be marrying a couple hopefully in March. They were both less active and have never gotten married. They want to get married so they can get sealed in the temple.
Victor is super excited for his baptism this coming Saturday. We have a lesson with him tonight and he will have his final interview tomorrow. He and his wife are already talking about getting sealed in the temple one year after his baptism and he isn't even a member yet. I am sure everything will go well with his interview and I am not really worried about anything.
Where it was Easter this week, it was kind of crazy in the streets. School was out on Wednesday until Sunday for the holiday. There were so many Jehovah's witnesses in my area these past few days. When we would walk past them they would just sort of glare at us. We still were very nice and said hi to all of them. We were killing our enemies with kindness.
We had 15 of 24 recent converts at church this week. The percentage is slowly climbing up. We also had 3 different part families come to church. We are working with all three to complete the family and baptize the family members who aren't members.
Congratulations to Tyler. I can't wait to hear where he is going. He is going to come to the Mision Peru Lima Norte. I am sure of it.
Te amo,
Elder Isaacson
Giant water balloon fight with my new zone in Indepedencia.
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