Hola Familia,
I am so glad that it is Monday again so that I can read your letters. It sounds like everything is going well back home. That is good that Dad is starting to get better. It sounds like everything is pretty normal back home and that everyone is staying busy. I am sure that you will be able to figure out what to do with your class and they will start to progress. Thanks for all the sports updates. I can't believe that Utah is ranked number 10 in the nation. That is crazy.
I had a pretty good week. Andrea was baptized this week. She was supposed to be baptized last Saturday but she coudn't. This week she could and she got baptized on Thursday and I confirmed her on Sunday. She was super excited. Her mom was baptized a couple of months ago and Andrea has been going to church since then.
Jose Sandoval had a problem. We couldn't find him all week. We found him Friday night, the day before his baptism. He told us that he wasn't ready and that he was worried he would give into temptation after his baptism. We sat down and taught him a really powerful lesson. If I had heard our lesson I would have been baptized. At the end he still said no. We went back the next day and his brother told us that he came home drunk. That is the second time that this has happened. We might have to leave him.
Other than that we had a long week of finding. We found a lot of new investigators this week. We will start to focus on them. I am doing good on clothes and don't need anything special. The only thing that I could use would be a new pair of blue pants and maybe gray ones too.
I didn't go to the temple this week but I hope I go this week. I am excited and I keep working hard.
Love you a ton,
elder Isaacson
Monday, September 28, 2015
Monday, September 21, 2015
September 21, 2015
Hola Familia,
It sounds like you have had a long, good week. Your shoulder should start getting better now. Just keep taking care of it and don't push yourself or it will make it worse. Like you said, it sounds like Kenzie is the only one in the house that has an interesting life. Her internships sound super fun. I remember when people went to school and sat in classes, but it is cool that she gets to do so many cool things.
My week was kind of boring. It started out deep cleaning the house on Monday. We had room revisions and interviews with the President on Tuesday. It is always a pain to clean the house because there is so much dirt and dust in Lima. It just gets everywhere. Then on Tuesday we had interviews. I always enjoy the interviews with President because I come out really motivated to work. He also told my companion and I that we need to go to the temple while we can and don't have leadership positions or are training. We will probably go to the temple next week. He also told me that he put Sancarranco and I together because we both have a lot of experience and wants the ward to progress. It made me feel really good.
We were supposed to have a baptism on Saturday, but the lady never showed up. Her work ended up obligating her to stay late. We ended up having to reschedule her baptism for this week. We also have another investigator, Jose Sandoval, that should be baptized on Saturday. He has been an investigator for quite some time now but was struggling with an alcohol addiction. We have kept working with him and it has been a long time since he has drank. He should be good to go this week too.
We found a few new investigators this week but not a ton. One of them, Jonaton, was a missionary for la iglesia Aventista for 5 years. He knows a lot of stuff. It was kind of hard to teach him. We then started talking about the Book of Mormon. He then proceeded to tell us that he has read the whole Book of Mormon. He said he liked it and learned a lot but wasn't sure if it was true. We are going to start working more with him. The only problem is is that he is only at home on Sundays. Oh, he also came to church with his family.
We had 6 investigators in church this week. We were super excited and we are hoping to have a lot of success in these next few weeks and October. I get along really well with my companion. We have a lot in common and we usually don't disagree.
Love,
Elder Isaacson
P.S. I will stay safe around the motos.
It sounds like you have had a long, good week. Your shoulder should start getting better now. Just keep taking care of it and don't push yourself or it will make it worse. Like you said, it sounds like Kenzie is the only one in the house that has an interesting life. Her internships sound super fun. I remember when people went to school and sat in classes, but it is cool that she gets to do so many cool things.
My week was kind of boring. It started out deep cleaning the house on Monday. We had room revisions and interviews with the President on Tuesday. It is always a pain to clean the house because there is so much dirt and dust in Lima. It just gets everywhere. Then on Tuesday we had interviews. I always enjoy the interviews with President because I come out really motivated to work. He also told my companion and I that we need to go to the temple while we can and don't have leadership positions or are training. We will probably go to the temple next week. He also told me that he put Sancarranco and I together because we both have a lot of experience and wants the ward to progress. It made me feel really good.
We were supposed to have a baptism on Saturday, but the lady never showed up. Her work ended up obligating her to stay late. We ended up having to reschedule her baptism for this week. We also have another investigator, Jose Sandoval, that should be baptized on Saturday. He has been an investigator for quite some time now but was struggling with an alcohol addiction. We have kept working with him and it has been a long time since he has drank. He should be good to go this week too.
We found a few new investigators this week but not a ton. One of them, Jonaton, was a missionary for la iglesia Aventista for 5 years. He knows a lot of stuff. It was kind of hard to teach him. We then started talking about the Book of Mormon. He then proceeded to tell us that he has read the whole Book of Mormon. He said he liked it and learned a lot but wasn't sure if it was true. We are going to start working more with him. The only problem is is that he is only at home on Sundays. Oh, he also came to church with his family.
We had 6 investigators in church this week. We were super excited and we are hoping to have a lot of success in these next few weeks and October. I get along really well with my companion. We have a lot in common and we usually don't disagree.
Love,
Elder Isaacson
P.S. I will stay safe around the motos.
Monday, September 14, 2015
September 14, 2015
Hola Familia,
I am glad you are starting to feel better Dad. It sounds like everything is slowly getting better. Just make sure you take time to let it heal properly. I hope Mom is taking a few photos of you in the sling. I want to be able to enjoy your pain a little when I get home.
Speaking of being in pain... I about got to go to the hospital this week. On Tuesday, we were coming down from lunch to go to the church for a baptismal interview. The hill is really big so we always use mototaxi's. A mototaxi is like a 3 wheel motorcycle. Search in google images to understand it better. So we (The 4 of us in the ward) got in the mototaxi and started to go down the hill. Three of us in the back, with Elder Rosales (DL) up front, and the driver (a lady). As we got close to a speed bump, the lady screamed and we hit the speed bump at speed. This caused her to lose control and we left the road and smashed through a pile of rocks. After that we smashed to a hault into a wood post holding up a net to a soccer field. We were all a little bruised, and Rosales had hit his head, but everyone was ok. We were actually pretty lucky. Things could have been a lot worst. We barely missed flipping or rolling the moto down a hill, or smashing into a wall at speed. We are all a little scared to use motos now though. I did learn that women can't drive in Peru either.
It sounds like it was another great sports week. It sounds like you are enjoying all the sports. Also, I didn't know Scott was getting married. That is super exciting.
We had a problem with getting people to church this week. We only had one. Also our converts went down a little bit too. We are going to try and visit all of them this week and see what happened. The good thing is that we should have a baptism this Saturday. Andrea, is the daughter of a recent convert. She has gone to church for almost 4 months now. She couldn't get baptized because she had some problems with some of the commandments. We have now overcome all of her problems and she should be baptized.
Other than that, this week was kind of boring. We worked hard and are searching for new people to teach. I have never been in an area where the people are so tough to teach. I have probably had it easy my whole mission. This is probably how most missionaries feel like. I guess I have to experience it at least once in my mission.
Yes Mom, I saw your letter and I have had anticucho. It is cow heart and is super good. We aren't supposed to eat ceviche because it is raw fish drenched in lemon. I have had a little though and it is also super good. I haven't tried suri yet but I have been trying my whole mission to get a hold of it. It is from the jungle and there is not a lot here in Lima.
My area is along a street going up the hill called Manuel Prado. One corner of my area is Manual Prado and Tupac Amaru. Maybe that will help you find my area.
I hope you have a great week.
Love,
Elder Isaacson
I am glad you are starting to feel better Dad. It sounds like everything is slowly getting better. Just make sure you take time to let it heal properly. I hope Mom is taking a few photos of you in the sling. I want to be able to enjoy your pain a little when I get home.
Speaking of being in pain... I about got to go to the hospital this week. On Tuesday, we were coming down from lunch to go to the church for a baptismal interview. The hill is really big so we always use mototaxi's. A mototaxi is like a 3 wheel motorcycle. Search in google images to understand it better. So we (The 4 of us in the ward) got in the mototaxi and started to go down the hill. Three of us in the back, with Elder Rosales (DL) up front, and the driver (a lady). As we got close to a speed bump, the lady screamed and we hit the speed bump at speed. This caused her to lose control and we left the road and smashed through a pile of rocks. After that we smashed to a hault into a wood post holding up a net to a soccer field. We were all a little bruised, and Rosales had hit his head, but everyone was ok. We were actually pretty lucky. Things could have been a lot worst. We barely missed flipping or rolling the moto down a hill, or smashing into a wall at speed. We are all a little scared to use motos now though. I did learn that women can't drive in Peru either.
It sounds like it was another great sports week. It sounds like you are enjoying all the sports. Also, I didn't know Scott was getting married. That is super exciting.
We had a problem with getting people to church this week. We only had one. Also our converts went down a little bit too. We are going to try and visit all of them this week and see what happened. The good thing is that we should have a baptism this Saturday. Andrea, is the daughter of a recent convert. She has gone to church for almost 4 months now. She couldn't get baptized because she had some problems with some of the commandments. We have now overcome all of her problems and she should be baptized.
Other than that, this week was kind of boring. We worked hard and are searching for new people to teach. I have never been in an area where the people are so tough to teach. I have probably had it easy my whole mission. This is probably how most missionaries feel like. I guess I have to experience it at least once in my mission.
Yes Mom, I saw your letter and I have had anticucho. It is cow heart and is super good. We aren't supposed to eat ceviche because it is raw fish drenched in lemon. I have had a little though and it is also super good. I haven't tried suri yet but I have been trying my whole mission to get a hold of it. It is from the jungle and there is not a lot here in Lima.
My area is along a street going up the hill called Manuel Prado. One corner of my area is Manual Prado and Tupac Amaru. Maybe that will help you find my area.
I hope you have a great week.
Love,
Elder Isaacson
Monday, September 7, 2015
September 7, 2015
Hola Familia,
I am glad to hear that Dad's surgery went well. It is kind of crazy that he was in surgery for 2 hours. I hope he recovers quickly and completely. I will keep him in my prayers. He has to be completely healed up for the time when I get home so we can go do a bunch of fun things.
Good luck with your class Mom. It sounds like it will be a pretty rough year. I don't like to tell people that their dumb, but your students sound pretty dumb. Only two registered a score on the reading test. But don't worry Mom, you will figure something out.
I can't believe all the sports are starting up again. I got to see quite a bit of the USA vs Peru game. It was pretty good. I recognized and knew more players from Peru than I did from the US. I was cheering for the US. I had a bet with Elder Rosales, my DL. With the US win, I won dinner.
I had a pretty good week. Last week I wrote that the area was kind of bad off. We went to work this week and worked really hard. We found a lot of new investigators. I don't know if many will progress. We started to go back to old investigators too. In the end, all payed off when we had 5 investigators in church. I was super excited because we didn't have much to work with when I got here. We also had 21 of 25 converts in church this week between the two companionships in the ward. At the end of the week we were super excited.
I get along pretty well with Elder Sancarranco. He feels bad abouut how he has wasted some of his time in the mission. He has settled in and we have started to work hard. We still have fun and do fun things, be we are obedient now.
The ward is kind of bad off. It is a bunch of old people. They don't really want to help us out at all. I am not used to knocking on a ton of doors to find lessons. Normally we will get references or people will let us in. Here, all the old people are stubborn and don't want to listen to us. Even with all that, we had some success this week. I hope all goes well next week too.
I hope you all have a great week and that Dad gets better.
Love,
Elder Isaacson
I am glad to hear that Dad's surgery went well. It is kind of crazy that he was in surgery for 2 hours. I hope he recovers quickly and completely. I will keep him in my prayers. He has to be completely healed up for the time when I get home so we can go do a bunch of fun things.
Good luck with your class Mom. It sounds like it will be a pretty rough year. I don't like to tell people that their dumb, but your students sound pretty dumb. Only two registered a score on the reading test. But don't worry Mom, you will figure something out.
I can't believe all the sports are starting up again. I got to see quite a bit of the USA vs Peru game. It was pretty good. I recognized and knew more players from Peru than I did from the US. I was cheering for the US. I had a bet with Elder Rosales, my DL. With the US win, I won dinner.
I had a pretty good week. Last week I wrote that the area was kind of bad off. We went to work this week and worked really hard. We found a lot of new investigators. I don't know if many will progress. We started to go back to old investigators too. In the end, all payed off when we had 5 investigators in church. I was super excited because we didn't have much to work with when I got here. We also had 21 of 25 converts in church this week between the two companionships in the ward. At the end of the week we were super excited.
I get along pretty well with Elder Sancarranco. He feels bad abouut how he has wasted some of his time in the mission. He has settled in and we have started to work hard. We still have fun and do fun things, be we are obedient now.
The ward is kind of bad off. It is a bunch of old people. They don't really want to help us out at all. I am not used to knocking on a ton of doors to find lessons. Normally we will get references or people will let us in. Here, all the old people are stubborn and don't want to listen to us. Even with all that, we had some success this week. I hope all goes well next week too.
I hope you all have a great week and that Dad gets better.
Love,
Elder Isaacson
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