November 16, 2015

Hola Familia,

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. It is still a little early though. I think for my birthday a few members are going to invite me over to eat and have cake. I haven't told a lot of people but a few people know about it. I haven't got my birhday package yet but I am sure it is just waiting to get sent out from the mission offices.

Elder Lopez went to the airport and flew off to Provo last night. I went and worked with a member at night and stayed with my DL and his comp at night. I will be with a member all day today and I will get my new comp Tuesday morning. I am really excited for a new companion. I hope he is cool . I am relieved and sort of happy that Elder Lopez is gone. He never really wanted to listen to me or be obedient.

This area is not treating me too well. We had two investigators in church but they were the same two as always. Nikol came and so did another lady who wants to get baptized but has to get married. She has plans to get married in February and then she will get baptized. I committed a ton of people to come to church this week and they all accepted and said they would come. In the end no one showed up or they weren't home when we went to pick them up. I was with my ZL on Saturday and we taught some great lessons to get people to come to church but they just won't come. I keep finding new investigators but I feel like I find them just to leave them in two weeks. It is kind of frustrating but hopefully everything will get better.

We had to leave one of our best investigators this week. Her name is Lucero and she is 16. She was a reference from one of her friends. Her friend had given her a book of mormon and Lucero had read almost 200 pages. She loves reading it and wants to get baptized and we had only taught her twice. I went to go visit with her with my ZL and she came out and told us that we can't visit with her because her parents don't want her to. Her parents are die hard Catholics and think her listening to us will seperate their family. Some people just don't understand.

I am sure this week will be a lot better.

Love,
Elder Isaacson

P.S. Something that would be fun to give out to people are the colorful elastic band CTR rings. That is the special thing I want in a Christmas package. I also want to buy a suit for a Christmas gift. Just some ideas...