December 7, 2015

Hola Familia,

I can't believe that the Christmas tree is already up. It doesn't really feel like Christmas here. With the heat, no snow, and working really hard I don't really feel the Christmas spirit. Some people have put up lights in their windows and others have put up some Christmas trees but that is about it. The street market in my area is starting to get pretty busy.

This week was about the same. We did have a meeting with President that was really good. He changed some of our weekly goals. Before we had to have 100 contacts every week. Every Elder thought that was kind of dumb because contacts are not very effective. He changed the goal to just 70 contacts but now we have to work a lot more with members. That is kind of hard for me in my area because their are maybe just 5 active families that live in my area. I hope everything works out.

I did have a little more success this week. Nikol came to church again and so did Victoria. Victoria came with good news. She will be getting married at the start of January and then she will be able to get baptized. At least now I have something set up for January.

We also got a new investigator to come to church. Her name is Lilian and is a single mom. We have been teaching her whole family and been trying to get them to come to church for a few weeks now. She couldn't come to our ward at 8 in the morning so we went to her house to go to another ward at 11 but wasn't home yet. That still didn't stop us. We ended up taking her to a ward in the stake center at 2. I ended up going to 6 hours of church. It made me really tired but it was all worth. This is the first investigator I have had in church for a long time. It made me really excited and motivated my companion.

I am getting along with my companion pretty well but I am getting tired of listening to him talk. He doesn't know how to teach too well but he tries to just invent the lessons. A lot of times he talks about just random stuff for a half hour and you can see that the investigator is really bored. I will cut him off but then he cuts me off again and just keeps going. I will just have to get used to it.

The Christmas Conference was broadcasted here but I didn't watch it. They didn't even announce it. I also have a few places where I can skype but I haven't picked which one yet. I still have time and will use my precall to tell you when I will call.

That was about all my week. Hopefully I have even a better week.

Love,
Elder Isaacson