Hola Familia,
Wow! Your week sounds like it was super fun and super busy at the same time. I am glad to hear that you had a great time on your cruise. It is even better to know that you are enjoying every last second of me not being there. You only have 8 days left before you will have to deal with me again. It looks like the two year party is over. The food you ate sounds like it was really good. I can't believe you didn't like ceviche. It is Peru's national food and it is amazing. That is almost every Peruvian's favorite food. If you ever come to visit Peru everyone will give you ceviche. Gaining ten pounds in 1 week is a lot. I have only gained about 12 in 2 years.
That is really sad to hear about the shooting in the US. I hadn't heard about it. Due to just a few really screwed up people it makes a lot of people suffer.
I had heard and actually saw quite a bit of both the US and Peru game. Soccer is so big in this country that if there is a big game going on it is basically impossible to do anything. Hearing about how the US have played, I am a little worried that they will beat Ecuador. Hopefully they can pull it off. I ended up seeing a lot of the Peru game because everyone was watching it and anywhere we went it was on. We would pause and watch a few minutes anywhere we went. They played really well but got lucky with the hand goal. At least all the Peruvians are happy.
I can't believe this is my final week. It still doesn't feel like I will be going home next week. It honestly feels like I will be here forever. I have to be in the mission offices next Monday at noon. I will probably leave around 10 from my area. I might come to internet just for a few minutes so that my comps can start doing all the paperwork for zone. After I get to the offices I will weigh my suitcases and make sure everything is all set. I will then go with all my group to the last dinner with President Erickson. After dinner, I will go to the airport and be on my way home. It feels really weird writing this because it doesn't feel real yet.
We had a really crazy week. First, on Tuesday we had a special training by President Erickson. It was his final training and amazing. I learned so much doctrine. I am going to miss his trainings. Then on Wednesday we had our district meeting like always. On Thursday, I went to the temple with my companions. It was my chance to go to the temple. I loved it. I love going to the temple. The next time I come to the temple in Lima, it will probably the other one. On Friday, we had a special meeting with Elder Rasband. Yes, the Apostle. Do get there on time, we had to wake up at 2:30 in the morning. I only got about 4 hours of sleep that night. Miracously I wasn't tired until the end of the day. While I was listening to Elder Rasband, he talked about that we are all divinely called to serve where we are serving. I had heard this talk before and many people had told me that but it made me think of a personal revelation I recieved a while back. Once while I was teaching a family that was struggling, I had the strongest feeling telling me that I was called to serve in the Mision Peru Lima Norte so I could help these families and learn from them on how I could make my family stronger and so I could know how I wanted my family to be. The mission has taught me how I should raise my family to not have problems and how the Gospel will help me get over them when there are. His talk was amazing but seemed really short. We also got to shake his hand. That was also really cool because we could feel the Spirit really strong.
We worked really hard this week in finding new investigators. Even though I won't be here to be able to see them get baptized, I don't want to leave my area with nothing. Cetia, the 17 year old who needs to get married, came to church again. I won't be suprised if she gets married in July. We also had two more of our new investigators come to church.
I am so grateful for this opportunity I have had to serve a mission. It definately has not been easy but it has all been worth. The good parts outweigh the hard parts by a long ways. I wouldn’t trade the mission for anything. Everything I have done has all been worth it. The mission has been amazing. My testimony has been formed here. I am going to miss a lot of things (Marrying and Baptizing Families, Seeing the change in peoples lives, The food, Even the Bible Bashing...)
I love you lots and will see you soon,
Elder Isaacson
I thought I would send you a few songs that will trunk you out a little bit. These songs have been stuck in my head for the last few weeks and I wanted to share them with you.
I'm coming home, Skylar Grey
Home, Daughtry
Who says you can't go home, Bon Jovi.
I hope you guys don't get too trunky
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