Bautismo

This week was super busy so this will be a short email.  

It was a super miracle filled and awesome week. We had two baptisms this week of Francisco and Joseito. It was busy preparing everything and getting them ready. They were awesome baptisms and they are super cool people. 

 

We also had a cool miracle with a referral who only sent her address and lived in a gated community so we had no way to contact her unless we just tried to get it. So, we pull in and the security guard asks us who we are visiting and we tell him her name and where she lives. He calls her and then gives us her number and lets us in. I don’t know what happened but God helped us get in. She was so cool and she actually came to church Sunday so that was great. 

 

I got my eyebrows waxed this week by someone we are teaching. It was fun and it was a good time to talk to her and get to know her and hopefully it helped her. 

 

Other than that, things are great. I biked twice this week which was good because I haven't biked much during the quarantine. 

 

Love,

Elder Isom

Mission Accomplished!!

I want to start off and tell you all that I did it!!! I saw an alligator.  We went to the Everglades. We went to a park and we shopped in the gift stores. And then we walked around. We took a lot of pictures. There were airboat tours but we couldn't do that but there was a little show and a guy talked about alligators and then we got to hold a baby alligator. All for 5 bucks. It was crazy. I loved it. 

Yesterday at church I gave a talk and it was my first talk in Church for like 9 months. I talked for like 15 minutes. It was a long time. I only had 1 scripture and no notes so it was fun to just talk to them and share stories. I shared about my experiences ministering before the mission to my families and with my partner. 

We have a baptism tomorrow so we have been preparing for that. We have been super busy with preparing everything for that and also with other people. This week we did a lot of service. We heart attacked a couple's members’ homes and also helped a family with their tv setup because they are older. We also made a video with some members that was fun. 

 

Anyway, I love y'all and take care

Elder Isom 

Opening Up

Last P-day we went to a huge mall, Dolphin mall and it was super fun. We also did some service for a member and we had to take out a stump of a palm tree our with some old pickaxes. After 2 hours we got about half of it dug up and will have to go back this week. It felt so good to work. The member asked me if I was more a country boy or a city boy when we first got there and I said country and she got excited and put me to work doing that and it reminded me of the apples just working with trees. We also helped a member set up there tv and put Disney plus on it!!

 

Last night we had a zoom call with some youth in the ward and it was super fun. We did a meet the missionaries and we did a little Kahoot and then just talked and answered there questions. It was super fun to share about my mission with them. I love my mission. 

 

Things are really good and I am healthy and the members feed us lots, sometimes 3 times a day!  

 

Hopefully y’all have a great week and be safe!

Elder Isom

Lots of Conferences

Well it lined up so we had zone conference this week and general conference. What a spiritual week full of good stuff and I learned a lot about how I can improve. It was a good time to kinda refresh myself and try to be better. 

 

Tuesday was zone conference and again all my former companions were there. I guess that's not super crazy because it was all the Miami zones and that's where a lot of Spanish missionaries serve. We talked a lot about members and having them read the Book of Mormon with the people we are teaching. 

Right after I went on exchanges with the zone leaders and I was with Elder Enz. I was super helpful. He helped me a lot with my new responsibilities and stuff. It was a big tender mercy to learn from him. 

General Conference was so good. I loved it. We had 2 people we were teaching come to watch it with is at the church. I remember a year ago when I was bad at Spanish and I watched all of conference in Spanish and missed a lot. But this time I saw 2 sessions in Spanish because our friends came and it was actually fun to hear it in a different language and I got a lot of it. 

I wrote down some questions I had and all of them were answered. It was so cool. And our friends did the same and there questions were answered. God does speak to his prophets and reveals his secrets through them. 

 

I went on another exchange with Elder Lemon who is a new missionary and it was so fun. He’s an English missionary so when we went and help this old Cuban lady move he was pretty lost. We also got some Honduran food for lunch and I loved it. I got a baleada and a taco and he got Honduran Enchiladas which are what better than Mexican Enchiladas but he doesn’t have the Latin taste buds yet and didn't like it as much as I did. I love Honduran food so much. 

 

I love y'all lots and have a safe week!

Elder Isom