Elder Isaac Batman: Lost, Then Found

Hey what´s up guys?

Well I am getting all settled in here in my new area. This area is awesome. There is a lot of potential here. The people are a lot more open here and it´s a lot easier to find new investigators. My companion Elder Lowe is a stud. We get a long real well. He works hard, he´s obedient, and speaks well for someone with little time in the mission. We are working our butts off. We have been finding a lot of new people to teach, and we´ve been putting baptismal dates and goals with people like nobody´s business. We have been trying to be more bolder and inviting to baptism on the first lesson everytime, and we have gotten quite a bit of no´s but we´ve also got some yeses. I´ll take that anyday.

We preparing a lot for baptism in the weeks to come. On the 4th of November we should have some people getting baptized. We need to help some of our investigators get divorced so they can get married. But we are working. The Familia Juarez is one of those families. They are basically members of the church they just aren´t baptized yet. They want to be baptized so bad but Brother Jose Juarez has to get a divorce from his previous marriage, and then get married to Hermana Naomi so they can be baptized. They´re so loving and kind. They really take good care of us. We are hoping and praying they can get all the paperwork and legal work done so they can take part of this great ordinance and follow Christ.

There´s a lot of great families here that take care of the missionaries and I am so thankful for that. I have come to realize how much of a blessing we are to others. People really need the missionaries in their lives to bless their homes. I´m glad we can help uplift these families as they have uplifted us.

So I really like this area. I think Elder Lowe and I are going to have a ton of success together in this area. We are going to focus on the members a lot here and building them up because there is only 20 active members in this ward. It´s a big chapel for a little amount of people. We´re going to focus on building the core and reactivating a lot of members. I know we will make the most of it.

Spiritual Experience of the week:

Elder Lowe and I were looking for a house of an old investiagator that him and his old companion use to come to. We were looking for it for a good 20 minutes. My companion was getting frustrated and said ´´we´re lost´´ and apologized to me for wasting time. I felt prompted and said ´´We are here for a reason.¨ So we kept walking and going down roads that the both of us didn´t recognize for 10 more minutes when we saw a man sitting down in front of his house with crutches. We felt very prompted to talk to him. He invited us in. He gave us some water as it was very hot that day. His name was Rocky. He had a tragic accident and had a prosthetic leg. He also is an alcoholic. He was explaining to us his life and the things that had happened with him. He explained his sorrow. We explained to him about the love our Father in Heaven has for us and has for him. That we all pass through challenges and that he is a strong man. We explained the Plan that God has for him. He liked what he heard. We testified very strongly that the Gospel of Jesus Christ can make him feel whole. He stopped. Looked us dead in the eye and asked. ´´Did God send you?¨ We said with much conviction that ´´Yes, He sent us.´´ He began to explain with tears in his eyes that he had made the decision that he was going to take his own life later that night that he didn´t feel a purpose in his life anymore. He thanked us and thanked God for sending us. HAD WE HAD NOT OF LISTENED TO THE SPIRITUAL PROMPTINGS WE HAD, I´m not sure if Rocky would be alive this day. I know and testify that God lives and is among us. And that he uses us as his tools and instruments to help people. We most act on the impressions we have because it can even be as important as saving the life of another. I love being a missionary. We are really out here saving souls.

Funny Things:

A drunk middle aged guy was stopped us and was speaking to us in Portugues and Spanish? He wasn´t making sense at all and was as hammered as a nail, he had shook my hand but he wouldn´t let go. Everytime I tried to let go he kept tightening his grip. I kept telling him to let go of my hand but he wouldn´t budge. He just kept slurring ´´Portugues´´ at us so I saw no other choice to grip his hand with a lot of strength, and he let go real quick. My companion seeing that we were close to the pension didn´t want him to follow us and to know where we lived so he said to the guy ¨Hey look that guy over there wants to talk to you he´s calling your name.¨ He looked around for a good 5 seconds and we just walked away as soon as he turned around. When he looked back we were already have a block away. We´re a good team.

We contacted some guys playing basketball. We played a game to 15. It was my comp and I with another guy, against three other guys. We beat them. It was real competitive. We were playing in shirts and ties as well. We shared a message of the restoration after and invited them to come to a church service sunday and ball with us mondays at the church, (they didn´t come)

Got to make the most of missionary work and use your talents.

The Elders of Villa Urquiza from my district got held up by some guys and got their cell phone robbed in their area. Elder Kanan´s only complaint was that now he can´t call delivery anymore.

#priorities

I was cutting my hair and I was trying to fix this last detail and I just went to high up on my head to cutting it and totally botched the haircut. So I just buzzed my head with a #2. People keep calling me bald, soldier, Dom Torretto (Vin Diesel), etc. The heat has been real here so I don´t really mind the short hair.

Our chapel has an armed security guard out front.

FOTOS

Sandwich de Milanesa with my bud E´Lowe

The Trash Canal

A lot of garbage

HURRCUT

My comp, and a stud named Gernan

LOVE YOU GUYS