Party!!

Dear Friends and Family,
I love being a missionary! It's great! Monday evening we saw Justian (or Brother Evans as we are trying to remember to call him :) ) He's doing well. We talked about Enos, and prayer. It was good. He stayed for Family Home Evening, and Sister Andersen and I taught the lesson on Diligence, and then we played Taboo. It was great.
Tuesday was Zone Conference. I love Zone Conference. Then in the evening we went to see Heather Lawrence. It was so good to see her, and we had a really good discussion and lesson about prayer, and the Book of Mormon and things.
Wednesday we saw Bela in the morning. She seems to be doing better, but she still hasn't come to church... She's tired all the time... We're trying to figure how to help her. I'll send her address to you later, because I don't have it with me. Then we went to meet with Brother Beasley at the Noodle Bar. It was fun. We talked about Sister Lawrence, and he thought it would be great if she was invited to his Birthday party on Friday, so that was good. Then we went to meet with a man named Dave. Sister Robertson came with us and it was a really good lesson. Then we went and had another first lesson with a woman named Joanya. Then we met with Suresh. He's doing good, as usual. It was crazy though because during our lesson a crazy man came in. He was talking about just random stuff, but we gave him a restoration leaflet and he left so that was good. then in the evening we went to see Sonia Frietas and Nara for dinner. I love them so much. It was delicious as usual. Thursday morning we did our planning then we saw Brother Evans with Brother Tavner. I'm always so impressed with how well he is doing. Then we got to go see Sarah and Dorothy! I don't know if you remember her, but it's been a long time, and we're so excited that we got to see her again. Then in the evening we went to see the Stevensons, and had correlation.
Friday was a great day. On the way to the chapel in the morning you'll never guess who we ran into. First we ran into Lindsey Memmott's mom. Then later We ran into the whole family! It was so great to see her. We saw Brother Evans and Brother Casey came. Brother Casey is such a great support for Brother Evans. It's really good. In the afternoon we got to see Jane. it's been a long time since we've been able to see her. She's been through a lot, but she knows God is strengthening her. She misses her family back in Nigeria a lot, but her and her husband are working as hard as they can to be able to go back to visit. In the evening we went to Brother Beasley's Birthday Party. It was so great! Sister Memmott was there with her family. So were Sister Telford and Lillengquist(Sp?), all previous missionaries in Ilford Ward. Sister Lawrence came, and so did Brother Evans and Micheal. All in all it was a great night.
Saturday morning we met with a really cute young woman from Mozambique named Ornella Miguel. It was a really good lesson. Then in the afternoon Sister Lighten came with us to see Brother Kelleher. He's doing well, and hopefully he'll be able to come to church soon. Then in the evening we went to the Stake Center in Romford for a Hawaiian evening. it was really fun, and the youth did some skits. My favourite was this one where about four of the youth pretended to be synchronized swimmers. Two leaders held this blue tarp in front of them and then the youth did all this cool stuff. It's hard to explain, but it was sooo hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing.
Sunday was good as usual. Brother Evans came. He's going to go to Stake Conference as well. After church we had two good first lessons with Alice and then Bonny. We had a lot of really good first lessons this week, so we'll see what comes of them. Then we went to the Marriucci's for dinner. It was a lot of fun.
So all in all it's been a great week, with a weekend full of parties :-P Today Sister Andersen and I are going to go into London as well, so that's great.

Mom- Sounds like an amazing week! I'm so proud of CJ. He's doing so well. It's also so cool that Ethan quoted the Book of Mormon in his speech. I was shocked when you said Melody is expecting her 4th! I didn't even realize she had three! haha, Oh my goodness. That's so fun

Nathan- I hope you are feeling better! Do good with the last days of school! I love you!

Elder Ison- I love your pictures! Especially the one of you with the little kids. It's so cute. Then baptism one made me laugh because you are flaring your nostrils! Oh man... haha.

Sister Besso- I LOVE YOU! Haha, thanks for the picture! I'm super excited for your letter!

Everyone Else- I love you so much!

Love,
Sister Ison