MTC/Belém

 

Isaac left the MTC on Monday and arrived safely in Belém. His mission President sent us some pictures and this letter:

Dear Family Holcomb,

With great pleasure we inform you that Elder Holcomb arrived here in Brazil Belem Mission today (December 18), and currently serving in city of Belem (Augusto Montenegro Area), with his companion and trainer Elder Pereira. Sister Stasevskas and I, along with the rest of the mission, are very excited to have your son serving here with us.

He has a great missionary spirit, with faith to do whatever the Lord commands. We would hope that you would, whenever possible, write letters to strengthen him and to encourage him in his missionary service. We give our sincere gratitude, and hope to keep in touch.

Yours truly,

Sister and President Stasevskas
 

Isaac wrote a quick email today to let us know when he'll call on Christmas. Here's his super quick letter to his dad:

Well to answer yes this first bit has not been like a fire hose because I just don't understand anything but still overwhelming so that makes it kind of fun being a deaf mute man it is crazy here but I will probably tell you more during skype also always send the packages and letters to the mission office and then the zone leader will deliver them directly to me. I will look forward to it and surprisingly I can't really find a place to buy pencils here just weird meat shops that don't look sanitary.