WOW! I made it to Ecuador, and it´s amazing and one of the most
beautiful places I have ever seen!
Quito is absolutely massive and
there are so many houses here. For my weekly emails, I'll kind of just
write a daily report of what happened day by day and hopefully that
will be good.
Monday: We left the MTC early and headed to the Airport ,and when I got to the airport, I saw my dad there, it was so cool. Not only was he on my flight, the person that was sitting next to him let me
sit by him, so I got to talk to my dad the whole flight. It was such a
blessing.
After the flight to Atlanta, we flew to Quito and I had the
chance to give a Book of Mormon to the people sitting next to me, so that
was awesome. We landed and it was really dark when we got there, so we didn't really get to see much. But we got to see my Mission President and
some other missionaries right when we walked out. We drove to the secretary's house and went to bed for the day.
Tuesday: We woke up and we had the perfect view of the whole city. We
later went to a District Meeting with the secretaries and then went
street contacting for a little. While Elder McCleese, Elder Morton (AP),
and I were tracking, we got nine people that were interested and gave away a
couple of Books of Mormon. And, no, I did not really understand anything
that was going on, and I didn't say too much, but it was awesome. We later
went to my Mission President's house and ate dinner and his view of the
city was even better. We then went to bed for the night shortly after.
Wednesday: Haha a crazy day. It was very long and required a lot of
walking with my luggage. We woke up and went to the chapel so that we
could find out what sector we were going to and to meet our trainers. We
did a bunch of training, then I finally found my companion. His name is
Elder Ayuso, from Chili, and he is such a good dude. I like him a
lot. And he knows a lot of English, so that is nice.
Then we found out
that we were going to go to the Ofelia sector, the Cangahua district,
and we are in charge of two cities, Pisuli and Roldoz, probably the
poorest part of Quito.
We had to take a bus to our sector with all my luggage, and that took forever. And when we got there we had a lesson
with Grace, and I didn't understand really anything. But she is getting
baptized this SATURDAY!
Thursday: What a day! It was so good! We did so much! We first studied
for awhile and then went out with some members to teach (the members in
my ward are very good). And since we have two cities, it takes awhile to
get place to place and we're walking up straight mountains the entire
time. I don't know how they build houses here because it's so steep. We
then went to teach the Irgue family. It's a mom and a 15 year old girl
(She's already been baptized, just not the mom). We had a very good lesson
about Jesus and she accepted to be baptized. It was so cool, especially
cause I actually said a little. Then we went and taught another family. There was one mom and 2 daughters, and we taught them on faith, and I invited them to read Alma 32. We then taught another family on prayer
and i invited them to read Alma 34, and they kept asking me how to say
things in English. They're such a good family. Two of them accepted
baptism awhile ago, but they need to get married first, but they don't have
the money. I hope that they will find a way.
Friday: This was an interesting day. I saw some interesting things. We went to go and teach a guy named Victor, and I understood more of
what he was saying. I asked him to be baptized and he said he would
love to. We need to meet with him more though until he can actually be
baptized. We then went with Hermana Matilda (A member from Otavalo) and
went and visited less actives and taught them. We taught one more girl
later that day that has a baptismal date and I understood nothing that
she said, but I had this feeling that I should share a scripture with her
(cause that's basically all I can do) and she loved it. I love this
place so much and the people are so awesome and very small. Haha no one
is close to my height here.
Saturday: Today we didn't have as many lessons, so for a lot of the day
we were contacting and we got a good amount of people that were
interested. We went and visited a less active and her daughter that is not a member and taught them. They are extremely poor and live off
everything they have in their yard (not really a yard) such as chickens,
rabbits, and all of the stuff that they garden. But during the lesson, I again had no idea what was going on, but I had this feeling to share something and my companion told me after that it was perfect for her.
<the Spirit talks to us, we just have to listen.
Sunday: First Sunday here in Pisuli, and it was so cool to see how awesome the members are in my ward. We filled up the chapel, so all of
the missionaries had to sit in the overflow. Also, I had to bear my
testimony and it was very simple because my Spanish is so awful, but it
was cool going up there. WE then did a zone activity at a park just
contacting a bunch of people, which was awesome. I also got to see Elder
Johnson because he is my Zone Leader, which was pretty cool.
(Elder Johnson and Elder Copeland.)
Love you all so much. We just went shopping today for our house, so we got some food.
(A popular soup in Ecuador.)
(The apartment Elder Copeland and Elder Ayuso live in.)
This is hard work, but I love doing it and I know that I will get better if I trust in the Lord and do my part. Ecuador is the
best place on the planet, and I love it so much. Hope everything is going well for everyone. Sorry if I misspelled anything. This keyboard is
pretty bad.
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