Week 9 - September 25, 2017

Two Months!

I promise I'm not counting.

Tuesday.  WE had a lesson with Gissel today that went really well.  She moved her baptism date back up.  She is such a good investigator and understands a lot, but she is hard to understand and she talks very long, but it's okay.  We also taught some other lessons that went well.

(Elder Copeland making pancakes.)

Wednesday:  We taught some less actives today and that went pretty well.  We then went to Family Ponce's house and it went really well.  He loved the lesson and told us that he wanted us to come back later in the week.  Then later that night we went to go teach Marcia.  Her husband doesn't listen to us still.  He just sits on his bed playing his phone.  We taught her about the Plan of Salvation and it went so well.  She loved it.  We asked her if she wanted to be baptized and she said yes.  I am so happy!  She is such a good person.

Thurday  We were going to teach Hno Victor again.  We went to his house and he wasn't there, so we decided to look for one of our new contacts.  We called her and she said that she lived on top of the mountain, so we hiked another mountain and looked for the white house that she said she lived in and there were lots of houses that were white.  So we went and knocked on one and this shirtless man and his brother were in there.  He let us in and we taught  them.  They loved the message so much.  They told us that we needed to come back and they were so excited, so I cant wait to see them again.  We went to Angel and Ximena's house after.   They're some of my favorite investigators and helped them with their job of making Christmas bags.

Friday.  We taught some lessons and they were good, but basically just a day of looking and finding some new investigators.

Saturday.  We went back to Angel and Ximena's house and helped them more.  

Sunday.  Went to Church and my comp was sick, so we didn't do much.

All is good here in Ecuador.  I'm working hard and I'm loving it here.  It's really cold in the nights, and I wake up about 2 AM every morning from dogs barking in the street. 
We have like the worst dog ever in our building.  We have to run out before he tries to kill us haha.  It's so funny.  I'm working hard and trying to learn Spanish.  Miss you all.  Hope all is good.  Love, Elder Copeland