Whats up, Fam!! Great week here in Ecuador!
Tuesday. HALLOWEEN, but it's not celebrated here haha. It was pretty weird not seeing little kids run around the streets, but it was still a good day. We had interviews with Pres Murphy, and they were so good. He is such a good man. After, we had some great lessons with some of our investigators, and we got to see one investigator that we haven't seen in forever. It was so awesome to see her again.
Wednesday. Today I went on an intercambio with Elder Choque, and he knows no English, so this was like the first day in the mission were I couldn't speak English at all the whole day, which went better then I thought. We taught some great lessons and some of the members here expect the missionaries to do everything haha. One member's kid ran away and she wanted us to go and find him. We just told her we couldn't help her, and she got mad at us ahahahl.
Thursday. We witnessed a fight today! This girl was passed out on the ground and all of these Black people were trying to punch the cop, but he just left. The police here do very little! We went to Angel and Ximena's house and Angel wasn't there because he was drinking. Ximena was so sad and she told us that she doesn't want to marry him. It was so sad to hear that from her, and it made us so sad because he was doing so well.
Friday. Today we were in Quito the whole day for a Zone Conference with Elder Fallebela, and it was so good. He has a program for missionaries to receive more references and some other stuff that I loved so much. I, also, got to see Elder Harris, McClesse, and Johnson, which was so awesome. We ended receiving 90 references from the program, which was soo nice for us.
Saturday. Was such a good day today. We found a really cool nuevo investagator. But to end the day, we went to Angel and Ximena's house and both of them were there and Ximena was telling him that she wanted to live alone and Angel was so sad. He was crying the whole time, and it was so sad for me because they're like a family to me. Angel told us that he wants to change and that he wants to go through the temple. We told him this is his last chance. So I told him that if he lived a perfect month of the gospel, reading every day, coming to church every week, he would not want to drink anymore and his family life would get better. He told us that he wants this so badly. It was such a cool experience for me, and I know that they can do all of this stuff and that they know the church is true. They are so closeeee ahhh.
Sunday. Angel and Ximena came to church with their whole family, which was awesome. We had so many good lessons today. We found two new Neuvos, and they both loved our message and asked us to come back soon (doesn't happen very often). We have this investigator that has met with the missionaries before but had lots of doubts, so he asked us, and the Book of Mormon had every single answer. He told us that he really wants to read it now, which was cool.
And after we went to Angel and Ximena's house. They were so happy today, and the Spirit was so strong. We showed them the "Hope of God's Light" video and they loved it.
(Click on the link above to see this fantastic video for yourself. Interesting fact: Elder Copeland's dad played on the same basketball team as this young man did in high school.)
Great week here. Love and miss you all so MUCH!
Love,
Elder Copeland
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