Dear Family,
Tuesday. Today I was with Elder Johnson for the day in Ibarra. We were looking around his new sector because he is opening it and it is huge. We contacted for awhile, and it was pretty cool getting to see another part of Ecuador. After, we took a 2-hour bus to Quito to wait for our Trainees.
Wednesday. Today we woke up and had a meeting in Quito with the new missionaries, and then we found out who our new missionaries were. I got Elder Ton from Mexico. He was waiting for his visa there for three months and he just got here to Ecuador, so I'm not really training him which kind of sucks hahaha. But he's such a good guy. He's a little quiet, but we get along really well.
Elder Copeland with his new trainee, Elder Ton
Elder Morton, Elder Copeland, and Elder Johnson
Thursday. Today we had our first full day in Cayambe. We started it off with Hno Andres. He told us that he has been reading and that he's feeling better about his baptism. He, also, came to church on Sunday, so that was so cool. He has such a cool story. He had cancer when he was a kid and all he does is charity events for kids with cancer. He's such an amazing guy. He also visited some of our investigators and introduced Elder Ton to them. It was awesome.
Friday. Today we got to watch the funeral of President Thomas S. Monson and it was beautiful. He was such an amazing man. It's going to be so weird not being able to listen to him anymore.
After that, we did get to finally teach fam Tamayo again--the family with the cows. They are doing so well. They just live so far away, so it's hard for them to come to church.
Then we taught Fam Cabazcongo. One of the kids doesn't really listen to us. He just plays on his phone the whole time, and it's so frustrating, but we taught the other two kids and they want to be baptized. I hope I can help the kid that plays on the phone.
Saturday. We had a lesson with one of our families with Fecha. They told us that they want to get baptized. They have been reading and they believe that this is the true church. It was such a good lesson, but then after that, her brother walked in soooo drunk and it was honestly pretty funny. He had no idea what was going on.
Sunday. Today it rained the entire day, and our mommita cancelled on us, so I cooked some hot dogs ahhaah. After, we basically contacted for 6 hours in the rain and just not much came. But at the end of the day, we went to Fam Trujillo and they are still doing so good. The dad just got called as Second Counselor in the Bishopric. They are so amazing. But overall, best birthday ever haha. (Elder Copeland turned 19 today!)
Elder Copeland's companion gave him this Darth Vader Lego for his birthday, which he thought was pretty great!
For their P-day, Elder Copeland and some of the other missionaries in the area went to a beautiful waterfall.
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