Hello, Family and Friends!!
Wanted to start this week out with a big shout-out to Taylor and Ellie!!! I can’t believe that they are pregnant!! Not only that, but they’re having a baby boy!! Oh my gosh! I’ve never been more excited in my life!! If you see them, give them the biggest hug for me. And tell the baby that his favorite Uncle we be home soon… hahah!
No but really I’m still here in the mission and I’m loving it. So, if you’re still reading this, this is what happened this week.
Monday: After Pday and running around the lake, we had a family night with some members in our Branch and her neighbor. We got there and her house is so small. I had to sit down on a little bucket. Also, Fam Trujillo was there and they helped us so much. It has been so cool to be able to see their progress since their baptism in December. We got to teach the neighbor and her little boy about the Book of Mormon and they loved it. They thought that it was so cool that there were really more scriptures to read. It was an awesome lesson with them. But the hardest part was getting back to the house. My legs were so tired from the hike before, and my companion literally was dying. He almost didn’t make it haha!
Lake Mojando
Tuesday. Today we started the day going off to District Council. I had to give the meeting again and it is still pretty weird having to do it. It takes a good amount of work, to be honest. I had to give it on the importance of the Book of Mormon. It’s weird how much we talk about it and every time we do, I learn something new. The Book of Mormon is one of the most important things that we have here on earth. After that, we had a day of every lesson falling through, so we had to contact for hours haha. But, towards the end of the day, we were able to teach one of our new investigators named Vivianna. She's so cool! She was telling us that when she just looks at the Book of Mormon, she feels so much peace… Haha what_ It was so cool! So, we invited her to be baptized on the 24th of March!!!! She’s honestly the best.
Wednesday. Today we started the day going over the lesson with one of our investigators, and he is honestly so weird. He wanted us to teach his kids, but he only had 15 minutes so we had to hurry. He talked for every single second of it haha. It drove me crazy, but we were able to get a little bit in about the importance of the Book of Mormon. After honestly every single thing fell though that we planned, we found this really long road that is straight uphill. We decided to contact it and we were able to find some great people! Took a lot of walking and blistered feet, but it was all worth it. To finish the day, we went to visit Hna Mishell (she just recently got baptized) and talked to her about the importance of missionary work and some of the stories of Alma, and honestly, it was unreal! She started tearing up about the importance of helping others. Ahh it was so amazing!
Thursday. Today we got up early and just went to visit an investigator that we found some time ago. She was not there, so we just decided to contact her neighbor, and she was so cool. She told us that we needed to come back to teach them more. It’s honestly the best experience ever hearing that. After this, we contacted forever in the rain and yeah we weren’t able to find too much success today. But after a little bit, I had to go to Otavalo so that I could travel to Quito with some of the other District Leaders in the mission. President told all of us that we were going to have a meeting in Quito only for the District Leaders. Soooo, we went to Quito and on the bus I was able to sit be a lady that was so awesome. She had a little girl that kept playing My Little Pony with me haha. But I ended up talking to her for awhile and it turns out that she lives in my sector. So, we had a good talk about her life and about the Church and she was honestly so cool. She told us that we can come and visit her, so I’m really excited for that. After about an hour more, we got into Quito and stayed at the house of some other missionaries and ordered some Pizza haha!
Friday. We started the day off today with the District Leader Meeting, and honestly, it was unbelievable. President Murphy is the best mission President in the world. We drove back to Cayambe and had a lesson with Fam Cabezes. They have wanted to be baptized for awhile, so we just had to be really direct with them and we put a baptismal date on them. So, I’m really hoping that they make it this time!
Saturday. In the morning, we had a couple of lessons that fell through, so we just decided to contact again. We found this one lady that used to listen to the missionaries and used to go to church every once in awhile. So we asked her if she wanted to come back. She went off for about 30 minutes about how when she went to church once and they were reading a passage together, when it got to her turn to read, they jumped her and another member read instead of her haha. So now she doesn’t want to come back to church. But ya mismo… After, we stopped by an Investigator's that Elder Millett and I found forever ago. But he really stopped progressing, so we stopped visiting him. We passed by and read the chapter of Enos, and we asked him to say the prayer to finish the lesson and in the lesson and he said in his prayer that he knows that the church is true and that the Book of Mormon is true. Also, that we were sent to him to save him haha! It was so cool. A miracle. After, we finished the day off visiting a family that we’ve been kind of teaching and we had a great lesson with them about the Plan of Salvation.
Sunday… After having this great week, you are always sitting in Sacrament meeting just hoping that all of them are going to come to church. And today we were looking at the door the whole time and no one walked in. It’s the worst days of the mission when nobody comes to church, but you just got to know that you did all that you could to get them to come and they had their own agency not to come. More importantly, that the Lord will bless you the next week to have more people come next week. Other than that, we had some other good lessons today.
Book of Mormon. I’ve been reading in the Book of Alma and I came to a part that I love and wanted to share. It’s in Alma 31. In this chapter, Alma is going to visit the wicked Zoramites and they are so evil that it hurts Alma's soul. He says a prayer to Heavenly Father to help these people that they can forget about their pride. And at the end of his prayer it says in verse 37, “And after that they did separate themselves one from another, taking no thought for themselves what they should eat, or what they should drink, or what they should put on." I love the statement, “taking no thought to themselves.” They didn’t want anything more than to just help these people become better people. Don’t forget to read your scriptures. Elder Copeland
Elder Copeland liked this dog.
And he LOVES puppies!
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