Hello again.
Tuesday. Today, we started the day off early with a lesson with one of our investigators named Diego. He's a younger guy, but he's so awesome. We were talking to him about what he's going to do after his baptism if he was going to stay active for ever, and he was direct and said that he wants to be baptized. But later we found a problem that kind of sucks. He doesn't live in our sector, but he's always here visiting with his girlfriend, but we cannot baptize him until he either moves to our sector or the other missionaries teach him. So that's been a pretty frustrating process. I hope that we can find a solution to get him baptized. After, we had a lesson with another young girl and her boyfriend. He is a member but doesn´t want to come to church, but she does. It´s so frustrating, but we taught her more about the Book of Mormon and she´s starting to progress a lot. We just have to help them get married first. To finish the day, we went to teach this one girl that we found the other day. She was really cool. She had a bunch of questions for us and she told us that she was going to come to church. We ended up passing by an investigator's (Felix) house who has been out of town for awhile now because his mom passed away. We passed by thinking that we were going to have to push back his baptism date because he would be sad, but he surprised us and told us that he wants to be baptized earlier!! Haah I'm so excited for him. He's so awesome.
Wednesday. Today we brought two members with us the whole day to help prepare them for the mission. Haha it was so fun. We had a bunch of lessons fall through so we were able to pretty much show them the life of a missionary perfectly--walking door to door in the burning heat, just not being accepted by anyone. But they battled through and were just dead by the end of the day. Basically the only lesson we had today was in the morning with some teenager, and we just talked more about the Book of Mormon with him. But he just barely got a new job and it´s going to be really hard for him to come to church...
Thursday. Zone Conference was today so we were able to hear from President. I've said it about 100 times that he is so amazing and I'll say it again. He is the President on the planet, without doubt. He is not only making us better missionaries but he is preparing us for the rest of our lives. It's helped me so much.
After the conference, we were able to pass by the house of Felix and talk to him more about baptism and what we have to do. He was so excited. He's a such a great guy.
Friday. Today we passed by the house of Bismark again (the one who finished the Book of Mormon in a week) and talked to him about family search and he loved it. He's hands down one of the most confusing guys I've ever met. He believes the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet, but he does not want to get baptized. He says he doesn't believe in religion, but if there was one that was true it would be our church... Haha he's so amazing, but it´s kind of frustrating because he knows everything is true, he just won´t take the next step. After, we were finally able to find a family that we have been looking for since I've got here, and they are awesome, but it´s hard with them because the husband works in the Military and he doesn't really believe in God. To finish the day, we stopped again by Felix to prepare him for his baptismal interview Saturday.
Saturday. Today, before lunch, we stopped by this house of four sisters. They´re all so crazy, and we are working really hard with them to get them baptized. After, we had the interview of Felix and he passed. He was so happy. I´m not going to lie. I was a little nervous for him, but he did awesome in his interview. After, we were able to find a new investigator and her daughter about how they will be able to see their husband-brother again and they got really interested. We left them with some things that they need to do, and I´m really excited to return and see how they did. After, we finished the night with Karen, her mom, and her brother. They are honestly so crazy. Her mom is really Catholic and she just gets mad at us, but also believes that our church is true haha. The people here in the coast are so interesting, but I love them so much.
Sunday. Today, we had a pretty good day. We had some investigators come to church. But in the second hour, we have a class for all of the new investigators and the new recent converts. The mom of Karen got really frustrated in class and was getting frustrated, like the whole lesson. We taught about repentance and she got really bugged. It was so funny. She and another member were arguing about repentance. After, in the Elders Quorum, the teacher had no idea how to teach, so we just sat there and listened to somebody read in a Liahona about a message from a prophet. Haha It's a different world here in the Coast. After, we had a good day finding some investigators for the first time in awhile. It was a pretty good day. Some funny things happened during the day. We were walking in the street and this little 6 year old girl yelled for us and we asked her about how her day was and she flipped us off and slammed the door shut haha. After, we were in a lesson with some investigators and her little two-year-old girl was sitting on a chair just playing with her toy and all of the sudden we hear a bunch of liquid noise hit the ground. The little girl was just peeing her pants just sitting there so innocent hahaha! It was so disturbing!
Today, we didn't really do much. I've been sick all day, so we just chilled in the house, but everything will be all good.
Book of Mormon. I was reading in 1 Nephi 17 when Nephi is commanded to build a boat and how his brothers didn´t believe him. His faith in this chapter is incredible for me. I advise you to read this chapter and look for ways that you can apply the same mentality as Nephi.
Love, Elder Copeland
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