Happy Graduation to Lauren,
So crazy you´re already done with high school. Have fun with the real life hahaha.
Tuesday. Today we had a lesson with one of our investigators, Xiomera, that has been going through a really hard time. We talked to her about her purpose here in the world, and she understood really well and loved it. Later, I got the feeling to invite her to baptized, and she's had doubts about baptism before. But we invited her and she had zero doubts about baptism, and we were able to put a date on her!! She accepted the baptismal date, and she´s really excited to keep learning. But other than that, not too much happened. We went and talked to some of our investigators and contacted some houses.
Wednesday. Today we had divisions and I stayed here with Elder Melendez (Peru.) We were able to talk to some of our other investigators with a baptismal date (Alejandra and Karelis), and we went and did a good check up on them to see how they are doing on their progress. After, we went and taught Marilu. She´s the girl that we taught the other week that has honestly nothing. It´s so sad. We taught her how to pray today and during her prayer she just repeated what I said. At the end, she just starting tearing up. I just want her and her kids to have a better life, it´s so sad. After, we went to visit some investigator that we haven´t visited in such a long time. We just went to see how she was doing and we were just talking to her for a long time about her doubts of the church. It was actually pretty cool, because she has never opened up to us before. Just talking to her about her life helped her opened up. I hope that it will help her get baptized one day.
Thursday. Today was a very busy day. We went by and talked to Paola about how she needs to keep going and working hard so that she can keep hold of her testimony. We are still praying that she will get married with her husband soon. After, we went back and visited Xiomera and talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She did really well and still showed us some good progress. She is super awesome, and I hope that she will continue to make it to her baptismal date. After, we went and talked with Jessica, another investigator with a baptismal date. Ahh today was really busy. We were jumping from house to house, but we were able to get a lot of work done today.
Friday. Today we had our Zone Conference with President Murphy! It was another awesome Zone Conference. The Zone Conferences always come at the perfect time and help me so much. We talked a lot about keeping our excitement going as a mission and that we have a lot of potential. Not only that, but Elder Bogren and I had to give a training in front of all of the missionaries and President. If you would have told me that about eight months ago that Elder Bogren and I were training other missionaries together, I would have laughed so hard and took it as a joke. But yeah, it happened. It was a good experience, and I learned a lot from it.
Elder Mckinnion
and Elder Morton at their last Zone Conference
After the Zone Conference, we went to visit one of our investigators. He is the one we found the other week that broke his leg. We visited him and read 3 Nephi 11 about when Christ came to the Americas, and it was such a good lesson. We talked to him about baptism after, and he accepted, but the problem is that we have to talk to his wife and she never is in the house. So we have to try and find a time to also talk to her. Finished the day visiting some investigators that want to get baptized but aren´t married yet... Haha. It´s so frustrating and they are waiting for their baby to be born first. So it´s basically just a waiting game with them.
Saturday. Today we started the morning off going to our interviews with President Murphy. I love every single one of my interviews and honestly every chance that I have to talk to President. Such an amazing man. After, my companion got sick and we basically spent almost the rest of the day in the house. I got really bored and asked him if he was good enough to go out for one visit and we did. We went and visited the Venezuelan that we found the past week. He was awesome. We taught him about the Restoration and he loved it. It was one of the better lessons that I've had. But we found out that he´s not MARRIED. So we can´t really do much with him until they can figure out a way to get married without their visas.
Sunday. Today we had the Stake Conference and we were able to have a couple of our investigators come. President Murphy was also able to talk to them as well. Haha It was so funny because it was the least professional thing that I have ever seen. President just looked at me and started laughing. After, we went out and just started looking for people in the street and found these cool guys. We taught them about the Book of Mormon. They were really interested in it, so we asked them if we could come back and he´s going on a vacation and won´t be back for another three weeks:(. We were also able to visit Family Sosa, and it turns out that the dad got in a serious accident. He was changing the oil of his motorcycle and it sparked and burnt his thumb. They showed us some pictures and wow! One of the grossest things I've ever seen. Hopefully, he gets that better. If not, they said they will have to amputate it... So awful. We finished the day talking to Karen and her mom. Her mom got going again about how she doesn't like Joseph Smith and I just told her that he was somebody that made it so that we can learn more of Christ. It´s so frustrating because she just doesn´t understand.
Basically, not too much crazy happened. Hope all is going well for you guys at home. Enjoy your summer break! Elder Copeland
Photos
At the Beach today
Nice window pic!
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