Week 55 - August 18 - 2018

Bang!

Well, today I'm going to be writing a little earlier for a couple things.  First off, right after this we are heading over to the Liga de Quito game.  They are like the biggest soccer team in the country, and we are going to check them out, so I'm really excited for that.  We are going to have a good time with that.  But the game starts at 3:30, so after the game I wouldn't have time to write you guys. 

Also, today was a little weird usually for Pday.  We usually sleep in a little longer and just take our time having a little time free.  But today we got up early and headed over to the chapel and filled up the baptismal font for the baptism of Jakeline!!  It was such a good day.  The baptism was amazing.  I don't know if I have ever met someone so prepared for baptism.  She has had so many problems in her life and she has been waiting so long just to get rid of them. And today she was able to do that.  Such an amazing experience for me, a real testimony builder.

This week was a pretty good week for us.  We had some things that we got done.  We were able to visit this really cool reference that we got from Canada.  Her name is Juliana, she was super cool.  We went to go and visit her and she told us about how she came to know the church.  About two months ago, her mom passed away and she went up to Canada to be at the funeral of her mom.  She was devastated about it, and her sister is a member so she introduced her to the Bishop over there in Canada.  After about two months, she came back to Ecuador, and we were able to teach her about the Book of Mormon and read some parts really important.  She was so excited about the message that we shared, and she really does want to change.  I hope that we can do everything that we can to help her out.

Also, this week we had our Zone Conference and it was super good.  We talked a lot about service and how as missionaries we need to do more service.  It's so true. Sometimes we just hope that every house that we knock they are just going to accept us and be a miracle.  But sometimes we have to do our part and help them out and then we will receive the blessings of finding the chosen!  This was a super good week and it was awesome to see how the Lord has blessed us.  We are excited to see the baptism of Deyamaris next week.  Love you all.  Have a great week.

Love,

Elder Copeland

Also, we saw a little miracle this week.  About a month ago, we promised in the blessing of Deyamaris that she would get a job if she left coffee and lived all of the commandments of God.  She struggled with it for a really long time because she has about $0 and is really struggling.  Well, yesterday we passed by and found out that she did find a JOB!!!  NOt only that, but the Ward donated her a dress so that she feels more comfortable in the church, as well they donated her a bed that she didn't have before!!! MIRACLE!!  So freaking crazy! One of the cooler experiences that I've had in the mission. SHe was so grateful and started to tear up in front of us.  So amazing!  God loves his children.