Week 58 - September 8, 2018

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To be honest this week was one of the fastest weeks of the mission.  Not too much happened, but honestly it felt like just yesterday.  I can’t believe how fast time is going here--it is beyond crazy.  It's great to hear that BYU won.  That’s always a great way to start off the week.  As well, to hear that my grandparents are being moved to the Frankfurt, Germany Mission with Dax is so awesome!  So excited for them!

This week started off super crazy though hahaha.  Turns out that Elder Myers is super allergic to peanuts and one of our mamits gave us peanuts without saying anything to us. Elder Myers just looked at me telling me that it was bad news.  We got out of the house as fast as possible and got to the house so he could take his Eppy Pen and rushed to the hospital as fast as possible.  Wow!  He honestly almost didn’t make it there, but we got him there and he made it out okay.  We were there basically the whole day, but wow what an adventure.  Super grateful that Elder Myers made it out okay.

As well, this week we had Mission Council in the house of President.  It’s always super fun to be able to see all of my buddies in the mission, as well.  It’s kind of sad because so many of them are leaving… But we had a great Council.  We talked about the importance of how in the Bible they are always going to mountain tops to communicate with God, and how now days we are blessed with the temples.  But more importantly, how we need to raise ourselves up and be better.  So, we went up to a spot in our mission super high up so that we would be able to remember our purpose as missionaries.  I loved it.  I thought that it was something that the mission needed.  

After Council, we had some of the Elders stay in our house, including Elder Harris.  He and I went out after and went contacting together.  It was so cool because the last time that I went out contacting with him was in the MTC.  Crazy to see how much we have changed.  Love that guy.

As well, this week I had interchanges with Elder Soto, our Zone Leader.  He is from Peru and is 25 haha.  But honestly, he is one of my best friends in the mission.  It is always super fun being able to be with him.  We had a lesson with some girl and it was awesome. We taught her about the Gospel of Christ and it was going great, then out of the middle of no where she just told us that she loved our message but that she likes women and that she doesn’t want to repent for it. So that was super weird haha, but it’s something that has been super interesting in the mission.  With some people there is just nothing you can do to change their minds. It’s super hard and sad, but what can you do haha.

That was basically our week.  We were able to finish up the rest of the lessons with Mariana before her baptismal interview and honestly she is so cool.  She understands everything so well.  It’s nice when we have members that help us out a ton.  So we're hoping to finish this transfer well. It’s super weird to think that I only have like 9 days left in the Iñaquito Ward.  I’m going to miss it so much.  I’ve been able to meet some of the best people that I know here, but I’m also super excited for next change in La Luz with Elder Molina.  He’s from Hondorus and is the coolest guy ever. Thank you all so much, even thought half of you didn’t get to this point, I still love you.  Love, Elder Copeland

Fotos,

Quito is so beautiful, some of the Volcanos that we can see every day

Elder Harris and I (Forever Bebe)

Our group at missionary council