Hello, Family!
Wanted to start with a shout out to Hannah. Her birthday was this past week. Love and miss you so much, Hannah! Everyone can give her a big hug for me--besides any boys. Love you so much, Hannah!
Tuesday. We started the day off with a District Council, which was so powerful. I promised my district that if they all were able to find 15 people, I would buy them ice cream. They all got really excited, and we ended having a lot of really good ideas to change the way that we are doing things in our district.
(Elder Copeland bought ice cream for his district because they met the goal of finding 15 people. They were very excited about reaching the goal and, also, having ice cream!)
After, we had a lot of our appointments fall through, which was kind of rough, but we were able to end up finding some people. One of the guys, while we were walking on the street, called us over and my companion said no because he was scared of him. But I just felt like I had to talk to him, so we went and he told us some things about his life and how he was in jail about a year ago. We ended up teaching him a great lesson about repentance! The Spirit was so strong. After, we stopped by a new convert and he was telling us how he´s going though a really hard time, and we tried to help him out. He told us that he´s really struggling because his daughter's birthday is tomorrow and how he doesn´t even have enough money to buy her a cake... That hit me pretty hard, but I know that the Lord will bless him.
Wednesday. Today we did what is called an Invasion. It´s when all of the missionaries in one district go to one sector and just go and knock a bunch of houses. So we went to the sector of Aire Libre and went and contacted some houses. I went with Elder Fernandez, and we were able to find some cool people, but one of them was a great experience for me. We were knocking this guy's house and some old ladies yelled at us and told us that he´s a guy that doesn´t love God. But we stayed at the door and waited for him, and he walked out and we asked if we could enter his house and teach him, and he told us to come in. So we went in and got to know him really well, and I asked if I could say anything in a prayer for him to start the message and he teared up and just said, "I just want to be able to see my son...¨ We taught an incredible lesson after, and he told us at the end that right when he saw us at the door, he knew that he had to let us teach him. It was such a testimony builder. After, we went and visited some of our investigators and were able to teach them more about baptism and get them ready for baptism. They are so smart, and I´m really excited for their baptism.
Thursday. Today I had a division with Elder Fernandez, and he came her to my sector. During the division, we also did another invasion. We are able to find a decent amount of people here in our sector. I was able to find some awesome people including a guy that used to live in my old sector, CAYAMBE! That made me so happy just to hear about that place again. We were able to teach them about the Book of Mormon, and he got pretty excited about it. After, we went to the house of Karen and asked her how she is doing, but she is just doubting a lot. We had one of the most spiritual lessons with her. We just asked her if she could feel the Spirit, and she just denied everything. It was so sad, because I know that the Spirit was there. She is just really struggling because her mom is really Catholic and is making her doubt everything that she has received. So that was kind of a bummer.
Friday. MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU!! Haha I hope you guys had the best Star Wars day today. I told my companion and he said he didn´t care about any movie that has space monkeys... Chewbaca is a Wookie, not a space monkey.... haha but after we had divisions with the Zone Leaders in their sector. I went with Elder Ericksen )San Diego, California= and we went out to this part of their sector, and we had zero appointments confirmed. But we ended up finding six people and putting a baptismal date on one of their investigators!! It was such a good experience. Elder Ericksen is a great missionary. It was awesome to be with him for the day.
Saturday. Today we got up early and played some basketball with the Zone Leaders. My first time playing basketball in nine months and wow I am awful haha. After, we were able to go back to our sector and talk to one of our investigators that really wants to get baptized but is not married. We were able to talk about doing an activity to help her gain some money to get married and after baptized! And she agreed! AW I´m so happy for her. After, we went to Forestal and did another invasion. We were able to find 16 people in 2 hours there!! It was so awesome. It showed me that here if you want to have success, you just have to get up and go to work. After the invasion, we went over to our chapel and were supposed to have the interviews of our two investigators, but they said that they wanted to attend the baptism of their friend first and the good thing is, is that the baptism of their friend was like 15 minutes away. So we got to go see a baptism of four people in the Tolita. After, they had their interview and passed with ease! We ended the day looking for more people to find and just talking in the street to the people and were able to find a really cool family that used to listen to the missionaries about 20 years ago. Another daily miracle!
Sunday. We were able to have some of our investigators come to church today, which again was such a blessing. After, we had a lesson with one of the guys that we found earlier this week, and he presented us to his wife and it was a great lesson. He´s like the counselor of the Priest in his church. But he thought that our message was very interesting and wants to continue listening to us in the future. After, we stopped by a less-active ex-missionary and talked to him about coming back to church. I hope he does because the dude is hilarious. After, we stopped by a family that aren´t all members. We are trying to baptize the dad. We were able to watch a video with them. We talked to them about how he needs to think about his family and how he can bless them. So we are hoping that will be able to make him think a little more about baptism.
Photos: At the beach again
Love, Elder Copeland
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