Another week!
I hope everything is going well for everyone back at home. It's always fun hearing about the new mission calls. I´m so excited for all you guys to get into the mission field. This week I received a new companion. His name is Elder Rengifo from Peru. He´s new to the mission. He only has three months out. He´s so funny and awesome; also, really shy. But I´m really excited for this change with him.
Monday. Today for P'day we sold Rice with Milk the entire day for one of our investigators to gain some money for marriage. It was fun. We got her enough money to get married, but after, she postponed the marriage with her husband. So that was kind of bummer.
Tuesday. Today we received a reference from our friend, Bismark, to go and visit this one girl. So he showed us where she lives, and oh my gosh, it was one of the poorest houses that I´ve ever seen in my life. They (Marilu and Emily) basically live in mud. They bathe in the river, which is right below their house. We were able to teach them a little bit about the Plan of Salvation, and it was good. They are really shy, so we didn´t get a lot from them. A real eye opener for me. I hope that we can give them a little more hope in their life. After, we taught an investigator that we taught from awhile ago )Dannila.= She had a baptismal date about five years ago, and it fell through, so we taught her about the Restoration, and it was perfect. After, we spent some time contacting and were able to find some investigators. We finished the day with Karen. We've been working really hard with her since her baptismal date fell through. We taught her about how she has to start reading the Book of Mormon again. It´s so frustrating that she's just not doing the things that she was doing before. But we are working really hard with her.
Wednesday. Today we started the day off with the Zone Leaders coming to our house in the morning, and they were just talking to us about some of the things that we can do better. After we had a bunch of lessons fall through, so we ended up contacting a lot today. We were able to find )Jessica= she´s the mom of member in our ward. We taught her about the Plan of Salvation, and she accepted the baptismal invitation. During the lesson, there was a fight between two dudes a couple houses down the street. Haha it was hilarious--just two drunk dudes yelling at each other.
Thursday. Today we had so many things that fell through. But we did finally get to teach Karalys for the first time in forever. And it was like the first time that we had a good lesson with her in forever. We finished the day talking to Paola with the bishop and it was one of the better lessons that I´ve had in the mission. The Bishop shared his thoughts, and they were perfect for Paola and her situation. During the prayer, Paola started to tear up. Ahhhh it was perfect!
Friday. Today we went out early to visit some people in the morning and the lessons fell through haha, so we just ended up contacting. Later on, we had a bunch of lessons. We were able to teach Marilu and Emily again, and this time they opened up a lot to us. We, also, got to meet more of her kids. I could see a little bit more hope in the eyes of Marilu this time. It was a great lesson with them. It´s hard to teach them because they are unable to read, so we have to use pictures and stuff haha. After, we taught one of our old investigators again, and it was good. We ended the night with a family night with some member and her husband who we are teaching. And their daughter, Valentine, was in charge of the family night, and it was adorable haha. We had three prayers and three hymns haha. It was such a good night with them.
Saturday. Today we had almost a lesson for every hour of the day lined up, and we ended up only having two lessons haha. We had another one with Karalys and Alejandra and answered their questions about the church. We later looked for investigators for quite some time and only ended finding Family de La Cruz in the night. When we got there, the first thing I saw on the ground was a beer. It got me so sad, but they said the they almost never drink beer and when they do, it´s only one bottle. It was still pretty dang frustrating haha. That basically puts together in words how today was for us. Walking in the burning heat with some blistered feet hahah. Wow! I love the mission!
Sunday. Today we went to church, and after, I got really sick. So basically nothing happened. We passed by some houses, and that is basically it haha.
Matias
Our activity today.
Love, Elder Copeland
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