Hello, family.
I wasn't really able to inform you guys about what happened with changes this last week, but Elder Myers went home and Elder Mayberry came in and now is my companion here in Iñaquito!! The cool thing is, is he was in my District in the coast for 2 months. It's so weird to think that we are companions now. I never thought that we would have ever been companions, but he is super cool and I'm super excited for this change that we have together. He is from Saint David, Arizona. If you don't know where that is, nobody does haha. He started one change after me, so we have about the same amount of time in the mission.
(Elder Copeland's mother and sister, Lauren, were able to attend Elder Myers' at his homecoming in Layton, Utah.)
This week has honestly been super, super long. I've been training Elder Mayberry as the financial secretary, so basically I'm just helping him understand what he should do in the offices. This week we had to drop off the Elders and Hermanas in the airport and it was awful. All of the Elders kept me up all night, and we left for the airport after that at 2 in the morning. Turns out that one of the sisters had an earlier flight, so she didn't make it that night. After that, I had to say bye to Elder Myers and Elder Cave:(... So after that we headed back over to the house and began to sleep and one of the Hermanas called me an hour later and told us that she needed a ride to the airport and nobody would take her. So, I had to head back over to the airport with an hour of sleep and drop off more missionaries. After, we went back and worked and at midnight we had to head back to the airport and drop off another missionary. Haha I got to know the airport super well this week haha. It was a super long week with all of the things happening with the guys going home and the rest of them coming in...
But we were also able to have some great spiritual moments this week. We had a family night with President Murphy. We brought over Giulliana (Juilliana) and taught her about the Word of Wisdom and the importance of it. She has had a really hard time accepting it, so we were hoping President Murphy would be able to us out! WE shared the talk from President Monson about the Word of Wisdom and how it blessed the soldier with more strength. We asked her to live the Word of Wisdom for a whole month and she will know that it is a commandment of God. She promised us that she would live the commandment and pray to God if she should be baptized. She shared some good experiences about how during her scripture studies she has been noticing that all she has been thinking about is baptism. It was super nice to know that she is thinking about it a lot. I know that she will be baptized one day, she is honestly so prepared. One of the biggest testimony builders that I have had in the mission is being able to see her progress.
As well this week, we were able to stop by and teach Jhonny Pico. About three weeks ago, some member called us over in the street while we were street contacting and told us that she wanted us to teach her dad. So we went and presented ourselves and have been teaching him the past couple weeks. He now has a baptismal date and is progressing super well. We went and taught him with Esteban and taught him about baptism. He is super excited and we have been receiving a bunch of help from the ward. So we are super excited for him and his baptism. Such a miracle!
Not much more than that happened this week.. It was super long and hard, to be honest. But we are excited and are going to try and continue to work hard, and we know that the Lord will bless us. Thank you all for everything. Love you all so much. Elder Copeland
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Just some random fotos throughout the week
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