tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44488121912881742212024-02-18T22:34:20.699-08:00Elder Connor CopelandOn July 23, 2014, Elder Connor Copeland began his two-year missionary service for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church). This blog is intended for those who want to share his experiences for the next two years as he serves the Lord and the people of the Nicaragua, Managua South - Spanish Speaking Mission.Laura Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181853905307101333noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448812191288174221.post-1938129748540724912016-06-22T13:03:00.002-07:002016-06-22T16:00:35.599-07:00Homecoming Address - Sunday, June 19, 2016<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon returning from a Mormon mission, a missionary gives a report in Sacrament Meeting usually on the Sunday after his/her return. Connor gave such a beautiful testimony of the gospel and related seven miracles he had experienced while on his mission where the Atonement of Christ was used to change people's lives. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After the meeting, a wonderful open house was held at the Copeland home for family and friends.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Connor with his brother, Taylor, and sister-in-law, Ellie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was such a wonderful time for Connor to see so many people that he hadn't been able to see for the two years he was gone. He definitely felt welcomed home from the many shown in the pictures above and many more who were in attendance.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As Connor has looked back, he has stated as so many before him have stated, <b>"Those were the best two years of my life!" </b> He is on to new challenges and adventures. In August, he will starting college at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, where he has been recruited as a member of the university's golf team! Best wishes, Connor! You have served so well and can be so proud of all your hard work! We love you dearly!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as well as both sets of grandparents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Family friend, Kim Johnson, whose son, Cole, is one of </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mission shortly. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The plane had come in two hours late and it was nearing 10:00 p.m. No one</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">not driving for two years in Nicaragua!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by his Stake President from his calling. His immediate family, plus his </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grandparents Copeland were in attendance at that releasing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elder Copeland gave a beautiful, heartfelt testimony of his love for</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the Savior and the people of Nicaragua. With that release, Elder Copeland</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">became Connor Copeland again. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> As <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Connor came driving up, he saw th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e sign and balloon<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s that a family friend </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon arriving home, the first thing Connor did was look in the refrigerator </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">exclaiming, "Oh, food!" On his mission, he had basically lived on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">instant breakfast packets that had been sent to him for breakfast, rice and beans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for lunch, and Tang for dinner. With all the walking and those few calories,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">no wonder he was basically skin and bones as he returns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A friend had set up a wonderful display of fruit covered cookies</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and fruit pastries for Connor's return.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His mother had given him a sandwich when he came in, but</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">his stomach had shrunk so much, he couldn't even finish it!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He was delighted with the new clothes his mother had purchased</span></span></div>
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Laura Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181853905307101333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448812191288174221.post-52178854646447536372016-06-22T11:13:00.000-07:002016-06-22T11:13:19.356-07:00Homeward Bound - June 15, 2016<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The day arrived that all missionaries face with many different emotions after serving for two years-- the missionary heads for home!</span></span><br />
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Laura Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181853905307101333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448812191288174221.post-54207923729364389892016-06-22T10:56:00.000-07:002016-06-22T10:56:56.797-07:00Saying Good-bye to the Wonderful People of Manauga - June 2016<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During the two years Elder Copeland served in Nicaragua, he made many memories as well as many friends. Before he left, he snapped a few pictures of some of these wonderful people, as well as memories, that he had in his last area.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span>Laura Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181853905307101333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448812191288174221.post-51782432911719367432016-06-13T18:13:00.005-07:002016-06-13T18:13:54.984-07:00Ninety-ninth Week - June 13, 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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no he querido comunicarlas por medio de papel y tinta, pues espero ir a
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misión Nicaragua Managua Sur<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Laura Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181853905307101333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448812191288174221.post-5696010632320628632016-06-06T15:52:00.000-07:002016-06-06T15:52:53.552-07:00Ninety-eighth Week - June 6, 2016<style>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, this week was
pretty good. It rained every single day this week so that was nice that it wasn't so hot, but we got soaked everyday haha. Changes were on Wednesday. Elder Merrill left, I miss him so much. We are best friends. </span></span></div>
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so excited when we found out. </span></span></div>
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left the house at 7am to go and bring all of our investigators to church. At
7:15, it started to pour and here when it pours, the streets turn into rivers
haha. (The water was up to our shins.) So Elder Heileson and I sacrificed a lot
just to bring people to church yesterday. We like hired a moto-taxi guy to take
everyone. It non-stopped poured from 7:15 am til 1 pm. We couldn't have gotten more
wet. We got to church at like 8:50 am with 5 people to find that we were the only
people in the whole chapel haha.... It was bad, but like 70 people ended up
coming. I bore my testimony for the last time in a Sacrament Meeting on my
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airport like a normal person:) (Just in case you don't remember when Taylor came
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Laura Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181853905307101333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448812191288174221.post-47581207801457927982016-05-31T08:53:00.000-07:002016-05-31T08:53:07.502-07:00Ninety-seventh Week - May 30, 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What's up ladies? This
week was super crazy. Good in lots of ways and super frustrating in lots of
ways. But hey, it's important that there is an opposition in all things
right? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But good news, my convert
Gustina from La Borgoña (my second area) just went to the temple. So awesome! So proud of her. I still remember the first day that I contacted her. I wasn't
even contacting. It was my first day in the area and I was looking for my lunch
cita and the Lord put her in my camino. She was a person that was very ready
to have the gospel. So awesome to see how the Lord works.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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baptizing three.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Yesica</u></b>, we married her on
Wednesday and then baptized her on Saturday. She is super awesome and was put
into our path. On April 23rd at around 8:30 pm, my companion and I went all day
trying to commit people to come to church, but no one wanted to go. It was a
rough day, and out of nowhere I saw a lady with three little kids walking on a
super dark street. I felt prompted to go and help her. So I decided to go and
turn my flashlight on and help her to where she needed to go. Ever since that
moment, she went to church with us, and this past week she got married and we
baptized her. Once again, the Lord put someone in the path for us.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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a young couple. They are both 19. They just had a baby one month ago. They are
super cool. It was a long process to baptize them because Julissa was never
inscribed in Nicaragua, so basically she didn't even exist. So we had to get a
lawyer and do a big process to make her exist. This past week, they got married
and baptized. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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y Anielka were also supposed to get baptized this past week. They were all
ready until Thursday... They just couldn't take the mocking from their neighbors
and family. It's sad to see here all of the mocking and everything. Makes it
really hard for people. But the right path is never the easiest. Shows that
they don't have a testimony yet. We are still working with them, hoping they
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baptizers from each Zone went. Our Zone didn't win, but my companion and I
baptized the most in our Zone this month. It was fun.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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changes. I'm not sure if they are going to change me for my last two weeks or
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believe it. We are best friends. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Rosa</u></b>; she is 45. She looks like shes a lot older. She used to have a really rough life. Her family doesn't even talk to her. She can barley even walk. We baptized her in a chair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On <b>Thursday, </b>we had consejo at President's house. It was my last time going. It was a good time. We got to eat SubWay, soo good. After that we went around the Zone visiting all of the possibilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week we are marrying a couple but only the wife is getting baptized. I had to do a bunch of stuff for them this past week. I had to go to Managua to get both of their birth certificates taken out, and we had to get her a new cedula because hers got stolen and now I have to pay for their marriage haha. So sorry, Mom and Dad, but that's why I took some money out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We could have a super super successful week in our area. Please pray for the following:<br style="line-height: 21.3px;" />Yesica, Maritza, Mislady, Anielka, Brenda, Nohelia, Jose y Julissa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mislady is the mom of Anielka. Brenda y Nohelia are her sisters. They all really want to do it but are having some problems with coffee. Mislady is trying to kick her partner out of the house so that she can get baptized. They are super awesome. Please pray for them!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jose y Julissa - we need to marry them, also...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have lots of work to go. I love you guys. Cant wait to see you all soon.</span></div>
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in a little metal shack and has absolutely nothing, but is one of the most
humble people that I have ever met. Yesterday in church, we gave her a blessing
and she said she hasn't had physical strength like that in 15 years. cJust
watching her try to walk hurts. cWhen we bring her to church, we bring a member
that has a car and bring it all the way to her gate and we bring a chair and
have her sit down on it. Then we pick her up in the chair and carry her to the
car. It's a special experience. But anyways, she will be getting baptized this
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It's a mom and her 17 year old daughter. Maritza works as a nurse and is super
awesome. About one month ago, her husband left her. She really wants to do it
but is kinda struggling with café. Her daughter, Betania, is super awesome and
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good week, found a bunch of new people. We are working super hard right now,
trying to load up our vision before I leave, trying to pull out all the
baptisms possible. This week it rained like five times, first time in like seven
months. And because the rain is starting, it has been sooooo humid!!! I
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hard to see some of the decisions that they make, breaks my heart. We live in
an evil world with so much bad influence, but also with a lot of incredible
influences. We just need to look for them. But I will promise you one thing. It's a lot easier to find that good influence in Utah than Nicaragua. Beyond
lucky to have parents and a family like mine; faithful, supportive, happy,
successful, loving and the list goes on. </span></span></span></div>
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it. I was reading through it, my first half of my mission wasn't great, but the
second half has been absolutely amazing. I have loved it so much!</span></span></span></div>
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consejo at President's house. It was super good. It's the last five-week month.
President made an incentive: The best zone in May is going to Volcán Mombacho
and will hike to the top and have a BBQ. So were going to do all we can do to
win cause i wanna go! Later that night, Heileson and I went and visited a
couple possibilities around the Zone. For the most part it was good, but also a
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investigators to church. Four of them were new investigators. I have Jose. Last
night we ended up convincing his partner to get married to him, so now I'm just
getting everything set up with the lawyer. He will be getting
baptized this Saturday! Super cool. I also have Maritza who is 44 and her 17
year old daughter Betania. T hey are super awesome. Their baptism date is for
the 21st of May. Maritza's husband left her this past week after 20 years, sad.
But she is super positive. She is a nurse. She worked all night Saturday and
got home at 9 am Sunday morning and still went to church. Pray for her that she
will have the strength to keep coming and the courage to get baptized. Then I
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turned 21 this week. I don't really like birthdays anymore, I don't want to get
older. But, yeah, my ZL Comp Elder Carbajal is gone and also my normal comp Elder
Gomez. My new ZL comp is Elder Heileson. We came together, he's from Utah. We
are good friends, other than that--he is a Ute--I like him a lot. He is Elder Merrill's
old companion. My new normal comp is Elder Solis from El Salvador. He has four
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past week. It's super weird that it is coming down to the end, but it was a
super crazy week. I left my area everyday this week trying to go and help other
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was super happy. He is super positive and came to church again yesterday. The
only problem is that he and his partner don't want to get married. Here, no one
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went to my convert Meyling's house. She is the one that just had twins last
week. She is 27 and now has 7 kids, the oldest one is ten. She is a single
mother and doesn't work. We were just sitting in her house and in the house
there is only one bed. So I asked who stayed in the bed with her. She said she
and the two new babies. I then asked, "And the other five kids?" She responded, "They sleep on the ground..." My heart just dropped, so sad... Mom and Dad, when
we come here in July, we will be buying two mattresses for the other five kids so
they don't have to sleep on the dusty concrete floors... We are so blessed to
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5 pm, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> got a call from one of the companionships that was supposed to have a
marriage and afterwards a baptis<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">m, b</span>ut the lawyer, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wasn't</span> answering her phone (he
said he called her 20+ times...) and she was supposed to be there an hour
earlier. So <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> just said a little prayer saying, "Heavenly Father, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> have
literally done everything <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> can this week to get this lady baptized and
married<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. P</span>lease help me find this lady." So <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> called her, and she answered. I
told her <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> would be waiting on the corner of the market for her. I went hauling
to the market and sat there and waited. She showed up like 30 min later<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. I</span> then
took the lawyer all the way to the house of the people that were getting
married. What we do to baptize............. That's just a long story short. Things
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new people to church that <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> found this week. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">S</span>uper awesome<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!</span></span></span></div>
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Laura Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181853905307101333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448812191288174221.post-25342736048901113472016-04-26T10:03:00.000-07:002016-04-26T10:03:15.885-07:00Ninety-first Week - April 18, 2016
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in La Ciudad Sandino. I'm fine with it. It'll be my 4th change here. I will be
staying here as ZL. My ZL companion E. Carbajal is leaving and my normal
companion E. Gomez is leaving. So it's going to be all new this week haha.</span></span></div>
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we were just contacting and I have just been praying to find someone positive.
We were waiting for one of the APs to come to my house so that we could go and
visit all the possibilities around the zone. So I said to my comp, "Let's just
contact one more house and we will see what happens. I saw a little house not
too far out of my sight. So we went and contacted the guy. His name is Jose and
he just turned 31 yesterday and he has a family, not married obviously. He said has never visited any church in his life, but he has interest in our
church. He committed himself of going to church on Sunday. I gave him a pair of
shoes so that he could go, he only has flip flops. He doesn't have a job right
now, but I am helping him with that right now. We have got this guy locked down
for baptism. Tonight we are going to have a FHE with his family and some
members that live on the same street. The lady got a cake and everything. It's
going to be awesome. We just need to help him stop drinking and smoking, get
him married, then he can get baptized:) Pray for him, please. He is sooo
positive! Right after that lesson with him, I went with E. Hironaka (AP) and we
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supposed to baptize a lady named Tamara, but she told her mother-in- law that
she was going to get baptized, and the mother-in-law became very upset. So we tried
all we could, but she didn't get baptized. We are going to try again this week.
It's upsetting getting all the way to the fecha of someone's baptism and they fall...
not fun... But we did have another baptism--Ivan, he's like 45, such an awesome
guy. I wasn't able to be in his baptism cause I was trying to get everything
sorted out with Tamara and never was able to go to his baptism... But he is an
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the end, I cant believe it. So much has been learned and a lot more to go.
Trying so hard not to get trunky or anything. I'm still working hard. It's still
super hot. This week I thought of something miraculous. Here air conditioning doesn't
exist and it's never colder than 85. You guys remember what a rotisserie chicken
is??? The chicken that is on a bar and gets cooked by spinning around all the
time? Well, yeah, I have come to the conclusion that I am just like the rotisserie
chicken when it comes to sleeping. Every 5 minutes I have to rotate to a
different position because if not, I will just burn and sweat like a dog. haha It's kinda hard to explain the heat. I thought that I would get used to it..
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Laura Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181853905307101333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448812191288174221.post-53197016084528754002016-04-11T15:25:00.000-07:002016-04-11T15:25:57.364-07:00Ninetieth Week - April 11, 2016
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope
you had a good spring break en la República Dominicana. Just make sure to plan
something fun next year cause i will be able to come:) I saw a bunch of
pictures. I can't believe how much everyone has changed! I won't even recognize
some people. I'm still me... skinny, very good looking and weird. I think the
only thing that has changed is that I'm balding a little bit... I need some Rogaine
or whatever that stuff is called haahah... I can't go bald, I'd be sooo ugly! We
are down to double digits, 9 weeks left... super loco!!! But I honestly don't
like writing letters anymore. This cyber place is literally an oven. So I'm just
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stressful weeks out there haha. A bunch of problems with baptisms in the zone.
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passed by for Rosa. We got there, the first thing that she told us is that the
guy left and that she was going to get baptized! I was so surprised, it was a
miracle. Later that night, we were just contacting and we came accross a young
mom her name is Francela. We taught her the Restoration, it was a really good
lesson. She said that she wanted to go to church and would get baptized if God
answered her prayers and made her feel like it was correct. So we put another
cita for Thursday... So we passed by again on Thursday, she came up to us and
said, "My husband said that I can't listen to you guys. He said that I can go to
any other church besides yours." I was devastated.. We left and came back like
30 minutes later to talk to her husband to see what his problem with us was. He
didnt even want to talk to us, wouldnt answer questions. He just ignored us and went inside. Too sad... that lady was one of the
most positive people that I have found in a while. But here, it's rare to find
good men. It's rare to find families that are all willing to listen to our
message. But I just keep working, knowing that the Lord will put that person
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was out til 10:30pm that night with Elder Weyand (DL) looking for his
possibility cause there were big problems. She was supposed to get married and
baptized the next day. But one of the families went insane. We never found her
til Saturday morning. She didnt get baptized. </span></span></div>
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surprised worked with some Elders in the Zone til 2pm. That day I didn't find
Rosa and her phone was turned off. Supposedly she went to Managua to see her
grandpa or something. I was super nervous that she wasn't going to be home in
time to get confirmed. I called her Sunday morning at 5:30am, no answer. We got
up and went to her house, thank goodness that she got home in the morning super
early. She got confirmed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last night something
crazy happened. I got some random reference a couple of days ago. So being
<u><b>Sunday afternoon,</b></u> I decided to go visit them. After like two hours looking for
the house, we found it. It was a 16 year old kid named Marcos. So we start
getting to know him. He said like 18 months ago he moved from Granada to
Sandino . Turns out we were basically neighbors in Granada. So I asked him if he
know Frederick Aguilar. He said, "Frederick's little sister is my girlfriend." Super
crazy. Eighteen months ago I baptized Frederick and like a year later he baptized his
family (mom, dad and sister) and out of no where I found this kid from some
random reference... and he just happens to be the boyfriend of one of my converts. The kid is super cool, just has it in his mind that he is
going to die a Catholic. The Lord works in mysterious ways.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say it every week, but time is flying! Ten weeks left... Trying to
make the best of it. But it is a super busy week, lots of work.</span></span></div>
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consejo at President's house. Could have been my last time going to consejo. I'm
pretty sure I'm going back down to DL for my last change. Consejo is always good
and many things learned. Something that Sister Russell said was, "When the Lord
knows that He can trust you, everything is made much easier for us." President
talked about taking advantage of everyday and how it will be worth it someday.
Something that he always tells us is, "The way you serve the Lord on your
mission is the exact same way He will serve you after the mission and for the
eternities." Super awesome. I hope every missionary recognizes that.</span></span></div>
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Elder Carbajal and I went up to Mateare to work. I worked with Elder Jimenez
(DL) and Elder Seneca (my half son). We basically spent the whole day looking
for new people. We found some super cool people, it was a good day. That night
we slept four people in two beds connected together, that wasn't fun.</span></span></div>
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the house for a bit to get ready. Out of nowhere, IT RAINED for the first time
in like five months!!!! It felt so amazing. Straight bendicion de Dios.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well 4up and 4down.
Next conference I will be nice and comfortable on my couch:) Conference here on
the mission wasn't the funnest. If you didn't have four investigators you weren't
allowed to go... So in October, I won't have to worry about that:) But I never
noticed the importance of Conference until I came on my mission. It's sad seeing
the members only go on the Sunday morning session and to nothing else. Probably
the last time seeing Pres. Monson, sad. Love that guy!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-You can have what
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Drawing nearer to
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I heard about the ISIS attacks in Brussells, sad. But the Lord
protects his missionaries, I know that for a fact! This week was a decent week.
IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOT!!!!!!!!!!!</span></span></div>
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in the morning with a companionship in Mateare<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. T</span>hey are struggling a bit so we
are helping them out. It was alright. In the afternoon, Elder Carbajal and I
went to Managua for a meeting with the Stake Presidency and President Russell<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. W</span>e
waited for an hour at the church, the stake presidency never showed up so we
just talked to President the whole time. It was good. Than at night time, Elder
Carbajal and I went and did <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">two</span> interviews.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Thursday</b></u> night at
around 7:30 we had just finished a lesson with Yanin and we had a cita with Rosa
out in Pedro Juaquin (super dangerous part of the area). We started walking
over to her house and i heard a clear voice coming from the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">S</span>pirit: "Do not
go to Rosa's house." <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">S</span>o I trusted in the voice that I heard and didn't go. I
decided to go to some other investigator's house... So the next day at 1 pm we
decided to go to Rosa's house. We got there and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> told her sorry that we couldn't
come. She then said to us thank goodness that we didn't come. She said that at
8 pm (our cita was scheduled for 8 pm also), a gang came out and shot and killed
two people right next to Rosa's house. I know that the Lord was protecting us.
Who knows what would have happened if <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> didn't listen to the still small voice
of the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">S</span>pirit? The Lord protects His missionaries!</span></span></div>
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crazy, especially on the last Saturday of the month. Gotta get everyone
baptized! There was an area in the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Z</span>one where they had a baptism, but the girl
went to León on Friday night and wasn't coming home 'til Saturday night. So it
was 8 pm and she was nowhere to be found. So <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> decided to take over. Got the
mom's phone number and started calling her. She finally answered and said that
Andrea (the girl getting baptized) had just got back, but thought that it would
be better to do the baptism in the morning. I convinced her to do it that
night. Asked where she was.. she said La quinta tapa de Nueva Vida. I sat there
with my mouth shut haahahahah cause that's like the Iraq of Nicaragua. Taxis
won't even go there at night time 'cause it's just a battle field. But <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> knew the
Lord would protect us. So <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> spent 30 min looking for a brave taxi driver.
Finally found one and we went to go and pick her up. She got baptized at 9 pm.
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that is leaving on his mission THIS WEDNESDAY) and Gregorio (member from
Granada) came to Sandino and we went to eat pizza. It was fun seeing <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">F</span>rederick
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(Frederick, Elder Copeland, and Gregorio.)</div>
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Laura Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181853905307101333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448812191288174221.post-44828948222046035692016-03-21T17:23:00.000-07:002016-03-21T17:23:12.471-07:00Eighty-seventh Week - March 21, 2016
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would. No joke, I wake up at 3 am everyday, soaked in sweat... It's miserable
haha. March and April are brutally hot. But all in all, good week. We had a
miracle baptism. Today I did my "Trunky Papers." I will be home on
June 15! Crazy...</span></span></div>
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have been teaching a guy named Ulises. He has been going to church the past four
years, but couldn't ever get baptized for the law of castidad. HIs old partner
lives under the same roof as him. She won't leave the house cause she has
nowhere else to go. So he has an extra apartment out back that just got
finished. We told him if that if he goes out back to live, he could get
baptized. He did it in an instant. So he was super excited after four years of
going to church that he could finally get baptized. He always talks about
getting the priesthood and going to the temple!</span></span></div>
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day... every single one of our citas fell. Couldn't find anyone to teach and it
was also hotter than the sun itself. At around 6 pm after like the sixth
straight cita falling, I bowed my head and started to pray saying,
"Heavenly Father, I don't have much time left and there are so many people
that need this gospel. Today I have tried my hardest to find people so that
they can follow Thee, but I don't have any results. Please guide me to someone
or someone to me." So I put my trust in the Lord and stayed positive and
kept contacting everyone I saw. Hour and a half later, nothing. I completely
forgot to verify with our bus driver that was taking us to Managua at 7 am the
next day for a multi- zone. So I sat down on a rock and called him. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While I was on
the phone with the bus driver, a guy came up to us with his five-year-old
daughter and said, "Be careful around here at night, it's dangerous,"
(in Spanish obviously). I just kinda laughed and responded, "Don't worry about it. The Lord protects us," and then told him to have a good night and shook his hand
and he left. I finished talking to the bus driver quickly and hung up and said
to my companion, "We need to talk to that guy." So we walked really quickly to
catch up to him. I asked him if he had ever talked to missionaries before. He
said no and that he used to go to a different church, but he just got too
confused so he stopped going, but that he was interested in our message. So I
asked if we could go to his house to meet his family. </span></span></div>
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talk. They are super awesome but... the dad studies on Sundays, so he can't go to
church... I'm not sure if I was supposed to meet this family just to plant a
seed or what? But I want to help them. Please pray for them.</span></span></div>
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that I have learned on my mission that would be, Trust in the Lord's promises.
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multi-zone conference. It was good. My companion and I taught a class of committing people
to church. It went well.</span></span></div>
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the baptism of Ulises. The Elders Quorum president baptized him. It was awesome.
He was beyond happy! Four years of waiting to get baptized and going to church every
week. Solid guy. He will for sure go to the temple.</span></span></div>
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confirmed. We passed by his house last night to felicitar him. He brought out
his computer and he was on lds website looking at all the temples that he wanted
to go to haha. Good guy!</span></span></div>
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16 months in the mission. He's super
awesome and tranquilo. My new ZL companion is E. Carbajal from Honduras, good
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in Nicaragua. It's super hard to have spiritual experiences. For example, every
time you get to the most spiritual part of the lesson, something happens...
like a dog starts going insane, the people's phone goes off, kids start crying, a dust
storm comes and blinds us, drunk guys lose their minds and the list goes on
haha. So, we were teaching a lady named Caren. We taught her Lesson One (keep
in mind that she lives in a metal sheet house), so as my companion was reciting
the first vision, right in the middle of it...... the lady's wall from the house
collapsed.... haha... Come on!!!!!! So after the wall collapsed, the Spirit was
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Nothing special. Another transfer, check. Two more... Wow!</span></span></span></div>
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pretty cool experience. It was like 6 pm and most of our citas were falling, but
I had a feeling to go and visit Danny (my convert from two weeks ago). So we
walked all the way to his house and... he wasn't home. But he has a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">brother</span>
(Angel) that's like 27. He never talks to us, he has had a super crappy life,
he's still in high school. But he came to the gate and told us to come in. We
walked in and started to talk. After like 10 minutes of talking, he said to us
that something crazy just happened right before we showed up at his house. He
said that he was feeling so lonely that he decided to go and pray for the first
time in years. In his prayer, he told us that he asked God to send him angels to
rescue him, something to help him find the right way. He said that right
when he said, "Amen," I yelled "Buenas" (here you don't knock
on the doors, you yell "buenas" at them and they come to the door) at the front
gate. He said that he walked out of the front door and his jaw just dropped. He
knew that God had answered his prayer. He said that he knows that it is a sign
that this is the place where he needs to be. But... he has a lot of things that
are stopping him still from following the example of Jesus Christ. On Sundays,
he goes to school. It's a pretty big obstacle. We will see what we can do with
him. Pray for him so that he can find a way to go to church so that he can get
baptized.</span></span></div>
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on a little rock by herself with her head down. So we decided to talk to her. We asked
here where she lived. She just lived a couple houses down, so we went to her
house and talked to her and her mom. She is super awesome. She wants to go to
church and everything. We will see what happens with her this week.</span></span></div>
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Manuel (the one arm man we married and baptized in December). Also, Julio
Bendaña, my convert from January. They both received the Melchizedek Priesthood. Pretty cool. But the conference kept freezing like every 5 minutes,
so we didn't get to watch much of it. Elder Anderson spoke. </span></span></div>
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conference talk called, "Meeting the Challenges of Today's World<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span>" by Elder Robert D. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hales.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
read it cause I am about to enter for real into the world and not gonna lie,
pretty nervous! It first off tells me to tighten my grip to the iron rod, then
says that I am living through a critical period of my life, with the choices
that I make - mission, education, marriage, career and service in the church all being crucial. And the correct decision needs to be made! We need to
"fly right" it says in the storms of the last days. We are the
pilots. We are responsible to think about the consequences of every choice we
make. In all situations before making a decision, ask ourselves, "If I
make this choice, what is the worst thing that could happen?" Our
righteous choices will keep us from getting off course. Think of it. If you
choose not to take a drink of alcohol, you will never become an alcoholic! If
you never choose to go into debt, you will avoid the possibility of bankruptcy.</span></span></div>
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of the scriptures is to show us how righteous people respond to temptation and
evil. In short, they avoid it! Joseph ran from Potiphar's wife. Lehi took his
family and left Jerusalem. Mary and Joseph fled into Egypt. In every instance,
Heavenly Father warned these believers. Similarly, He will help us know whether
to fight, flee or go with the flow of our unfolding circumstances. He will
speak to us through prayer. We have many tools: scriptures, living prophets,
patriarchal blessings, padres, church leaders and above all, the still, small
voice of the Spirit.</span></span></div>
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lead us along, but will we let ourselves be led? If we are there for the Lord,
he will be there for us. (Doctrine and Covenants 88:63) If we love Him, we need to keep His
commandments. If we do keep the commandments, the Spirit will guide us Doctrine and Covenants 11:12,14.</span></span></div>
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talk about many young adults are in major debt, but he says, "You are rich
if you can live happily within your means." How can we do that? Pay our
tithing and then save! When we earn more, save more. Don't buy what we can't
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is to be worthy of the person that I want to marry. If I want to marry a babe,
honest, happy, hard working, smart, spiritual person, I need to be that same
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our faith in every aspect daily. If we do it, the scriptures say that we will
wax stronger and firmer in the faith of Christ. We need to learn how to reach
up, not across. No one can reach upward for us. Only our faith and prayers
will cause us to lift ourselves and have the might change of heart. Only our
decision to be obedient will change our life. Because of the Savior's atoning
sacrifice for us, the power to change is in us. We have our agency to reach up or across.</span></span></div>
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some time alone. Think about what is ahead. Ask ourselves: "What areas of
my life do I want to strengthen so that I can strengthen others? Where do i
want to be a year from now? Two years from now? What choices do i need to make
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basically. I can't believe that it is already March... This week was
crazy fast! This letter is much better. I was up til midnight writing
it, so that I didn't have to sit in front of the computer screen thinking
what I needed to write haha...</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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was just a normal day. We have been teaching a lady named Rosa. She's
like 35ish, has two kids that got baptized like 9 months ago. She wants
to get baptized so bad, but... she is living with a guy. His name is
Abel, sells vegetables for a living. He is married to some other lady,
but left her and now is with Rosa. He doesn't want anything to do with
the church. Rosa doesn't love him and doesn't want to marry him. Abel
feels the same about her. It is so sad to see all the families here and
how much they are missing. But we finally just talked to her and told
her to kick him out of the house cause he is only there cause he needs a
place to live. She wants to do it but is scared. Pray for her to have
the courage to do it. She wants to get baptized! </span></span></span></div>
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power went out, so we had to go to our house cause it's not safe and it
was pitch black. The power didn't come back til midnight. I showered at
9:30 pm. It was still 90* so i laid in my bed but with no fan (AC doesn't
exist here) and laid there for about 45 minutes and was sweating so bad
that I got up turned my flashlight on to find huge sweat marks on my
bed. So i went to shower again at 10:30 pm, then went and sweated some
more while I was reading my scriptures. Then finally at midnight the
power came back, showered again, then went to bed peacefully:) </span></span></span></div>
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day. Sister Russell talked about one of my favorite topics, Faith. There
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1- Definición del mundo: See = Believe. There is a famous saying in English" "I'll believe it when I see it."</span></span></div>
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Definición del Señor: Believe = See. It is simple. In order to see, we
have to believe. One of my favorite scriptures says, "But, behold, faith
cometh not by signs, but signs follow those that believe." -Doctrine and Covenants 63:9. If
you have faith, fear disappears. We will have many times in our lives
when we don't understand why we need to do certain things, but we need to
trust in the Lord and do it! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of my favorite examples of stories of
faith is Lehi. "<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">And it came to pass that the Lord commanded my father, even in a dream, that
he should take his family and depart into the wilderness. And it came to pass that he was obedient unto the word of the Lord, wherefore he did as the Lord commanded him. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness. And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his
precious things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family,and provisions, and tents, </span></span></span></div>
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-1 Nephi 2: 2-4. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">It really is true that by small and simple things,
great things are brought to pass! Imagine if Lehi wasn't obedient to the
Lord or didn't put his faith in the Lord and did not act on what he had received? Would they ever have arrived in the Americas? Would we have
the Book of Mormon? It's questions that get you thinking. But thank
goodness that Lehi put his faith in God and did it! We also need to have
that type of faith and trust in God even if we don't see why (Ether
12:6). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">First, we need to have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Second,
live by faith. Lastly, continue to increase our faith daily. Faith is a
gift from God, but you must nurture your faith to keep it strong. Faith
is like the muscle of your arm. If you exercise it, it grows strong. If
you put it in a sling and leave it there, it becomes weak.</span></span></span></div>
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we had consejo with President Russell and Elder Ochoa came, also. It was
by far the best consejo that I have been to. Just talked a lot about
the strengths and weaknesses of the mission. It was awesome to have
someone from the Seventy there.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">Saturdays
are always crazy, baptisms. And a lot of times there are problems, and
when there are problems we have to go and help out. Saturday morning, we
got a call from one of the DL's that had two baptisms that day but the
dad told his son (18) not to do it (typical Nica father) and the girl
(15) didn't think that she was ready. So Martinez and I went over to
their house and started talking to them. The Spirit was actually strong. I explained to them a lot of scriptures about faith how it is not a
perfect knowledge and we receive no testimony until after the trial of
our faith and all we do is need to plant a desire to believe in our
hearts and act with faith that things will work out for our own good. So
all in all, they both got baptized! It was awesome. We ended up with 23
baptisms as a zone in Febrero.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">Sunday,
the Lord blessed me a lot more than I deserved because I wasn't in the
area for much time this week. I got eight investigators to church. It was
awesome! Right now I don't have a ton of investigators, but the people
that I am teaching, all have problems like Law of Castidad, Word of
Wisdom, parents... problems, problems, problems. Got to get them all
figured out cause they need to get baptized.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">I
have been thinking about a lot of things lately. I'm rounding third base
and I'm almost home. I have many more things I need to learn. I have
learned many things on my mission. It is my foundation to my life, but I
also recognize that I will learn things for the rest of my life that
will be building upon my foundation. But my foundation will never crack. It will never fall apart. Even when all the storms and turbulent times
come, I can say that my foundation is strong enough that it will NEVER
be destroyed. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">One thing that I am really trying to work on right now is
looking for the good when you feel that there isn't any because
sometimes after walking days and days in this heat with dirt being blown
into your face and no one receiving you, you kinda feel like there is
no recompensa. But I recognize that if I keep trying my hardest and
trusting in the Lord, things will work out. We will always have hard
times but with the restored gospel we can find true happiness. But,
happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with
them. This gospel gives us hope for something better. Hard times come
and go, but if it weren't for the hard things, we wouldn't ever learn. Once
we replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having
positive results. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">I love this Gospel with all my heart. I try each day
to be a little better.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">Have faith and remember, "It's so hard when we HAVE to, and so easy when we WANT to"!!!</span></span></span></div>
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found a couple people to teach. You'd think that its a little easy to find
people to teach here, hahaha. We'll you are all bien equivocado. Honestly, we work
like caballos. This week we got a new companion, Elder Presinal from La Republica
Dominicana. He's 24 and has 8 months in the mission, cool dude.</span></span></div>
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spent the majority of the week just looking for new people. On Friday, we were
contacting and we came across a super nice Nica house, with a car! So I decided
to contact it. The lady let us in. She has two kids. Her name is Yanin. Long
story short, she goes to the Catholic church because if not, her mom will get mad
at her. So on Sunday at 9 am, she went to the Catholic Misa with her mom, then at
10 came to our church (by herself! That doesn't happen in this country!) She
loved church, but didn't like Relief Society. Come on, old ladies! Step up your
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reminds me of Frederick (my convert from Granada). Well, all is well, time is
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">What's
up guys? Another week is gone just like that. Decent week. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last week, I forgot to tell you guys that
Frederick (my convert from Granada) went
to Honduras this past week and went through the temple. So proud of him! He's leaving in a month on
his mission. He is super excited! I can't
believe that one of my converts already has gone to the temple and has a mission call. So
awesome! </span></span></div>
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for new people, it's tough. We should have a baptism this Saturday, Danny, he is 23. He is super
awesome! Had a couple troubles this past
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I love this gospel so much. I
started reading the Book of Mormon again
this past week. I am on 1 Nephi 13. I love the Book of Mormon, blows my mind how people deny the
book. I love you guys, Feliz Cumpleaños,
Ellie. Can't wait to get a foot massage soon:) </span></span></div>
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Have a good time. Can't wait to hit the
links with you again. Well, gotta go back to the house to read my scriptures and sweat like a
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Laura Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181853905307101333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448812191288174221.post-47401024703707580722016-02-08T17:37:00.000-08:002016-02-08T17:48:07.312-08:00Eighty-first Week - February 8, 2016<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What's up guys? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don't have much time today, but this week was a pretty
good week. We had two more baptisms! Meyling, who is the mom of Katherine
and Ivania (the two that got baptized last week. It was her birthday,
also. She wanted me to baptize her. She turned 27. She has 5 kids and is
7 months pregnant (almost dropped her when I baptized her...). She is a
very humble lady, super awesome. </span></span><br />
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12. We baptized her two brothers last week. She's a cutie.</span></span><br />
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past week we had Consejo at President's house. </span></span></div>
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of Excellence. Now daily we need to have 8 lessons with an investigator, 5
convert/less active, and 26 contacts. And every Sunday 7+ in church. It's
insane! Can promise that no other mission works as hard as this one.
Every day is just a battle--against the sun, getting rejected, running
away from drunk people, dodging rocks, eating dust, getting mocked at,
etc. Haha! It's so fun! Sometimes it blows, I'll be honest, but I love it.
Remember: Tough times never last, but tough people do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Family,
sounds good. I will start the Book of Mormon again today. Let's have a
little race to see who can read it first! When we finish, I will be
home:)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not sure what else to say to you guys. I'm sorry, Mom, that you're not receiving my e-mails... I still love you. I'm
still alive and I'm still baptizing! Don't worry about me. I'm good here in
Dinotopia!</span></span></div>
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Laura Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181853905307101333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448812191288174221.post-83616906234623364442016-02-04T08:36:00.002-08:002016-02-04T08:36:54.704-08:00Eightieth Week - February 1, 2016<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stressful week, but all in all pretty good. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can't believe that it is
already Febrero, que crazy! The last week of the month is always the
worst, gotta make sure that the baptisms don't fall and all that. This
month in our area we ended up with 6 baptisms and 26 in the zone. I
spent the whole week looking for new people, didn't find squat, kinda
rare here. Finally we have a normal p-day, I slept all day. It was so
nice!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our baptisms last week. We baptized the two little girls of
Meyling, they are so cute! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meyling didn't get baptized because the guy
hadn't left the house yet, but we had a miracle. Saturday night right
before the baptism, out of no where, he left the house and went back to El
Salvador. It was a miracle. Now Meyling will be getting baptized this
Saturday. She is a super humble lady. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We also have been teaching a family. The
parents don't really want much in the way of church, but their three kids love the church.
Saturday morning the parents fought and the mom took the girl and left
to Tipitapa (2 hours away) and so that was a big problem. The two other
kids were just at their house all day waiting for their dad to come home
so they could go get baptized. He never came home. So we baptized two
of the three on Sunday morning, and we should baptize the girl this
Saturday if all goes well. If any of these problems would have happened
in any other mission, you would just wait til all the problems were
solved. It's a lot different in this mission.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the 21st, we
contacted a guy named Danny (not Danny Ashworth). He is 23. Ever since we
contacted him, I felt something special about him. He came to church
that week. Loved it, felt something that he has never felt before.
Yesterday he also came to church. He told us that he went to work on Saturday and his boss told him that he needed to work on Sunday morning. He told his boss, "No," and that he would stay at work all night to finish
the work so that he could go to church on Sunday morning. So he stayed
at work til 2 am to finish all his work. He still came to church. So
awesome! Should be getting baptized soon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Continually
studying the scriptures helps us keep our eyes, minds, and hearts
focused on the Savior, and as we apply and live the teachings found in
the scriptures, we become more like Him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During their journey
in the wilderness, Lehi and his family awoke one morning to find "a
round ball of curious workmanship" on the ground. It had two spindles,
one pointing "the way whither they should go" (1 Nephi 16:10). The
Liahona, also provided "a new writing" that gave them "understanding
concerning the ways of the Lord." This writing was "changed from time to
time, according to the faith and diligence which they game unto it." (1
Nephi 16:28-29) The brass plates and the Liahona constituted their
scriptures, and Lehi's people were expected to study and give heed to
them continually. If they did so, they progressed in their journey. If
they did not, they tarried in the wilderness and were afflicted with
hunger and thirst.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What was the Lord trying to teach them, and us through the workings of the Liahona???</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the primary purposes of the scriptures is to help us know, understand, and become like the Savior.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In
Lehi's dream, four groups of people were represented. The first three
groups entered the path that led to the tree of life. The gate to the
path is baptism, members of the church. The fourth group led directly to
the great and spacious building.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"And I
saw numberless concourses of people, many of whom were pressing forward,
that they might obtain the path which led them unto the tree by which I
stood. And it came to pass that they did come forth, and commence in
the path which led to the tree. And it came to pass that there arose a
mist of darkness, yea, even an exceedingly great mist of darkness
insomuch that they who had commenced in the path did lose their way,
that they wandered off and were lost." (1 Nephi 8:21-23). Members of this
group apparently did not read or study their scriptures, watch general
conference, or attend Sunday meetings. Consequently, they lost their
way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"And it came to pass that I beheld
others pressing forward, and they came forth and caught hold of the end
of the rod of iron, and they did press forward through the mist of
darkness, clinging to the rod of iron, even until they did come forth
and partake of the fruit of the tree... And after they had tasted of the
fruit they were ashamed, because of those that were scoffing at them,
and they fell away into forbidden paths and were lost (1 Nephi 8:24,28).
Note that this group caught hold of and clung to the rod of iron. They
held on until they reached the tree of life and partook of its fruit.
But they became ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, stopped focusing
on the Savior, and were distracted by the attractions, temptations, and
riches of the world. Then they became lost.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The key to
understanding these verses is the phrase "clinging to the rod of iron." I
compare the word clinging to a "white knuckle" experience. If you have
been white water rafting, you recall that you clung so hard to the raft
that your knuckles turned white. Then, when you come to calm waters,
what did you do? You let go!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the gospel context, this can
occur when you are asked to prepare a talk or when you face a crisis,
such as a death in the family or the breakup of a relationship. You seek
spiritual guidance and support because of your spiritual weakness.
Then, when the crisis is over, you let go! You put the scriptures back
on the shelf, go back to old habits of infrequent church attendance, and
abandon daily prayer, at least until the next crisis, or white water
experience arrives. In other words, you turn to the Savior for help only
when a desperate need arises instead of continually.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Members
of this group are baptized, have the priesthood, received temple
ordinances, served full time missions, and married in the temple. But
they let go! They stopped reading the scriptures continually, fell into
forbidden paths, and were lost.</span></span></div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Group 3:</span></span></b></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Behold,
Lehi saw other multitudes pressing forward, and they came and caught
hold of the end of the rod of iron, and they did press their way
forward, continually holding fast to the rod of iron, until they came
forth and fell down and partook of the fruit of the tree (1 Nephi 8:30).
Note the phrase "continually holding fast to the rod of iron." This
group read the scriptures continually. They kept their focus on the
Savior continually.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Start everyday with the scriptures. Prayer
and scripture study go hand in hand. Constant prayer will lead you to
the scriptures, and continual scripture study will lead you to prayer.
Both keep you focused on the Savior and give you access to revelation
and to the peace that can come only by "continually holding fast to the
rod of iron." Prayer and scripture study will lead you to the temple. They
will make you want to keep the Sabbath day holy. They will help you
avoid and overcome the temptations of the adversary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"They
came forth and fell down and partook of the fruit of the tree." The tree
represents the love of God, as manifested through His Son, Jesus Christ.
Those in Group 2 who arrived at the tree did not fall down, as did
those in group 3. Is it possible to be in the presence of the Son of God
and not know it? You have only to read the New Testament to find the
answer. The Savior ministered for three years, teaching and performing
miracles, but few recognized Him for who He was.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you
immerse yourself in the scriptures each day of your life, you will have
strength to resist serious transgression. More importantly, you will come
to know the Savior. You will be able to keep your eyes, mind, and heart
focused on Him. As you come to know Jesus Christ, apply His teachings,
and follow His example, you will become like Him. As you become like
Him, your will be a candidate to live in His presence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Love you all, have a great week!</span></span></div>
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Laura Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181853905307101333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448812191288174221.post-44966849582393025992016-01-26T08:52:00.000-08:002016-01-26T08:52:11.269-08:00Seventy-ninth Week - January 25, 2016<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What's up guys? Good week. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not much time, we don't have p-day again... </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning we had a multi mission, Elder Christensen of the Seventy came. It was good. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday night, I got stoned. Some dumb teenager chucked it at my back. Dummy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday, I went and did some interviews up in Mateare and visited some of their investigators. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I should have three baptisms this week, Meyling and her two daughters--Ivania and Katherine. They are awesome, but this week, her old boyfriend showed up out of nowhere, and wants to live with her again. On Sunday morning, before church she was crying cause all he has been doing is drinking, and she doesn't want that for her kids or for her. So she said she is going to tell him to leave the house so that she can get baptized this week! She's so awesome. Pray for her to have the courage to do it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(Just as Jesus was baptized to obey God's commandment, each of us must be baptized and receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost through proper authority in order to go back and live with him again.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">I have a new companion--Elder Andino from Honduras. He has 10 months. My new ZL comp is Elder Martinez, the old AP. He is dying this change. He is super awesome, but ready to go home haha.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry for the short email. Hopefully we have a p-day next week so that I will be able to write you guys.</span></div>
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