ONE week in the MTC down... FIVE more to go
Well, here I am writing my first ever e-mail, kinda crazy. I definitely didn´t ever
realize how hard a mission was going to be until I got here and I´m only a week
out!! But there is no other thing in the world that I would rather be doing.
The campus here is beautiful, palm trees and everything, parrots flying
everywhere. It´s on like 90 acres of land and I think just over 1000
missionaries. It has a huge fence surrounding it with barb wire all along the
top, kinda like a prison minus the prison. But my companion is Elder Casey
Kleiner. He's from Mesa, Arizona.
(Elder Kleiner and Elder Copeland)
We are both going to the same mission, and I like him a lot! We get a long really well and he is a very smart kid. His Spanish is unreal! I have been kinda hard on myself this first week because the language has been really hard for me so far. I have kinda been getting down on myself, cause I keep comparing myself to others, especially Elder Kleiner. But I have been working so hard and I am constantly doing something productive. I have faith that if I keep working hard and do my part, the Lord will do his. I miss everyone like crazy! But I get along with everyone really well here.
The food
here is no bueno. There are obviously are some pretty good meals but also some
terrible ones. I still eat it cause I know I'm going to eat much worse. There's no A/C here so that kinda bites... but luckily its not too hot here
right now. We have one bathroom for 6 of us and 2 of the elders in our dorm are Mexican, and they don't flush their toilet paper so that's good. At least I get to
take a warm shower. Sunday was church that was all in Spanish. I understood nothing.
Elder Kleiner and I have investigators we teach here and it annoys me so bad
because the lady speaks no English and I can understand basically nothing she
says. It frustrates me because Elder Kleiner talks most the time cause his
Spanish is so good. I want to be able to express myself to this lady, but I can't
yet. Every day is jam packed with stuff to do. I'm really struggling with the
language right now. I can't tell if it is because it's the first week or what, but
I'm studying hard.
I don't have a problem with waking up at all, and I fall
asleep so fast at night cause I am so freaking tired. One thing I have been
thinking about is, we never read the scriptures as a family anymore. You guys
NEED to do that everyday. It'll make your day better every time you do it even if
it's just a chapter a day.
Well, I don't really know what else to say besides I
love my mission already. A quote I was thinking about last night was,
"Faith without works is dead." That really is helping me.
Well, I have
no more time. I miss you all and love you a lot.
Elder
Copeland
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