What's up, guys?
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
going to give you guys a quick recap of the week.
This week was one of the most
stressful weeks out there haha. A bunch of problems with baptisms in the zone.
But I had a baptism, that was a miracle.
Tuesday afternoon we
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
there for me.
Friday afternoon Rosa
got baptized. She wanted me to baptize her, so I gladly did it. She was super
happy!
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.
Saturday morning I went and
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.
Last night something
crazy happened. I got some random reference a couple of days ago. So being
Sunday afternoon, 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.
Elder Copeland
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