What's up, everyone! I hope you all are doing well. This week and last have been extremely busy. We have had a lot of consecutive days in our area without stake meetings or divisions with our Zone, so we've been able to really focus and work in our area. We have two people on date for baptism! And are praying for a third of a 14-year-old, but we are still waiting for the permission from her mother. So, things are going great in the area. Lots of new people that we are teaching. Eighteen in the last two weeks! Also, two new families that we are super excited about. It's sometimes rare to find complete, worthy families that aren't members here, so when we do and they are wanting to listen to us, we know they are special.
A really cool story about one of our recent converts is he's been having some trouble with finding work and a place to live, and so he's been living with his girlfriend for a little bit. We've been talking to him about options so that they can separate, but nothing had been panning out. We've shared with him a lot of scriptures about acting in faith, and how after we will see the benefits. And after lots of praying and thinking, he said he's going to move back with his family in the capitol and is going to plan to serve a mission! A decision like that requires lots of faith, and it has been super cool for us to see how much he's grown to be able to make a life-changing decision like that.
This week we had leadership counsel with President. All of the ZL's in the mission get together to share ideas and come up with new practices to help the mission. It was fun for me to be a part of for the first time and share some of my ideas as well. President really puts a lot of trust in us 12 ZL missionaries to help the mission with whatever it needs.
Nothing else too crazy is going on here, just working like crazy and putting fechas. But for the past week I haven't been feeling too great with a cold. Until Saturday when I woke up in the morning, I felt horrible. I thought I just needed to close my eyes for a sec but my whole body was super tired and I was sweating a lot. But I didn't want to "be weak" haha, and so we left at 11 am and went and worked like always. We taught lesson 1 to some people on the side of the road and contacted too, but once we went home for lunch, I thought I was going to pass out. My whole body just stopped working. I had like eight different symptoms and couldn't even stand up. My whole body was sore, and I was shaking a lot. It probably wasn't the best idea to go out that morning, but I was too prideful to just lay in bed lol. But anyways, I've been in bed for the past two days but am starting to feel better. One of the members came and checked on me and they think I have typhoid fever, which is funny. I think I just got hit by the flu really hard while also having a cold and migraines, which made it worse. It was not fun at all. Definitely the most sick I've been throughout my whole mission. But I'll probably tell my kids one day that I taught a full lesson with typhoid fever haha.
Also, I finished the Book of Mormon again which always feels good. And I've started to read, "Saints." I'm already almost done with it after two weeks. It's amazing and sad, how much the early members had to go through all because of their religion. They had to have had so much faith in Joseph Smith and in God to keep going. With mobs, disease, death, leaving their homes. Their faith makes me want to share with everyone what they had to go through and the gospel that they had so much faith in. You guys should read it if you haven't!
But I love you all and miss you guys! Email me if you have a second.
- Elder Copeland
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