What's up, yall. This week has been so crazy. Started off by saying goodbye to San Juan and my comp. That morning I woke up at 6am to get ready and watched the sunrise as I worked out a little and stretched. It was a really cool moment that I'll never forget. Just the thoughts and feelings about everything going on in my life during that moment were special that I really can't put into words. And those who have read my letters from the beginning know how special sunsets, and now sunrises, are for me and what they mean to me. I'll have a picture below of it.
Now with my new area. Toto is so cold I can't describe it. But we've been settling in with me getting to know as many members as possible as fast as we can. Since the first day, we've been packed with things to get done. I forgot how much stuff there is to do as a Zone Leader, and all the reports/ meetings that come with it. But they've all been good.
In our Zone Council this week, we planned how we can work with members and church leaders better. And just a couple days later, the stake leaders asked us if we could help inform the ward leaders in the stake on what they can do better in the wards to work alongside the missionaries. And work better in an initiative that we are doing as a mission that they haven't started at all on. It was really cool because I was leading and speaking for most of the time, telling other leaders throughout the stake what our mission president has asked us to do to help them out with their work--which will be later passed on to the Area Seventy leader. Pretty cool to be the one assigning people what they can do in their wards, so that the info can be passed on to him directly from me. I've seen and felt this week that I was sent here to ToTo to help this stake get up and running with this plan that we have for all of the stakes here. Plus with the experience that I had while in HueHue with this same plan, I'm able to build from what went well and what can be improved, here in this stake now. It's really exciting.
The ward here is great and has accepted us well. We've been filled up every second with family home evenings or plans to have citas with everyone. But soon we'll know everyone and be in a rhythm. I'm really excited for this transfer and to see how much progress we can get done by the end. Even though it's probs 15 degrees every morning...
Also, my comp is from Honduras and loves to play fútbol, and last Saturday we got to play a game with other members in a little cancha (field). We were carving everyone up and making them look silly. Afterwards, they said we weren't allowed to play anymore unless we gave them futbol lessons hahah. It definitely helped us make some relationships quickly with some members, and also some less-actives.
Lots of stuff happening and we are super busy, but everything's going great. Love you all!
- Elder Copeland
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