Time flies by so fast out here in Aberdeen. This week was complete chaos! But I loved every single second of it and wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world right now! I'll just write each day and what I can remember from it again since that seems to be the best way to do it!
Monday- This was last P day and I e-mailed you guys, but after we
e-mailed we went out and hit on the driving range at the golf course near
our house and I got some cool pictures and a pretty good video so I
thought I would mention it and send that stuff.
Tuesday- Nothing too special today. We woke up, did our personal
and companion studies, then headed out the door. We got our monthly
schedule showing us when our District and Zone meetings are along with
days for baptisms. We had another solid lesson with Vicky, who is
learning more every week and is a great new convert, working hard to
read the Book of Mormon and learn more about the gospel. After that, we were walking
to our flat and almost got nailed by this bus. I'm not kidding! We were a
few inches from getting destroyed haha. The Lord was definitely looking
out for us. I forgot to say that jay-walking is legal here, so everyone
runs all over the streets. It's pretty nuts. We GQ'd for a few hours, got
some potential investigators' numbers, then called it a day. My hair was
getting pretty long, so Elder Elsmore gave me a cut in our flat, and it
turned out pretty well!
Wednesday- Such a great day. We woke up earlier and ran to the golf
course and putted around for our morning exercise when we got a call
letting us know two Elders from the Shetland Islands were coming to stay
with us for a few days. Their names are Elder Rich from Ut, and Elder
Watson from Arizona. We did a companion swap and I went with Elder Watson
for the day. We didn't have any lessons planned out, so we literally
GQ'd for 6 HOURS. It was a lot of hard work, but we were definitely
blessed for it. We got like 15 new numbers of people who seem pretty
solid. I probably walked a marathon that day, but after that we all went
over to a new member's home for dinner and it was fantastic! The members
here work so hard to stay dedicated, and I have a lot of respect for the
few, but very strong ones here!
Thursday- ZIT DAY ( Zone Interview Training). All four of us Elders in our little flat stayed up late talking about super deep
doctrine, so we were all pretty dead at 6:30 am haha, but we got up and
got ready and headed over to our church. President Donaldson and the
APs and Sister leaders (Or whatever their called) had some awesome
lessons for us. I got to meet all the other island Elders and I'll tell
you, they are all crazy haha! I think they needed a break from the
islands cause there's only two on each one and no progress gets done
there, sadly. But I got to talk to President and I learned a whole bunch
of stuff. It was a really good day! After ZIT, we went back to the flat,
did our studies, then got ready for bed, We were at ZIT all day long
haha.
Friday- The Shetland Elders' last day with us. We did kind of the
same thing as Wednesday, but I went with Elder Rich instead. We had a
LOT of success, me and Elder Rich get along really well, and we made a
ton of people laugh in the streets which made them want to listen to our
message. It was great. We had a few new investigators' lessons too! We
taught a guy named Max, who is an atheist and a math genius but wants to
find out if God is real, so we taught him lesson one. Then we had another
lessons with Zsolt which was great, just on the Plan of Salvation and
what not. Then we had a lesson with a new investigator named Billy. AH
how do I even describe him. He is like 70 and the BIGGEST Aberdeen
football fan in the world. He is the sweetest guy ever, his entire house
is lined up with football jerseys and guess what, I gave him a book of
Mormon and a pamphlet, and he asked me what size of shirt I was, then
gave me TWO Football jerseys!! They're so sweet I wear them all the time
at night and man Billy is really solid. I feel like he is gonna get baptized. We then sent the Shetland Elders back off to their island and
that was our day. So many miracles took place on Friday. Everyone was
real happy about the work done.
Saturday- I was back with Elder Elsmore, and we GQ'd for a few
hours and had a couple lessons planned. Every single one of our lessons
fell through except for David, which went well as always cause he is so
solid. So a little disappointing day but not too big of a deal. We got a
couple new investigators' numbers which is great. We then had a dinner
appointment with another member family. They made us home made pizzas,
root beer floats, and even gave Elder Elsmore and I a cake to take home
since we both have birthdays. Mines in a week. I can't believe it haha. A
pretty good day all in all.
Sunday- Another normal Sunday. We went to church. We picked up John Howard who hadn't been to church for 6 months so that was good, but other then that all we did was GQ and have another lesson with Billy who is great haha. He drew a picture of Jesus for us and asked us to bring him more pictures of Jesus so he could hang them up with his jerseys. It was funny. Nothing else I can remember that was exciting.
Monday (Today)- Today has been great! We woke up, did our studies,
and then headed out to meet the District at the bus stop. We all went
out to this massive lighthouse and these cool rocks on the shore which I
took a ton of pictures of and will send. It's been fun.
Then we went and
ate at KFC which was funny haha. It isn't like the ones in America.
After I finish e-mailing, we're gonna go buy our groceries for the week and I'm gonna get some of the European church clothes because I look like a
parachute out here. Everyone wears such fitted clothing which actually
looks pretty sharp as long as I don't get fat haha.
Well, that was my week. It was a really good one! I made a lot of
new friends, learned a lot, and had fun with it too. I miss everyone
back at home a little bit. So many people are at college just having a
blast, but I know that as I continue to work hard and serve the Lord, I
will be blessed. I hope everyone has so much fun with school and
remembers to rely on the Lord for help in all things! Oh and a couple
people asked me what my address is here since it is my birthday next
Tuesday. If you would like to send me packages, (Which would mean the
WORLD to me), you can send them to the mission home:
Scotland/Ireland Mission
Scotland/Ireland Mission
51 Spylaw Road,
Edinburgh,
Scotland, EH10 5BP
and I should get them in a week or two. Any letters and pictures would make me incredibly happy and if you do want to send anything else, thank you so much! I love you all and will keep working hard here! Enjoy all the pictures and videos!
Elder Copeland
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