It was good to hear from you yesterday! Sorry about getting back to you a little late. We got back pretty late yesterday and at that point we had a dinner appointment and two lessons to finish up the night! We've been really busy this past week, and have seen so many blessings and miracles!
Tuesday: We had a great District Meeting in the morning, and had
some Boojums after! Three out of our four lessons fell through, which was
tough, but we were able to do some great finding and found some pretty
cool people! We had dinner at our Ward Mission Leader's and ah man, I
love that guy so much. He is named Mark Ballard from England. He served
in the Army and is a convert. He was called to be Ward Mission Leader about a week
before we got here, so is new as well. He has done so much for us these
past three weeks. I have no clue how to ever repay him. He comes out to
less actives with us, he drives us around, he feeds us, and he works
every day from 2 am to 3 or 4 pm, has three daughters, and his wife has a
broken foot right now, so he is driving them all over the place.
ABSOLUTE LEGEND. I love that man, I thought I would just say that haha,
anyways a good day!
Wednesday: We had some lessons with some new people and it was
incredible! We taught a man named John who is in his 70's and loves the Bible. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and he had some great
questions. We actually just taught him today as well haha. He is doing
well, just needs to now read the Book of Mormon and gain a testimony of it! We also
had a lesson with a man named Mannie. Mannie's family is from Hong Kong,
he has lived in Belfast his whole life and he is great! He used to be
Catholic, but has been trying to find more truth. We taught him the
Restoration and had a really powerful lesson with him. He committed to
be baptized on March 11th!!
Thursday: Lots of finding and some teaching to some Recent Converts. I got into
like an hour Bible bash with some guy on the street. I literally just
wanted to walk away but he wouldn't let me! He kept throwing all this
rubbish at me and I literally just kept reading the Bible to him. He had
no clue what to say most of the time. In the end, I managed to place a
Book Of Mormon though and gave him our number ;) We had our BOM Class in
the evening as well. Mannie came to it, he loved it!!
Friday: Lots of finding, and some lessons, another with Mannie! Taught him the Plan of Salvation, he loved it!
Saturday: We went on exchanges up in Portadown with the Elders. I
got to go with Elder Kilgour from England who is nice and green!
Everyone in Portadown is Portuguese speaking for some reason, so we had
some cool lessons. One, we were able to use a Recent Convert and have him translate
the entire lesson back and forth between us. It was great! Although we
couldn't understand each other directly, the Spirit was able to testify
of what we taught. That is an incredible blessing our Heavenly Father
has given us! It was a great day! We worked hard and had fun!
Sunday: Church! Mannie and Kirstie (the one waiting until March to
be baptized so that she will be 18) came with us! We had some really
great classes and they both loved it! This ward is great at fellowshipping investigators and flippen FEEDING US! OH MAN, they are feeding
us 6/7 dinners this coming week, Legendary!! We had some planning
afterwards and some chapping!
So that was our week, it was well good! We also got some sweet pics
from Giants Causeway yesterday that I will send!
Elder Nelson and I are
getting along great! He is a good kid. We know how to work hard but
have fun at the same time, and that is what makes time go by quickly! I
can't wait for this coming week and for the miracles in store for us as
long as we do our part! I love you guys and will talk to you soon!
-Elder Copeland
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