I made it to Virginia!
Amish? Nuns? Polygamist? Pilgrams? Hahaha that sums up my week. Just kidding! There's been so much good and so much happening, so I'm excited to keep you all updated.
Anyway, hello everyone!! I love you all.
The end of my MTC experience was amazing. I met so many amazing people and loved being around missionaries. It truly gave me a new perspective knowing everyone has a different story, but we are all wanting to accomplish the same thing. To help souls come unto Christ!!! This email is going to be long... so sorry there's so much to say!!!
Monday was "packing day," so I started packing up everything for Virginia and struggled doing so without my mom! I also said bye to Sister Preece, Frolliech, and Sister Barkdull Monday morning at 4 AM! The crazy part about this story--I was asleep when they were getting ready, but as soon as they were about to leave, I woke up and I knew immediately it was a tender mercy. God knew I needed to say bye to them and knew how much I love them. I know they're killing it in Indiana and North Carolina. I said bye to everyone on Monday and got up Tuesday morning at 3! Sister Tuilimu and Sister Raymond walked me to the travel office. They're amazing, I miss them already.
Sister Tuilimu - Good luck in Washington!!
But then we got going and took a shuttle to the SLC airport. I was the only Sister with 5 Elders, and I'm so grateful they took such good care of me. We got to the Atlanta Airport and not too long after, we were boarding the flight to Richmond, Virginia!!
On the flight I actually got to share about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with someone that was sitting by me and guess what! HE READ SOME OF MY BOM AND HAD SO MANY QUESTIONS!!! After that, I was so pumped to start my missionary work.
When we landed in Virginia, President Droubay, Sister Droubay, the APs, and STLT were there to greet us! I was so happy to finally meet them. They drove us over to President's home and we had dinner and got to talk and meet with everyone. ALSO, VIRGINIA IS BEAUTIFUL AND SO SO GREEN!!
We ended up staying in a hotel that night and got up early to go have some more orientation and to meet our trainers. Since I was the only Sister, I got to meet my trainer before and her name is Sister Robinson!! I love her so much and I'm so grateful that she's my trainer. It's Sister Robinson's last transfer, so God is so good for letting her be my trainer. He knew I needed her.
The STLTs--they're the best
We got our area and we are serving in the Culpepper/Piedmont area! Sister Robinson says it's different then any other area she's served in Virginia. We have rolling hills, small towns, farm lands, and so many trees!! We were both new to the area, so the work started out really slowly as we are both still trying to figure out everything and to meet and know everyone. Our first time we got out, we went to Walmart and met a man and he asked us if we were Amish or Polygamists or Pilgrams. It made us laugh and we just told him who we are! We settled in Wednesday and started to get to work on Thursday. We had service on Thursday, and I loved it so much. There we met our friends Rusty and Carlos, and Carlos is convinced we are Nuns haha! Me and Sister Robinson are determined to have some lessons with him. On Thursday we found out our stake had their day to go to the Washington DC Temple. We were determined and needed a miracle to be able to go. We had to find a ride from a member and to bring an investigator!!! Good news! We found both!!!
Friday, we got to go to the Washington DC temple and it was BEAUTIFUL! We took our friend Tom. Tom has the biggest heart and is now on date to be baptized, and I'm so happy for him. The questions he asked about the temple made me so happy. He said, "I wish I would've known about this sooner. My life would've been so different." That hit me so hard. We're truly so lucky to have the gospel in our lives, and it made me so happy to be a missionary!
Tom is amazing!!
On Saturday, we went knocking and it was so much fun. Not a lot of people wanted to hear our message, but we got to the last house and met this women named Edith. She wanted to hear and know more!! We read her the Book of Mormon and she wants us to come visit her more and read it to her. Sunday was amazing, we were able to have dinner with the Solderholm's family and it was so fun. It made Sunday feel more at home!
Anyway, sorry that was long I'm just so happy and so grateful to be a missionary. God is so good.
I challenge you all to pray and look for miracles in your life!! I promise as soon as you start looking, you see them everywhere. God is so good!!
Love you all!! Have the best week
Sister Copeland
More Pics of the Week
My friend Rusty!!
A picture of the sky for my favorite Elder since it was his birthday this week 5/31. Love u, boo!!
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