Grandparents and a dust storm
This week was a good one!
Starting out, we were able to have interviews with our mission president for the first time in a long time! He's been busy and also proselyted with us last time instead of having interviews. But, this was my last interview with President Southward because this is his last transfer! I'm so happy he was my mission president for the first year of my mission. He's been amazing and truly is someone I will always look up to. Interviews went well, and surprise surprise, I'm staying in my area for the 9th transfer in a row! (Only 4 more!)
Another amazing surprise this week was that my grandparents, Laura, and George, came into town! They took me and my district out to breakfast and even got to meet some of our English class students! It was so good to see family, and they came at the perfect time! Love you both!
Here is some GREAT NEWS! Shadrack is on date! He is going to be baptized soon! He watched a video about the temple and fell in love with it. He is reading the Book of Mormon, and really feeling the Spirit, and he is going to get baptized! Please pray that all works out! He is amazing and will be a key to getting his whole family closer to God!
And with that same lesson, we realized, during the lesson, that the daughter was sick. She said she had no taste or smell, and when someone says that in either 2020 or 2021, your mind always goes to Covid. The people in the African community don't like to get tested for the virus, so she didn't have a positive or negative test. But, our first fear was that we would have to go into quarantine because that's what happened last time. BUT. The beauty of life is that we are now vaccinated, and we didn't have to do anything except clean everything really well, and we had 0 QUARANTINE TIME. Thank goodness! I was not about to be stuck inside for two weeks again. God really blessed us!
We are creating a video in Swahili of a tour of the temple grounds! We have been filming and editing it, and we are super excited to see how it turns out! Keep your eyes open for the vid dropping pretty soon on Facebook:)
The only problem was in the middle of filming the last few clips for the video, a dust storm decided to start. Things were falling out of the trees, the wind was going fast, etc. It was so crazy! We had to go inside for the rest of the night! Luckily, we still had to do language study, so it ended up being okay!
There is a new family that came in from Uganda, and the daughter is an awesome singer! We will be singing a duet soon, so i'll let y'all know how it goes!
My spiritual thought for this week comes from a recent conference talk by Dieter F Uchtdorf:
"Open your hearts to our Savior and Redeemer, no matter your circumstances, trials, sufferings, or mistakes; you can know that He lives, that He loves you, and that because of Him, you will never be alone. GOD IS AMONG US."
Something really great I heard this week was wise words from my Grandpa. He said that we are blessed with trials, because that is a way we come closer to our Savior. I have learned that in the hardest times, no matter what is going on, we can know that we aren't alone. God is Among Us. He is right there, always ready to help. If there is anyone who is justified to help and lift you, it is Jesus Christ. He felt it, He knows it, and He knows you.
I'm grateful for all of you, talk to you next week!
-Sis Copeland
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