Esplin, Cooper

Well hello friends and family another 6 weeks has magically disappeared on me. I guess time just flies when you are serving the Lord! Had so much fun last transfer we saw so many miracles, made so many friends, and had a baptism God is truly good to us out here in Estacada Oregon!        But don't you worry nothing is really happening this time around. I have the same area, same companion, BUT I am District Leader now! Which is not that important but it makes me happy President Haymond and God trusts me to be a helping hand for other missionaries! I will do my best!    We had a really cool miracle this week. So we found this lady named Allie last week, we taught her the Restoration and invited her to pray about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon-Another Testament of Jesus! Then we went back yesterday and we start having a discussion, she then says (very casually) "Well I prayed about that and it's true I believe it" We literally were so happy and surprised...

Hello everyone another week has come and gone. We were very busy this week as well so that's really good.    We had Alma's baptism this week. It was so awesome she was very excited! But she did have a very big fear of the water so after her uncle baptized her she started to cry but she was so strong and we are so happy for her.  Our mission president came to the baptism as well, that was a little intense but it's all good just had to be a normal natural missionary.   Thank you all for the birthday wishes and texts you sent me! All the letters were amazing. Sorry if I didn't respond to you but I really do love you all!    Hope yall have a great week! God is watching over you and has blessing in store for you! God Bless  Love, Elder Esplin

Well I think we have officially got our sunshine for the year up here in Oregon. The last couple of weeks have been a little toasty not sure what to do with myself with no rain and having to wear a coat haha. But it's so good to be out in the sun again.    This week has been really crazy a lot going on, teaching a lot of people, both very nice and also very mean, but I mean what do you expect.    We trackted into this one lady named Gayle. She is so nice we were able to go and teach some of the plan of salvation and how she can find peace again. We brought up the Book of Mormon and she already had one. We gave her some scriptures to search for in there and find and do some studying. She said she would so we are excited for her. Pray for Gayle!   Fun story, so we were driving down this one back road and BOOM there is a calf in the middle of road and well I was like oh this is what I have dreaming for haha. So we got to help the people get him back to his momma an...

Well this has been a super busy week so much happening, so as a missionary that's a good thing. I've definitely not had any problems falling asleep as a missionary haha!    One fun story, so we had some members move into the ward. They haven't been active for like 15 years but we got an appointment scheduled with them went over and had dinner with them and was able to share a really spiritual message with them. Got them excited about returning to church! So that’s amazing. But the Mother of this family works for this really fancy hair product place, she took one look at our hair and almost had a panic attack lol. She got us hooked up with the most hair product I've ever seen. I never knew you could put so much stuff in your hair EVERYDAY! But I have to admit that my hair has been looking better I think! Anyway that was fun.    The 4th of July was really busy! I had to go on a mini exchange for like the first of the day. And well the missionary I was with is on a bike...