Esplin, Cooper

So how is everyone doing? Just thought I would put this in here. If you want me to respond to you, contact me on email, I can't respond on messenger. I can only talk to family on messenger for some reason️ but it would be nice to hear from yall.    So this week I went on exchanges with the Zone leader, Elder Silver and he serves in the Gresham YSA branch. His companion is Elder Balanced and he is from Laverkin Utah. Elder Silver and I get along pretty good. But anyway. Elder Silvers area covers like part of a place where things are pretty sketchy. And well he got his driving privileges taken away so guess who got to drive. Yep that's right me! I got to drive in the BIG city, boy was that an adventure haha I didn't kill anyone so that's good! But Gresham is quite the place to say the least! There are like tons of buildings and houses that are burned down and homeless people everywhere! They have these camps on the sides of the roads. They will get like old RVs and tents ...

Hello everyone how is it going? Hope you’ve had a great week and loving life. It's been a great week over here.      We have seen a lot of miracles this week. God has been very kind to us this week! So I’m not sure how, but we keep finding these escaped members who don't want to be found. But they actually turn out to be very nice!  So like it's kind of a long story but we stopped by this one house in the middle of nowhere a while ago. No one answered but we left our names and phone number on the door. Well we got this call yesterday that this member just moved into that house and found the card so he gave us a call. He hasn't come to church since he was a kid, but wants to come back and help his 7 year old kid prepare for baptism and potentially his wife!  We have talked to him a couple of other times but it is so awesome to be there and help other people I love it.      Something I heard this week from another missionary that I really liked! "Be...

It's me again hank the cow dog...oops I mean Elder Esplin the missionary. It has been a great week out here in Estacada. Met a lot of cool people but also a good amount of not too nice people, which is always fun.  Whenever we are walking around the streets the whole town will turn into a ghost town, nobody wants to talk to those scary missionaries but then it's like there is one person on the other end of the street who stays outside and starts walking towards us who is probably a born again Baptist who is wanting to bash us. It's like those old western movies where they are going for a draw shoot out. But instead of guns it's scriptures  That was my best attempt at describing missionary work in Estacada.    But we did have a cool experience this week! So we found some members who didn't move their records when they moved and they didn't want to be found by the church. The guy I started to talk to him and he has done some hunting down in Kanab so I was able to ...

Well a lot has happened this week, I feel like I was just writing one of these yesterday.    Earlier this week we got a call from this member who is about 85 and lives in the middle of nowhere. He called and said that his water line was broken and needed some help. So we show up and it was just a PVC pipe that snapped. So anyway this guy just let us do it haha it was a lot of fun honestly, I didn't think I would ever be fixing pipe on the mission.     Also this week we met with this girl who just graduated high school school. Anyway this girl will come to church every now again but never says she likes it but doesn't say she doesn't like it so it's a weird situation. Well we met with her and had a great lesson just taught about Jesus Christ and how to gain his power into our lives and we invited her to be baptized! And she surprisingly said yes! So August 30th we will see how committed she is.    I also got to go to the big city this week for a mi...

Well how is everyone doing. It's me again just typing away. There really isn't too much I have to report on right now. I mean we had a great week, we were really busy, taught a lot of good lessons, and did some fun service. I don't know if I said this last week but I got to help a guy doctor his goats and he let me rope them haha that was a lot of fun!    But we have been finding people who are ready for the gospel. We have just tracted into them and are able to share a brief message with then about what Jesus Christ did for them and how we can get a deeper understanding of that and connection with him.     For everyone that was in your Sunday school class this week they taught about Love, Share, and Invite! 3 simple ways for everyone to spread more love into this world and it needs it more than ever! Love, Elder Esplin