Esplin, Cooper

Had a good week I feel like so much happened this week but I am having a hard time remembering it all right now but I'll share some thoughts.    So last Tuesday we went to the Zoo which was awesome saw some fun animals. But we went to the temple with our friends from Haiti and it was awesome. They have never seen such a building and were taking so many photos it was so funny. But we witnessed a miracle while we were there. So we were sitting on a bench and this random member came up and shared her testimony of when she first heard the gospel a couple years ago. She shared her story of baptism and the things she testified of were the exact concerns our friends had. It was truly amazing to see. But non the less it was a great time. But the story goes on. About half way through the tour I was getting like a million phone calls from missionaries in the zone.  So I finally decided to answer one of them. Well it turns out an elder in the zone crashed his bike and hit his head a...

Hey everyone coming back at you with another week here in Oregon. But let me tell you this week has been HOT! Especially the last couple days. It has gotten up to 107 and doesn't cool off until like 5 in the morning but by that time it's getting hot again. To make it even better our AC units start to work so hard it flips the breakers. Yep 1st world problems.    Today for Pday we went to the temple that was fun. Then me and Elder Thompson (a roommate) went to the stake center and played basketball as the rest of the zone played dungeons and dragons.  But let me tell you we were playing "21" I was winning 20-0 and then I managed to lose. 20-21. Take me back to my glory days, might as well have been playing Panguitch in basketball...    But we had transfers this week. Sadly elder Silver left for his last transfer as well. He is companions with one of my other previous comps (elder crum) My new comp is elder Cotton he is a good guy. He used to be one of the of...

 

Well everyone another week has passed away. With that I will be going into the last transfer of my mission! We haven't heard if we are moving or not, we find out tomorrow night. It is just so crazy that time is going by so fast. I feel as if I was just at 18 months like 2 weeks ago. I am making the most out of what time I have though!    This week was fun. Went on exchanges with some of the bike elders in the zone. Elder Silver finally let me take a turn there haha. I actually had a pretty good time. The area wasn't completely made out of hills like the first area I went on exchanges on a bike. But I was with Elder Spor is his name, I had a good time with him he is a hard worker.     We met a lot of nice people who weren't all that interested but still fun to talk with them. It was hot which is a nice change for the rain and cold wind that will be here in 2 months haha. I ate at Killer burger this week I think it may be a Oregon thing but that's probably wrong....

This week has been pretty busy and had many experiences that will last a lifetime! You'll never guess what most of my week consisted of....yep knocking on a bunch of doors. We have these pass along cards we stick in every door that doesn't answer and we had 100 of those. We went through that whole stack in 3 days. That's not including the 5 people who opened the door, but it's fun I enjoy it and try the make the most out of it.    Ok the most memorable thing that happened this week was a baptism I was able to participate in! It was for a lady that I worked with my whole time while in one of my old areas (Estacada) but she never got baptized while I was there.  Well she texted me and told me she wanted to get baptized a couple of weeks ago and she wanted me to baptize her and my companion that I served with at the time (Elder Crum) to give her the gift of the Holy Ghost. So it was fun. The baptism was on Saturday we went on a little exchange where my companion went wi...