David Cope
So my explanation for last Thursday, they didn’t give us a Pday. It was super lame. Anyways! How has everyone been doing¿ I miss you all so much! It has been a great week though! Honestly, so my new Companero is Elder Smith, he is a pretty cool dude, he is from Centerville. I actually played football against him. He played at Viewmont. He reminds me daily that he beat men our senior year. I thought all my losses would be forgotten…. Oh well. But we get along so good. We are by far the closest Companionship in the whole mission. I have truly been baptized by Spanish. I have learned so much already. It is crazy. The teachers we have all speak Spanish, even our religion teachers. It is so weird. We pretty much have to learn Spanish, or don’t learn at all. Super crazy. But it is all for the better. So on Saturday, we were assigned different companeros and took the Metro to the Park, we spent one and a half hours just talking to people trying to speak Spanish. So crazy. Keep in mind we only had 1 Spanish lesson the whole week. I was Companions with Elder Koeven. He was a great Comp. No one had a lot of success, I think one group had 5 BOM placed and only 2 references. Oh wait, I forgot, me and my Companion tore it up!!!!!! We placed 9 Books of Mormon and got 4 references. By far the most successful companionship. . I don’t even know how I was able to speak Spanish so well. But we were blessed with a lot of success. I was so pumped though, we met at this fountain and were about to go back to the MTC but I felt that we should go talk to another few people, so while everyone else waited and talked about their success, or lack of success, me and Elder Koeven talked to this couple and placed 2 more books of Mormon. Then right as we were about to leave I saw this dude looking at us while riding his bike, so I booked it and ran over to him, and gave him a book of mormon and got a reference, he was really interested and wanted to know more. I am so happy to be out here. My Companion got beat up by a Russian Olympian. It was crazy. His name is Elder Zhidkof (Zhidtcoff). He doesn’t Speak much English and I guess he got the wrong idea when Elder said he wanted to wrestle. He thought he wanted to MMA fight. So Funny. He is a cool dude though.