It was really fun to talk to everybody on Saturday! I hope that everyone finished off their Christmas fantasticly and that you´ll all have an incredible New Year!
So I´ve got news. I´ve been changed! I´m now in the north of Quito in a place called Calderon. My companions are Hermana Baez from Paraguay and Hermana Castellani from Buenos Aires Argentina in Monte Grande (just in case, Julia, that you served there or something). They are both really new. Hna. Baez has 3 months and Hna. Castellani 5 weeks. We´re in a trio, and I´m senior companion and I´m a little nervous. But they´ve told me the ward here is good, so I´m excited.
The change came as a big surprise. We woke up this morning at 6:30 to the door bell ringing and the district leader with his companion outside waiting. We both knew what that meant and I kind of didn´t want to believe it. But here I am, back in Quito.
I´m not going to lie, I cried a lot (but not as much as my first change). Mostly for the Hermana Zenteno. She is so incredible. Training was hard, but I know that she was also there to help me. To change, but to the person that I´ve always wanted to be.
It makes me sad that I´m not going to be able to be there to see the baptisms of a lot of people that are there, but it´s okay. I´ve done what I needed to do there, and now I´m needed somewhere else.
Otavalo wasn´t easy at all, and I think that I learned, more than anything, 101 ways not to be missionary. But I also learned 1001 ways how to pick myself up and move on, work hard, repent with all my heart and change. I´m exhausted from it, and I know that a new place doesn´t mean that life is going to be perfect or that I won´t have trails of faith, but I do know that change is just an opportunity to make a different approach, and avoiding falling in the same holes, and more than anything, to show my faith that this work can really happen.
What are all your plans for the New Year´s Eve? Party it up for me, eh? I´m pretty sure that I´m going to try and get to bed early that night.
Welp, tune in next week, same time, same place, and maybe I´ll have a story or two to share about what´s going down in
Calderon!
Love. Love. Love.
Hermana Cooper
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