Week 32 - February 23, 2026

 hi!! happy monday 

my week

•zone conference  

•medias

•darlam

was a great great week. 

I've seen so many miracles casually in front of me it's hard to explain

when I got here every person that was progressing dropped, 

but since then until now, we have gems. genuinely I've never seen work this good. 

zone conf!
zone conference was so good! I saw so many of my friends and I wish we saw each other more because I love them all. 

 

I learned a lot and felt inspired to really let this time be focused on my purpose. I have less than a year here in brasil as a missionary, and the rest of my life to have home

the work is going good! I feel like we've had perfect people placed perfectly here for us. it almost feels too good to be true. time will tell but the work is definitely flowing.

we should be ending this upcoming week with a baptism and another date. 

Darlam is an older guy who we visit every day. we only found him last week. he's always waiting for us on his front porch with 3 chairs set out and he has all his scriptures and pamplets all ready to go. 

he reads everything we give him and always tells us we look tired haha. I told him it's all the Português and then he told me he understands everything I say because of the Spirit. which was crazy to me that he was recognizing the Spirit like that. 

after church I asked him how he liked it and he just said, "I loved it," I cried. 

we're going to his house tonight to invite him to be baptized! pray for him! 

Kind of started the medias. i won't do the newsletter until April but the rest I started this week. which literally just means I need to check Instagram reels once a day to get ideas... when I asked what to do, that's literally what they said. 

first, they set me up in a hotel with free room service and now they're giving me a laptop?

I'm starting to think I am just the personality hire 

quick jots:

-I bought rio farm x havaianas 

-taught a homeless man and accidentally asked for his address. he looked at me like my iq was -65. 

-teaching this guy but he killed someone:/ not sure how to go about this one

my spiritual thought this week is a Pinterest quote haha that I saw from Henry B Eyring 

he said 

if you're on the right path, it will always be uphill

I like this a lot because sometimes when things are hard, we can think we're doing something wrong.

that maybe we need to reroute and ask ourselves

why isn't this working out 

why isn't it as easy or perfect as I thought 

why isn't the Lord paving the way

why am I not as happy as I thought 

if it's the right thing, when why isn't it perfect?

etc 

etc 

etc 

something I feel like my dad did a good job teaching was to be uncomfortable with things being hard. he always was happy for me when something was hard. like great! that's how it should be. 

now on a mission, which is easily the best thing I've ever done, which has a line in the call where it says as a missionary, we are promised a greater joy than ever before 

then, why is it hard 

how can those two exist at the same time

because the right path is always uphill

I know I'm on the uphill right now. (literally and figuratively)

every day tests me in one way or another. 

but if it was meant for me, wouldn't it be natural?

no! 

because what is meant for me, for us, is to become something in this life. 

not to stay the same, but to grow. 

a good indicator to if you're on the right path is if it's not easy

don't fight the uphill

sister copeland 🫶🏻

or as sister de sousa says (& all of brasil)

sister copa-lawn-dee 

Week 31 - February 16, 2026

 bom dia!!

this week was one of the best yet!

I love my area, I feel like I'm in the Little Mermaid, but if it were the hood

& I love my comp and the work.

&my STLS ;) (shoutout Evershed) They're so nice. They Uber flashed us little treats on Valentine's Day. 💘🫶🏻🍫

even though it isn't a holiday here haha. 

 

and 7 months later I finally got trained on the medias, so I'll be starting that this week! I have 2 weeks to make the March newsletter, but I'm exciteddd. Everyone send me a theme idea. I need inspo. 

Tuesday I said goodbye to Bird and left Jaraguá, 

watched as I passed every road that I genuinely left blood, sweat and tears on

besides spending my time watching videos of Micah (holy he's huge)

for that 4-hour bus ride I literally went through every emotion

excitement

nostalgia 

nerves

beach!

I have no idea what I'm doing

do I even speak Português 

lots of nerves

I'm greenie breaking my comp which means I'm her first comp out of training. 

which means she knows enough to know whether I'm doing a good job or not haha. 

but thennnn

I met her and holy I got blessed. She's from Pará, the north, which means she has the best accent out of any Brazillians. she has 3 months in the mission and we laugh a lot. I lovee her. this is her 3rd transfer here, so I think we'll only have one transfer together. :(

Sister de Sousa!! 

and Biguaçu is a little coastal fisherman city. I can't explain how perfect it is for me, let me list it out

ocean

shopping

açai 

favelas

horses randomly everywhere

everything I love. 

even to the random horses in the roads with no owners, no rope, nothing. they're literally part of traffic and everywhere.

this week was also Carnaval. which is a Brazilian holiday to drink and not wear clothes. So, the president said we had to return at 5pm and work the rest of the night online or studies. So, we didn't get to work as much as we need. even though I wasn't able to really see Carnaval, it's still fun to think I'm in Brasil during it. 

Biguaçu is veryyyyy different than Jaraguá. 

definitely a lot poorer, not European, and it's not an oven-like humid, valley. the ocean breeze here is genuinely lifesaving. along the beach, 

(which the water is brown because it's more like a cove-type, with the city of Florianópolis bordering the horizon, so the water is dirtier lol)

on the beach there are fishermen houses with little boats on the sand and along the coast, it has some areas I'm really excited to work. it's very favela. which means it's rough. dirt roads, dogs, drugs, drinking, tiny alley ways, everything within these roads. 

I just kept smiling and telling my comp how much I like it here. 

my first lunch here and as senior comp I was about to ask if we could share a message, already worried about the perfect time to end the conversation and share the message, when the wife. of. the. bishop whipped it out and started feeding the baby. 

I had no idea whether it was reverent enough to start the message or if I should wait till the milk stand was closed. 

So, there I was telling them the joy of the gospel, mid breast feed. no cover whatsoever. 

all I could do was smile and just think wow I am on a South American mission alright. 

the church building here is being renovated, so getting people to church 2 cities away will be a challenge 

but I already have such a good feeling about Biguaçu. 

Big ua Céu  

(céu: heaven)

Ahh 

good good week

to be so honest, this is the first time in my entire mission I haven't wanted it to go fast

everyone, watch this short video. it's like 3 seconds and really good

chuva de bênçãos celestes 

A Shower of Heavenly Blessings

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/video/inspirational-messages/2015-03-009-a-shower-of-heavenly-blessings?lang=eng

I know God is always blessing us! through living the gospel, repenting, and keeping the commandments. We can close our umbrellas and receive the shower of blessings. 

some blessings come now, some in a year, and some in the life to come. 

but I promise they will come! 

love you all so much

🫶🏻 sister copeland 

&for my mission friends 

aqui tem vestidos do rio farm dupe e eles são bemmmm barato tipo 80 reis por um vestido. 

milgare.