This week was super interesting because we didn't have
any water for the first half of the week. Also we popped a tire... But other
than that it was awesome! We talked to a lot of people and met with a lot of
families from the church.
So the crazy news for the week is that we got a call on Saturday that I would be transferred to the Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa! I'll be serving on Fuerteventura, a small island in the Tenerife Sea (I've heard the water is pretty blue but I'm not sure if Ed Sheeran is a very reliable source). I've been told there's more goats than people, so either there's a ton of goats or not a lot of people I guess we'll find that one out... there's also camels and giraffes and other desert animals and also tons of volcanos. My companion is Elder Grappendorf, and we'll have the island all to ourselves. The weird part is that I'm going from Granada (a pretty big city with lots of other missionaries) to a tiny island where I'll only see other missionaries once a month.
I found a really cool quote this week by President Harold B. Lee, who was a Prophet of God that passed away less than 50 years ago. He said: "Too many of us put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord says. I want you to think about that. We shouldn’t be concerned about why he said something, or whether or not it can be made so. Just trust the Lord. We don’t try to find the answers or explanations. We shouldn’t try to spend time explaining what the Lord didn’t see fit to explain. We spend useless time." We are commanded to trust the Lord. He knows the way to the eternal joy that is laid up in store after this life. "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding" (Proverbs 3:5). I know that, as we put our trust in God, we will receive strength to overcome any fear or trial.
Elder Coleman
So the crazy news for the week is that we got a call on Saturday that I would be transferred to the Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa! I'll be serving on Fuerteventura, a small island in the Tenerife Sea (I've heard the water is pretty blue but I'm not sure if Ed Sheeran is a very reliable source). I've been told there's more goats than people, so either there's a ton of goats or not a lot of people I guess we'll find that one out... there's also camels and giraffes and other desert animals and also tons of volcanos. My companion is Elder Grappendorf, and we'll have the island all to ourselves. The weird part is that I'm going from Granada (a pretty big city with lots of other missionaries) to a tiny island where I'll only see other missionaries once a month.
I found a really cool quote this week by President Harold B. Lee, who was a Prophet of God that passed away less than 50 years ago. He said: "Too many of us put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord says. I want you to think about that. We shouldn’t be concerned about why he said something, or whether or not it can be made so. Just trust the Lord. We don’t try to find the answers or explanations. We shouldn’t try to spend time explaining what the Lord didn’t see fit to explain. We spend useless time." We are commanded to trust the Lord. He knows the way to the eternal joy that is laid up in store after this life. "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding" (Proverbs 3:5). I know that, as we put our trust in God, we will receive strength to overcome any fear or trial.
Elder Coleman
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