September
10, 2018
Friends and Family,
Sorry about not sending out an email last week. I would say it won't happen again but it definitely will happen again because I'm slowly losing motivation to email. Not much out of the ordinary happened over the last two weeks, other than we started teaching free Italian classes, and by "we" I mean I forced my Italian companion to take one for the team and offer his services. We've been looking for people to teach on Facebook which is really weird to me, but it’s what we've been told to do so we'll go for it. I guess our generation is much more likely to talk to us from their phones than in person, so we'll see if we have any success from that. We're still out in the streets talking to people but also dedicating a little bit of time each week to find people online too.
We had zone conference last week, and we learned a lot about repentance and how it is a joyful experience. It truly is an amazing opportunity that we have in order to change and become better through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We were also invited to reread this really cool book called "Adjusting to Missionary Life", which I don't think I've ever opened so that was awkward... We have since made a goal to read it and I've learned a lot about how to be a better missionary.
Something that we get a lot as missionaries (I was told it this past week) is that there's no way for us to actually know that what we preach is the truth. Many say that there is no God, and that a being that we can't physically see cannot exist. Last time I was told this, a verse from the New Testament came to my mind. Many people after Jesus Christ's death accused His followers of following their imagination or invented stories. The head apostle Peter boldly stated: "We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty" (2 Peter 1:16). God is not a myth. He is not dead. All the prophets since the beginning have testified of the reality of a God, the creator of all things. I declare, along with Peter, that this is no cunning fable; God lives. I am an eyewitness of his works among mankind. Miracles occur today; I have seen them.
Elder Coleman
Sorry about not sending out an email last week. I would say it won't happen again but it definitely will happen again because I'm slowly losing motivation to email. Not much out of the ordinary happened over the last two weeks, other than we started teaching free Italian classes, and by "we" I mean I forced my Italian companion to take one for the team and offer his services. We've been looking for people to teach on Facebook which is really weird to me, but it’s what we've been told to do so we'll go for it. I guess our generation is much more likely to talk to us from their phones than in person, so we'll see if we have any success from that. We're still out in the streets talking to people but also dedicating a little bit of time each week to find people online too.
We had zone conference last week, and we learned a lot about repentance and how it is a joyful experience. It truly is an amazing opportunity that we have in order to change and become better through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We were also invited to reread this really cool book called "Adjusting to Missionary Life", which I don't think I've ever opened so that was awkward... We have since made a goal to read it and I've learned a lot about how to be a better missionary.
Something that we get a lot as missionaries (I was told it this past week) is that there's no way for us to actually know that what we preach is the truth. Many say that there is no God, and that a being that we can't physically see cannot exist. Last time I was told this, a verse from the New Testament came to my mind. Many people after Jesus Christ's death accused His followers of following their imagination or invented stories. The head apostle Peter boldly stated: "We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty" (2 Peter 1:16). God is not a myth. He is not dead. All the prophets since the beginning have testified of the reality of a God, the creator of all things. I declare, along with Peter, that this is no cunning fable; God lives. I am an eyewitness of his works among mankind. Miracles occur today; I have seen them.
Elder Coleman
Pic 1 - Italian Gelato with an
Italian
Pic 2 - La familia Marchi
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