Weekly Email

November 26, 2018

This week we were in Lanzarote from Monday through Wednesday, so we didn't have much time in our area, but, we did work on preparing for A____'s baptism. Facebook teaching is going well! It's basically accelerated street contacting. In the street we'll maybe find 2 new investigators and then we won't be able to contact them again so we'll end up dropping them, but in Facebook we get like 4 times that. So like 8 new investigators that we won't be able to contact again and then we'll drop them haha. But every 2 weeks we'll get a super solid person from Facebook, whereas like once a year you'll get a solid person from street contacting. 

 In the morning while getting ready I've been listening to Brad Wilcox's Book of Mormon class which is really interesting. And during personal study I'm still trying to finish reading the Book of Mormon before the end of the year. I studied Alma 36 this week and I knew about the chiasmus before but I didn't know it was as good as it is. It is pretty cool how intricate the writing style is, and there's another one in Alma 41 I think it is that's incredibly hard to follow but it's super cool. But the focus of the chiasmus is on Jesus Christ and his power to save us.

Believe in Him and have a good week everyone!

Elder Coleman 

 

November 19, 2018

Friends & Family,

Our teaching went really well this week. We didn't teach the Nicaraguan the family that much but we did teach A____ and he is a beast. We taught him the law of Chastity which was fun and the word of wisdom and we practiced for his interview for baptism. He should be baptized this weekend which is pretty cool. We didn't teach J____ but she came to church and we might visit her this coming week. We did start teaching this family that is the family of a missionary up in Barcelona. They're super cool and we're hoping that they will progress.

The weather here is really nice! It's actually really windy here so it's actually chilly at night but it's really nice during the day. It's not hot and it's not cold. I sometimes wear a sweater but other than that I just wear a short-sleeved shirt.

The food on the island is fine it's usually a lot of soup or chicken or something interesting. The food really isn't spicy except for one meal a family gave us it was really really spicy.

We will be eating Thanksgiving with a family that one of the son in laws is American and that family lived in America for a long time so I think we'll prepare something. And we did have permission to stay longer on Thanksgiving for lunch.

Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Elder Coleman

Weekly Email

November 12, 2018

Friends and Family,

Sorry I've been really sporadic with my weekly emails, my mother is going to send something out each week from what I tell her. Good mem from this week was singing hymns with our good friend Zenon to keep him from falling asleep while driving us from the southern tip of the island.

Here's some wisdom from Elder Neal A. Maxwell: "If various trials are allotted to you, partake of life’s bitter cups, but without becoming bitter"

I love you all! Elder Coleman

Pic1 - Arepas with friends, Pic2 - more arepas with more friends, Pic3 - Elder Curtis from ST, Pic4 - The hottest peppers (just under ghost peppers). 2 drops is plenty, Pic5 - Doggo (Anyone actually say that anymore??)