February 18, 2019
Last Sunday we went to go teach a young Colombian family that
was friends of some members of the Church. We showed up to 3 families, all with
little kids, making us empanadas. So we ate the empanadas, then shared the plan
of salvation will all of them. They were all so interested, that they just kept
asking questions and wouldn't let us leave, so we were there for several hours
They all loved it, and one of the girls called dibs for the next meeting to be
in her house. Super big miracle.
We went to Madrid last week which was pretty cool, actually
very cold. Apparently it is winter in Spain... Didn't really notice from our
island. We got a visit from Elder Johnson, a member of the Quorum of the
Seventy (70 dudes that live all over the world and help the twelve apostles).
He spoke a lot about the Atonement and how we can't save ourselves; only through
Jesus Christ can we be saved.
Because we were in Madrid, our p-day got switched to Friday
instead of last Monday. So Friday we went to the Temple in Madrid which was
such a good experience, especially because I hadn't been in almost a year and a
half. But we quickly got on a plane after and flew to Tenerife for a long
layover. While we were there, we saw the news that missionaries could FaceTime
their family on p-days, so I tried facetiming my mom, but they were in the
temple for my brother's wedding, and it's not really kosher to pick up your
phone during that. But I ended up calling them again and my dad picked it up
when they were outside, so I got to see Nart come out of the temple with I
guess my new sister in law. Also got to talk to him for a sec and also see tons
of extended family.
So that was a crazy miracle about the timing of all that.
I've had 2 days in my mission where my p-day was not on a Monday, and this one
"happened" to be moved to the day of my brother's wedding and the
Church "happened" to release this new rule on that day and they
"happened" to get out of the temple 30 min before the end of my p-day
so I had time to call them. That makes me think of A SCRIPTURE haha (still a
missionary). This one's in the Book of Mormon, when God is talking to the
prophet Nephi:
"For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I
will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and
I work not among the children of men save it be according to their faith"
(2 Nephi 27:23).
Like every week in the mission, this was a week of miracles.
I know, along with Moroni, that God has not ceased to be a God of miracles, nor
will he "so long as time shall last, or the earth shall stand, or there
shall be one man upon the face thereof to be saved." I know he works
miracles, for I have seen them.
Elder Coleman
