Carver Coleman

Carver Coleman
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Weekly Email

July 23, 2018

Friends and Family,

This week seemed really long because I was waiting for the results for the MRI and I was pretty anxious for that. They apparently sent it to some doctor in Germany and he told me to put ice on my ankle šŸ‘So we're still waiting for the Orthopedic doctor to look at it and tell us what's up.

People ask what we eat in Spain and this was a pretty lame week because we ate at Burger King twice, McDonalds once, and Pizza Hut. Then we made some gross rice mixed with eggs, hotdogs, and french fries. And then one day someone fed us pasta which was nice. Also I ate an entire watermelon because they are really cheap and so good. I bought two more for this week!

A super cool experience from this week was we've been working crazy hard to find someone to teach for the past few weeks but we've been less than successful. On Friday night we talked a lot about it and decided that Saturday morning we would find someone who would accept our message. We both had the faith to do it, so we woke up the next day and left our apartment knowing that we would find someone. So we talked to every person until we finally found a super cool Bolivian who wants to come to church and read the Book of Mormon and receive us in his house to teach him and his family. It was an amazing miracle for us after a few weeks of working our hardest and not finding anyone. We should never doubt God's ability to work a miracle in our lives. "Be not faithless, but believing" was what Christ declared unto doubting Thomas. Faith brings miracles!

Elder Coleman


Wednesday, July 18, 2018

July 16, 2018


Dear Friends & Family,

We went to Madrid this week... and made a stop in the beautiful city of Toledo! I have lot of pictures and that's all most of you want to see anyways so I'll send them.

A quick spiritual thought is that I learned a lot about the nature of God this week; how he is merciful and loving and forgiving. I studied Nehemiah 9 in the Old Testament, which recalls all the times that God had mercy on the children of Israel. Many times they chose to disobey his commandments. Nehemiah declares that they "refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks,... but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not" (Nehemiah 9:17). God will always have mercy on us when we reach out to him in prayer.

Elder Coleman

Pic1 - Padul is the town of the Mammoth 
Pic2 - Padul pt2
Pic3 - Random Castle
Pic4 - Family Night "Who am I?"






Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Weekly Email


July 3, 2018

Friends and Family,

Another good week in Granada! We had transfers this week, but none of the Elders got moved so nothing really changed. The cool part was that one of my really good friends Elder Bluth passed through Granada on his way to the other side of the mission, which is now in a different mission. So it will be sad to not see him for the rest of my mission, but we got a few minutes to talk which was pretty lucky.

My birthday was on Tuesday, so we ate with a Venezuelan family that has a tradition where you smash an egg on the birthday person's head and then throw flower at them... pretty interesting and definitely won't be wearing those clothes again!

We were also able to share the plan of salvation with an investigator named A____ who wants to baptized in August. He recently lost a cousin to cancer, so we shared a lot with him about what happens after we die. He loved the scripture that we shared from Alma 40:11-12:

"Now, concerning the state of the soul between death and the resurrection—Behold, it has been made known unto me by an angel, that the spirits of all men, as soon as they are departed from this mortal body, yea, the spirits of all men, whether they be good or evil, are taken home to that God who gave them life. And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of those who are righteous are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise, a state of rest, a state of peace, where they shall rest from all their troubles and from all care, and sorrow."

I know that there is a life after death. God has prepared a mansion for every one of his children. Our purpose on earth is to prepare for that life. In other news, my mission address has changed because I'm now a part of the Madrid mission:

Elder Carver Coleman
Avenida de Tenerife 11,
28703 San SebastiƔn de los Reyes
Madrid, EspaƱa

I love you all! Elder Coleman 

Pic1- Elder Blyth in Granada
Pic2 - Spain has a thing about bulls idk...
Pic3 - Venezuelan things