Weekly Email

August 6, 2018

Friends and Family,

Yesterday my companion Elder Tabilo finished his mission and went home to Chile. So my new companion gets here later today, his name is Elder Vanoli! He's coming from northern Spain so he's got a long trip ahead of him. This week, we had exchanges with the zone leaders, so I was with Elder Stephenson for a while. I learned a lot from his example and how I can be more humble. I also randomly got deathly ill on Wednesday which was weird. But then we went out anyways and visited a family and I randomly got a little better which was pretty cool.

I also went to physical therapy this week, and they cleared me to start walking again! So we celebrated this week by going out and street contacting!! I've been thinking a lot about following the Holy ghost and trying to recognize what thoughts come from God. Mormon teaches the following: "That which is of God inviteth and enticeth to do good continually; wherefore, every thing which inviteth and enticeth to do good, and to love God, and to serve him, is inspired of God" (Moroni 7:13). If we are inspired to serve others and obey God's commandments, these thoughts come from God. I know He lives!

Elder Coleman

Pic1 - Granada missionaries with André
Pic2 - Pedro
Pic3 - Luis
Pic4 - Our area

Weekly Email

July 30, 2018

Super short email because today we went to one of the most famous castles in Spain called the Alhambra. Charles V had a pretty cool palace there. We showed up and they gave us a wheelchair which was pretty fun. You could see a lot of Granada from the top of the castle. Pics will be included.

I love this scripture from the New Testament. Jesus said: "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). We can live more abundantly when we come unto Christ. Abundance does not mean that we will be wealthy, but that we will have an abundance of joy, which joy only comes from God.

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 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