This week has been good! This last Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of the MTC which was really neat. First there were rumors going around for about the last 3 weeks on who would be coming, they said there was going to be hundreds of guests. So people flocked to join the choir so they could get a guaranteed seat, I had a cold so I decided people would appreciate if I was not sniffling and annoying everyone the whole time, so I didn't go to practice. Instead the Elders and I in our district decided to get in line at 5:00, which was 2 hours before it started......a bunch of hot missionaries in one room, all standing and the security guards trying to talk to us was very interesting. After waiting for an hour and a half they told us we couldn't be there, we had to go to overflow....so we all hurried to overflow. Then five minutes before it started they took half the over flow back to the main building to watch it live! Lets just say there was a lot of running missionaries and it is a miracle I kept up with my district and got to sit by them. The meeting was great, Elder Nelson and Elder Holland came and told us a lot about the history of the MTC and Elder Nelson dedicated 5 renovated buildings so that was very neat. Elder Holland said a lot of great things and he speaks with such power and emotion I loved listening to him. One thing he said I loved was " Serve the way you should serve and love the way you should love- the way the church needs you to." Which I took as the way Christ needs us to. So powerful, good motivator. The sisters in my Branch that I have been rooming with are great! I have loved getting to know them and they are teaching me so much, especially how to love more, they are so accepting and nice, I have grown to love them so much just in these two weeks! The food is getting a lot better, I am more used to it now and am actually eating quite healthy which is good. I have been trying out basketball at gym lately, the Elders in my district kept wanting us to come play so it was fun playing with them. They are patient with us Hermanas which is nice of them, we do not play it well but we have fun and get a great workout! I have also been running around the track more and more, my goal is to be able to do 3 miles without stopping by the end. I am already at a mile so I think that is a good goal. One of the Elders in our district left to the Dominican Republic CCM today and so I had fun telling him all about what he was going to see when he got there. He was really excited, but we were all sad to see him go and are all kind of sad today. He was really funny and so nice- he called my "Mama Pata" which means mother duck....I know it sounds weird but it was kind of true, I would always find myself walking ahead of them because Elders walk super slow. I would notice it because some of my Elders would start quacking behind me, I don't think other people noticed thank goodness, but we thought it was pretty funny. I will miss him, we got to be great friends. My new district is going great, I am learning to love them more and more and we have fun together. I got called as coordinating sister again so I get to work with the Zone leaders and help orient the new missionaries that come into our branch each week. I did that last night which was really fun. We got to get to know them better and introduce ourselves and let them know about some important things for their first night here. I decided that my favorite thing to do here is give advice, while we were with them I had to tell myself to not say things because no matter how important I thought it was, they probably wouldn't remember everything I said, so I decided I could just wait to tell them until tonight when we get a whole 90 minutes with them haha. The Zone leaders are fun so I think the new Elders enjoyed their orientation. Also, my branch president, President Tyler knows Grandpa Coleman- we discovered this when I had lost my hymn book and the front desk called a "Elder Gary Coleman" to the front desk, haha it made me laugh and so President Tyler asked if I was related to a Gary Coleman and I said yes! He said he had just seen grandpa the Sunday before that at a 100 years of Seminary anniversary! That was a cool connection and he was happy to find that out and told me about how they knew each other. My branch president is great, he tells so may stories and they always have a good moral to them but are funny as well. I hope everyone is doing well and had a great week! This week I have learned a lot about how important prayer is in the conversion process for our investigators. It is essential! But I have also learned how it is important in our lives as well, it is so important to let him know that we desire something and that we put that desire into action so that he can help us! President Holland has said that we as missionaries have to be converted in every principle we teach before we can expect to convert others in those principles. I am so grateful for those words and am trying to implement them daily. I love you all, have a great week and enjoy it!
Hermana Coleman
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