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Hello family!
So this was a fun past week- we started out by going to early Thanksgiving dinner at the Bolgar home, it was super delicious and we heard a lot of funny stories and got to know their family better. A set of Elders were there as well, and at the end we shared a Thanksgiving Mormon message and did a fun activity to write down everything your grateful for. They shared it at the end and it went well!
We taught some recent converts on Tuesday and Wednesday, which included eating at a Mexican restaurant and sitting in the back of Joaquin's truck with blankets and teaching him about his new role as the branch mission leader!! We are still super excited about helping him figure out his new calling. He has his own PMG and we are helping him realize he just has to take it step by step, and he is happy and loving helping us so we are very lucky.
Thursday we spent the day doing weekly planning, attempting to make an apple pie...........and going to a members house in the English ward for dinner. We went to help finish setting up, and we walked up to Brother Thompson frying a turkey on the driveway- it was awesome- and delicious. We ate a lot of food- there was 6 missionaries there and their son, and then while we waiting for our stomachs to settle we went around the table and each chose 3 scriptures that we were most grateful for. It was actually really neat and I learned some new references and loved hearing everyone's testimonies. it was neat. Then we ate desert and helped clean while all the elders set up Christmas trees. It was a great thanksgiving!
Friday we taught some more recent converts because some of our appointments fell through. We are helping some with getting Liahona, and learning more about the plan of salvation (through talking it out I actually learned a lot more as well- the spirit totally taught us all, it was really neat) and then I found out that one of the members daughters as the same birthday as me- it was a pretty fun moment.
Saturday and Sunday were really great- we spent time in two of the trailer parks here and were trying to have the spirit guides us to find new people to teach and to bless their families. We found 10 new investigators!!! 3 families- we were super happy and had a great past two days, and I have also found that they are in all of my prayers, because we know that the Lord can help these people, we just have to have the faith. We are trying to work hard and listen to the spirit, and help people come one more step closer to the Savior each day. Sunday I spent all three meetings translating for the Stake Relief Society Presidency- that was fun, they had patience with me, but I got to tote the translation equipment around with me everywhere. There was a funny moment where I did the classic mix-up between "soap" and "soup". Soap= jabon, Soup= sopa. See the confusion?? yes two members were very confused when I was trying to explain to them how they could use their old laundry soap containers as water storage for washing clothes when their is no water. They thought I was saying laundry soup containers- they got a good laugh out of that one.
I am really trying to put more faith in the Lord, and Sister Schroeppel and I are increasing our faith and trying to talk to as many people as possible- and not be scared!!
I hope everyone has a great week- Love you all!!
Hermana Coleman
So this was a fun past week- we started out by going to early Thanksgiving dinner at the Bolgar home, it was super delicious and we heard a lot of funny stories and got to know their family better. A set of Elders were there as well, and at the end we shared a Thanksgiving Mormon message and did a fun activity to write down everything your grateful for. They shared it at the end and it went well!
We taught some recent converts on Tuesday and Wednesday, which included eating at a Mexican restaurant and sitting in the back of Joaquin's truck with blankets and teaching him about his new role as the branch mission leader!! We are still super excited about helping him figure out his new calling. He has his own PMG and we are helping him realize he just has to take it step by step, and he is happy and loving helping us so we are very lucky.
Thursday we spent the day doing weekly planning, attempting to make an apple pie...........and going to a members house in the English ward for dinner. We went to help finish setting up, and we walked up to Brother Thompson frying a turkey on the driveway- it was awesome- and delicious. We ate a lot of food- there was 6 missionaries there and their son, and then while we waiting for our stomachs to settle we went around the table and each chose 3 scriptures that we were most grateful for. It was actually really neat and I learned some new references and loved hearing everyone's testimonies. it was neat. Then we ate desert and helped clean while all the elders set up Christmas trees. It was a great thanksgiving!
Friday we taught some more recent converts because some of our appointments fell through. We are helping some with getting Liahona, and learning more about the plan of salvation (through talking it out I actually learned a lot more as well- the spirit totally taught us all, it was really neat) and then I found out that one of the members daughters as the same birthday as me- it was a pretty fun moment.
Saturday and Sunday were really great- we spent time in two of the trailer parks here and were trying to have the spirit guides us to find new people to teach and to bless their families. We found 10 new investigators!!! 3 families- we were super happy and had a great past two days, and I have also found that they are in all of my prayers, because we know that the Lord can help these people, we just have to have the faith. We are trying to work hard and listen to the spirit, and help people come one more step closer to the Savior each day. Sunday I spent all three meetings translating for the Stake Relief Society Presidency- that was fun, they had patience with me, but I got to tote the translation equipment around with me everywhere. There was a funny moment where I did the classic mix-up between "soap" and "soup". Soap= jabon, Soup= sopa. See the confusion?? yes two members were very confused when I was trying to explain to them how they could use their old laundry soap containers as water storage for washing clothes when their is no water. They thought I was saying laundry soup containers- they got a good laugh out of that one.
I am really trying to put more faith in the Lord, and Sister Schroeppel and I are increasing our faith and trying to talk to as many people as possible- and not be scared!!
I hope everyone has a great week- Love you all!!
Hermana Coleman
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