Yep, I am staying!! 4th transfer now, so it has gotta be good right? Sister Schroeppel is staying as well so we are excited for the new beginning and know that this is our time to make new goals. It is the transfer that includes the end of the year so I look forward to a lot of goal setting with myself and others that we meet everyday!
We worked a lot with less-active and recent-converts again this week. We have a lot of people around us (both Spanish and English) that have recently joined the church so we love going and visiting them and helping them find more ways to strengthen their testimonies. They help us a lot too. One of them has a little baby that was born pre-mature and she just got home from the hospital after being there for 4 months. She is so cute and tiny, the mom has to stay home 24/7with her so we try to go at least once a week to help break it up and take the lesson from church that Sunday.
We are also teaching a family that I am learning a lot from. The dad knows a lot about the Bible and we love to show him restoration scriptures from there. This past week he showed us how he found Ephesians 2:20 which talks about Christ's church being built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets. (Sister Schroeppel and I were just smiling) and then a man came into the restaurant where he works and he overheard him talking about how Mormons don't believe in God/Jesus Christ. He went right up to him and told him all about that scripture how we have apostles and prophets, and how we most definitely believe in Christ. It was amazing to hear that story from him, and how sometimes we don't know what to do to help them, but they are learning little by little, and recognizing the truths that the Church has within it.
We have been teaching Rebecca and Francisco about baptisms and going to the temple, they are excited and very excited about sharing what they know with their family. We are excited to use them to help with less-active members and investigators.
We helped a member with mormon.org this week- She has an amazing testimony (which i got to read as i typed it all up for her :)) and was actually really excited on Sunday when we took a picture of her with her two girls and that it would finally be ready to be published on-line. She is amazing!!
Thursday was a good day- we felt like we needed to be in Alabaster and we were passing out invitations for the party we were going to have on Saturday. I felt really weird about getting into the car, but it was starting to get dark and so I was confused on why. But we were standing out side just looking around and Sister Schroeppel sees someone walking toward our direction, so we went up to invite her, and apparently she has been taught by missionaries before and she would love to have us over, so we set up a return appointment and invited her to the party. then we still felt weird about the car so we walked up one of the streets and found a man and his daughter outside, who had also been taught by missionaries a while back, and we invited them and they said we could come back another day as well. We were super surprised and grateful that the Lord led us to them. We will see what happens!
This week I also learned that being bold, with love is a very good thing.
We had a good lesson in English class about the plan of salvation- and one of the members was talking about the sprit world, judgment and kingdoms of glory and I had just been studying them in the bible the past week, so I was able to whip 'em out and give them to one of the ladies we teach. It felt really good to help show her and teach her that and let her know that is what we believe! Little by little with her as well.
So Saturday was the big party- we got there early and set up, we had multicolored table clothes, made some poster signs that said "Noche de Talentos" and put a bunch of punch out stars all over the front of the gym. It was pretty awesome. One of the investigators brought a huge speaker system and President Bethers brought all the food- we made some too and a lot of people actually came! friends, investigators, members, recent converts, and less-actives, some members from the Altadena branch as well! Each companionship of missionaries there had investigators that came- it was so great! we had a lot of fun, laughing and watching salsa dancing, goofy missionaries and families sing. it was successful night.
Well I hope all his well, have a fabulous Thanksgiving week- sounds like the family has some fun plans. We have a thanksgiving meal tonight and on Thursday so we are being very well taken care of by the members out here. Both of them will be in English members homes so it will be fun!
Feliz Dia de Gracias!!
Hermana Coleman
We worked a lot with less-active and recent-converts again this week. We have a lot of people around us (both Spanish and English) that have recently joined the church so we love going and visiting them and helping them find more ways to strengthen their testimonies. They help us a lot too. One of them has a little baby that was born pre-mature and she just got home from the hospital after being there for 4 months. She is so cute and tiny, the mom has to stay home 24/7with her so we try to go at least once a week to help break it up and take the lesson from church that Sunday.
We are also teaching a family that I am learning a lot from. The dad knows a lot about the Bible and we love to show him restoration scriptures from there. This past week he showed us how he found Ephesians 2:20 which talks about Christ's church being built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets. (Sister Schroeppel and I were just smiling) and then a man came into the restaurant where he works and he overheard him talking about how Mormons don't believe in God/Jesus Christ. He went right up to him and told him all about that scripture how we have apostles and prophets, and how we most definitely believe in Christ. It was amazing to hear that story from him, and how sometimes we don't know what to do to help them, but they are learning little by little, and recognizing the truths that the Church has within it.
We have been teaching Rebecca and Francisco about baptisms and going to the temple, they are excited and very excited about sharing what they know with their family. We are excited to use them to help with less-active members and investigators.
We helped a member with mormon.org this week- She has an amazing testimony (which i got to read as i typed it all up for her :)) and was actually really excited on Sunday when we took a picture of her with her two girls and that it would finally be ready to be published on-line. She is amazing!!
Thursday was a good day- we felt like we needed to be in Alabaster and we were passing out invitations for the party we were going to have on Saturday. I felt really weird about getting into the car, but it was starting to get dark and so I was confused on why. But we were standing out side just looking around and Sister Schroeppel sees someone walking toward our direction, so we went up to invite her, and apparently she has been taught by missionaries before and she would love to have us over, so we set up a return appointment and invited her to the party. then we still felt weird about the car so we walked up one of the streets and found a man and his daughter outside, who had also been taught by missionaries a while back, and we invited them and they said we could come back another day as well. We were super surprised and grateful that the Lord led us to them. We will see what happens!
This week I also learned that being bold, with love is a very good thing.
We had a good lesson in English class about the plan of salvation- and one of the members was talking about the sprit world, judgment and kingdoms of glory and I had just been studying them in the bible the past week, so I was able to whip 'em out and give them to one of the ladies we teach. It felt really good to help show her and teach her that and let her know that is what we believe! Little by little with her as well.
So Saturday was the big party- we got there early and set up, we had multicolored table clothes, made some poster signs that said "Noche de Talentos" and put a bunch of punch out stars all over the front of the gym. It was pretty awesome. One of the investigators brought a huge speaker system and President Bethers brought all the food- we made some too and a lot of people actually came! friends, investigators, members, recent converts, and less-actives, some members from the Altadena branch as well! Each companionship of missionaries there had investigators that came- it was so great! we had a lot of fun, laughing and watching salsa dancing, goofy missionaries and families sing. it was successful night.
Well I hope all his well, have a fabulous Thanksgiving week- sounds like the family has some fun plans. We have a thanksgiving meal tonight and on Thursday so we are being very well taken care of by the members out here. Both of them will be in English members homes so it will be fun!
Feliz Dia de Gracias!!
Hermana Coleman
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