Fred and George, BYU buddies and Christmas Eve in a Stable

Hiya! 

So this week are Transfers!! ah!!  Sister Griffith has been called to Ipswich as a Sister Training Leader. This means she is basically equivalent to a Zone Leader and goes on exchanges with the sisters in her zone.  

When Sister Wen and I were on an exchange, she came to Canterbury and sister Griffith went to the London North area. 

I am staying in Canterbury (YAY!) and my new companion is........ SISTER ANDERSEN! And we know each other from BYU! We were in the same YSA ward and I basically lived in her apartment because Camille Duncan (I was her Visiting Teacher) and I were with each other ALL the time. I'm really excited. She has been out on her mission 12 weeks and she is going to follow up train me. YAY! Good times. I'm sad that Sister Griffith and I are parting but it was going to happen next transfer anyway because that's when she goes home. So its okay. but we both cried.

There are two little fruit flies that hang out in our bedroom. At first we thought there was just one and we named him George. When we figured out that they had been tricking us and there were two, we had to name George's brother Fred. So Fred and George are our mischevious little flies. They usually leave us alone until we are sitting on our beds and then they fly right into our faces. They're so cute. Fred must have a few horcruxes because I'm sure we've killed him at least twice ;). But mostly we only ever see one of them at a time. 

Sister Griffith and I have great companionship unity. On several occasions we aribitrarily say the same word at the same time or start singing the same song. We are so cool. ;)

"G" is our investigator and he is doing great! Right now he is home for the holidays so we are giving him Facebook lessons and he is also getting lessons from the Sisters in the London South Mission.

On Christmas Eve, we went to help Brother Gili lay down tiles in his kitchen, but his Mother-in-law Bobby, was sick and needed to go to the hospital, so we went to the hospital with them. After that we went to go see Faggs (found out her name is Margaret Hadden but she has gone by Faggs

Margaret ( Faggs )

Chick Soup Ingredients from the Elders

her whole life). She bought us Kentucky Fried Chicken. We ate and laughed (Elder Wu, Elder Mongelli, and Elder and Sister Jones were there as well) and talked. Faggs gave us Christmas gifts of beautiful cashmere scarves and some warm, warm socks. She loves penguins, so we gave her a little toy penguin which at first she thought was an owl. So she named it owl haha. Now Owl the penguin sits by her bed :). We sang Christmas Carols and then Sister Griffith and I left to go have Christmas Eve Dinner and Caroling with Sister Collis (Choir conductor and Relief Society President). She lives outside of Faversham on a beautiful little farm. She lives in the Stables (converted to a house), her neighbor lives in the coach house and another family lives in the barn. THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL. absolutely gorgeous. Small, but gorgeous. Sister Griffith and I sang Carol of Joy, Silent Night, and O Holy Night for all of the neighbors in the barn home. They offered us wine and were so confused when we said, actually can we just have water? haha. But it was wonderful. After that we went to Sister Collis's house (the stables) and had some finger food and conversation with her neighbor John. (WE SPENT CHRISTMAS EVE IN A STABLE! how much better can it get???). Sister Collis knows the Forgotten Carols so we talked and talked about that. It was a lovely evening.

On Christmas we watched Frozen at the Potters, had a wonderful roast dinner, then went to the Burgesses and watched Frozen again. On Boxing day we went shopping (well Elder Mongelli went shopping haha) and then we went to Sister Scotts and ate yummy curry while we watched Tangled, FROZEN, and Despicable Me 1 and 2. A LOT OF MOVIES. but it was good. It was raining pretty hard on the way home and some puddles were jumped in, and the Elders lost their phone. So they had to go back and search. They found it in a puddle, but it was fine :).

Oh how grateful I am that God gave his son. That The creater of the earth would be humble enough to come and dwell on earth, especially to a stable. He gave his life so we can return home to our Father in Heaven. Oh how I love my Saviour Jesus Christ. 

Miracles:

On Saturday we planned to go visit a less active family in Whistable and our back up plan was to visit another  member. Went to the first and no answer, went to the second, and she was home! . She was baptised last year but has had some depression which is why she hasn't been out to church. We were able to have a lovely visit with her and her mom  (not a member), and we got a return appointment! YAY! So now we get to teach "V"! After we visited with them we went to the Whistable Library to have a Facebook lesson with "G" We shared D&C 122 with him. It helped him with some of the anger he has towards God about hard things that have happened to him. He really wants to be ready to be baptised at the end of January. He is truly great.

 Truth Will Prevail! Happy Christmas and Happy New Year! 

Love, Sister Coleman