Amazed at the love. Cat hair. IPADS

Hiya! 

 

I am so amazed at all of the love and succor I have recieved. I feel whole again. I feel empowered to do the Lord's work. Thank you thank you thank you for the prayers and support. It has made a difference. :) 

 

I am just so awkward. haha. We were on a bus going to Tesco to hunt down Black beans for Mexican Pizza and there was a young man sitting one row behind me by himself. There really wasn't anyone else on the bus, and I kept thinking, "I should just go to talk to him.. uh I should really just go talk to him." So I decided that once the bus stopped I would get up and sit by him to talk to him. The bus stopped and I hopped up to sit by him, but before I finished sitting down the bus started to move again and I almost fell on top of him. It was so funny. He was amused. I am so awkward. I gave him a pass along card :).

 

After this, we went to see our friend Linda who has 6 cats. I sat down on her couch and my skirt looked like I was wearing all 6 of the cats it was so coverd in hair. Linda offered a lint roller but I had an Emily moment... I went and got the vaccum.  :) and made sister Wai vaccum (or hoover) all the hair off of my skirt. Linda was laughing so hard. Sister Wai thinks I am so strange haha! But I thought it was brilliant. Totally something Em would do :) 

 

Miracle: 

Some members in our ward introduced us to C from Costa Rica. We had the most amazing lesson with him. We testified of the Restoration of the Gospel and  of Joseph Smith. I could feel the spirit burning in my heart just as it says in the scriptures. We testified of the spirit we could feel and C could feel it too. He is working towards a baptismal date in May :). 

 

We also are working with a part-member family. G is the mom , two of her boys are over 8, the eldest, P is 13. He went to Young Mens this week and LOVED it. He wants to be baptised. He studies the bible on his own, and I am SO excited to teach him about Joseph Smith! I am so excited :). 

 

News: The England London Mission is now getting.................ipads! WOOHOO! We are having a special conference next week where 2 general Authorities are coming to train us how to use them effectively in our missionary work. YAY! 

 

Questions:

Are you drinking enough water? Probably not :). On days that I do carry a water bottle, it is very heavy and I worry about finding a toilet. On days I don't, I'm usually thirsty but I drink a lot at meal times. 

 

Eating protein? Really, are you? Yes. I usually have cheese or chicken or peanut butter or grape nuts. 

 

Who does most of the cooking? You or your companion? I think I do the most, but there are a couple of things Sister Wai knows how to make :). We went crazy with a chicken noodle soup the other day ( we didn't have all of the ingredients and we ended up using greek yoghurt instead of sour cream, pasta instead of noodles, and the broth was sketchy haha). It was fun. We also make a lot of cookies............. :)

Chocolate Wand gift 

Sis. Wai vacuuming cat hair from Sis. Coleman's skirt.

 

I cannot express sufficiently how grateful I am for the emails and letters and the package. It helps so much. thank you. 

 

I love you all! 

 

love, Sister Coleman

I'm an English teacher.

Hiya! 

So I'm an English Teacher. Yup. We started to ask a woman on the street what she likes most about Colchester and she said, 'Sorry I don't speak English'. And we said 'Oh well our church offers free english lessons!' She was all over that. So she told her friend and now we are teaching 2 people! One is Polish and the other is Hungarian. Sister Wai and I have no idea what we're doing! haha. We went to the library and found a couple of books to help us teach.

Thank you so much for my 'No longer a greenie' box! How did you know I was craving Mexican Pizza and Guacamole??! I love love the blouse and skirt and all of the other items... were highly appreciated ;). 

I also loved my letters. Thank you for ministering to me. Thank you for the emails. I print and read and re-read every word. Thank you so much. 

We had interviews with President Jordan this week. It amazes me that he meets and ministers to each missionary in the mission. He truly helped me. 

Our zone has seen miracles this week! We have strived to be closer, to pray for one another to call and text each other with our successes. and it has worked. We have seen investigators go on date that hadn't been, we have found more people to teach and the work is progressing in the Colchester Zone! YAY! It is amazing what a difference Faith makes. The only thing that has been different this week was that we believed. We trusted that if we went to work, Heavenly Father would lead us to those who are prepared. It's all about believing and CHOOSING to believe. Just like Elder Whitney Clayton talked about in Conference (Saturday Morning Session).

Green Pasta since I am no longer a 'greenie'.

Miracle: A couple in our ward walked up to us yesterday and told us they had someone for us to teach and that we should just pop by. We did and We met C. He is from Costa Rica. He wants to learn about the church! What a miracle! 

Sis. Coleman and Sis Cummings

This week I also had an exchange with Sister Cummings who I knew at BYU! So cool! 

I love you! 

Thank you Thank you for your letters

Love,

Sister Coleman

Sometimes I get locked in a strangers toilet.

Hiya!

So this week was so crazy! It was soooo windy. Every day we would go outside I would say to Sister Wai, "Happy Wind-sday!". I ended up having to wear the same straight skirt and my hair tied back all week cause the wind was so bad haha! 

Funny story:

We were on our way to see our investigator V when Sister Wai told me she really needed a toilet!  Our investigator didn't answer the door and I thought 'oh no. what am I going to do if she wets her pants?' so I started knocking. Door after door. nobody is home. Finally one man answers but he just pulled his bathroom apart! he recommended another house . We knocked on the door and a Romanian man answered with his two little boys. He let Sister Wai use the toilet and then me thinking I would take advantage of the accessability of such a nice bathroom decided to go too. I walk in and locked the door just as I heard him yell up the stairs; "don't lock the---door." Yup. I locked myself into a strangers bathroom. At least I wasn't the first one to do so. Two others had done it before me. I just started laughing. it was just ridiculous. He told me to take the pins out of the hinges. I got one out but the top wouldn't budge. he kept asking me in his thick accent, "Miss have you managed?" me: "Nope! I guess you'll have an american girl in your bathroom forever." I tried everything and I just couldn't get the pin out. Finally he said, 'I will just have to break the door'. Oh Boy. I imagined axes and kicking the door down of this poor man's bathroom. He had been so nice to let us strangers use his toilet. But in the end he just broke the handle on the door. We promised to bring him cookies. Hopefully when we go back we can teach him the gospel. He will have the best conversion story EVER! 

:)

We also made sugar cookies WITH FROSTING! They weren't pink but they were still good. We cut them out as missionary ninjas! 

We watched the Saturday morning session and the Sunday morning sessions live of General Conference. (at 5:00pm) So we saw them at the same time as all of you at home ! 

I watched the Saturday one at a member's home (she fed us a proper english meal..SO good) and the rest of the sessions at the chapel (missionaries with an investigator). I loved Elder Bednar's talk. so so good. :)

An investigator went to harry potter studios and bought me a chocolate wand! Pictures to come! 

I love you!

Sis. Coleman