He is Hope

Hiya! 

And at LAST I see the Light! and its like the fog has lifted! and at Last, I see the light! everything seems new, and the world has somehow shifted. All at once everything is different, now that I see You! 

Ten weeks we've been rusting! needing so much more than dusting! needing exercise, a chance to use our skillzz! Most days we just lay around the castle, grumpy fat and lazy, you walked in and opsie-daisy! .....Please Be Ooooooour Guest!

This Saturday there was a ward Hoedown with a live band. We tried our best to help serve as much as possible with the food and everything. The Bishop and his wife are amazing. They work so so hard. And are always serving. It was a lot of fun.

We taught a lesson!! Her name is T-.  We actually found her last transfer but never got to meet with her (appointments always fell through) but we FINALLY got to meet with her on Sunday. We taught her about Heavenly Father and prayer. She really loved the idea that there is someone always watching out for her. And she wants to come to church. YAY!

We taught another lesson to 3 cousins. We realised we are pretty rusty teachers after that. So we practised and discussed and then we were ready to teach T-.

I went on an exchange with Sister Pan! my friend! I was really excited to have an exchange with her. (we are in the same MTC  group and we have served around each other frequently). She gave me a lot of really good advice. She helped me restore my faith in the work. She told me that I was doing all of the things that I was suppose to be doing, I just didn't have the faith that anything would work, and my attitude was really sad and negative. So that's what I've been focusing on fixing. She also taught me to ask myself when appointments fall through, 'who here am I meant to help?' Find the reason the appointment fell through. Maybe Heavenly Father has someone else there that I need to teach. 

In my prayers, I have been asking Heavenly Father to help me to be happy no matter what happens. 'Even if all of our appointments fall through, please help me to be happy today.' And He has. Nothing has really changed in our area. The appointments still fall through almost every day, but I am trying to be happy anyways and I am seeing the miracles more. T- is a miracle and so are the cousins. Who knows what else will happen with them but at least for that hour I was with them they were hearing the truth and feeling the spirit.

Have I told you about my friend Helena? I don't think I have. 

Helena is a recent convert from last year. She is solid in her testimony.I love her so much. I want to keep her with me always! 

One of my favourite scriptures is Matthew 6. The 'Consider the Lilies' scripture. I read it first at a time where I was stressed about payments for school and stuff and it spoke peace to my soul , 'For the Lord thy God knoweth that ye have need of all these things, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.' I re read it and it has a JST! It actually says, 'seek ye first to BUILD UP the kingdom of God and to ESTABLISH his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow will take thought of itself, sufficent unto the day is the evil thereof.' its a MISSIONARY scripture. It really spoke to me about not worrying, its all in His hands. 

Also, I have been studying about 'being cleansed from Sin' and I learned that 'being cleansed from sin' is being healed spiritually. I found all of these scriptures that healing is connected to forgiveness. That he heals us. 'repent and Come unto me that I may heal you.' -3 Nephi 10. That he HEALS us. and then we recieve a REMISSION of our sins. 
Remission means:

1. the cancellation of a debt, charge, or penalty.
2. a temporary diminution of the severity of disease or pain.

It immediately made me think of cancer.  Remission.  That sin is the cancer of our souls. The church is the Hospital and the Saviour is the Healer. It is a hospital for sinners. If we will come unto him he will heal us. Each person has different treatments. different cures. there is no all around cure for every individual. Some are 'healed' through rescue and fixing. Others are healed through trial and challenge. But, each results in the healing and peace of our Souls through Jesus Christ. These past few weeks I've been learning that my personal healing is not how I expected it to be. It is catered to transform me. To remove the bad, implant the good, save the pure parts and purify the rest. Each of us has our own Chemo for the Soul. My treatment is not near to finished. I hope and pray that I can 'Go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded. For I know He giveth no commandment unto the children of men save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.' Sometimes 'do' isn't baptise. Sometimes 'do' is endure. and all that the Physician asks of us is to 'cheerfully DO all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.' -D&C 123:17

I love you! Thank you for sharing my burdens and comforting me and praying for me and helping me when I have been truly so so low. You are the wind beneath my wings!! I love you!!

Love, 

Sister Coleman

Sis. Coleman and Sis. Pan 

Wicked ....Chalk

Hiya!

We had dinner with a former investigator family this week that was really excellent! We are hoping to teach their family next week.

So this week was really wicked.... ;) WE WENT TO WICKED! We got special permission to go again. I was very grateful because last time I felt so stressed and guilty, and this time I prayed a lot and I just enjoyed it :). ELPHABA was AMAZING! the BEST I have ever seen. We also got to see Savannah after the show again :). She is so cool.

Transfers this week ---- and I am STAYING! with...... Sister Phillips! I am so thrilled!

This week we tried to go chalk finding. Where we draw the Plan of Slavation on the pavement and then talk to the people that pass. We were halfway thorough drawing it and it was very effective (lots of people stopping and asking questions) when we had two different people stop and tell us that technically what we were doing was grafitti because it was a public place.  We called the Sheppards and they gave us the Council's number. We called and they said that yes what we were doing was grafitti and we needed to stop. 

 We left very quickly. :)

I love you all! 

Love , Sister Coleman

She choked. I received answers and developing Faith......again : ).

Hiya!

So remember when V- came to church last week and we thought she was feeling the spirit and crying? Well it was because she choked on the Sacrament water. She isnt interested in knowing if God is real.

We had a great lesson with Malcolm and the Richardsons this week. The spirit was so strong as we taught about the Plan of Salvation and eternal marriage. He says that everything we teach him he agrees with, and it teaches him a bit more. He still isnt sure about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith but he is praying about it. He was coming to conference but his care giver got sick and couldn't help him come to church.  His wife doesn't like us over when she is home so we couldn't watch it with him there. #oppositionisreal 

Hopefully, we will watch it with him later this week :) 

I loved conference! I really felt the spirit and I didn't want it to end. One of the questions I had in mind was, 'What do I need to change?' Elder Larry Lawerence perfectly answered that question, and taught me how to recieve an answer. I prayed like he instructed and really felt impressed by two things I needed to change. I kept asking what else, and received more until I felt, 'ask again tomorrow'. I jotted down my impressions. The next day I prayed again during personal study and felt impressed by two more things. I have some new goals of who I need to be, and am developing plans to accomplish them. I truly believe that if I successfully change these things it will change my life. They are things I have struggled with my whole life that I never fully faced and they have been the source of most of the things I have done in my life that I regret. With the Saviour by my side, I know that I can conquer them. :) 

I really hope next week will be better. Lately, we will find someone, set an appointment, get a member arranged, and then 5 minutes before they will text us and cancel the appointment. Or, if we do get the first appointment, we never get a second one. We are trying to be more faithful and depend on the Lord. Works without faith is dead. We are praying for miracles, that we will find someone that is yearning for the truths we have to share.

I love my companion :). She helps me so much not to be discouraged. And she makes me laugh a lot. We have fun together :) She is helping me to be more Christlike. 

I love you. I love your emails and pictures and the little tid bits you send me. I love that Abby has a crush on Elder Bednar. I still haven't watched Sunday afternoon session. We are going to watch it today and order pizza and listen to Christmas music and make Halloween decorations. 

It is so cool for me to think that we watch conference at the same time. It makes me happy :)

Did you see the world report of Elder Holland in London? That was the day before our conference with him. It was also weird hearing him speak and thinking; I've shook hands with him and talked with him more recently than I have my parents'. What a strange world we live in :) 

I cried over President Monson. I was so so stressed for him. I was sure he was going to fall. I just prayed and prayed for him. It made me very sad. It also made me think of King Benjamin:
'For even at this time, my whole frame doth tremble exceedingly while attempting to speak unto you; but the Lord God doth support me, and hath suffered me that I should speak unto you' Mosiah 2:30 

I love him so much. I hope his days are peaceful and not pain filled.

Thank you for the story of Elder Renlund. I remember that day. I remember him coming to our home. . 

Questions from Mummy:
Do people in England call diapers 'nappies'?  When you went to the baby shower in your ward?  

Yes. They are nappies. underwear is pants, panties, or knickers. 

and binky is a dumbie. 

Are police men/women called 'inspector'?

Do you ever hear people say 'ergo'?  It means therefore. 

I dont know that. and I haven't heard it/or noticed it.  

Do people say ' Do the dishes.' or something else like ' wash up'?

They say wash up. They also don't say 'done' but finished or cancel .

Do you ever hear ' Bob's your uncle?'  I really want to know.
 I haven't heard that one in real life :)

I LOVE YOU ALL! 

This little girl in Leighton Buzzard appreciates every prayer and thought! 

love, 

Sister Coleman

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