This week has been pretty
awesome! We are getting really excited for Christmas and skyping home!
Last Monday we had Family Home
Evening with one of the less active families in our ward. They just moved here
in September from St. George. We had a really fun time getting to know them and
their two kids. We had pizza for dinner and then we had a lesson with them
about the Book of Mormon. When we were about to leave their daughter asked if
she could talk to us outside for a minute. We were so worried! We all went
outside and she told us about how she is worried about her dad because he has
been swearing and she doesn't want that to lead to worse things. We told her to
be a leader for family prayer and scripture study and getting ready for church!
It was so sweet. She told us to keep coming back. It was really awesome!
We left to do exchanges that
night too, so Sister Harrison went to Green Valley
So Tuesday, Sister Pulliam and
I went and contacted a bunch of people and tried to set up a lot of lessons
with members. One of our members told us to come back that night to do a
lesson. We went back and taught them, and then afterwards, they told us that
they want us to come and teach their 7 year-old son all of the lessons before
he gets baptized!
That night we went to do ward
visits, which we do every Tuesday with all the ward auxiliary leaders. We got
there and waited for a little while, but no one was showing up. I finally
called someone to see if they had already left, or what was going on.
Apparently they decided that we aren't doing any more ward visits until next
year... Thanks for letting us know. Hahaha! It was pretty funny.
On Wednesday we got to meet
with Missy! We had lunch at the Reber's and a lesson. Devan brought Cane's
Chicken for all of us. They talk about how good Cane's is all the time, so we
finally got to have some! We taught Missy about the Tree of Life (we decided
we'd do a Book of Mormon story lesson and a regular lesson every week). After
that we were supposed to go and have a new member lesson with Avery, but they
weren't able to make it. Sister Harrison was feeling really sick and so was one
of the other sisters - so we had the two sick sisters stay home and Sister
Cummings and I went out and did all the rest of the stuff we had for the
evening. So, yeah, we had to have two dinners that night, their ward and our
ward. Hahaha. We were so, so full.
Oh and fun fact: I'm serving in
Austin Nelson's home ward! As in BYU Basketball! Score!
We've been making cookies to
give out at Christmas to investigators and less actives. We also have a list
going around so people in our ward can send all the missionaries to carol at
their non-member friends houses! It's going to be really awesome! We are going
to leave them all with Joy to the World DVD's and cookies! Our whole zone is
doing it. Not to be prideful, but I'm pretty cool because it was my idea! :)
On Thursday we went to the
Lee's house and made cookies with Sister Lee. She has a daughter serving in the
Florida Tampa mission! Afterwards we helped her wrap Christmas presents! We had
a lesson with Sister Bluth in our ward, who is one of our investigators. She
has come to church for 6 years, is married to a returned missionary, she reads
her scriptures, conference talks, prays, everything! She just doesn't have a
testimony of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. She's met with missionaries
for a while now. She's super nice. We went over there and we had a little
lesson about applying the Book of Mormon to you and your life. She really liked
it, so hopefully it will help her! We went to the Christensen's house for
dinner again - we love them. Their son comes home from his mission in a
few days! We are helping her set up for his open house and everything. We are
so excited for them!
Friday was the best! We went to
the temple for Sister Harrison's new missionary temple trip. Driving to the
temple was so crazy, it was so weird to be back in a really familiar place! We
stopped at my old apartment on the way there to drop some stuff off for Sister
Fields. It was so good to see her and be there! I love her! Then we went to the
temple, which was super awesome! Sister Neider sat by me, which was really fun.
After the temple, we stopped really quickly to see if the Olsen's were home,
but only their son Dylan was there! I was sad, but that's okay! After that we
stopped by Cristal's house. She was so excited when she saw us there! I was so,
so happy! We hugged for a minute! She told me about what's been going on and
how she's doing. It was so good to be with her!
We went back to Anthem and had
a lesson with Missy and Matt! We taught the Plan of Salvation, even though
Missy's been through all the lessons, we're just going to go through them
again, plus now we have Matt there! We had dinner at the Van Duzers house and
they told us they wanted us to come over on Christmas! We have a list of people
that we are going to on Christmas!
We got a referral from one of
our members and they said they would think of a good way for us to get into
contact with them. He called us and told us that she cuts hair, so we should go
get hair cuts from her. I got my hair
trimmed last week, so Sister Harrison is taking one for the team. For the sake
of the investigator! Hahahah! We will try that this week sometime.
Saturday morning was our ward
Christmas party! Missy was there! We had breakfast. It was really fun, and we
got there really early to help set up. They had 15 dozen Krispy Kreme donuts
and all the boxes had coupon slips for free donuts. Of course everyone gave
them to us - because missionaries have no money and obviously we need more
sugary food. So basically we have slips for 22 DOZEN FREE DONUTS! Hahahaha! We
are giving them to all the missionaries in our zone. It's crazy! Donut day forever!
Missy had signed up on our dinner calendar, so she took us
out to lunch! It was really fun!
After that we went and made
cookies at Sister McMurrin's house. She didn't have one of the ingredients, so
she left us at her house alone while she went to get it! It was really funny.
We didn't have dinner, so Ben
and Devan and our investigator Matt took us to In 'n' Out! We had every meal
with Ben that day.
On Sunday Sister Harrison and I
spoke in sacrament meeting about baptism! It went really well and was great! I
told everyone that "this work is for missionaries and full-time
missionaries" so hopefully more people get involved and realize that every
member is a missionary! People came up afterwards and told me that they wish my
parents could be here to see me, and that I have a future in public speaking,
and other nice stuff. It was awesome! I felt really good. I don't even remember
what I said in my talk.
Sunday was definitely for
Sister Bluth – Sacrament Meeting about baptism, and Sunday School about the restoration,
and Relief Society about Joseph Smith! It was crazy! And awesome. Hopefully she recognized the Spirit.
The ward Christmas program is
next week and we sing with the ward choir, so we are pretty excited!
A week and a half until
Christmas! Thanks to everyone who has sent letters for my Christmas Countdown,
I love, love, love reading them every day! It's such a great way to get excited
about Christmas!
Merry almost Christmas!
Love, Sister Coltrin
Sister Coltrin and Sister Harrison
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