Well, since we've been giving
out our member area maps all week, I'm afraid there aren't too many exciting
stories and adventures to share from this week! I snagged a picture with Sister
Harrison right before we came to email, since Mom called me to repentance for
not taking any last week... So hopefully that will make up for it!
On Monday night we had dinner
and Family Home Evening at the West's house! We had awesome ribs and really
good root beer and cream soda. We talked to them about missionary work and
showed them the maps that we made. They're such an awesome family.
Tuesday we got to meet with
Missy! We brought apples for everyone and gave everyone 30 seconds to look at
their apple and "get to know it". Then we put them all back and
everyone had to find which one was theirs. We talked about how, just like we
all knew which apple was ours, Heavenly Father knows each one of us, and He
loves us. We had a good talk about how we all have felt Heavenly Father's love,
and how we have seen it in our lives. Missy is going through a tough time right
now with her family, but she has such great faith, and really knows of her
Heavenly Father's love for her.
That night we ate with the
Christensen's. We also went on splits with some of our ward missionaries so
that we could give out more of our maps. I got to go out with Sister Addington.
She is one of the sweetest ladies I have ever met. She used to work in the
mission office here a few years ago. She is so loving and kind and I love
talking with her. We were able to go and visit a few members that night.
On Wednesday we got to spend
time working on mormon.org and family search!
We are trying to learn family search so that we can have genealogy activities
in our ward! We also got to go out with Sister Parker and her husband. He is a
non-member, but comes to church with her. He is super nice and we love him!
We got a referral on Thursday!
The first one since I've been in Anthem! Woooo! It was for a YSA-aged young man
and his father. His name is Blake and he has some mental handicaps, but he
really wants to go to church. We went over and talked to him for a little bit
and gave him a Book of Mormon. He wanted to come to church, but he got sick and
couldn't, but we are going back to teach them the Restoration this week! We are
really excited!
Friday we had weekly planning,
and visiting members, and weekly planning, and more visiting members, and we
had pizza for dinner. (No surprise there!)
So remember how I used to serve
in the singles ward? Well, the Bishop there has a son that lives in my ward!
And we went over there for dinner on Saturday night! It was awesome! That was
pretty much the highlight of the day.
Sunday was probably the best
Sacrament ever. We had Devan Romano give his mission farewell and Ben Reber spoke
as well. There were a bunch of non-members there! They both pretty much
invited everyone to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. The Spirit
was so strong and I know that all the non-members felt it. It was a great
meeting.
I am doing really well with my
goal to read the Book of Mormon in this transfer! I am almost in Jacob already!
It's been really awesome.
I hope you all have a great
week!
Love, Sister Coltrin
PS. Have fun with the -30 weather! That is crazy! I'm so
glad that it's in the 60s here :)
Sister Harrison and Sister Coltrin before church on Sunday
Sister Coltrin and Sister Harrison before emailing on P-day
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