Dear Friends and Family,

 

Well, transfer calls were yesterday, and guess what...I'm staying in Selah for another transfer with Elder Maughan! It's great that I'll be spending Christmas with people I have known for a couple three months! So, more good news, Barbara was baptized Saturday and it was great. It's like the culmination of your efforts into one great experience.

 

We also taught Betty again and we went over with Brother Beck on exchanges. It was a great lesson and we testified of the plan of salvation and the Priesthood. The Spirit was very strong and we think we'll invite her to be baptized on a certain date this week, she just needs to come to church.

 

Some cool things that happened this week: first, we had Christmas zone conference where talked about our gift to Christ this Christmas season. I put my gift down is My Will. I know that this will help the Savior because as we are more obedient, the Spirit will be with us and we'll be able to bring more people to the gospel. After, President Ware also gave us the book Believing Christ, by Stephen Robinson. It was an incredible book about members of the Church and how we oftentimes believe that Christ was the Son of God and so forth, but we don't believe Christ and the things He said like that we are saved by grace and that we can obtain forgiveness. It was really inspiring to see how much we really need the Savior and how I can help others qualify for eternal life by inviting them to build their faith, repent, be baptized and confirmed, and try their best to keep the commandments. I highly recommend it to everyone! One really cool thing I also saw this week. We were at Barbara's fellowshippers house (The Blomgren's) and I was looking around and saw this quote, "We are not humans having a spiritual experience, but spirits having a human experience." This really unfolded the purpose of life to me and helped me realize that God does love each of His children. I know that we are ALL spirit children of our Father in Heaven who loves us and sent His Only Begotten Son to the world so that if we believe on Him, we will not perish, but be able to return and live forever with our heavenly parents. I love this gospel and the happiness it brings into my life as I live the commandments. I love you all and have a wonderful almost Christmas!!!

 

Love,

Elder Coleman