Vengen y Vea

November 25, 2019

Hellooo friends!

So this week was slightly uneventful because Sister Yanez and I have had a wide variety of health issues, but we're all good and ready to go this week! I wasn't gonna send an email but then I thought I'd just share a quick thought about some things I read this week. 

I was reading in some random general conference talk from like 20 years ago and I found this quote that I really like, it says:

“life is good if we live in such a way to make it so” - Benjamín De Hoyos

Okay, so I really like this quote. For most of my life, I've lived in the attitude of “I'll be happy when...” Fun fact, that's not how life works! I'm still trying to figure that out and trying to learn how to be happy in every moment instead of wishing for tomorrow. Any circumstance we go through though can be good. Maybe not happy or exciting, or exactly what you want, but it can be good. Life is never going to be perfect, we're never going to have every little thing the way we want it, but it can still be good, and it can be good NOW. It just depends on how you look at it. Okay so now for a scripture...this is Helaman 3: 34-35

“Now this was a great evil, which did cause the more humble part of the people to suffer great persecutions, and to wade through much affliction.

Nevertheless they did fast and pray oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy and consolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their yielding their hearts unto God.”

The children of God went through MUCH affliction. Nevertheless. Through faith, humility, prayer, and fasting, their souls were filled with joy and consolation.

Friends, life will never be what you expect and it will never be easy. But, when we trust in Christ and yield our hearts to God, life can be good (:

Love y'all TONS 

Hermana Coleman

Salt, socks, and dog bones

November 18, 2019

Hi friends!

Another week has gone by, wow they fly! This week was sooo cold. It got down to 32!! I know that doesn't sound cold, but with the wind and rain and lack of winter clothes, it's pretty bad. Anyway, we had an awesome week in Portland! I got to give a talk yesterday in sacrament meeting, we have lots of people we're teaching, and we're just here establishing Zion, its pretty awesome. We're making boxes for all of our members with Book of Mormons and pamphlets and pass along cards, and it's been so cool to see our ward doing missionary work!! They're so awesome :)

On Thursday, we went over to help this lady set up some stuff for a party she was having. It's super funny because we got a referral and it was this lady's address but the person that was referred doesn't actually live there ahaha. But that's okay because we taught them the restoration and gave them a Book of Mormon and now they really like us! Anyway, so we were helping her and I mentioned we had just run out of salt in our apartment for some reason so she ran to her kitchen and gave us an entire can of salt. Then, she looked at our feet and said we must be cold so she ran and got us fuzzy socks! THEN, as we were leaving, she asked us if we knew anyone with dogs, and we said yes so she gave us a grocery bag full of dog bones. Not sure what were gonna do with those...

I'll end with a combination of two awesome scriptures, Mormon 9: 22 and 1 Nephi 13:37

For behold, thus said Jesus Christ, the Son of God, unto his disciples: Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature

And blessed are they who shall seek to bring forth my Zion at that day, for they shall have the gift and the power of the Holy Ghost; and if they endure unto the end they shall be lifted up at the last day, and shall be saved in the everlasting kingdom of the Lamb; and whoso shall publish peace, yea, tidings of great joy, how beautiful upon the mountains shall they be.

We should all be striving to be disciples of Jesus Christ! It’s not just missionaries, but every member of Christ’s church. So I invite EVERYONE to pray this week and ask how you can help someone out or share some hope or love with someone this week!

Love yall!

Hermana Coleman

Week 12

November 11, 2019

Hola todos!

Ohhh my this week was crazy!! First of all transfers are tomorrow, and we found out that we're both staying woohoo! So, this week we had exchanges with the STLs (sister training leaders) so we went over to Corpus Christi and went out with them on Wednesday! It was super cool to be over there and get to watch how a different missionaries work!

Some fun and random things...

1. I got pulled over for the first time woohoo!🤣 I didnt come to a full stop at a stop sign haha but the policeman didn’t give me a ticket so it's okay hahaha

2. This guy named Robert gave us $20 to go get McDonald's which were probably not gonna do, but now we have $40 that we've gotten from the same apartment complex.

3. This lady asked us if wanted to do some drugs with her and we politely said no 😂

4. Sister Yanez made us Beleadas which is Celestial Honduran food...its a flour tortilla with scrambled eggs and avocado and queso fresco and crema and frijoles with garlic and onion and OH it was so good.

This week we've been trying to change how we contact people so we looked for our favorite scriptures about Jesus and marked them in some copies of the Book of Mormon to give out to people! This is one I really like that we marked and shared with some members as well (shout out to one of my MTC teachers, Hermana Silva for showing our class this one❤)

1 Nephi 21: 14-16

“14 But, behold, Zion hath said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me—but he will show that he hath not.

15 For can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee, O house of Israel.

16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me”

I love this scripture, SO much. Even after Jesus died and was resurrected with a perfect body, he still had the nail marks in his hands. We are and forever will be engraved in his palms and he will never forget us.

Have a great week!

Hermana Coleman