YSA

February 17, 2020

Hi!!! WOW it's been a really crazy past few days// weeks. So I'm officially in the YSA (Young Single Adult – 18-30 years old) branch! The branch covers a HUGE area so we split it with a set of elders and just cover half of the branch. It’s so fun! We have Family Home Evening every Monday where we play games and sports, institute on Thursday, which is like a scripture study class, and Sunday we have church of course! Also just like random little activities. The other day we had a Valentines dance which was so so fun and brought me back to stake dances in high school...yikes. 

I got to have lots of companions this week and stayed in some different apartments and cities so that was pretty fun! For a couple days we were covering a couple areas so we had like 1 hour road trips throughout the day which is kind of the YSA life because we cover so much area. We got lots and lots of new referrals too which is awesome, because knocking doors isn’t super affective and we aren't allowed to contact people on campus :( But we had investigators at FHE, institute, and church which was so awesome!

I really liked this scripture from my personal study the other day...

“6 And he said unto them: Behold, my bowels are filled with compassion towards you.

7 Have ye any that are sick among you? Bring them hither. Have ye any that are lame, or blind, or halt, or maimed, or leprous, or that are withered, or that are deaf, or that are afflicted in any manner? Bring them hither and I will heal them, for I have compassion upon you; my bowels are filled with mercy.”

-3 Nephi 17: 6-7

This just really helped me this week to know that Jesus is always full of compassion for us. He always wants to heal and help us :)

Sorry this is a short email but I just wanted to update y'all 

Have a wonderful week!

Hermana Coleman

Transfers!

February 3, 2020

Hola todos!

Sooo sorry it's been a long time...again. Just wanted to update y'all a little. After 4 months of serving in the lovely Portland Texas, I'll be moving to Hidalgo TX in their YSA ward! I was super shocked because there’s only 1 or 2 YSA wards so I thought I'd never get called there- guess not! Anyway, I'm super excited, but sad to be leaving my beloved Portland family and Sister Darling 🙁

We've gotten to do the Come Follow Me lessons with some families this week, so I just wanna share something from the reading for last week.

1 Nephi 19:9 “And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men.”

This scripture really hit me of how much Jesus suffered for us. There’s this talk by Elder Holland about missionary work, and it says the reason missions are hard is because we have to go through our own VERY mini gethsemane and feel some degree of pain that Christ did in order to fully understand, accept, teach, and apply His sacrifice for us. I think this goes for not only missionaries, but for everyone. Life is hard sometimes, and suffering pain, temptation, and sorrow is inevitable. But because Jesus already felt it all, we have someone- a literal person- who can console us through his all-understanding love.

I hope y'all have an amazing week, I'll try my best to email next week about my new area!

Much love,

Hermana Coleman