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