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Wednesday November 5th 2008. Letter from Rachel to her Mother (family)

Dear Mother,
Hello, I can recieve emails now, hopefully. So if you have not been writing please write because it has been a month and a week now since I have recieved any email. And tell the whole family to write me as well, I want to hear from everyone. So what has been going on the last month? Anything exiciting? Exciting or not I want to know.
Well, things are going wonderful here. I am in Whitefield North. It is part of Manchester. I always wanted to go to Manchester and now that I am here I am not that impressed. It is completly run down and gross. Probably ten times worse than my last area. But I guess that is reality. It is never like what you see in the movies or read in a book. But other that it is going great. I love the people anyways. I would serve here forever if I could. So many people need help that only the gospel can bring.
Were going to be working with a huge council estate near our home where it is kind of a sketchy area, but it will be good to get a lot of the children off of the streets. A man named Tony Ward used to live their and joined the church so he has been working down their for awhile. And it's a good way to teach families and get their parents involved. A council estate is like a big ghetto area where people live off of the government. But that is mostly all this area is.
The first couple of days were really hard to find anyone to teach. But I have been praying a lot that the Lord would put prepared people in our path and the other day only 4 people would talk to us, but out of those 4 people we got 4 appointments. The ward also needs a lot of help so their is definatly a reason I came here. It is a lot of work, but it is worth it. I only wish I could do more. But I know the lord was preparing these people for one last chance. I was reading in Jacob 5 the other day and the Lord was saying that he would give his people one more chance to prosper before he came and destroyed it and how we as his servants need to go and do everything we can and our reward and the people's reward would be great. Obviously, I have likened that chapter to me, but that is how the Lord speaks to us, is through scriptures and prayers. The spirit was so strong that this is what needed to be done and President Bullock seems to be under the same impression. So I trust the Lord that he will make miracles happen. Good things are about to happen in what would seem to be a completly wicked and hopeless area. But never doubt the Lord. He was able to change Lancaster as well. And now it is going wonderful their.
Mom I love you so much and lately, I have just been thinking about how you raised us and just the little things that you did to stand up for the Lord and the things you know to be true. Like turning off the bad movies and throwing away my immodest clothing and picking me up from my bad friends homes and so much more. Just even making us go to church and listen to general conference. I know I have always made fun of you for those things and I am sorry. And I just want to thank you so much for doing those things and not just trying to be a cool mom, but only caring what the Lord thought. Thank you so much. I love you mom and everyone else. I hope to hear from you all next week.
Oh, by the way how is Michael and Spencer and Nathan doing. And also, the ward. I hope everyone is doing well. And would you tell Pam and Leslie that I love them and to write me a letter. Also, Mckenna would you find out how she is doing for me. Thanks.
Love, Sister Coleman