Pioneer Week. Wednesday July 23rd 2008.

Letter from Rachel to her Mother.

hello, my wonderful mother. it is greatt o hear about all that you are reading and learnign. it jsut shows no matter how much we already know or how old we are we are all still learnign and progressign.not much has happened since my last email. but one thing did. well earlier of last week i was asked to give a talk on a pure heart and clean hands. well i had no idea what to talk about. but i prayed that i would be led in the direction i needed to go. and i just started reading the ensign and soaking in everything and it hit me that that topic has to do with repentance. now you have to know something about the lancaster ward. it is not like any ward in utah. peple dont accept callings they dont sustain the leaders and dont welcome new comeers and there is no unity. there are a lot of probelms in it. and we are constanly giong around to members and teaching and calling people to repentance. but it never gets through. well my dear mother i can honeslty say that this talk was inspired and i just started writing. but it wasnt' me it was the spirit entirley . it was a very powerful talk and i knew it wasnt' me who wrote it . it was a message the lord wanted the members of our ward to hear. when sunday came i was so terrified to talk and kept trying to reason myself out of it. but the spirit was jsut burnign inside of me and i knew i couldn't . well i most definatly did give my talk with the stake president there. and it wasn't even me speaking. i have never and probably never will talk with so much power and authority as i did then . everyone was listening. there wasnt a single person there who wasnt't called to repentance that day. afterward it was an amazing thing though. everyone started coming up to me and thanknig me for my talk. everyone knew that it wasn't me speaking but the spirit. they started calling me hot coleman. and one guy said i echoed like brigham young. i have to admit it really wasn't me. it was one of the most powerful experiences of my life. the spirit literally just talked straight through me. i felt like i was on fire the entire time. and the message definatley got across. i think we will start seenign a change in our ward. anyways other than taht i don't have much to tell you except i know with all my heart that this church is true. the spirit has born witness to me that we are childern of god and that the savior is the redeemer of the world and all mankind. i love the lord with all my heart and i will serve him faithfully my entire life and throughout eternity. we are so blessed and are a chosen people. because of our righteuosness we have been chosen to come to the earth and recieve the gosple in our own lives that we migtht spread it throughout the world. mom i love you. you are so wonderful keep studying preach my gosple. it has all the things you ever need to know in its pages. and if you abide its teachings you will return and live with the savior after this life. love sister coleman