Wednesday 12th August 2008

Letter form Rachel to Mother (family).

Laura's Birthday.

HELLO, MY BEAUTIFUL MOTHER. I JUST SAW A PICTURE OF YOU THAT AMY SENT AND YOU LOOK AMAZING. AND IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE DOING WELL AT YOUR JOB. THANKS FOR THE QUOTES I REALLY LIKE THEM. AND I AM GLAD TO HEAR THAT YOU ALL RECIEVED MY CARDS. I HOPE THAT YOU SEND THE BOYS THERES. THAT WILL BE REALLY FUN IF THE RELAVTIVES CAME AND VISITED. YOU CAN HAVE THEM STAY AT THE HOUSE NOW THAT WERE ALL GONE. AS FOR ME I HAVE HAD AN AMAZING WEEK. TO START I WILL TELL YOU A FUNNY STORY. WELL LAST P DAY SOME MEMBERS CALLED US UP AND WANTED TO TAKE US TO GEORGE WASHINGTONS HOME IN WARTON. SO WE WENT AND SAW HIS HOUSE AND VILLAGE. IT WASN'T THAT IMPRESSIVE. BUT ON THE WAY HOME WE SIGNS FOR A MONASTARY. WHERE THE NUNS LIVE. LIKE IN THE SOUND OF MUSIC. AND JUST SOME BACKGROUND. THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK US USED TO BE BIG CATHOLICS AND KNOW SOME HIGH UP POEPLE. LEO, HE STILL BELIEVES IN THE TRINITY AND ATTENDS THERE CHURCH EVERY WEEK. BUT WE ARE TEACHING THEM AND ARE REALLY GOOD FRIENDS. SO THEY ASKED IF WE COULD STOP BY AND SAY HELLO. WE WERE BOTH LIKE OK, BUT FELT REALLY WEIRD BECAUSE AS SISTER MISSIONARIES A NUNS MONASTARY IS THE LAST PLACE YOU WOULD THINK YOU WOULD EVER BE. BUT AS WE WERE DRIVING AROUND THE GROUNDS A NUN JUST POPPED UP OUT OF NOWHERE IN THE BUSHES. I FELT LIKE I WAS IN A ZOO OR SOMETHING. IT WAS EXCITING. SO WE GOT OUT AND RANG THE DOORBELL. AND THE DOOR WAS HUMOUNGOUS. AND THIS TINY 4 FOOT NUN ANSWERS THE DOOR. AND LET US IN. IT WASN'T THE IMPRESSIVE INSIDE. PRETTY PLAIN AND JUST CLUTTERED AND WEIRD REALLY. BUT THEY LET US TAKE A SELF GUIDED TOUR AROUND. THEN WHILE WE WERE DOING THAT SHE WENT AND FETCHED LIKE TEN MORE NUNS AND THEY WERE ALL CROWDING AROUND US. AND THEY WERE ALL TINY AND OLD. IT WAS PRETY FUNNY. THEY KEPT ASKING OUR FIRST NAMES BECAUSE THEY COULD READ OUR TAG AND WOULDN'T CALL US SISTER. I WANTED TO ASK THEM THERE FIRST NAME, BUT DIDN'T. WE JUST TOLD THEM OUR NAMES WERE SISTER COFFIN AND COLEMAN. BUT WE ALL TOOK A PICTURE TOGETHER. LEO FRAMED IT AND GAVE IT TO THEM AND A BOOK OF MORMON LATER ON. AFTER THEY ASKED WHAT WE DID AND WE TOLD THEM ABOUT THE PROPHET AND WHAT WE DO. AT THAT POINT ONE GOT UPSET I THINK AND WENT INSIDE. BUT THE REST JUST KEPT ASKING US QUESTIONS. FINALLY, WE ASKED THEM WHAT THEY DID. NOW UP UNTIL THIS POOINT I HAVE BEEN WONDERING WHAT NUNS ACTUALLY DO AND HOW THEY GOT STARTED. WELL, THE ANSWER IS NOTHING. BIG SUPRISE. BASICALLY THEY ARE MORE OF A BURDEN TO THE CHURCH THEN A HELP. BUT WHATEVER I REALLY THINK NOW FROM WHAT I GATHERED IT WAS A WAY TO SUBJECT WOMEN INTO SEXIST ROLES. I AM NOT SAYING THAT TO BE MEAN BUT THAT IS WHAT EVERYONE KEEPS TELLING ME AND FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN. ALSO, SOME SCALLY'S WERE PLAYING FOOTBALL ON THE STREET THE OTHER DAY AND SISTER COFFIN WAS ON THE PHONE TALKING TO THE ASSISTANTS. AND WE WERE WALKING PAST THEM AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I FELT THIS HUGE THING SMASH INTO THE BACK OF MY HEAD. THEY HAD THROWN THE FOOTBALL AT MY HEAD. I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. I TURNED AROUND IN SHOCK AND TWO WERE JUST LAUGHING AND ONE WAS LIKE SORRY ABOUT THAT LOVE. I DONT KNOW IF IT WAS THERE WAY OF FLIRTING OR JSUT COMPLETE LACK OF DISCIPLINE. BUT I JSUT SAID THAT IT WAS OK. AND WALKED OFF. KIDS HERE ARE TERRIBLE. THE OTHER DAY SOME LADY TOLD SOME CHAVES TO STOP SMOKING AT THE TRAIN STATION SO THEY PUSHED HER ONTO THE TRACKS. SHE ALMOST DIED. BE THANKFUL THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO RAISE YOUR KIDS HERE. ALSO, OUR MEETING WITH THE YW PRESIDENCY WENT WONDERFUL. WE TAUGHT THEM HOW TO PLAN AND CONDUCT YW'S AND WE ARE REALLY STARTING TO MAKE THE WARD INTO A REAL WARD. BISHOP MOUNT IS EXSTATIC. SO MUCH THAT HE RANG US THIS MORNIGN AND ASKED US TO TEACH AND TAKE THE MTC GROUP FINDING IN OUR AREA. WHICH THEY NEVER HAVE DONE BEFORE. SO WE WILL BE CONTINUING THIS. ANYWAYS THIS IS A LONG LETTER. BUT I LOVE YOU.
LOVE, SISTER COLEMAN