Wednesday June 18th 2008

Letter from Rachel to her Mother.

what is all this that i hear. you are like a new person. which is wonderful. just dont forget that you are a daughter of god first and foremost and you need to follow the promptings of the holy ghost above anything else and you will be happy. it is so good to hear about robbie. he is so cute amy sent me a whole bunch of pictures of the scottish festival it looks like fun. and of robbies birthday. he is so cute. speaking of birthdays please dont forget in your next email to send me a list of everyoes b day and holidays. oh and if you could just send me your krinkle cookie recipe that would be great. everything here is different so the other recipes wouldnt be to much help. i am so excited for the family everyone sounds like they are doing wonderful. i am thankful the lord is blessing all of you. i have to say your probably not missing me to much because of all the blessings you have recieved. just kidding. but the other day i was reading in the church news about the 20 acres that the church bought in downtown salt lake. they had ripped out a big portion of buildings already. and i was shocked to hear that they are just building residential buildings and apartments. all 20 acres is for homes. and then it clicked the lord is preparing for a gathering. at least thats what me and sister coffin think. why else would they be building so many homes. the end is drawing near you can see that satan has a great hold on the hearts of men over here and everywhere. yet there is so much goodness as well. it just made me so thankful to be apart of the greatest organization this world has ever seen. for the lord is the head of this church and he knows all things. also elder huntsman of the 70 has built a very large cancer facility to cure cancer. and he is using family history to do. many other orgfanizations are try ing to copy there success but they dont realize we have the lord guiding us. but apparently they can trace back to the origanl peopel who had colon cancer. and because of the churchs large family history collection they are able to do so. family histroy is so important president hinkley said it has 2 designs. to save the living and the dead. it is literally going to save the living by curing diseases particullary cancer is what he said. it just strengthens your testimony knowing that none of this is possible unless it is by the wisdom of the lord who inspires men and gives revelation to the prophet. it is so amazing. also, i have been really praying to be completly free of the world becaue it is only then that we are free and able to serve to lord and progress. and by forgetting myself i am able to love the people here more and love the lord too. but one of our only progressing investigatiors named nicole has basically dropped us. we were at her house the other day and her sister and her friendsa came over and they werent to pleased to see us there. but we know that some things were said to persuade her not to talk to us again because she called this morning and told she cant see us anymore. and made up all these excuses. and i just started crying. not for myself but for her to see someone who had truley felt of gods mercy and love for them and really experienced true happiness was to much when you see the flip side and you see them give up that happiness for misery. she was so unhappy as she was talking to us. and i realized no matter how much i desire someone to be happy they have to desire it for themselves. i felt a little bit how heavenly father feels as he looks down on the wickedness of men. and just seeing what great hold satan has on people is so sad. he only wnats them to be miserable. but it only maks me love the people more knowing what they must feel and i only desire to bring them true happiness that is what this gospel is about. i know its true i know that god is all of our living and loving heavebly father. i know that. i love you mom. i love the family. i am so glad you and dad have made it possible to have that in our lives. thank you. love sister coleman