Wednesday June 4th 2008.

Letter from Rachel to her Mother.

hello mum. thats what the english call there moms. i am glad you are doing good and thank you for all the updates. its nice to know what is going on. hey i have been trying to email rebecca but she never writes back and i need her full address and jennies because i made them birthday cards that i want to send them but cant. also when is fathers day? and all of you have your letters sent now. so they should arrive in a couple of days. oh could you please tell amy and laura to send rechargable batteries and a charger to please thats the last thing i promise. and you can call robbie he is on my acount and he should be able to tell you how to put money in it. and thats ok about brother asbell. i just really wanted to send some stuff home to you guys like pictures mostly. now i dont' know when that will happen sorry. i am poor.
> serena's baptism was on friday and it was perfect. her family came and that was a suprise because they didnt' want her to get baptized. but they came and were freindly enough. no really her mom would hardly talk to me and sister coffin. it was funny. her dad was really nice though. it was funny after her baptism it was her mom that was ok with it and not her dad. but anways, serena had to wear this humonguous tent because it ws the only dress we had and when she was being baptized it kept popping up so she had to do it three times. and i directed everything. the spirit was really guiding me because i had no idea what to do but somehow i did and was able to lead everything. it was weird everyone kept coming to me for everything and i was the youngest perosn there. but the spiret was strong and serena was glowing. she knew she made the right decision. earlier that day she was having a lot of doubnt because of her family. we spent the whole day with her just keeping her mind off it. and afterward she knew and didn't have one doubt. she was like a completly different person. she already wnats to go to the temple.
> it was so great to see someone actrually accept the gosple. most people hate us. its like they view us as not human and feel obligated to treat us badly. and guys are always picking up on us. i just think how wicked they are to flirt with servants of the lord. its disgusting. i would never dare do something like that. but they view us as demons literally. they always tell us that. it is reallly funny. but sad. we are really just focusing on those peole that are prepared to hear the gospel because there are a lot of them and we really have to rely on the lord to find them and it is hard. but i am used to the physical illnesses now. everynight when i get home i just crash. but i wake up and word my heels off again. p days seem like a wast to me i dont like them. but my body needs the rest. so its ok. anyways i love you mom. keep sending this to everyone and telll them to write me especailly those who haveent aand send this to pam and leslie to please and will you get there email adresses for me. i love you and this church ist true.
> oh before i forget this is the most important thing. i was studying family history because i know you feel like you should do it. yes is you answer and you should put it above anything else. it is so important. i was reading a quot e by joseph smith and he said the dead cannot be saved without the living. thats because they dont have bodies so physically they cant do it. thats why all the work has to be done on the earth before were judged. and then this ist he most important part. joseph smith continued to say that ....and we cannot be saved without our dead. what he is saying is that we literally have to be bound to christ and will be when we are saved. just like in the parable of the wheat and the tares. and that binding is literally the sealing power. in order for us to be bound or sealed to christ we all have to be sealed together and that means we have to have our temple work done. it doesnt' matter if they in the next life accept the gospel or not there work has to be done for our salvation as well. because if thereis even one link missing from adam and eve to to the last person to live the binding is broken. and none of us can enter the celestail kingdom. so family history work really is the most important thing we need to be doing in this life. for us and the dead so get on that. it will be done one way or another but as latter day saints with a true testimony i think we will be held accountable if we dont' do it. anyways i love you. love sister coleman