Thank You Everyone

Letter from Rachel to Family Wednesday February 25th 2009

Dear family,

I don't have long at all this week and I have a lot to say. So I will just write a long email to all of you this week. So last wednesday I had an amazing, but terrifying experience. Our house was full of wet paint by the end of our P-day so we couldn't leave our flat becuase our doors were wet too. so we did member exchanges and me and a member named beckie went to go teach our two appointments that night while sister Gilbert stayed home with a member. Anyways, the first lesson we tuaght was just amzing the spirit was so powerful. We taught about eternal marriage to a recent convert named wumi. So we were on a proper spiritual high as we drove to our next appointment. When we got there we decided to just have a testimony meeting with this recent convert named gemma. Well, we did and beckie started and she just bore a powerful testimony. it was strange though, their was a very bad spirit in the room and we could both feel it and it was so present you could almost see the fight between good and bad. Then we asked gemma to bear her testimony and she did, but she didn't it was really creepy actually, so then I bore my testimony and it was by far the most powerful testimony i have ever born. So we quickly left afterward and we got in beckies car which is brand new and it wouldn't go. It started it just wouldn't go, and all of a sudden we both just got the overwhelming feeling that there was something bad in the car with us. There is no doubt in either of our minds that there was a bad spirit there. so we said a prayer and walked to our flat. That night beckie had to get her car towed home, and the next morning it worked perfect. I don't think it was a coincidence. The next day president and sister bullock came and did a personal flat inspection with the assistants to the president. That went really well.

And of course this weekend was my birthday. I went to Beckie's home for tea and her and gemma got me a football jersey with sister coleman printed on the back and beckie got me a nice copy of the lectures on faith by joseph smith. It was really fun. I had a pink princess cake and it really tasted pink. That night when beckie took us home we walked in the house and the whole thing was rank with gas. We had to call the gas company and have them come out. And it turned out to be our boiler. so they had to turn it off. It is funny how many things have happened good and bad.

This week has just been amazing. Last week all of our investigators dropped us, except one and now he is dated for baptism. And we have loads of new investigators. And today was just a really cool day. We went to the temple with our district and the zone leaders adn it was good. So then me and sister gilbert and beckie went on a church history tour all over preston. It was the best ever. We went the house on fox st where the legions of demons attacked heber c. kimball and just randomly the owner was their and started talking to us so i asked him if we could see inside. He gave us a personal tour of the inside. it was so cool it was in its original condition and we got to walk all around. then he gave me his number and said if i wanted to come back again i could ring him and he would show us around. No one ever gets to do that. it was so cool. then me and beckie raced across the big lawn we had a foot race to the river ribble to see who would be baptized first. She won. and then we went to president hinkleys house and we met the owners there too. It was an amazing day and week. Whenever something bad happens something good alwasy comes.

Our new investigators our amazing. They are what you would call golden investigators. this week is transfers though and I think i will be going. So i guess we will see. I love you and I am glad that all of you are doing so well.

love, sister coleman