Hello friends and family! I am officially in Georgia! It was quite the adventure getting all of our bags to the airport. But we managed. They choose a trip leader to have all the boarding passes and stuff but the person they chose for the leader was from Myanmar, it was his first time in the US, and he is still learning English. So it was kind of rough. But we got our tickets with our IDs so it worked out.
Also we got Cafe Rio at the airport and it was the best. I'm so happy to not eat MTC food anymore
We got here Monday night at like 5 ish. And we spent our first night in the mission home. The mission president is really cool. I like him a lot.
Then Tuesday morning we had transfer meeting! I'm in a trio with Sister Nielson and Sister Ferris. Sister Ferris is from Vegas and Sister Nielson is from Boise. And we are serving in Athens Georgia on the University of Georgia campus. So we are in the YSA. Georgia Bulldogs yall.
The first night in Athens I slept on a air mattress because they didn't have a bed for me but we got it Thursday so were all good.
We've done a lot of tracting. Or knocking doors. Everyone is gone for the summer so there aren't a lot of people here to teach so we knock doors a day basically Haha. Also, we are in a full biking area. So I'm going to have strong legs. Even though they're sore all day everyday. But my bike is so nice. Love it.
Also, they announced in the mission that we would be having a car share. So we would get a car 3 days a week and then bike the rest. So everyone got calls except us. So there are only 2 sets of sisters that are full biking and we are one of them and we don't get a car share. Haha it's okay though we don't really need a car.
Sister Nielson wiped out on her bike on Saturday. We were going over a train track and her bike whipped out from under her and she fell hard. It was scary to watch honestly. But some miracles were that she was wearing and pants that day and that there weren't any cars coming. She has scrapes and bruises but she's okay thank goodness.
It's pretty hot here but not as bad as I thought. It's been pretty nice weather this week so hopefully I just got lucky and I missed the worst of it.
We met with a few people this week. We had a lot of cancelled lessons but we were able to meet with a few people. On Wednesday we met with Emily who is a recent convert. And then we went straight over to teach Elena. She's so sweet. We are trying to get her to be baptized this transfer. On Thursday We had a phone call lesson with another recent concert named Will. We are preparing him for the priesthood. Friday we taught Anothony. He is also a member but hasn't gone to church in a long time so he wants to meet with us and just learn more. He's a funny guy. Then on Saturday we got to go to the farmer's market with another investigator Shania. She's the cutest. They have all these vegan things but they were decent. We had a lesson with her afterwards and she's just so cool and cute.
Tracting has been interesting. We've had a lot of fun experiences with that.
● we knocked on the door and the lady wouldn't accept a card because she just woke up and hadn't had her coffee. At 11.
● this door had wasps all over it. He answers and they start flying in. I ran away because I hate wasps but Sister Nielson was trying to swat them out of his apartment and give him a card. She's braver than me apparently.
● we went to this place that we think is really creepy. We call it Tuesday the 17th. If any of yall have seen Psych you'll know what that means. But we knocked on this guys door and his next door neighbor yells "I'm coming" because she thought it was her door so we slid over to her door. But then both doors open. So we hurried and shared something with the lady then slid back over and shared something with him. Too funny.
● we knocked on a door and the next door neighbor thought it was theirs again so we hurried and slid over but he totally saw it happen so my companions camt stop laughing so I'm trying to hold it in and share a card with him while the other 2 are uncontrollably laughing.
Tracting is fun as you can see. One of my favorite things is that people always tell us they're already saved. Because they got baptized they're already saved so they don't need to talk to us. It's funny.
We also went to campus for a little while to try to do these surveys that we have. But we got stopped by some mission church. I don't know what they were called honestly. But they were going on about all this stuff that wasn't really making sense. We started off trying to find common beliefs because there were some but then it went downhill. They were shook everytime we tried to share something we believed. Kinda funny gotta love it.
Our mission president made these cards for us to pass out that talk about families and family history so those are really cool. We have a big push in family history in our mission so we do 2 hours a week of it. I found out that Pocahontas is my 10th great aunt so I'm like basically famous.
Everything has been going good here. Just trying to get used to everything. Trying to learn how to do everything and how to get around. It will be a lot better when school starts on August 14th because we will actually have people on campus.
Hope y'all are all having a good week. Yall should read this talk by Elder Craig C. Christensen called An Unspeakable Gift From God. It's good one.
All the love and blessings,
Sister Coleman
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