The theme of this week is bikes

It's been a good week this week! The theme of this week is bikes because so many bike stories always. 

We were about to head out when Sister Nielson messaged us and said that Sister Trussell crashed her bike. So we headed over there and she was in a lot of pain. She hit a trashcan and she flew off the front of her bike into a ditch. So she hurt her ribs pretty bad. We think they're bruised so she's trying to heal. 

Bike story #2. When Sister Ferris and I were on the rescue to go get Sister Trussell, my favorite dress got caught and ripped in my bike. I'm so sad. But maybe I can fix it somehow we will see. 

Bike #3. We went to teach a lesson and tract. When we got back, my tire was completely flat. So we had to walk our bikes the 2 miles home. There's a hole in my tire so our branch president took it today and is getting it fixed because he's a saint. 

So basically all my stuff is getting ruined currently. I also fell off a curb and scraped up my shoe which is also sad. 

On monday night we got to have dinner with our branch president. President Joyner. He's seriously a saint. Still crying that he got my bike fixed. 

On Tuesday we got to have dinner with Elena. She is one of the people we are teaching. She's on baptismal date for September 28. Her boyfriend is a member and he made us bomb tacos. I've had tacos more than I've had fried chicken and I'm loving my life. 

We also had zone conference this week. It was pretty fun. I got to see Sister Howard who was one of the girls in my MTC district. I love her a million. Unfortunately President Marsh couldn't be there because he was sick but I learned a lot of new ways to improve my teaching. We talked a lot about using families and temples in our lessons and finding and I love it so much. It's really amazing seeing how talking about families brings the spirit.

This week school started!! We are pumped. It went from dead to packed in one day. So now we spend every week day on campus talking to people. It's pretty hard because we have to stop people but we are getting the hang of it. 

Since school started, institute is starting. So we had a social to kick off the year. We invited every single person in our contacts. It was amazing because we met a girl named Lisa a while ago and she seemed Interested but never texted us back. But we invited her to the social and she came! And she wants to learn more. We were able to have a lesson with her a couple days later and it was a great lesson. We talked to her about the restoration and the spirit was so strong. After I told her about the first vision she said that she was speechless. We are very excited for her and we can't wait to meet up with her again this week. 

An amazing resource that we got this week is question of the soul Book of Mormons. We made a list of questions of the soul like "is there a God" etc. And we put a tab in the Book of Mormon where the answer is. Its been awesome using it around to contact people. And it's been a great resource for me to study as well. It's crazy how many of our questions the Book of Mormon answers. 

We are teaching a couple other people. Gavin and Folarin. They are both really nice. We had a lesson with each of them. Our lesson with Folarin was better than the one with Gavin but we are excited about them as well. 

We went to waffle house with an investigator the other day. I figured I needed to go all in because I'm in Georgia at waffle house. So I got the peach waffles. And I'm glad I got the experience but they were not very good. But hey waffle house. I don't know why it's so popular here cause it's honestly not very good.

Good news! We got another sim card! So now we have 2 phones between the 4 of us. It's great because we split up during the day and so before only one companionship had a phone which was not the greatest. We are happy. 

Also I asked a guy yesterday if his family lived in Athens and he's like "yeah they live in my house?" Because he's like 35 with kids. I'm not used to people that aren't YSA. 

We met 3 cool people this week. Their names are Ceasar, Nnenna (yes that is how it's spelled), and Ammishaddai (Numbers 1:12) The names people have yall.

Today we had sisters p day so all the sisters in our zone went out shopping and I got a cute UGA shirt and stickers I'm pumped. 

It's still really hot here and we are just biking away in the sun. It's a blast. I'm going to have the strongest legs. 

Something that I learned this week was how important prayer is and how powerful it can be. Everytime I hear one of our investigators pray, they are so sincere and powerful. It makes me cry everytime. Lisa said a prayer in our lesson and it was the sweetest. I think that we can all strive to have more sincere prayer and ask specific questions and be willing to receive those answers. 

J. Devn Cornish of the seventy said:

"Prayer is one of the most precious gifts of God to man.

We must not imagine that any kind of prayer, no matter how sincere, will be very effective if all we do is to say the prayer. We must not only say our prayers; we must also live them. The Lord is much more pleased with the person who prays and then goes to work than with the person who only prays. Much like medicine, prayer works only when we use it as directed"

I hope yall have an amazing week

Sister Coleman

Pic1 cute sign in a store

Pic 2 our new nametags from chick fil a

Pic 3 my poor bike

Pic 4 braids and the cute dress my mom sent me

Pic 5 it's hot

Pic 6 the wall in waffle house