Game Day!

Hey everyone! Another week here in Athens. And a good one at that.

My first question is if there are such a thing as an alive armadillo. We have seen so many smashed ones but not a live one so I think it's a myth honestly. 

We had to drop Shania this week but we feel pretty good about it  one day she may have her heart open to this but she's not ready right now. And that's okay. We will have more time to go out and find those that are ready. 

We met this guy this week that we taught again a few days ago. His name is Dele. He seems pretty open but we aren't super sure if he's interested so I'll keep you posted on that. 

So this saturday was the first home game! Game day is a blast. We invited the other missionaries that are in Athens and we all stood outside the institute and talked to people and handed out lemonade. It was so fun. It was a super hot day but we were excited to be there. 

We walked over to the game and got to see just a little bit of it and hand out cards to people. And they won so go dawgs!

Yesterday was stake conference. We didn't have any of the people we are teaching show up but that's okay. Next sunday. But there were some amazing speakers.

We had interviews after church yesterday with President and Siser Marsh. Those were fun as well. It's nice to get to hang out with other missionaries and learn and laugh together. 

The highlight of this week was Lisa yall. I don't know if I've fully explained how we met her so a little background. So Sister Ferris and I met Lisa tracting probably around a month ago. We knocked on her door and she was really interested in our message so we got her number. We texted her and never got an amswer... so fast forward about 2 weeks. We are texting people about the institute opening social and Sister Trussell suggests that we should text everyone in our area book so we spent an hour and a half texting everyone we could find. And guess who responded? Lisa! 

So she came to the social and was super interested and we were able to set up a time to meet with her and we have met with her a few times. So we felt we should invite her to be baptized last sunday. She said that if she kept feeling the way she was then she definitely would want to be baptized. 

We met with her on wednesday and it was incredible. She said that she had been praying to know if this is true or not. And on campus she ran into one of the members Tucker. She said that they talked for about an hour and he shared with her about his conversion and how he felt the spirit and received his confirmation that it was true. She said that she realized that is how she felt and that this was her answer right here. So she told us that she knows that it's True and she wants to be baptized!!! 

I'm just so happy for her. She has such a light about her and she's so excited to keep progressing and growing in her faith. And this showed me how important members are! It's so important that we follow the promptings of the spirit because we may be the answer to someone's prayer. This will change her life and it's because the spirit was able to work through Tucker. So always try to follow those prompting gs because you never know the impact you could have!

If yall didn't watch President Nelson's birthday celebration you need to. It was incredible. There's no one cuter than him.

I just wanted to share 1 Corinthians 14:33 "God is not the author of confusion, but of peace." Anytime that I'm confused about something or the church seems too complex, I always have to break it down to the basics and think about how God is not the author of confusion. And after I pray I always get that peace and remember that it's not complicated at all

Have a great week

Sister Coleman