Week 44 - Happy May

Another great week here in North Carolina!

We got to spend a couple days with the sisters that are in Blairsville making videos for our Facebook page. It has been interesting trying to come up with ideas of things to post but we came up with a few and made some pretty fun videos. We made a giant Christ collage on our wall and made a video making it. So hopefully we will have that up soon so yall can see it. It's pretty intense. We spent a very long time cutting the pictures out of ensign's. Quite the party. Our Facebook page is "Church of Jesus Christ in Cumming, Dahlonega, Blairsville, and Murphy" if anyone is really interested in seeing it. 

Some exciting news! We are going to be getting about 140 new missionaries in the next 2 weeks. All of them were serving in foreign countries and are being reassigned to our mission. It is going to be crazy and crowded but we are really excited. 

We had a great lesson with our friend Tracy and shes now on date to be baptized! We are so excited for her. It's pretty crazy that we've never even met her in person but she is wanting to be baptized. Quarantine is such a weird time. 

Yesterday, we got to go to a non denominational church here. They had a drive up so you just park your car and they have speakers so you can hear everything from your car. We just sang and listened to the preacher and it was a lot of fun. 

Also the animal is back living in the vent so that's exciting.

We had a mission zoom call and got the news that we are now allowed to hold baptisms again. And we are now allowed to go to members houses for sacrament again. So things are looking promising! Hopefully we can start opening up here soon. Georgia has been opening up but I am not in Georgia anymore so things are still pretty closed up here. 

Not much else happened this week. It's now May and I've now been out for 10 months! Pretty crazy. 

I did read an amazing talk by Elder Bednar this week that was talking about the enabling power of the atonement. How it allows us to do things that we wouldn't be able to do on our own. He said: "As you and I come to understand and employ the enabling power of the Atonement in our personal lives, we will pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed. We will become agents who 'act' rather than objects that are 'acted upon.'" How powerful that through the enabling power we can be strengthened to change our circumstances and overcome things we never thought we could. 

If you want to read the talk it is a BYU speech by Elder Bednar called "In the strength of the Lord"

I hope yall have the best week ever 

Sister Coleman

Here's some pics from last p day at the giant 10 commandments.