Friday, April 23, 2010
PICTURES!!! Finally...
We got these through email today... there weren't any descriptions attached, so you will have to make up your own story for them :)
And we're back in business...
Okay, so Elder Coleman has been writing home once a week... but I have been slacking in posting his emails. He has been transfered from Fogo to Praia. He is serving with 4 other american missionaries in the mission home. His new companion is Elder Balls from Idaho... Here is his email that he sent today:
what up familia!!!
so i am just chillin here in the mission house on my p day, get to use internet for free....pretty legit if you ask me anyways. it has been a good p day so far. we went to this way sweet store, its like a huge black market called sukapeda (honestly have no idea how to spell it)....i guarntee half the stuff is stolen that they send there. but i bought some sweet things made out of wood there. i will prolly be sending them home some time soon along with my cards with all my incredibly amazing pics. we have had to work a little bit today because we have to run around places for president. i am getting used to the change of the islands, get used to the change of everything by now. the people, the language, the companion, the office everything is going good. i am already speakin creole of praia so i guess thats pretty sweet. the first week they were making fun of me for talking like fogo but now they dont so i must be speakin good. and this one thug that we talked to the other day said that i talk creole way good, so i dont know maybe i am just awesome. i was thinking in one of my lessons the other day while i was teaching, this is what came in my mind.... "do you realize you are speaking another language? wow i really am speaking another language and the people are actually understanding me...thats legit" haha it really is crazy tho that i am communicating with people in the caveman language of creole. so tight...
man all of my friends are leaving. thats sweet. i did get a letter from jourdan. and i also sent a letter of to daniel.
i seriously dont know how many missionaries are in praia but there is more than 20 and there is a couple missionary here, the larsens from centerville. they are awesome. something else happened awesome tho. so we walked in church on sunday and there was this white guy so we went to talk to him. he is from logan he is here to do some water thing. but he was like elder coleman, do you know jim riley? he told me to kick you in the butt and get to work. ha i guess he used to work with jim at his old engineering place. so that was prettty legit too....
MY SHOES MADE IT!!!! that was exciting when i got those, but not as exciting as when i saw the samoa girl scout cookies! oh man i ate those um bez bai!! they def made me smile. so if you want to just keep surprising me with sweet stuff like that, its seriously completely fine with me. maybe gravy packets would be good tho, i am seriously making some killer food lately. i turned into little chef boy r d if you ask me. i made chicken fetticini. i even made the sauce it was so good. i made some chicken with potatoes and gravy. one thing that you guys wont believe but, i make an AMAZING tuna fish sandwhich from scratch! its awesome. i am so cool huh? kuze modi go nhos ka sabi nada go n ta fazi tudo kusa deretu!! but if you want to send fruit snacks those are always awesome. they have a huge store here like wal mart so there is a lot of good stuff. i found peanut butter so you dont have to send that anymore. but it sure saved me in fogo. thanks. and oh we dont have a microwave. so that sucks...
well i think thats all i really have to say. i answered all your questions i think. the baptisms went thru in fogo. three of them. but i just talked to maocha and the one i baptized wont go to church anymore. he said the law of chastity is to hard to keep, because it is so dang easy to break it here. but i told him to get us butt back there to help him out. if i was still there i know for a fact he would still be going. its just really frustrating that i had the area so good and i leave, and it falls apart but really what can i do, now i have the worries of Praia 3, and we are def gonna make this area better. we have already done like 60 contacts within the past week and a half with around 25 new investigators so we are busy to do our best and help anyone that is ready come unto this church. our area is def a more humble part of praia, and our area is huge so i know there is people out there to teach, we just got to have that holy spirit guide us to them. i am still lovin the mission. i am really enjoying being with an american and balls is really tight. we work in the office from 10 until 1, tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. monday its 10 til 1 and 3 til 6. then we proselyte the other hours 3 until 9. friday is p day. saturday we have weekly planning in the morning. sunday we have church so pretty much every day we work at 3 til 9. but monday and friday we start working at 6...make sense...good!!!!
hope you have yourselves a great day.. peace
elder coleman
what up familia!!!
so i am just chillin here in the mission house on my p day, get to use internet for free....pretty legit if you ask me anyways. it has been a good p day so far. we went to this way sweet store, its like a huge black market called sukapeda (honestly have no idea how to spell it)....i guarntee half the stuff is stolen that they send there. but i bought some sweet things made out of wood there. i will prolly be sending them home some time soon along with my cards with all my incredibly amazing pics. we have had to work a little bit today because we have to run around places for president. i am getting used to the change of the islands, get used to the change of everything by now. the people, the language, the companion, the office everything is going good. i am already speakin creole of praia so i guess thats pretty sweet. the first week they were making fun of me for talking like fogo but now they dont so i must be speakin good. and this one thug that we talked to the other day said that i talk creole way good, so i dont know maybe i am just awesome. i was thinking in one of my lessons the other day while i was teaching, this is what came in my mind.... "do you realize you are speaking another language? wow i really am speaking another language and the people are actually understanding me...thats legit" haha it really is crazy tho that i am communicating with people in the caveman language of creole. so tight...
man all of my friends are leaving. thats sweet. i did get a letter from jourdan. and i also sent a letter of to daniel.
i seriously dont know how many missionaries are in praia but there is more than 20 and there is a couple missionary here, the larsens from centerville. they are awesome. something else happened awesome tho. so we walked in church on sunday and there was this white guy so we went to talk to him. he is from logan he is here to do some water thing. but he was like elder coleman, do you know jim riley? he told me to kick you in the butt and get to work. ha i guess he used to work with jim at his old engineering place. so that was prettty legit too....
MY SHOES MADE IT!!!! that was exciting when i got those, but not as exciting as when i saw the samoa girl scout cookies! oh man i ate those um bez bai!! they def made me smile. so if you want to just keep surprising me with sweet stuff like that, its seriously completely fine with me. maybe gravy packets would be good tho, i am seriously making some killer food lately. i turned into little chef boy r d if you ask me. i made chicken fetticini. i even made the sauce it was so good. i made some chicken with potatoes and gravy. one thing that you guys wont believe but, i make an AMAZING tuna fish sandwhich from scratch! its awesome. i am so cool huh? kuze modi go nhos ka sabi nada go n ta fazi tudo kusa deretu!! but if you want to send fruit snacks those are always awesome. they have a huge store here like wal mart so there is a lot of good stuff. i found peanut butter so you dont have to send that anymore. but it sure saved me in fogo. thanks. and oh we dont have a microwave. so that sucks...
well i think thats all i really have to say. i answered all your questions i think. the baptisms went thru in fogo. three of them. but i just talked to maocha and the one i baptized wont go to church anymore. he said the law of chastity is to hard to keep, because it is so dang easy to break it here. but i told him to get us butt back there to help him out. if i was still there i know for a fact he would still be going. its just really frustrating that i had the area so good and i leave, and it falls apart but really what can i do, now i have the worries of Praia 3, and we are def gonna make this area better. we have already done like 60 contacts within the past week and a half with around 25 new investigators so we are busy to do our best and help anyone that is ready come unto this church. our area is def a more humble part of praia, and our area is huge so i know there is people out there to teach, we just got to have that holy spirit guide us to them. i am still lovin the mission. i am really enjoying being with an american and balls is really tight. we work in the office from 10 until 1, tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. monday its 10 til 1 and 3 til 6. then we proselyte the other hours 3 until 9. friday is p day. saturday we have weekly planning in the morning. sunday we have church so pretty much every day we work at 3 til 9. but monday and friday we start working at 6...make sense...good!!!!
hope you have yourselves a great day.. peace
elder coleman
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