Hello Everyone!
Sorry, for not writing
an email last week! I spent the whole time fighting a ferocious computer that
didn't want me to email pictures home...I gave up I think I'll just mail the
Camera's memory card.
But I did send a
package with lots of letters home and a couple things that I don't need! So
hopefully that'll arrive soon.
So I'm still not
sleeping to great...but I've found a solution to my sleeping in class problem!
Every time I dose off I get down and do 25 push ups! I'm averaging about 75-100
a day :D Which is perfect because this week they reset all the gym records! I
decided I want to set the pull up and maybe the push up record! :D I've been
doing 25 pull ups a night usually, and If I up it up to 50 or 75 (not in a
row...in a day) then I bet I could probably set a record that will last a few
months. I'm helping a guy in my district set the mile record too...He's a cross
country runner for BYU hawaii, but he's super out of shape right now, because
of the all you can eat buffet everyday...but he'll probably set a nice 4 min 20
or 4 30 record. The old record was 4 30 anyways so we were planning on breaking
it. I might do the soccer juggle record too...who knows?!
Wow I guess I haven't
emailed home since Christmas..a whole lot has happened since then
hopefully this isn't too long of an email :P
Christmas day elder
Nelson and his wife came and spoke to us. I liked his wife's talk better than
his though :P David Archuletta came and sang to us that week to, along with
brother Elliot, the Tabernacle choir organ player, the did stuff together, and
it was really cool.
My comp took three
years of Japanese in HS too, so we're able to SYL (speak your language) alot
more than most people. It's pretty awesome. We've probably gone a few mornings
never speaking English! I feel like that's the best way for me to learn, just
speaking alot, and making up weird sentences haha.
The head church's head
media guy came and spoke to us, and showed us some sneak previews of how
Mormon.org is going to be set up, it's pretty awesome! And they're making
another video for this Easter that's supposed to be better than "He Is The
Gift" and "Because of Him" So that's exciting!
Our lessons are going
really well! I love teaching with the spirit! It's the coolest thing to just be
there with the spirit testifying of the things we say in our broken japanese!
I've really realized that we can't teach people anything related to spiritual
matters without the spirit, he is the teacher. I've gotten pretty good at
recognizing promptings and speaking with the spirit, I even thought I got a
taste of the gift of tongues in our last few lessons :D A few times when I
wanted to testify of a certain principle, I would all of a sudden remember the
words I needed, even though I couldn't remember them before. So that's pretty exciting!
:D
Lots of people are
here that I know! Payge got here last week! It was super nice seeing her again!
Even though I can't hug her haha And Jessica Morthenthaller (hard last name to
spell..) I also hosted someone I knew yesterday. That was cool. We were hosts
for the incoming missionaries, and one of them recognized me from when we went
hiking together, so I called being his host and got to talk to him for a while
and show him around...I don't remember his name though.
Oh and I got a chance
to practice energy work yesterday! It was really cool, because I felt like I
was being guided by the spirit to know what I needed to do for him! I've
never used the spirit like that before! Alot of people are sick right now,
stuffs going around...I'm sick too...haha We're not allowed to shake hands, or
have any contact with each other haha. I also gave a blessing last night to the
kid I did energy work on, since we were both sick, we had alot of time to talk,
and I gave him some essential oils and talked about energy work and stuff and
he asked me if I could try and work on him....He's got alot of emotional
baggage that needed to be cleared..
Anyways, I'm doing
great! MTC is fun, Japanese is awesome! If I could just get healthy and not be
so dang tired this would be perfect! I'm singing I'll go where you want me to
go in sacrament tomorrow, that's kinda cool. And I'm playing piano for
sacrament, that's fun.
Love you all! Thanks
for the letters/emails!
Aishitemasu!
-Elder Coleman
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