Dear Everyone,
This week we´re having a miracle baptism. There´s been this girl that we´ve been working with for a while. When she first came to church, she was interested but didn´t want to change anything. She loved parties and the wild life. Everyone who knew her said she wasn´t going to change. When she started keeping small commitments like reading the Book of Mormon and praying, she really felt something which gave her the push to give up her bad habits and has really flipped her life around. But believe me, it was not an easy process. We´ve been at it since February. At one point she said she would be baptized in a river, but the mission president said no to that. Finally this week she said that she wants to be baptized this Saturday and doesn´t even care that it´s not going to be in a river. She did request that the water be ice cold, so I guess we´ll have to honour that request since I feel bad saying no to the river. Besides that, our week´s been pretty quiet. The iPad conference in Barcelona was not what I expected it to be at all. First of all, they don´t have the iPads yet. They´ll give them to us as soon as they get them in the mail. The just gave us training on the iPads. But they also talked about becoming different missionaries and the kind of people that we want to be in the future. They mentioned that specifically with electronic devices that many of us before the mission would spend hours and hours sucked into devices and not really accomplish anything. He mentioned that when we get the iPads, but also after our missions, that we should have a clear purpose everytime we pick up an electronic device, and that if we don´t have a clear purpose, then we should put it down until we have one. I found it really enlightening even though it´s very likely that I won´t get an iPad seeing as I´m going home soon.
Well, Love you all
Élder Coleman
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