Dear Everyone,
This week has been interesting. We got our iPads this week. They really can't do much right now though. Apparently in the future they will roll out Facebook but as of right now, it's just for teaching and studying. It's useful because we can just go to the church to email instead of a cyber cafe. Also we can share Mormon Messages with people in lessons and our bags weigh a lot less without our whole set of scriptures. I still prefer studying with the paper scriptures though. The other day we had one of the most interesting days of my mission. We started out the day doing planning all morning while people from our apartment's insurance switched out our bathtub which had been leaking. When we could leave, we visited a less active who I had never met. He answered the door in his stained underwear and had slicked over, very greasy, hair. He also had very very large swollen legs that were proportionally impossible and very scabbed over. We sat down and asked a few things about how he joined the church and then we started to read the Book of Mormon with him. As we were reading, he began to pick at his legs and blood just trickles down his leg. When we got up to leave, I didn't want to shake his blood stained hands but was kind of forced to. We both ran straight to the church and washed ourselves thoroughly. Afterwards there was a young woman in the ward who was setting up a party for a friend who was leaving to her country. We had a lesson with a recent convert and when we came out, there were tons of adolescent kids dancing in the parking lot with a DJ and a laser show and everything. Also just outside the parking lot there were a whole bunch of kids just smoking. We called the bishop and he told us to give the key to the 15 year old young woman, who was the only member there, and that she'd lock up and give us the key the next day. It was a weird day.
Well I'll talk to you all next week. Love you
Elder Coleman
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