Surprises and Firesides

Editor's Note:  Last week Coleman sent me a letter for my Birthday and surprised me with a BAPTISM that he and his companion had!  The baptism was the Saturday before, and was from someone he placed a Book of Mormon with the very first day of his mission.  What an awesome Birthday present!!

I never know how to start these letters and it always looks way stupid when I do. Haha, but whatever. Haha, I hope you liked the birthday present Mom. Haha, the real story is that I never really knew what Maria was up to at all, until like a week before she was baptized. More about her later. 

Anywiggle, this week was pretty weird. Haha, Elder Long went home, I got a new companion, and some other cool stuff. Haha, it was way weird to send Elder Long home, because I am about as far away from going home as it could be. I barely hit 4 months haha. My new Comp. is named Elder Henderson, he is from Lehi, Utah, he loves poetry, long walks on the beach, a nice glass of scotch, and of course his dog Baxter. He goes home after this transfer. He spent the last few transfers as an AP, so he knows what's up with all this missionary witchcraft. He is a cool guy, and I'm excited to work with him. 

That is way cool that G. Ma & G. Pa are done/going to Antarctica haha, pretty crazy. But awesome as usual haha. Hahah Mom, always talking about me/ things having to do with me. It sounds like you had a good Birthday month this year Mom! Haha, sounds like a real busy week for everyone as well.

It was way cool, last night they had a little fireside dealy-do where they asked some recent converts to talk, and Maria was one of the 3. She talked last, and she stood up and said "They didn't tell me I was gonna talk in English, so I wrote everything in Spanish." Hahaha, whoops my bad. But she stood up and told everyone her story and it was way cool haha. President Ames was there and he talked a little bit too, it was pretty cool. It was a pretty sweet week for sure haha. 

Anywhey, haha I hope you have a good week and whatnot!

Love, Cole

**Coleman and Leena's Letters to each other:

Leena says:  "Tickle me, tickle me. And I love you so much being my brother forever. Today I have dance and school. I really miss you. You miss Liza and our family?  I love you so much".

From Coleman:   "Hahah, Leena Leena Leena. Haha I am your brother forevers. Today I have shopping and dance haha jk I have basketball not dance. I do miss you too, even though you forget me a little bit. Haha love you too Leeners."

Happy Birthday Mom!!

 "My Christmas Present to myself." Love the Texas Bolo Tie - but he clearly needs to work on his "Selfie's"!!

Fun Christmas present from Aunt Michelle

H@PPY B!RTHD@Y M0M!!!1!11!!1!

Hey guise, sorry about not emailing yesterday. We couldn't because of the whole MLK celebrating diversity and whatnot. But sorry if I scared you or something haha. Haha Mom, I would love to work aka ski all day, I miss that a ton sometimes. It sucks about D-Train though, I bet he is not super happy about that at all. I never liked ice skating because it hurt my ankles and my straight pride, but mostly my ankles. Speaking of homosexuals, I heard Utah allowed gay marriage or something? Weird. I don't really wanna go home that much anymore haha. I didn't have my camera for the bunny farm ,but if we can we'll go back and take pictures one day. David got engaged? Haha, that is so weird, he is the 1st engagement of my mission... 

So whenever you go into a new area, there is always something going on, but not always people progressing, so you pretty much almost start over like every monthish from what i've seen. I don't know if that answers your question.. We get a monthly limit for miles so it is something to budget, but we usually do pretty well. 

Elder Long is going home on Thursday, haha so my new comp comes Wednesday. His name is Elder Henderson, and I've heard he is a really cool guy and a great missionary, so I'm excited. He goes home after next transfer. 

Happy Birthday mom, this week was pretty cool. I wrote mom a letter and sent it to her on Monday, so I hope she gets it by Saturday!

Love, Cole

1st World Roolz

I am fine from the bike wreck, I have a tiny bruise near the buttox (I can send pictures if you'd like) and on my knee. Ha, the thing I broke was the bottom bracket, not the crank. Didn't tear clothes or anything, and I took the bike in and got it fixed. Sorry again about all that. But now it's all good. Most of the people I am currently working with are new, so we've only taught them once or twice. 

The kool aid challenge is where you drink 2 packages of kool aid bursts in under 10 minutes. It ends up being like over 1/2 gallon of liquid. Pretty fun. The YW thingy sounds like fun, but haha, I just remember Mom getting SO mad at me that one time I got home around 3. She went and told everyone, like literally everyone when I got home and what I was doing. Haha, and now she is staying up till 4... 

So this week, we got a new car. Haha, the mission for whatever reason decided to buy 2014 Ford Fusions, so that is what I cruise around in now haha. It is a pretty freakin sick car for sure. I laugh every day when I get in it because I remember that most of my buddies on their missions probably don't have running water or electricity. Hahaha suckers. 

Haha the family scripture study sounds great, I remember when we used to try to do it before school and I would always try and sneak a nap in-between my turns to read haha. The good old days.

Anywheight, this was a pretty good week, and it sounds like yours is good as well, love you, and happy birthday month Mom!

Love,

Cole

P.S. Haha, I almost forgot the most important part, this week we went to some huge bunny farm, there were like 150+ bunnies everywhere and there was poop and whatnot and it was insane. It was in this crazy old ladies backyard and she kept talking about how she was doing God's work just like us. 

Fried Pig Skin and Habaneros

Hey guys, Happy New Year!

Haha, so firsties, I thought Mom would like to know that I haven't bitten my nails since last Wednesday, which is a record by far. She always got on me for that so I decided to stop for a week. But on Wednesday I'm goin to town on those bad boys. 

Anyway, this week is a normal week, I never have anything to say anymore except the non-missionary stuff because that is the only thing that ever changes. It was a really good week, and we are finding new investigators and I guess we do spend a lot of time trying to reactivate. It is pretty cold here, and the cold in Texas is way different from the cold in Utah, but I don't really need a coat or anything, I should be fine. 

Elder Long and I have a few more weeks together until he goes homesies. That is really cool about G-ma and G-pa, haha they did that forever it seems like.

Anyweigh, this week was pretty normal, except for Saturday. I went on exchange to a bike area that morning. We went to Jack in the Box, then did service with some English elders. On the way back, one of the elders pulled out 2 boxes of Kool-Aid, and asked if I was down to do the Kool-Aid challenge. You think I wasn't down? Course I was, 6:29. Then I threw it all up. After that, we were riding around on our bikes, and the Elder I was with was a super fast guy on his bike, so I was following him, and he popped up onto a curb. I was comin in hot and clipped my pedal on this telephone pole so I took a little tumble... After a short ride in the ambulance to the ER, they said I was fine. Just kidding haha, no ambulance, no ER. Anywhey, I broke the pedal on impact, and took it into a bike shop, where they checked it out and said that the central crank was broken, or something. The thingy that goes in between the pedals, and it should be about $40 to fix. I feel so bad, and I don't really know what to do? It isn't that bad and I can still ride it around, but I don't really know what to do about the bike... Sorry again, I feel way bad. 

After that, I ate some fried pig skin and a habanero pepper. So that was a pretty eventful day. Hope you Had a Fun Week! Happy Birthday Month Mom!

Love, Colembre