5/13/2013. Our lives and our faith are centered on Jesus Christ and his restored gospel,

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5/10/2013.  Elder David Coffman "Lots of spaghetti haha."

 

5/10/2013.  Elder Coffman and Elder Oliver "More Spaghetti."  5/10/2013 Elder David Coffman and Elder Marcus Oliver.

well it was a really good time talking to you guys yesterday! i loved it. thanks for all talking to me. today when I was studying, i read a little quote from Howard W. Hunter. he siad ¨"If our lives and our faith are centered on Jesus Christ and his restored gospel, nothing can ever go permanently wrong. on the other hand, if our lives are not centered on the savior and his teachings, no other success can ever be permanently right¨ i read this and i really felt like i should share it with you guys. try to put Christ in the center of everything you do.  He is our Lord and our master and he lived the perfect ejemplo for us to follow. i know that if we follow his example, we will never be sad or go astray from the straight and narrow path. one of the modern day prophets we have invited us to make Christ the center of our lives. he said that doing this will not be a religious extremisim, it will only be the way that converted people live. everything that exists in the world is evidence that there is a God so we can easily make our lives evidence that there is a God and that Jesus is the Christ. remember that when we were baptized we took upon ourselves the name of Christ and we promised to be testigos de el en evervry momemnt even unto the death. try to live up to the baptismal covenant that you made. sometimes we get caught up in the other covenants that we make and the other things that the world presents to us, but the baptismal covenant is really the door that we enter and we can renovar this covenant every domingo. try and live up to the covenant that you made and do your best all the time and Christ’s grace will make up for the rest.

well i love you all and most of the time what gives me strength during the hard days is knowing that i  have an eternal family. adios

well mother, i put in my retainer last night and it worked just fine. i just like messing with you haha and i was going to by some mouth wash today but i forgot but my toothpaste is pretty good don´t worry. but i loved talking with you too. it was really nice to hear from you guys. you all look really happy and healthy

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brock i´m glad you are learning a lot about the Gospel! it is really awesome. i really started to like lifting when i was your age too. remember that when working out, 90% of what you do and of the results you´ll get comes from good nutrition so try and eat healthier and you´ll get stronger. as far as cool experiences go, we are helping 1 family out right now and the Gospel has really changed their lives. before, they never ate together and never really talked but now they all love eachothera lot and they we baptized the parents as well. well brock, i´m really proud of you and I’m glad you are considering a mission. you´ll be a great missionary. i know that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world and that his gospel brings true happiness to us in this life. i know that the book of mormon is true as well. well adios.

5/6/2013. Prayer is a true, powerful tool.

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4/30/2013  Elder David Coffman- "We found the iguana that "lost" it's tail haha and the big one."

well it sounds like this week was pretty good for you guys. busy but good. i guess that{s ok though because it helps you from going loco haha i{m really glad you guys got to go to the temple with Ali. i wish i could have been there too but obviously i am doing what the lord wants me to do. i{m glad the move is going good but that{s too bad about daddy{s leg! that sounds way painful. but michelle had the faith suficiente to help him feel better. that is really good michelle. the prayer is a true, powerful tool. also it is a commandment. i am so grateful for prayer. i don{t know what i would do as a missionary without it. the important thing is that you guys always pray as a family and as individuals. there are a couple of scriptures that describe this in the bom and dandc it is 2nefi 32 the whole chapter basically, 3 nefi 18 19-21, alma 34, some of the versiculos remind us to pray a lot. you should try reading  these as a family night. they are some of my favorites to share with my hermanos aqui en mexico. prayer really is a so powerful and it is exactly what we need to do if we want to have a better relation with God.

well as far as my week went, it was good. we saw some pretty good changes and bad changes in some people but as michelle did with daddy{s leg, we are going to pray to try and help the ones who are falling away and also do our best to help them out. also i got super sick for 2 days it was way weird because i had diarrhea for like 2 days straight where anything i ate or drank was out of me in like 1 hour. it was way bad but we kept working. also i was super tired. it was weird because i usually go to bed tired but always wake up good,but that day when i woke up sick, i was just dead so tired that i didn{t even exercise haha and i was falling asleep like in midsentence while i was talking or while my comp was talking. but we kept working and my comp gave me a blessing before we left and it was all good after that. until we saw some hermanas that were really worried and they were really scared for me so they gave me some medicine and the next day i was a little better but after that day i was fine. it was probably the most sick i{ve been on my mission but luckily it only lasted 2 days. well that was one big thing another was that i completed another month and i went through my first pair of shoes haha so that was this week. hopefully this week we will baptize the couple that are going to get married this week .

oh and also, we can skype! they told us that we can do it on tuesday so you guys can do the skype thing at 7:15 my time which should be 6:15 utah time. smexypapayas   is the name you have to search. well i{m super excited to do this with you guys os i{ll talk to you on sunday.

tell michelle i love her a lot. and mother happy mother’s days before hand. and thanks for everything. daddy, well i love you guys a lot and have great week and good luck finishing up the move and tell Stephen when he is in btown to visit my friends at sdch adios

4/29/2013 Two more baptisms this week and so grateful to be able to serve.

4/26/13.  Elder Coffman- “Our baptism of Sheyla y Jorge.  They are brother and sister and I had the privilege to baptize them it was funny because after I baptized Sheyla, before she left the font, she started playing around and started splashing me with water so i got more went than her haha.”

Elder Coffman, Sheyla & Jorge (brother and sister) and Elder Oliver.

4/26/2013.  Elder Coffman- “Tias de Shelya and Jorge.”

Elder David Coffman, Tias de Shelya and Jorge and Elder Oliver.

 

4/26/2013.  Elder Coffman- “Me and my son.”

Elder David Coffman and Elder Oliver.

 

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howdy. well one more change has gone by and we are now half way through with the 12 week training program. it has gone by super fast and i am so grateful for this opportunity to serve. we had 2 baptisms this week and they were super special for me because there were from the family that we are working a lot with. little by little we are helping this family to be eternal and that is what i love the most about helping the people. if they keep going strong in the Gospel, they will be able to return to God´s presence as a family. i am really grateful for the fact that our family is eternal and i sometimes catch myself almost bragging about it because i am so grateful for that fact that we can live together forever. More than anything i´m grateful for the atonement that makes this all possible. all we have to do is repent and we will be able to clean ourselves from the sins and become worthy of Gods mercy. i love seeing the changes in the families as they begin to feel the spirit and begin to live the Gospel. the atonement´s power is real.

well also this week we had a cool experience helping a lady. we saw her trying to walk and thought she had a disability but it was actually because she was so drunk she literally could not stand up straight. her shirt was stained with vomit and it was pretty hard to breathe when we approached her because she smelled like alcohol so much. but then as we approached her in the street, a thought came to my mind that we are all children of a father in heaven and what would Jesus do in this circumstance. so in spite of the throw up and bad smell and the fact that she not only walked super slow, but also in the opposite direction of where we needed to go, we each grabbed her hands and helped her to get to her house. we gave her a blessing when we got to her little cement home. it was a super dirty home and there were like 12 kids and it seemed like half of them were naked but again the thought came to me they are all children of our heavenly father. He’s not a respecter of persons. i love everyone and i love you guys. Remember the small things you can do every day to change people’s lives. if we wouldn’t´ have helped this hermana, she probably wouldn´t have gotten home in that same day because it was almost night and she was pretty far from her house. we can do miracles by doing small things for people. well that´s all i have to say this week adiosç

 adios y te amo mucho. is this week mother´s day? adios