June 10, 2013

Family and Friends,

 

I'll be staying another transfer here in Madison with Elder Campbell. I've been in Madison 12 weeks now! The time has flown!

 

Things are still a-ok for C--------'s baptism. It will be on Saturday at 11:00. The sisters and us are all really excited that we are staying for it. C--- and L-- (her recently reactivated LDS boyfriend) announced their engagement yesterday. We are super excited for them!

 

Highlight of our week of course was our trip to the temple on Wednesday. For some missionaries that was their last opportunity to see President and Sister Holzapfel. I'll see them at transfers (ZLs go to every transfer meeting now) and at a leadership training meeting two days before he heads out. We are excited for President and Sister Hanks!

http://www.lds.org/church/events/the-work-of-salvation-missionary-broadcast?lang=eng

 

We had a successful zone training meeting on Tuesday.

 

I had great teaching opportunities on exchanges this week. I actually taught more lessons on exchange than with Elder Campbell. I went on exchange with Elder Barker in Guntersville on Tuesday. We taught P---, one of their  investigators. Wednesday after the temple trip we spent a couple hours in Cullman, where we taught C-----. Friday and Saturday we did a "tripanionship exchange" where I went with the Cullman Elders and Elder Campbell went with the Guntersville Elders. I had an AMAZING baptism interview on friday with S----, a husband in a part-member family and who has been coming to church with his family for about a year. Definitly the spiritual highlight of the week (besides the temple) - He has a rock-solid testimony. It really builds my faith when I meet people like him who the Lord has truly prepared.

 

 

-- 

Elder Coleman Madsen

Alabama Birmingham Mission

194 Shelton Rd #116

Madison AL 35758

colemansmissionblog.blogspot.com

June 3, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!

 

Hope everyone is well. We've had a great, wonderful week.

 

I realized that I haven't told you anything about Elder Campbell. I always forget to tell yall the most important things. Elder Campbell and I get along really well. He's very musical (President likes to give me musical companions) plays the piano and has composed a lot of his own music.

 

I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I've had the mission violin with me for about 6 months now. Sisters Wells, Hathenbruck, Elder Campbell and I did a musical number on Thursday at zone conference (My Heavenly Father Loves Me) and Elder Hatch (cellist - Elder Kelley's companion in Greenville), Elder Campbell and I did a musical number on Friday at Mission Leadership Council. It's been a great blessing to have the violin. We've done a lot of musical numbers this last week in lessons  and the music has really added to the spirit of the lessons.

 

We finally taught E--- this week. Monday we had a lesson with him one-on-one, and then Wednesday the B----s (member family in 3rd ward) invited us to dinner and E--- was there so we taught them. Between the two lessons we taught him the plan of salvation.

 

We've been working with L--- a lot the last couple weeks. She is a relatively recent convert who is struggling with the recent loss of her mother.  We had a really good lesson with her last night at a member's home.

 

C-------- is being baptized next weekend! I hope I don't get transferred! Elder Campbell and I taught her the plan of salvation yesterday with her boyfriend's parents, both of whom are strong active members visiting from Arkansas. She was able to recognize the spirit, which is awesome. That (recognizing the spirit) really I think is the key for people investigating the church. Once they recognize the spirit influencing them to follow the path the missionaries and others help lead them on, the conversion process truly starts to take place. We feel really good about June 15th being the right time for her to be baptized.

We had our Madison Zone Conference last Thursday. Our zone had the honor of attending President Holzapfel's last zone conference he will ever conduct as a mission president. The training focused a lot on Chs8 & 9 of Preach My Gospel. Friday was their last Mission Leadership Council. We talked a lot about the mission president transition and how we can make it smoother.

 

These two meetings were some of the greatest, most spiritual I have ever attended. I admire the Holzapfels so much. They truly lead and teach by example, and I will miss them so much! And even though I will miss them so much, I am very excited for President and Sister Hanks to come. I know that they have been called of God to lead this mission at this specific time

-- 

Elder Coleman Madsen

Alabama Birmingham Mission

194 Shelton Rd #116

Madison AL 35758

colemansmissionblog.blogspot.com

Got the photo with the Holzapfels. Don't have sd card with me today, but I will get it to you. 
DO NOT MAIL THE BIRTHDAY PACKAGE TO MADISON

 

Transfers will be on June 12th (my birthday) and I will be doing a musical number there, which suggests that I may be transferred. I would wait to send it until after we know.

May 28, 2013

Short letter today. I'm in the process of writing a handwritten letter to y'all. Should send it in the next couple days. It's been a really good week. We were in Athens and Decatur on exchange. We're getting prepped for zone conference on Thursday, and we'll have Mission Leadership Council on Friday.

 

We taught E--- yesterday. This was the first time Elder Campbell was able to teach him. He is dating a woman in 3rd ward and we are having a meal appointment with them and her family on Wednesday. We are just trying to have more contact with them.

 

June I think is going to be a really successful month in our zone. We have more than 10 baptism dates set.

 

Last week we taught a less active (R---) and his catholic wife (W------) the message of the restoration. They were really excited about it. They were out of town for the weekend but we should have a lesson with them later this week.

 

Thanks for the pictures, I love to see them!

 There's a session of the seminar for new mission presidents that will be broadcast church-wide at the end of next month. It's for full-time missionaries and certain stake and ward leaders, but all interested members are also invited. Make sure you get there! It's going to be a good broadcast!

Elder Madsen

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Elder Coleman Madsen

Alabama Birmingham Mission

194 Shelton Rd #116

Madison AL 35758

colemansmissionblog.blogspot.com

May 20, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!

 

Very productive week this last week! Wednesday we had district meeting in Guntersville, then did an exchange with the elders there. I was on exchange with Elder Lebaron, one of our district leaders. We were able to find and teach some african and haitian immigrants at some projects just outside of Guntersville. Two ethiopian investigators came to church Sunday in Guntersville and we are in the process of getting them amharic Book of Mormons and other literature to help them teach themselves, since they speak very little english.

 

This last week was the week of baptismal dates for our zone! After our exchange in Guntersville we made our way to Cullman. Elder Powell (one of the Cullman elders) and myself went to see C-----, one of their investigators, and committed her to be baptized in June.

 

In our area we and the sisters have had a lot of success as well. Our wards are so large that sometimes non-members show up at church and we don't hear about it until after the fact. Thursday we had a meal appointment with a recently re-activated member, and his nonmember girlfriend showed up. The sisters were there, so they were able to answer a lot of question. She committed to be baptized yesterday in Gospel Principles. We set a baptismal date with J---, a former investigator, on Saturday; the sisters set a baptismal date with a 15-year old girl named N------ earlier this last week,; and we got a call last night from the zone leaders in Huntsville saying that the sisters in Huntsville found a girl who has been to church now and really wants to be baptized who lives in the Madison 2nd Ward boundaries. We're really excited!

I've run out of time (as usual). Love you all. thanks for everything you do. I pray for you!

I saw the released drawing of the Meridian Idaho ATemple on LDS.org! It's amazing!

-- 

Elder Coleman Madsen

Alabama Birmingham Mission

194 Shelton Rd #116

Madison AL 35758

colemansmissionblog.blogspot.com

May 13, 2013

Hello Family!

 

I really enjoyed talking to you on Sunday! I wish we had more time, but I enjoyed the time that I had.

 

We've been busy this last week. Elder Campbell and I conducted a zone training meeting from 12:30 to 3 on Tuesday, and did an exchange with the Cullman Elders after that. I was with Elder  Van Wagenen (Craig and Tyler's cousin) here in Madison. The assistants came up on Wednesday night and spent Thursday with us. It was a really helpful exchange, both Elder Campbell and I learned a lot. I was with Elder Kaupert (my trainer) and it was really neat to be serving with him again. We (Elder Kaupert and I) went down to Decatur and worked with those elders Thursday. The assistants left Friday Morning.

 

We had a really neat service experience last night. We (the elders and the sisters) were invited to participate in an end-of-the-year music recital at a senior center for a lady in third ward's piano studio. Elder Campbell did piano, I did violin, and the sisters sang. We got to mingle and uplift a lot of older folks. There also were some potentials in her studio she had wanted us to meet that we were able to get to know.

 

We had our "Pizza, Polish and Play" zone activity yesterday in Decatur where we waxed all of our mission cars. It went really well.

 

E---, M------ and D------- were all at church on Sunday. Their schedules have been super busy so we haven't been able to teach them this last week. There's a whole lot of potential and real intent there though.

 

Well, I pretty much told you everything else when I talked to you. Have a great week!

 

Elder Madsen

 

 

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Elder Coleman Madsen

Alabama Birmingham Mission

194 Shelton Rd #116

Madison AL 35758

colemansmissionblog.blogspot.com

May 6, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!

 

Well, we've had a really busy week. Tuesday Elder Oslapas and Elder Cowan said goodbye to Madison on Tuesday. Because Elder Campbell was becoming my companion, we actually didn't go to the transfer meeting on Wednesday. He drove up here Wednesday morning and Elder Lebaron (his previous companion) drove Elder Oslapas and Elder Cowan to transfers. Elder Oslapas is a zone leader in Birmingham, and Elder Cowan was transferred to the Magnolia Branch (in the Montgomery Stake). Elder Campbell and I spent Wednesday in Huntsville and taught J---- and A-----. I don't think I mentioned them yet (I don't know why) but J---- is a less-active and A----- is a non-member, and they have a couple-month-year-old girl named Skyla. We've set a marriage date for them and a baptism date for A----- later this month! We saw a few other investigators that day as well.

 

Thursday and Friday we spent in Birmingham for zone leader training and Mission Leadership Council. We probably had close to 10 hours of training altogether. It was a really neat experience, especially to see the sisters very involved. Last Wednesday's transfer was a big transfer, and 9 of the 20 zone leaders at the training were brand new. Elder Hunt and Elder Forbes, both from my MTC District, are zone leaders now too. 4 previous companions (Elder Hunt, Elder Kaupert, Elder Kelley and Elder Oslapas) were at the meetings. Sister Bush and Sister Murray (previous Madison Sisters) were there as Sister Training Leaders.  I could probably talk all day about the training we received. President and Sister Holzapfel just came back from the area mission president's seminar, so they had some training that they received there. President is amazing! Sister Holzapfel, President Phillips and the assistants also gave training. We spent Thursday night in Cahaba Heights with Elders Jensen and Fredrickson. We went out with their branch mission leader and taught some people.

 

Elder Campbell is from Roseville CA. He came out 6 weeks before me. He went to BYUI before his mission. He's a great missionary and really easy to get along with. I'm excited to work with him.

-- 

Elder Coleman Madsen

Alabama Birmingham Mission

194 Shelton Rd #116

Madison AL 35758

colemansmissionblog.blogspot.com

April 29, 2013

By the way, Happy anniversary! I didn't remember until Tuesday, and since we only go to the store on Mondays I wasn't able to send a card in time. But I did remember! Hope it went well.

Hello Family and Friends!

 

We got our transfer calls this morning. I will be staying in Madison, and Elder Oslapas and Elder Cowan will be leaving. This transfer went by SO FAST! Both Madison sisters will be leaving as well, so I will be the only Madison missionary staying!

 

I wanted to start out with more of a spiritual thought than a report of my week. They had a new missionary training meeting this week, and while we didn't attend, we received a summary of what was taught there. A point that President Holzapfel made was "in missionary work, it's definitely ok to be overwhelmed : it drives you to your knees". I thought back on my mission, and I realized that the times I've progressed the most have been the times I've been totally overwhelmed and not felt adequate. In those times I've just had to have faith, do everything I can, and know that God will make up the difference. Prayer is an amazing source of spiritual strength - both on and off the mission.

 

The South-east area of the church is putting on a YSA conference this summer - it's a really big deal! Missionary work is a big focus, and they are hoping for more than 100 baptisms in the region because of it. The kick-off devotional was last night. President Holzapfel is super-excited about it, and has told us to do whatever we can to assist in the effort.

I will write more next week. ran out of time

 

Love you!

-- 

Elder Coleman Madsen

Alabama Birmingham Mission

194 Shelton Rd #116

Madison AL 35758

colemansmissionblog.blogspot.com

April 22, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!   We've had a great, wonderful week in Madison Alabama!   I'm really enjoying our new tripanionship! Adding a third person definitely changes the dynamics (especially with teaching) but things have been going great, and we get along really well.   Our weekly exchanges took me to Decatur, where I worked with Elder Swan (one of our district leaders) while Elder Oslapas and Elder Cowan were in Athens. Not a lot of appointments set beforehand but we found them quite a few new investigators. I probably mention this every letter, but I really enjoy going on exchanges. If you go into the exchange with the right mindset and are focused you can get so much out of it. After the exchange Elder Oslapas and I trained at the Decatur District Meeting.   Awesome Missionary Experience: We had a teaching appointment with M------ on Saturday, and when we got there D------- (M's girlfriend) was there as well, and we ended up teaching her a first lesson. She had been coming to church with him the last few weeks, and we had been trying to arrange for her to meet with the sisters, but she was always busy and it didn't work out. Last weekend, however, she was in Boston running the marathon when all that drama with the bombs happened. She had finished the race about 30 minutes before the bombs went off [so she was fine] but she definitely was still shaken by the experience. Anyways, the lesson went really well. We answered a lot of questions she had about the church and gave her a Book of Mormon. The relief society has given her a lot of fellowship, and she and M------ both have been involved with YSA activities.   E---- has been doing well since his baptism last weekend. We've had a few teaching visits with him, and have introduced him to more members of the ward. There are a few members living in the same apartment complex, so that should really help him with the adjusting to "mormon life".   We have another mid-transfer in our zone today. President Holzapfel has assigned our new sister training leaders, and Sister Murray (serving with us in Madison and previously served in Montgomery when I was down there) is leaving today to serve as a STL in the Tupelo Zone with Sister Leifson from Eagle! (Sister Training Leaders serve with other STLs just like zone leaders). We'll be getting a new sister to take her place. We won't have STLs in the Madison zone yet but the ones in Huntsville are also assigned to work with our sisters. This whole Sister leaders thing is new and different but we are really excited for it! [almost as excited as the sisters :)    President and Sister Holzapfel will be coming and teaching with us and the sisters tonight!   I can't believe that this first transfer in Madison is almost over! It has flown by so fast! I wanted to (belatedly) thank you for the wonderful packages and things you have sent me! I loved the bag that the easter eggs were in! The Raspberry Chipotle sauce that yall sent me while I was in Highland Home I saved and opened just a couple weeks ago. It's a big hit, both Elder Oslapas and Elder Cowan really like it.   Mom and Dad, I loved your photos of your trip. I'm honestly jealous!   Rachel, I'm excited for your choir tryouts. Are the callbacks just for PB or for Sonous as well?  Elder Oslapas is a pianist, and we've definitly been taking advantage of that. We performed at E's baptism, and Bishop B (3rd) and Bro C (1st) liked it so much that we played yesterday in both of their wards as special musical numbers. Love yall!   Elder Madsen --  Elder Coleman Madsen Alabama Birmingham Mission 194 Shelton Rd #116 Madison AL 35758 colemansmissionblog.blogspot.com

April 15, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!

 

We experienced a baptism this last weekend in Madison Alabama! E---- was so excited, and the ward has been so helpful in providing friendship. He had been taught by Elder Andoh-Kesson and Elder Oslapas before, but he didn't come to church so baptism wasn't really an option. We re-committed him to baptism three weeks ago when I got here and really started to keep his commitments. He completed every BOM reading assignment we gave him! It was a really good weekend.

 

Today's been kind of crazy! I'm actually emailing from Cullman right now, which is about an hour south of Madison. We had our zone activity this morning in Decatur from 9-11. Sister K--- got injured so we had to cut it short. She and a few of the other sisters are at the Decatur Hospital right now. We're not exactly sure what is up (doctors have to do x-rays), but please keep her in your prayers! After we got her to the hospital we drove down here to Cullman to exchange for our mid-transfer. Elder Cowan is with Elder Oslapas and me now. After we do e-mails we'll head back up to Madison.

 

I've been able to see more areas in our zone this week. We've been to Decatur a couple of times. The Tennessee River is SO BEAUTIFUL!! It's almost a mile wide at Decatur. We plan on coming back to Decatur for a full-length exchange later this week. The weather has been so nice lately. April is the best month (weather-wise) in Alabama (besides tornadoes). Mostly 65-75 degree days. Speaking of tornadoes, the storm last Thursday was kind of crazy. We're so lucky that we have weather radios and text alerts. Missionaries 50 years ago had no idea when the weather was getting bad. No tornadoes touched down near us though. The Lord will provide!

 

I've only briefly mentioned the large concentration of engineers and US DOD contractors in Madison in past letters. This last week, Elder Oslapas and I had an amazing opportunity to go on the Redstone Arsenal. A member here is the commander of the Flight Test Directorate of the US Army, which is headquartered on the arsenal. I have some pretty cool pictures that I'll send from that. We were able to tour some of the hangars and see some really neat aircraft.

 

I don't think I've said much about Elder Oslapas yet. He is 21 from Bellingham Washington. Loves airplanes! (He did two years of flight school before he came out). He is an amazing missionary. Don't know very much about Elder Cowan yet (since we've only been with him for a couple of hours) but I'm sure I will get to know more. He is from Colorado Springs.

 

 We had quarterly interviews with President Holzapfel this last Saturday. I enjoy every opportunity I get to learn more from that man. I will miss Sister Holzapfel and him so much when they go. They are planning on coming back in a week or so and teaching with us!

 

While President was here, he gave Elder Oslapas and me special permission to attend the stake music training workshop that was going on. We attended an advanced organ class, which was really informative. I learned a lot, especially about setting different registrations (different combinations of stops for different voices). I'm a much better pianist now than I was a year ago, and this training helped me apply a lot of that to the organ.

 

So much to talk about, and as usual, not enough time. Sorry I didn't focus so much on missionary stuff this time, but there was a lot of non-missionary experiences this last week that I wanted to share. The work is going so well here! We've set a few baptism dates this last week and have gotten over 10 member referrals! A lot of good stuff is coming!

 

Love,

 

Elder Coleman Madsen

April 8, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!

 

Hope you are having a great week this week! Conference, as always, was amazing. All of our investigators were able to watch at least some of conference at home, and Edwin actually came to church and watched the Saturday Afternoon and Sunday Morning Sessions with us. It was a very missionary-themed conference.

 

Our exchanges this last week took us to Guntersville AL, about an hour south of Madison. I worked with Elder Campbell, one of our district leaders (knows McKenzie J). It's a very beautiful area. The city itself is on a small peninsula extending onto Lake Guntersville. I really enjoy exchanges. They give you an opportunity to see someone else's teaching style, and you just learn a lot of things.

 

Friday night President announced that Salt Lake has instructed the mission to assign "sister training leaders", a new leadership position for sisters. We don't really know the specifics or how many there will be, but they will attend our monthly leadership council with the assistants and zone leaders.

Our zone training meeting that Elder Oslapas and I conducted went well on Tuesday. I was so stressed out about it, but the spirit really kicked in and helped. It ended up being almost 3 1/2 hours.

 

Our zone has 16 elders and sisters (a relatively small zone) with 2 districts of 8 people.

 

One of our missionaries in Cullman is a visa missionary for Brazil, and this morning received his visa. There's going to be some switching up in the next week. When I email next Monday, Elder Oslapas and I will be in a tripanionship with Elder Cowan (from Athens). His companion (Elder Cowan) will go to Cullman to replace Elder Measles (the visa missionary) and serve with Elder Van Wagenen. This Elder Van Wagenen just so happens to be Craig and Tyler's cousin! Diana had mentioned that he was serving here before I left, but since I've been in the south of the mission until now I forgot about it. Elder Oslapas and I will remain the zone leaders.

 

E is really progressing to baptism. He was able to meet some more members of the ward Saturday and Sunday and is super excited about the whole thing. He's been taught everything. If all goes well it will happen on Friday.

Zone leaders pretty much have unlimited miles. We're trying not to abuse it, but both of our bikes are in need of repair right now, so we've actually not done any bike riding yet.  With what I said about the miles don't interpret that as I'm being lazy. We're still working real hard. It's just that with at least one exchange a week we don't have time to bike.

The mission is really helping me learn to handle stress. I'm really grateful that I'm in a small zone in this leadership transition. If I had been in my former Montgomery zone (with almost 40 missionaries) that would have killed me!:)

As I said, conference was wonderful! I loved seeing the BYU choir perform Saturday Afternoon (I recognized a lot of people, including Allie S--- from Eagle)! I was actually kind of sad for me that I wasn't there with them. But what I'm doing is more important. I really enjoyed both of President Monson's addresses. I always enjoy them, but this conference I think they may have been my favorite talks. Elder Perry also did an inspiring job.

 

I really liked the 4 steps President Monson gave in Priesthood:

1. Search the Scriptures Diligently

2. Plan with a purpose

3. Teach the truth with testimony and

4. Serve the Lord with love.

I'm really going to try and apply those thoughts to my mission. His talk gave me a lot of insight and answers to missionary questions I had been looking for.

 

We've been teaching E and M (&others) as well. We taught E again on Thursday and basically went over the baptismal interview questions with him. He's progressing, but his baptism honestly probably won't be for a few more weeks. M is just really struggling receiving an answer right now. He has a great desire to make the right decision.

 Well, I think that's everything. Hope you all have a great week. Im glad that I was able to transfer the pics. Now I can focus on actually taking pictures in my new area!

 

I love you all!

 

Elder Coleman Madsen

April 1, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!
 
Things have been going well in Madison! We were able to go to the temple on Tuesday. 
After the temple trip, we went on an exchange in Athens, which is about 25 minutes west 
of Madison. We spent the night there and came back to Madison Wednesday morning.
 
We committed Ed--- to baptism on Friday (April 12th). He's been to church twice now - 
sadly he wasn't able to come yesterday. He had to take some pretty severe medicine (for 
his MS) the day before and he just wasn't able to come. He's still really excited about 
everything though. He's been to church twice.
 
Er-- is another investigator we have. He's dating a member of the church and has been 
having the discussions for a few months. He just really wants to make sure that he is 
making the right decision, and that he doesn't join the church for the wrong reasons. 
He's come to church both Sundays, but between the two he got pretty sick so we weren't 
able to teach him this last week. We have an appt scheduled in a couple of days.
 
M--- is another investigator we have. He's also been investigating for a while, and 
really enjoys church. He is just having difficulty recognizing the spirit, and in turn, 
an answer of whether it's all true. He has been coming to church really regular, and for 
the last 3 sundays has brought his girlfriend with him. She's really felt at home in

relief society and we're trying to arrange for the sisters to go over there and teach her.

Mom to answer your question - Missionaries are organized into "districts" with 
a district leader, and districts are organized into "zones" with two zone 
leaders. Up until this transfer we had 6 zones in the mission and 12 zone leaders, but 
because of the rapidly growing numbers they created 3 new zones, so now we have 9 zones 
(18 zone leaders). The zone leader position is unique because our proselyting area is 
techniquely the whole zone (which is all of the missionaries in the Madison Alabama 
Stake). We go on exchanges a lot (at least once a week), and conduct training. Elder 
Oslapas ("oh-sh-la-paz") and I will be conducting a 3-hour long zone training 
meeting tomorrow.
 
We had zone leader council in Birmingham on Friday (probably on the blog) with all the 
zone leaders, the assistants, and a couple sister companionships that President specially 
invited. (Since a lot of the decisions we make are about sisters, President wants to make 
sure their voice is heard). By the way, you probably saw this but Elder Kaupert(Coleman's 
first companion) is the new assistant. It was over 5 hours long and it was a new 
experience to be trained by President in that kind of a setting (it was kind of intense). 
I enjoyed it though.

((from Susan - A good friend of mine growing up, Janet, lives in Decatur AL with hubby 

Jim and their kids--Colemans zone!!))   

Both the Decatur Elders and Sisters have mentioned in calls we've had that they've met 
Sister B-- and that she's asked about me. The Decatur Sisters asked for my address 
because evidently she wants to send me a package. We'll probably be headed to Decatur on 
exchange some time next week.

Well, I'm about to be booted off the computer. Hope y'all have a great week!
 
Love
 
Elder Coleman Madsen

March 25, 2013

Coleman was transferred last Wednesday.  He is serving as a zone leader and is in a 
new area in the north of the mission. Coleman's new address is:

194 Shelton Road #116
Madison, AL 35758


Hello Family and Friends!
 
Hello from Madison, Alabama! Wow, this is a really big change! So much to talk about this 
time.
 
I am serving with Elder Oslapas in the Madison 1st, 2nd and 3rd Wards. The 
Huntsville/Madison area is big on engineering. NASA and the DoD have operations here. The area has the 2nd most number of government contractors in the nation - 2nd only to the 
Washington DC/Arlington area. This attracts a lot of people from Utah and Idaho (Mormons) so there are a lot of mormons here (it's nicknamed "the mormon bubble"). It 
feels like I'm serving in Utah (no joke!).
 
Our zone covers the entire Madison Stake, which includes the Madison wards, the Decatur 
ward, the Athens ward, the Cullman ward and the Guntersville Ward. If you know anyone in 
those areas let me know - I'll probably end up going on exchanges in all of them.
 
We had an amazing music missionary opportunity this last weekend. The Huntsville and 
Madison stakes put on an "Easter Cantata" with a 90-voice choir and actors. It was a

community event and there were a lot of non-members there (we had 3 investigators). 
I was blown away-it was amazing. They had amazing sound - almost MOTAB quality, and 
that's coming from one of the harshest music critics you'll ever meet :) . They performed 
Saturday and Sunday Nights.

It was a little overwhelming being assigned to a completely new part of the mission as a 
zone leader. The first couple of days I thought I was going to die. But I'm a lot better 
now. God really is always there to support us when we need him. I feel like I'll grow a 
lot this next transfer, which is good. This area is about as opposite of Highland Home/

Greenville/Montgomery area as you can get, but there is a lot of work to be done here.
 
I forgot to mention this earlier in my letter, but since we are assigned to all 3 wards we 

attend them all, so we are in church from 8:30 to 4:30. I probably met close to 600 people 

yesterday between all 3.
 
As you know, sister missionaries continue to come and bless our mission. In Madison we 
also have a set of sisters (Decatur and Athens have sisters as well). I've only been here 
for a few days, but I've been able to see the amazing ways that only sisters can bless 
the lives of people they interact with.
 
Gosh, too many investigators to mention right now. One we've worked a lot these last few 
days with is E---. He is Puerto Rican and grew up in spanish Harlem.  We went over to his 

house and taught him Thursday and Friday, and he came with us to the cantata Saturday 

and to church Sunday. 

Bad news - the Madison library has really old computers that don't have SD card slots, so 
it will probably take a while for me to get my pictures to you - I've taken a lot in the 
last week.
 
Don't have a lot of time now --Love you!
 
Elder Coleman Madsen


Totally forgot to mention this - we will be going to the temple tomorrow! We are really 
excited for that. I don't think I'll see anyone from my old stomping grounds though, I 
think that Montgomery is coming another day.
 
You probably saw on the blog how historic this transfer was in the mission. So many sisters! 3 of our zones split as well  so now we have 9 zones.

March 18, 2013

Hello Family and Friends,

(this is in response to a question Susan had about the email policy--someone told me that it has changed and anyone can email missionaries, not just immediate family).  I only email y'all and the mission president. That's my preference. I think she may be right though that the rule has been changed, because pretty much every other missionary I know also emails other people.  It is MUCH more convenient for me to receive letters in the mail than via email. I only have 1 hour to do my weekly letter to y'all and my weekly report to the mission president. When people (including y'all) send me e-mails instead of letters, it is much less likely that I will respond, because it's not usually convenient to print.

Hope everything is going well. The weather has been beautiful here in Alabama. It has been a busy but good last couple of weeks.

 

Well, I'm leaving Highland Home. It doesn't really suprise me. I have now spent almost 9 months in my first area (Highland Home & Greenville) and, though I'll miss a lot of people, I'm ready for change. Elder Cusick will be staying on.

 

We've been working pretty hard this last week here. We've taught E-- two really good lessons, and she's been progressing really well. She has really become a part of the branch here the last couple of months. We've been continuing to work with V-- and her family. So far as we know she hasn't been back to the hospital. She came to the Relief Society activity, and she and S-- were at the branch Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday.

 

I'll find out where my new assignment is at transfer meeting on Wednesday.  I'll let you know where I end up, and will send you some final Highland Home pictures.  Missionaries tell me that the more north you go (in the mission) it is much more like out west. A lot of people from Utah live out there. We'll see!

 

Love you!

 

Elder Madsen

March 11, 2013

Dear Family,

Hope everything is well!  Thanks for your letters.  I enjoy hearing from you.

We've had a good week in Highland Home.  Because of spread out appointments, we spent every day in the Highland home/Sardis area.  We've really been trying to focus on contacting less-active families.

We've had some interesting experiences eating at people's houses.  I don't know if I have ever mentioned this, but southerners LOVE mayo.  They put it on everything.  The official worst thing I have had to eat so far on my mission is pears with dollops of mayo on them, sprinkled with shredded cheddar cheese.  They call it "pear salad". (Could be much worse!!)

While in Highland Home this second time, I  have been serving as the branch pianist.  It's been a good learning experience and I've been able to expand my hymn repertoire:)

I've also had the mission violin for about 7 weeks now.  This last Sunday I did a 2nd musical number with our investigator E--- in Sacrament Meeting.  This has been a great way to help her feel like she's part of the branch.  She was kind of pushed by other missionaries into baptism.  She still has some unresolved concerns but they are being resolved, I think.  It may take her time but I'm pretty sure she'll be baptized in the next year or so.  For some people it just takes time.

B---'s (an investigator) brother has had surgery this last week, and it has kind of limited our opportunities to teach them.  Setting a baptism date with her is just going to take sitting down and asking her.  She already believes in the church and as been reading "Our Heritage" and the Book of Mormon.  Our toughest thing teaching them will be finding time that works--they are very involved people.

Next time you hear from me will probably be after our transfer instruction calls!  We get a whole ton of new sisters this transfer so there will be a lot of changes.  Both Elder Cusick and I have been here in the area 4 transfers now, so really anything could happen.

Well, sorry this is short!  I want to get  this out in the Tuesday mail so you can get it on Friday.  How are y'all doing in your Book of Mormon Reading?  Still alive?  (mission is reading the entire book of mormon by the 6 of April. They started in Jan and every family was invited to participate with their missionary).

Love you!

Elder Coleman Madsen

March 4, 2013 Letter

Dear Family,

Hope you are having a great day today (whenever you get this letter)! sorry that I wasn't able to email you during the normal time on Monday.  We had some extra things we had to communicate to President holzapfel, and it took most of the time. 

Well, V- is in the hospital again:(  We were able to get the Carter Hill Elders to go over and give her a blessing in the hospital.  She's supposed to get out soon, but this is probably the 4th or 5th time she's been in the hospital in the 2 transfers I've been back. I'd appreciate it if you'd put her name on the prayer roll of the Boise Temple.  I don't think she's been in very good shape.

Well, I'm more than 1/3 done! I can't believe it.  It goes by so fast.  I still can't believe I'm still in this same area:)

This area is different in ways than other areas of this mission.  It has the nicest people you will ever meet.  The work with the less actives is what is different.  The branch is used to the missionaries being the priesthood--we sometimes feel like the branch home teachers.  We just wish we had more time to find people.  I feel like we are moving in the right direction though.  We're focusing right now on contacting those we don't know on the roster (the roster has around 250 people).We hope that in doing so they will have unbaptized family members we can teach.

I wanted to tell you a little more about Elder Cusick.  I've enjoyed serving with him so much.  He was born in Germany.  His dad was in the military and his mom is a native German.  He went to BYU for 3 years before his mission and plans on majoring in history when he gets back. (history--this explains why Coleman gets along so well with him!)  He used to have long hair and a beard (before BYU) and wore kilts!

I don't know if I mentioned this, but Elder Hawley isn't in Greenville (my old area) anymore.  Elder Ellesworth from Springville UT is his replacement, a missionary 5 months out.  He and Elder Kelley are a good team!

The incoming hoard of sisters:) is approaching!  Last I heard, this next transfer meeting we will have 22 sisters and 1 elder coming from the MTC.  This is exciting!  More and more elders are losing cars though.  Salt Lake isn't really increasing the # of cars and they require every sister companionship to have them. It will be interesting to see the changes come.  There will be some tension in the mission, there's already a little bit.  I just try to sustain my leaders and keep working though.

I haven't explained a lot about our vehicles.  We have special devices called "tiwis" (tee-wees) that regulate the car speed, acceleration, etc.  If you go more tha 5 or 6 over the speed limit it barks at you.  Pretty much most areas (right now) have a car, but all (besides President and the assistants) have mileage limitations.  The zone leaders are given miles for the whole zone, and they in turn give miles to all of us.  All of our trips are included in those miles.

One Day later -- V-- is back from the hospital (thank goodness) but turns out that she had a heart attack in the hospital. They were doing a nuclear stress test on her heart and had to use chemicals to get her heart rate up. Somehow they forgot to have the chemicals on hand to take her out of that state, so the doctors frantically rushed to get them (the chemicals) while she went into the heart attack.  She survived it, but just barely.  She was dead for a minute or two.  So please pray for her!:)

Well I'm tickled (that's what they say down here) to have been able to have written y'all (and to have time to write).  Thank you for your packages and letters!  Congrats on the great festival scores for Spence, Rachel and Hannah!  I'm very proud!

Love,

Elder Madsen

February 25, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!

 

Great Week this Week! Having Elder Christofferson come to the mission was amazing! It would take me too long to adequately even summarize what was shared. We got to see him at the Mission Conference on Saturday and then at the Montgomery Stake Conference on Sunday. This was the third stake conference we've had in less than 6 months!

 

Saturday Sister Christofferson gave an excellent talk about how the Lord will give us only what we are prepared to receive. Elder Christofferson gave us the big news that 58 new missions are being created, and gave us training on working with local leaders. After his training he answered some of our questions.

 

We also heard from Elder Soares (opening our mouths), Bishop Causse (coming and following), and Elder Bluth (Area Seventy)(Keys for Receiving Revelation). It was amazing to hear from so many leaders!

 

Yesterdays meeting was also good. Best part: We had 65 members from Highland Home there! That is by far an all-time record for number of members who come up for stake conference (it's usually in the teens). What was really cool is that we had probably 8 people who haven't come to church in months and years!

 

There was a great spirit that we felt the whole weekend!

 

Today we are having a "zone activity" (party) in Montgomery from 12.30 to 4. I guess they have these once a year. Won't have a lot of time to email and all that preparation stuff, but I guess thats just how that goes.

 

We saw and taught W-- and B--  on Tuesday. It was longer than typical (and usually appropriate) but it was very beneficial and we got to know them very well. We're excited to continue teaching them.

 

We had the korean sisters (&american companions) come down yesterday after conference. The american sisters were able to work with some less-active girls in our area while the koreans taught the K-- family. Pray for their family right now, they are struggling with employment.

 

Love you all

Elder Coleman Madsen

Wow! 2 new missions in Idaho! (Twin Falls and Nampa!)

February 18, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!

 

Hope yall are doing great! We've had a great week in Highland Home.

 

Yesterday at church was good. S-- and S-- were confirmed, and we had a "linger-longer" yesterday after church with lots of food and fellowship.

 

We are very excited on working with C-- and B-- granddaughter B--- this week. She is not a member of the church.

 

The Highland Home branch has for a long time struggled with their young men and women. With S-- and S--s baptism and B-- coming to church this has been a great addition to their numbers. We plan on putting effort at inviting many of the less-active youth to church and activities. There is a lot of potential with these youth and their families. We feel if the youth start coming eventually the parents will come with them.

 

Love

Elder Madsen

If you all want me to respond to you personally, your best bet is to send me a letter in the mail. I just don't have enough time to do it via email. We have to do our emails to President in the same hour we email yall.

February 11, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!

 

Well, we had three baptisms on Saturday! It was a great way to finish out the transfer. ( Susan :  V---, S--- and S--- were baptized on Saturday.  Can you believe this is all he sent us? You've got to love teenage boys, even if they are missionaries!:)

 

Bad news: We haven't found out about transfers yet. President texted us last night and said our transfer calls will be delayed til tonight. Ill email y'all tonight when I get the word (or tomorrow if its too late).

 

We had a great zone conference on Friday. President Holzapfel gave us some great training. I did a couple musical numbers (a men's quartet and a violin number). Learned something interesting at zone conference: Two elders in my zone (Elder Redd and Elder T_-M_ ) know Kylie. They went to the same high school as her. Thought that was kind of cool.

 

Not a lot of time to talk today. On Thursday y'all should get a letter with the baptism program from Saturday. From now on I'll send those so you can have them.

 

Elder Christoffersen is coming next weekend, and turns out he'll actually be in Montgomery on Sunday! We're all (missionaries and members) really excited for that!

 

Love y'all!

 

 

Elder Coleman Madsen

post script from that evening email:

I will be staying in Highland Home with Elder Cusick for next transfer!

 

Love

 

Elder Madsen

Baptism photos are coming once I figure out our new computer configuration!

February 7, 2013 Snail Mail

Dear Family,

It's been a while since I've updated you via snail mail.  Thank you for the package I received!  I'll take this opportunity to update you about things that I haven't had time to do via email.

Mom, you asked about Elder Christofferson's coming visit.  He will be visiting our mission this month and will be accompanied by Bishop Causse and Elder Soares of the Presidency of the Seventy.  Elder Soares supervises the North America SE area and President Holzapfel reports to him.

Initially, we were going to have 2 multi-zone conferences (1 each day) with him.  Plans have changed and we'll be having a mission conference on one day.  The mission as a whole gathers all together only when an apostle comes, so this will be a unique experience.  We have 30 extra minutes of morning study every day until Elder Christofferson comes.  In that time as a companionship we are studying the talks Elder Christofferson has given as an apostle.

President H hasn't given me details about what I'll need to do music-wise yet.

By the way, next week is transfers.  Odds are one of us will be transferred.  There are a lot of new missionaries coming and most of the mission will be there.

I'm running out of time on my Pdays to write and do stuff. The fist couple of weeks of this transfer were killer.  We set the baptism dates in the first week and then it was all uphill from there.  We had the zone leaders come down a few times--it was stressful. At least we're working hard.

As I've said in my emails, it has been a real mild winter.  The mosquitoes from last summer still aren't all dead yet:\ Our main bug issue is ladybugs (thankfully, not roaches).  BUGS - the top reason why I will NOT make Alabama my home when I have a family (haha).

As I said before, it has been a busy transfer.  I've been more focused on the work, which is good.  Transfers 1-4 I got distracted more by letters or other things.  Now, it's a pain to think of anything besides "mission"--  which is good-- I'm learning to focus.

Being on a mission is just a great experience.  I'm totally satisfied with my life right now.  I'm not complacent though and still trying to improve.  I really feel with V--, S-- and S-- that  they have been prepared as well as they could have.  There are some circumstances which are out of our control, but we can only pray  and have faith.  I'm pretty confident it will all work out.

Well, I'm out of time for today.  I'm sending with this letter a copy of the history of the church here in Alabama.

Love you all!

Elder Coleman Madsen

February 4, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!

 

Well, we've fully recovered! I had a fever on Tuesday and both of us had a lingering cough for a while but we are a-ok now.

 

We are still on track for the baptisms on Saturday. V-- and the grandkids are really excited. Elder Munns (our district leader) is planning on coming down on Thursday from Tuskegee to do the interviews. V-- was out of town yesterday so they didn't come to church. We will probably teach them again tomorrow or Wednesday to get them ready for the baptismal interview (we finished teaching the commandments last week).

 

E--- has also been doing well. We've gotten back into the teaching groove with her this last week (after she's been sick). I got the mission violin back Friday, and E--- and I are planning to do a musical number next week in Sacrament Meeting. We're trying to get her reading the Book of Mormon again.

Stressful last couple of days, but both Elder Cusick and I feel that we've grown from them.

The weather has been back and forth down here. We had a low of 26 a couple nights ago, which I think is the coldest it will get this winter (hahaha).

 

I'm sending a letter your way with two histories of the church, one for the church in Alabama and the other in Highland Home. They aren't grammatically well written but give you an idea of the history of the church here. You could even put them up on the blog when you get them. I find them pretty interesting.

 

I always run of time :/

 

Love y'all

 

Elder Coleman Madsen

January 28, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!

 

It's been a good week this week.

 

E--- wasn't baptized on Saturday :( . She needs a little bit more time to think. She's trying to resolve some of her concerns right now.  That explains the lack of pictures on the blog.  V---, S-- and S-- were all at church yesterday (all 3 hours) and are still on track for February 9th.

 

It has been a "sick week" for the Highland Home Elders. Everyone in our area has been sick, we just, I guess, never considered the possibility that the sickness would pass on to us. Elder Cusick came down with it on Wednesday and I got it a few days later. Nothing serious, just a big case of the common cold.

 

We saw the K-- Family this last week with the Korean Sister Missionaries (Sister Kim & Sister Kim). We taught them about the temple and are working on getting Brother K-- to the temple. Its a really unique experience teaching someone through a translator.   Somehow we got through the week! I had to give a sacrament meeting talk and teach gospel principles yesterday. I thought my sinuses were going to explode, but we made it through it. Getting sick is a shame because it makes you very much less effective as a missionary.   We've succeeded in getting a lot more of the youth out. Yesterday we had 5 young men at sacrament meeting (including S--), which is more than they've had for a long time. At one point they were lucky if they had one or two. Sorry out of time.  That's all for now!   Love you all   Elder Coleman Madsen

January 21, 2013

Been having a great last couple of weeks here in Highland Home!

 

V---, S-- and S--- continue to move closer to baptism! We've been teaching them, and all three were at church yesterday.  We are still planning on a February 9th baptism with the three of them so S-- and S---'s father can be there.

 

We're still teaching E--- and looking at a baptism date this Saturday. She still has concerns but enjoys coming to church and has been reading from the Book of Mormon every day. President Holzapfel is actually coming down and teaching her with us tomorrow.

By the way, you pronounce Honoraville "Huh-nor-vuhl". In the south you say "-vuhl" instead of "-ville" (Greenville, Honoraville, Prattville etc)

 

The weather dropped off very fast. Early last week we were in the upper seventies, then it dropped in 2 days to highs in the upper 40s!

I thought I'd take a minute to tell you about our district this transfer. I realized I didn't tell you how our assignments changed at transfers. We (Greenville and Highland Home elders) have the most random district assignment! We are assigned to Tuskegee District with Tuskegee, Alex City and Wetumpka (Elders and Elder and Sister Windsor), cities east and north of Montgomery. We meet in Montgomery because it is the most central city for all the areas. We have a great district though!   Elder Munns (our district leader) serves in Tuskegee with Elder Taveiuveu (think I spelled it right). Elder Munns came out around the same time as me and is a great district leader. Elder Hunt (from the MTC) is in the district and is training our mission's first 18-year old missionary (Elder Gomez). Elder Hardman and Elder Campbell  are serving in Wetumpka. Elder Kelley is in Greenville and is training Elder Hawley (from Arizona).   I'm enjoying serving with Elder Cusick. We get along really well. We both have experience in the area so we know a lot of the people.   Love you all!   Elder Madsen

 

January 14, 2013

Hello Family and Friends!

 

Crazy week in Highland Home! Sorry I wasn't able to write a whole lot last week - it was a hectic preparation day!

 

The biggest news is that we have four baptismal dates! E---, V---, S---and S--- (all investigators from when I was here before) have committed to be baptized (E--- on January 26th, V--- S-- & S--- on February 9th).

 

I was on exchange with Elder Tolman (one of our zone leaders) when we made the 4 commitments on Tuesday.  It was a really powerful day.  I  think he's from Lindon (maybe knows McGills?).  E---'s was initially this last Saturday (the 12th), so we taught her every day this week. Ended up pushing it back a couple weeks to give her time to breathe though.  It worked out really well because the early date gave her an opportunity to progress. Probably the happiest, most stressed out, and longest week of my mission so far. But I've survived :)   A lot of really spiritual experiences.

 

We've [also] been able to see V--- and her grandkids three times this last week. I saw them on Tuesday (when they committed to be baptized), and then Elder Cusick and I taught them on Wednesday and Thursday. V--- wasn't able to attend the Stake Conference broadcast cause she's back in the hospital. It was really impressive that S-- (her 12-year old grandson) found a ride and came anyways!

 

Big week for Alabama football! I know I've not really commented on sports or my "team affiliation" before now (thought I should focus on the missionary work) but I had a lot of "Bama Pride" after Monday night's game :)

 

Crazy weather this week! Highs in the upper 70s and Low 80s. Seriously!! We've been tempted to turn the AC on but it seems criminal to do that in January. It's supposed to get colder in the next few days though.

 

We had our "Regional Conference" broadcast which included the stakes in the Birmingham, Jacksonville, Baton Rouge and Little Rock Missions yesterday, together with Stake Conference the night before. Elder Cook and Elder Scott spoke.

The main message from Stake Conference and the broadcast was teaching gospel principles in the home, and how the home should be the main place of gospel learning. They talked a lot about how the Book of Mormon is key and doing this, and how families should be reading the Book of Mormon together.

 

It was an exciting weekend for the Highland Home Branch. They organized a high priests group leadership yesterday. The branch now is pretty much now a functioning ward, with attendance averaging in the mid-80s each Sunday.

 

As you know, Elder Christoffersen is coming to the branch soon. There will be some other General Authorities coming with him. 

 

Well, that's all I have time for now. Keep E-- and V---  and S--- and S-- in your prayers! I love you all!

 

Elder Coleman Madsen

January 7, 2013

Susan's note:  Coleman was transferred back to Highland Home January 3rd.  He has a new companion but was able to attend and participate in the baptism of a young lady who he and Elder Kelley had been teaching over the previous weeks.

Hello Family and Friends!

Well S--- was baptized yesterday! It was a really cool experience. She had wanted to be baptized for the last few weeks, but we hadn't been able to get to teach her a whole lot. The whole thing was put together last minute but, overall, it went well. We only got that one picture as they were leaving because we were having "hot water issues" (missionaries' worst nightmare at a baptism) so we ran out of time to do pictures before. The Greenville branch came up here to Highland because they don't have a baptismal font, which worked out well so I was able to be there. It was a really good experience for Elder Hawley (Elder Kelley's trainee) to see a baptism so soon (less than a week out in the field).

Elder Kelley & S. at her baptism

I am gonna compile my journal entries on S--- and send them to y'all so you can get the full story. The whole experience happened on off weeks so y'all probably want to know more. I'll send a baptism program as well.

President N--- baptized her, Elder Kelley and I gave the talks, and Elder Hawley (Elder Kelley's new missionary) confirmed her. President Holzapfel gave us permission to do the confirmation there at the baptism since stake conference is next week.

It has been great to be back in Highland Home!....

These pictures are from transfers on January 3rd:

Elders Hullinger & Forbes from Coleman's MTC District

Coleman with Sister Leifson (She's from Eagle and was one of Susan's Mia Maids!)

Elder Kaupert (Trainer and then district leader)

Coleman's 3 companions so far (Kelley, Kaupert & Cusick)

December 31, 2012

(Last post for 2012!! Time flies...)

Hello Family and Friends!

Hope all is well! We had a good Christmas here in Greenville.

I need to update you on a few people since my last letter (a lot has happened in the last few weeks). So A... (who I mentioned to the family in my call home) is our latest investigator and is progressing really fast. She is an 18-year old from Arizona living here in Greenville with her godmother. She's been keeping all of her commitments and should be baptized in the next couple of weeks. She has come to church the last two Sundays and is getting to know the people there.

Of course, as soon as we have a baptismal date approaching is when I get to leave....:/  We got our transfer instruction calls this morning! I will be leaving Greenville after serving here for 3 months (6 months if you include the time we covered the area in Highland Home) and Elder Kelley will stay here and train a new missionary. The big news is that I will be returning to Highland Home! How cool is that?  (I've decided that I'll be banished to the south end of the mission the whole two years, haha). I'm really excited to be able to go back and serve with the great saints there. Elder K... will be leaving Highland Home so I will serve with Elder Cusick (from El Paso, TX) who is the missionary that Elder K... has been training the last couple transfers.

I have really enjoyed the time I've been given here in Greenville. True, it's been a little slow. But I really feel that we were able to do a lot of good here. People are starting to warm up to the missionaries a little more, more members are coming more regularly to church, and the baptisms are coming. It will be cool to still have Elder Kelley in my same district and to be able to see how Greenville continues to grow!

I've neglected to tell y'all that Elder Quentin L Cook is presiding at a regional conference here in two weeks (whether he'll be here in Alabama or if it'll be broadcast from Salt Lake I don't know yet). And of course, Elder D Todd Christoffersen is coming to the mission in February.

Will have pictures for you next week :)

 

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and will have a great New Year!

 

Love you all!

Elder Coleman

 

Christmas 2012

We talked with Coleman by Skype for an hour while we were in Utah. He looks great and had lots to share with us.  (It was the fastest hour on record:)
Here's  a picture of him while skyping us on Christmas!! (Yes, we were all crammed into the screen camera)

Pictures we received from him:

Cool Looking Clouds

Elder Kelley in their study room

Their  apartment from the outside

playing an old rusty piano at an abandoned house in Greenville

Downtown Christmas Lights

Our car