Oct.27

Super exciting news. We've been so incredibly blessed and had so much work and progress in our area that President Bassett has approved it getting split. Nothing is definite right now and we wont find out about anything until Saturday night, but I really hope and think that Vineyard and Mezona wards will be the eastern area and Stewart/Beverly/Westwood will be the western. Most likely what will happen is Elder Moa and I will be split up as well so the new Elders don't get lost. So I think next transfer I'll have a new companion and be covering the western area. But like I said, nothing's definite. So we'll know this Saturday.
Thank you again to everyone for all the Birthday wishes and packages. Turns out that having a birthday on the mission is fantastic cause you get to celebrate it all week. Cards and packages kept showing up all throughout the week and Brother and Sister Nielson cooked up biscuits and gravy twice for us for breakfast and then sloppy joes for lunch. It was awesome. But hey - today is Mandy's birthday, so Happy Birthday to her.
Hope everyone is doing well. Happy Halloween!
-Elder Coffman

Happy Birthday Elder Andrew Coffman

So pretty much, Saturday was the greatest day ever. Probably because I turned 4.
It started out fantastic because it was like 75 degrees at 10:30 in the mornin so that was amazing. We went and saw Richard to make sure he was all ready for his big day and that started things off good. Then we went and set a baptism date with Anthony so it got even better. On our way home we had an awesome street contact with a young guy that asked us for a Book of Mormon. After lunch we went and taught the Jacksons and their friend was there and was asking tons of awesome questions and said she wanted to know alot more and it rocked. So we picked up two new investigators without trying. And she came to church yesterday so that was way cool. Then we got to teach Buck and that's always fun. He has 15 kids.
We went and finally met Daniel and he's come to church for two weeks now and that's awesome. Then we rushed over to the Stake Center for Brandons baptism and that was way cool. He's a great kid. And right after that we had Richards baptism and Elder Aicher and Elder Gee both came for that so it was like a big fun reunion and everyone was happy and it rocked. Kort came to the baptism too! He's pretty much the greatest investigator ever. But being able to see Richard get baptized was probably the greatest birthday present I could ask for. He'd been waiting a long time for that day. He was pretty happy. So then afterwards we had a minute and Brother Gunnell left us a pizza in the kitchen so we ate that with Brother Uipi and then got to go teach the Goforths. That was way cool. We were about 20 minutes late to our appointment with John after that but it worked out perfect cause he came walking up as we were locking our bikes and Brother McBride knocked on the door as soon as we sat down. So we were all late and it worked out perfect. It really was a great day. The weather stayed fantastic all day long.
It's been an awesome week. Elder Moa is doin way good. We're having a lot of fun. Being a missionary is fantastic.
Hope everyone is doin great and thank you everyone for the Birthday wishes. Love all yall
-Elder Coffman

Oct. 6

Pretty much, this area is amazing. Being a missionary is awesome.
Richard got approval from the First Presidency to get baptized so the whole stake is really pumped about that. He's been waiting for this for months now so he's been through a lot of missionaries so there will be quite a few of us there this Saturday. We're really excited.
Conference was awesome. Pretty excited for the Ensign to come out next month to get read through all those again. We taught a guy named Kort Friday night and invited him to watch just one session and he told us 'Actually I'm planning on watching all 5. I just really feel like there's something there and I want to make sure I don't miss out on anything.' So our jaws dropped and then he asked us to bear our testimonies to him and it was probably the greatest lesson ever. And what's even better is that he really was there for all 5 of them. And we invited Anthony to come to the Sunday morning session and he was there waiting for us in a white shirt and tie. Pretty awesome.
So yeah this area is amazing. President Lewis called President Bassett and pretty much demanded another set of missionaries so we'll probably be getting the area split pretty soon. That will be great.
It'd be tough to say things could be any better.If you haven't gone on a mission, you definitely should.
-Elder Coffman