Coleman Family

Leslie and Stephanie moved to California to attend Calvary Chapel Bible College. So Chad and I want them start posting on our website to keep everybody updated. I hope you girls have fun and we will miss you!

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Here is the first email Leslie sent.
Aug 27th, 2008

Hey y’all

Seeing as there are soooo many of you (and much of you too, you fatties) and only one of little old me, I’m just going to write another mass text greeting here and then I maybe might write one or two more personalized ones and then later slowly stop writing anybody altogether as I get lazy and corpulent because that’s what usually happens. So. Just a heads up there. But if any of you know me, you shouldn’t be too surprised.

Hey, so I thought I could blog on my brother’s website to update friends and family but I don’t think that will be possible. My laptop doesn’t really pick up the wireless network signal anywhere sooo I’ll be forced to grace the computer lab when I want to send messages. But I’m such a fat and lazy American that when things are not extremely easy or convenient like McDonalds or Taco Bell then I have difficulty in mustering up the determination to do it. Ah, life is so hard for me. But seriously, if you do write me guys, fear not! (or be afraid) for I shalt respond to thee! Eventually!

Excuses, I mean greetings, aside, hello everyone I love it here but I MISS beautiful Idaho already. You should all stop, gaze out your window at the endless sky, the mountains bursting with green trees, the -smell- Oh, yes especially the smells. So Murietta’s Calvary Chapel Bible College (CCBC) or Bridal College as I’ve heard it whispered (Something about a ‘ring by spring’ and I’m thinking a ‘noose to get loose’)

*crickets chirp*

You guys are all totally missing my amazingly bad and cheesy jokes, I just know it. But fear not, I will do my best to make up for them in these letters, ten fold!!!

So as I was saying, CCBC is where a hot springs resort used to be so when they bought it they fixed it up and made it a Bible College and kept the hot springs! So we’ve got hot springs everywhere. (Cool, right? Right?) But a few problems

1. It is HOT. Like seriously, all day and all night. My skin would be melted off if I even went near one of those little hot spring spots.

2. It STINKS. That’s why I was saying you should be grateful for the clean Idaho lake and mountain fresh air. Because here, it smells like a very warm fart. And don’t ask me what a cold fart is like. Just trust me. Warm fart. Muffling. Yea. Even worse than Stephanie and Chad after Mexican food night!

3. Annnnd that’s all I really had to say about that. It just looked dumb to only have two points.

So, life is good. My dorm girls are cool and I’m excited to get started! Classes start Aug 29, and the rest of this week is just a whole lotta registration, orientation, and introduction stuff. Classes are Morning worship, Intro to Bible, Genesis, Nehemiah, Intro to Hebrew (The language not the book, sweet!) and something else which I can’t recall at the moment.SAD.and then we do Chuck Tracks an hour a day which is this neat thing that takes you from Gen-Rev through the Bible in sermons by Chuck Smith. They are really wonderful and interesting! Ever read the Bible and went, Eh? This totally helps with that. I got my 8hr/week servanthood/ ministry assignment, its being a teacher’s assistant! How awesome is that! Not only is it something I enjoy but it is more flexible than the other ministry assignments so I can fit an outside job in my schedule as well. UPS Store here I come! Or wherever God puts me.

It’s pretty awesome and I feel so privileged to be here. I have been feeling such a difference in the whole spirit of the campus in this Bible College as opposed to community and secular college. I’m sure there are some ‘Parents made me go here’ kids but I’ve seen some encouraging demonstrations of personal faith and dedication to God in my roommates and other students. I know it is only Week 1 and I will withhold final judgment but I’m determined to retain my positive perspective, rain or shine. God has done His best work in my life in the hard, challenging, painful times (I love how Paul rejoices in his suffering because he knows this) and I know that no matter what happens to us in life or what we bad things we do or what good things we don’t do, God is still His loving, righteous and all-powerful self weaving His masterpiece into the threads of our lives.

Peace out my honky-tonk Idahoan family and friends,

Leslie E. Coleman

P.S. I totally took a emo self pic for you guys right out there in front of everyone. It was highly embarrassing so I hope you appreciate the humble sacrafice I take for your benefit…. >_> Heh… Right.

P.S.S. I need emails for Ryan, Bre, Jared and Anna, Chad is that email still valid? Mike, Nanny, aaannnd hmm, I think thats about it? Anyone else?

Every moment is an alter
set before the Lord.
Have you filled it up with worship
or idols of the world?
Or is your time spent in waste
And the alter is empty and bare
Until at last revealed in Judgment
Life is as if you were never there.