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Week 5 !El ultima Semana En La CCM!




It is the last week in the MTC! Our whole district got our travel plans for Monday and I'll be heading out with Elder Riches and a few others I've met along the way, I have still yet to have met anyone going Spanish speaking to my mission but that's alright i'm pumped to meet them all! The bus picks us up at  the MTC and its only 12 hours to Tucson! 

 It honesty feels like the home stretch right now, it's like we're graduating from high school and moving on once again which is always fun but sad. I have developed such a strong love and relationship with each and every elder and Hermana in my district and great is my love of god for the experience I've had in the MTC. Never have I ever seen gods hand better in my life or the teachings of the spirit more often than this time I've had in the MTC. I've loved every high and low and the lessons I've learned in both and I've seen so much growth in myself spiritually and in the language in these six short weeks. I am so excited to get out and bring people unto this gospel.  

I was reading in the book of Alma this week about the story of the sons of Mosiah and their missionary work to the lamminites. This story directly applies to the work that myself and many of those i love are just begging to do, Missionary work. The sons of Mosiah are some of the best examples of great missionaries in the scriptures if not the very best in my opinion. They are going to teach a people who hate them and everything about them but with faith in their God to help and deliver them they go and teach this people to bring them unto the happiness and joy that the gospel brings and the save them from ever lasting torment and hell that awaits them if they do not change their ways. The story of Ammon is what really stood out to me was his faith and boasting in the glory of his father in delivering him in this work. When Ammon first arrives in the land of Ishmel he is instantly bound with cords and brought before king Lammoni and the lord blesses Ammon with mulitple miracles to help him to convert the king and ammon teaches the same lessons that we teach like the gospel of christ and the plan of salvation or redemption as he calls it but the main chapter that stood out to me in this story was chapter 26 where Ammon glories in his god for delivering them in their work and helping them to bring so many unto the happiness that he and his brothers and the Nephites know. He talks about the faith of the Anti-nephi-lehites when they buried their weapons when the lammonites attacked rather than sin against their god again and that this action converted many more lammonites when they saw the faith and love of these people for the gospel that they would willingly give up  their own lives rather than sin against their god because they knew what awaited them on the other side of death. Great was their faith in this story and I feel exactly like Ammon does to the point that I feel like I am boasting of my God , because like him I do not boast of my own strength because I know that I am nothing, but in his strength I can do all things and I know how true this is. I could not be to the point that I am in my life and in spanish save it be through the strength and love that my god has for me and for each of his children. And now it is my opportunity to be like ammon and bring those who have not yet been loosed of the pains of hell to the point of singing their redeeming love to god because of the power of his word and his love. Ammon ends verse 13 in this chapter asking, "therefore have we not great reason to rejoice?" and the answer is, daily we have great reason to rejoice because God is ever present in all our lives and because like it says in verse 37 "god is mindful of every people". I know this to be true and I know that God is mindful of me and that through his power and strength even I can bring others unto this gospel and to feel the joy that I have and great is Gods mercy for this. 

If you have free time this week I recommend reading this chapter and thinking of the ways that god is blessing your life. If you feel that his hand isn't in your life there one of the devotional speakers shared last night that if you're not seeing Gods hand in your life you're either not being obedient to his commandments, or you're not looking hard enough because gods hand is in all of our lives. And i know this to be true.

 Thank you everyone who has written and sent me things I love to hear from anyone! It was a great week and I'm ready for the field! Please keep an Elder in my district in my prayers he has been having stomach problems and was told Monday that if they don't clear up by Monday he will be going home not into the Mission field so pray for him! Congrats everyone who left yesterday and today for their missions you're doing a great work! Nice job JOSHHHHHH. 

Elder Holman







                                          Elder Riches Taking a little shut eye in choir












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