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Week tres Sleepy Elders

Well I'm over the midway jump here at the MTC and on the way to el campo in three short semanas! I'm really starting to get into my own groove here at the MTC I love everyone in my district and zone I love hearing other people's reasons for serving a mission and everyone has their own reason but they all are centered on a love and desire to serve jesus christ and to gather his sheep. We had three more lessons with Olivia our friend of the church and the first two were pretty rough she talks really fast in spanish and a lot of what we said to her we just had written down but our lesson on Monday my companion and I had our lesson plan but didn't write out any phrases and just went for it. The spirit was so strong in that room for those 25 minutes and we could really see her interest in our message about the restoration it was awesome and we even got her to say the closing prayer and invited her to pray to know if the things we were telling her were true. My companion and I are really learning how to work with each other good in lessons and it's an awesome experience. The devotionals have been so great this week in sharing simple gospel truths and principles. I've realized here that the key points of the gospel are so simple and thay to conver TV someone you dont need to be the most articulate person in the world you just need to share you message and allow the spirit to work on them I can testify that the spirit teaches these peopleqnd converts them and that god always listens to our prayers. I have a little bit of a funny Spanish story that I'll share, we were in class and just got done wirh like a bathroom drink break and i wasthe first one back and my teacher said donde esta  su companero (wheres your companion) because youre always supposed to be with your companion and I responded with "en su cama" which either translated to in his bed or your bed. But she thought I meant your bed and she wasn't too happy with me until I explained myself but the Spanish is coming. I'm so excited to have elder riches joining me today in the MTC and I know he'll enjoy it and congratulations alec on the mission call the people of Chilie are getting a good one! Missionary work truly blessed so many lives especially those called to do the work. Thank you for all the love and support I appreciate it all greatly I hope everyone will have an awesome week! 


Love elder Holman 

I'll send in some pictures of where we all have fallen asleep this week from choir to class and just about every where.









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