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Another great week out in Nogales. We had many awesome break through lessons with a lot of the people that were teaching and even more miracles took place. It is also transfer week and sadly elder Woodward and I will no longer be together but I have really lucked out because my new companion Elder Ramierez is the only elder in the mission from Mexico so hell really be able to help me out with my Spanish so I'm really excited to be able to learn from him as a missionary and in Spanish. We also had a little graduation ceremony this week and I was able to see Elder Riches for the first time in a couple months which was awesome! We were also able to go to both lakes today that. are within driving distance which was pretty awesome and unplanned we also set up a cattle coral with one of our investigators for service which was really cool. 

Elder Woodward and I had some really cool lessons with three of the people we're teaching. Raul, Mary and Giselle. 


Raul- we had a random lesson with Raul this week that we almost didn't go to and we read 3 nephi 18 about taking the sacrament and we talked for a long time about the promise that his spirit would always be with us when we do what were supposed to and it really clicked with him. We then went and read alma 32:16 and he realized that the questions he has about babtism come from his heart and Gods spirit testifying it to him. It was cool to see him realize how he can receive an answer from God. 

Mary- Mary is a lady we were teaching but she was in the hospital for a long time so we lost contact with her but we felt that we should stop by so we did. We stopped by and she just broke down to us about how she was waiting for us to come by and that she had been contemplating suicide but that she knew that us coming was her answer from god, it was pretty darn cool to see god using us for HIS work. 

Giselle - Giselle is someone that we found this week knocking houses in Rio Rico who was on a walk and was super cool and loved God. We shared the book of mormon with her and she was super interested and set us up on a lesson the coming Saturday. We went over and she had the whole book marked up with notes and sticky notes everywhere and opened up to us about her relationship with god and she is literally so prepared and said that shes been looking for the true church and hasn't found it. 


The Lord has used us truly in his work this week and it's awesome to see his hand to keep ya going when things get hard but I'm looking forward to this transfer with Elder Ramierez and for his help with me as a missionary and as a spanish speaker. 


Thank you all for all that you do, your prays, emails and love it is much appreciated and all are welcomed! 


Elder Holman 


1. The coral we built today
2. Classic Noons picture
3. Elder Woodward I parting ways
4. District picture.
5. Elder Woodward and I made brownies.








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