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¡Near miss!

Fun week down here in Nogales, went up and got my new companion elder ramierez Tuesday up in Tucson. Hes from Mexico city, mexico and likes music and can play basically every instrament it's kinda crazy. He has a college degree in batraía which is the drums so that's pretty cool. This week we basically only did service and had lessons it was a pretty crazy week for missionary work and the Lord really blessed up this week with great people to teach and the work really is progressing. 

We were able to start really teaching two people we hadn't been able to contact in a while one named Mary and the other Vianey and this week they both progressed so much!

We taught Alma 32 with both of them, so once in Spanish and once in English. It allowed me to take a step back and see how I could apply this in my life because the scriptures are here so that we can apply their messages in our own lives. The part of Alma 32 that we really took a focus on was where is compared faith to a mustard seed, something very small but with time, diligence and effort it can become even as a great tree. This message has so much power in these lessons and really resignated with both of these woman as we talked and the spirit taught them. It kinda made me think about my mission because it is awesome but there are days that are hard. As I continue to grow my seed and deepen my roots the lord will bless me and allow me to be better each day as I remain faithful, work hard and help others I can be blessed. I know this doesn't just apply to me or to missioanry work but i promise that we can all grow our mustard seed and faith in whatever we struggle with as we ramain faithful and diligent because I have seen the fruits of this promise so much on my mission and in my life as I continue faithfully trusting in God and do my part he will bless you! 

Well I have a really funny story that I can't not share that happened this week. This week like I said we had a lot of service and this Saturday we went and helped this old couple move out of their apartment into a uhaul that they rented. The guy wanted to take the giant uhaul into a parking spot in this tiny apartment building parking lot so from the beginning it seemed like something bad was going to happen. Well he was pulling it around and we had a missioanry at each corner trying to guide him but he couldn't really look at all of us so we was backing up and hit the thing hanging over cars in the back so he started pulling forward and Elder Wright told him to stop do it slowed down for a second until out of no where he just floored it forward and slammed into the car in front of him and then the tires started burning out trying to go forward so we were pretty darn confused and after like 8 seconds he stopped and moved back a little then jumped out of the car to look at the damage and somehow nothing happened to the car and he told us he thought it was the break because it cant feel his feet which is concerning for someone who's driving to texas Haha but he just acted like nothing happened and we helped him move. So if anyone if I between Arizona and texas watch out for a big uhaul haha. 

Thank you all for all that you do for me in my mission I hope you all have an awesome week! 


Elder Holman


Pictures

1. The car he slammed into 
2. Hermano arias and I (he gave me his poncho to wear and said hed get me one for tracting!)
3. We got KFC for dinner in Halloween and jt was pretty darn good
4. Our neighbor juan who we did some service for got us breakfast ( no one can understand his Spanish other than elder ramierez because he just mumbles ahah)







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