Elder Mason Holman

I don't want to take up too much of anyones time on Christmas or of my own to spend and talk with family but I will leave a quick update on the area and share my short thoughts and feelings about my week!  This week we have seen countless miracles it's beautiful to see the Lords hand in the work and him guiding us and blessing us for our efforts in this work to save his that are him. This week Mary Lopez recieved an answer about her desire to be babtised and will be babtised January 3rd and bore unto us a powerful testimony of the truth and love that she has found within the restored gospel of Jesus Christ! We also saw many miracles this last monday which is normally our preparation day but it was moved to Chirstmas so that we could talk with family and have a rest day then and we had nothing planned with it normally being our preparation day but the Lord showed unto us why that preparation day was moved. We had a first lesson with someone we met two weeks ago of the rest...

Well very short on time today sorry about that! Got my new companion the new guy from the MTC. He is from New York city, 20 years old, and a convert with 2 years in the church and has a very strong testimony! He is awesome and we work really well together! Really excited for the next 2 transfers and the time we have to bring people unto Christ and help them find the truth of the restoration of the gospel through the scriptures and prayer! We saw many miracles this week and taught many good lessons! The people were teaching are progressing well! We had a lot of lessons and service this week. We helped unload 5,000 gifts for kids in mexico which was pretty cool! Helped our neighbor build a fountain and did a light the world stand giving out hot chocolate and wrapped copies of the book of mormon! It was a great week and I'm so happy to be a missioanry! Starting this week training and seeing a fresh missionary has shown me how much I've grown through Christ and his atonement and...

Good afternoon brothers and sisters with transfers this week we've got the news, I'm staying in Nogales! They're sending elder ramierez to the other Nogales area which will kinda stink to not have a native spanish speaker anymore because he's helped my Spanish grow so much these last 6 weeks! As for me I'm getting one of the new spanish missionaries to the mission to train so that means I'll probably be here in Nogales for 2 more transfers or 7 1/2 months in total! It will be really good to stay I love this ward and the people that were teaching and have seen so many blessings these last 2 weeks of the transfer! Many of the people were teaching have been good about coming to church and are learning so much through the book of mormon and praying its awesome to see the blessing this gospel is in our lives! We had a lesson with Mary and a sister from the ward and the sister bore her testimony of the atonement and began crying and then Mary started cryi...

Thanksgiving week was a very interesting week in the mission! We had preparation day, Thanksgiving and Friday we were basically at the hospital all day for my companion so we had some weird days in there but it was a really good week. A lot of our investigators are really progressing so well and weve started to teach a lot of new very interested people! We also had many people come to church Sunday and ththe babtism later that night. It really showed me that the Lord was preparing them for better things the weeks they couldn't come because it was fast and testimony meeting and the testimonies shared were so powerful it was awesome that they were able to see that especially one of the ladies that were teaching which is probably the closest person we have to being babtised, she wanted to come to church and see how it was and she loved it! It was a huge miracle and blessing! We also had a couple huge miracles finding this week and great lessons! This week we were in our house studyi...