Elder Mason Holman

We'll another transfer comes to a close here in the Arizona Tucson mission and I got some very suprising news, I will be going home. Our mission President callled us out of the blue on Thursday and informed me that the mission department put out some new information pertaining to individuals using certain immunosuppressive medications that will need to go home until this passes and I am included in that group sadly. It was very sudden but the Lord comforted me very much in assuring me that this is his will for me for the time being. I'm saddened to leave the mission I have loved so much for the last 9 months but know the Lord is preparing me for bigger and better things.  I'm so grateful that my last week in this part of my mission service was Easter. As I said last week I made the goal along with my family to read the last week of Christ's life in the 4 gospels of the bible. This puts everything into perspective. Christ suffered physically, spirutally, mentally a...

Well it was a another very good week here in Willcox! We honestly had a lot of things to do through out the week. We had a service 6 of the 7 days this week and after service we would come home and read The Book of Mormon. We did many different service projects this week for many people. We moved some railroad ties, unloaded gravel, mowed 3 foot tall weeds, weed wacked different 3 foot tall weeds, used a wood chipper, used a hydrolic wood splitter that a member made and stripped a roof. We had a lot of fun doing all these different projects and helping people in the process and hopefully being able to lift their burdens a little bit during this trying time. We would then come home and usually read The Book of Mormon until the end of the day so that we could achieve our goal of finishing by friday before general conference and we both finished! It was a completely different experience this time for me. Reading at such a speed in a different language it really felt like a different b...