New year, new opportunities

This week has been super good here in the Arizona Tucson mission. I just barely got back from playing 9 holes with elder riches and his companion. To summarize we were all a little rusty and look forward to improving our golf game as we enjoy this new year.

New years is always an awesome opportunity to look back and see what we've learned and look forward to what we want to do better and improve. I looked at my journal entry from last new years when I was in the mission and how hopefully i was in that moment. Things were going great in the work and I could not have imagined the year that 2020 would have been in my life. I look back and contrast what my view was at that point and the year that actually came and went in my life. It was in no way an easy year, returning from my mission unexpectedly with no return in sight was challenging but looking back I see so many was that the lord prepared me for this year and how many lessons I learned in the past year that I could not have learned in another way.

This week I had a study where I kinda went all over the place. I read in Genesis 34 about Jacob's wrestle with God that ended in him receiving a blessing. I read as Paul testified to the Corintians of the experience he had that brought him from persecuting the Saints to being one of their biggest promoters. I read of Nephi, losing a father but not waiting a moment to boast of the power of God in his life. I did not at first realize why I had studied all these various topics but after pondering it became so obvious. Each one of these people came to God in the different way, each one had to endure a moment of suffering to enjoy the light that greeted them at the end of their trial. This year has brought me so much closer to God and Jesus Christ. I was brought low so that they could bring me high. I do not claim to know all things but I do boast in my God and the power he has in our lives.

Elder Holman

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The miracle of Golf

Dear family and friends, We had a really great week this past week! We worked really hard and made a ton of contacts with people in our area and saw a lot of cool tender mercies and miracles! Elder Torgerson and I have been trying out a new style of contacting this past week and it's been really awesome. We put a different contact in for every 15 minute period during our day. Some take longer, some are shorter but it allows us to get in with some people we have not seen for quite a while. This past week we also went golfing with Tommyee's husband David. We got special permission from our mission President to go and play with him! As many of you may know I love to Golf and so does David so it worked out and we went and played 18 holes at the course in their neighborhood. It was the first time in my life that I've actually played 18 holes and it took a lot longer than we had anticipated it was going to. We were diligent that as soon as we got done we changed and went to ...

Last Haul

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Ya me voy

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Elder Mason Holman

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