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"Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil"

 Another week here in West Tucson. This weeks marks my two months of being back here in the Arizona Tucson mission and I could not imagine myself being anywhere else in the World. These past two months have been so rewarding and have pushed me to finding pure and precious truths about the gospel, we've had the blessing of starting to teach many wonderful people here and seeing their progress in the gospel. I have been blessed to see the spirit impress upon them the truth of the messages that we share and allowing us to share in the spirit of light and truth. As with a refiners fire the only way we can be made stronger in this life is through heat and pressure. Using this example, being a missonary again is in no way something easy. Times are different and missionaries are not exempt of the stresses and problems of the world we are living in. It has been amazing to see how much the world has endored in this past year and how many people have been able to recognize blessings despite the many challenged they face. 


The title of this email comes from a scripture in the Book of Jeremiah and this scripture comes in a moment where Jeremiah has been attempting to preach to Israel but they have no desire to listen to him. The first chapters of the book include many examples of his up and down relationship with the lord during while he preaches to the people. He often doubts, has troubles and occationally speaks against the Lord but the Lord has all of this in mind, he uses these opportunites to teach Jeremiah, to help him understand a fraction of what He understands. He speaks poetically in this regard when he compairs the house of Israel to the clay in the potters hand, he says unto them "Oh house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as clay is in the potters hand, so are ye in my hand oh house of Israel." The lord will make us into what he needs us to be, he is in each detail, we have but to reach towards his hand that is perpetually extended unto us! 

I love the Lord!

Also so that this email does not have to be to all too serious we had a funny thing happen. Elder Jones fell on his bike. 


Have a good week!!!


Elder Holman





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