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This week was really good and super busy. We started off by doing an exchange in the English elders area which went super well! I worked with elder stowell and elder Larson, they're both super great missionaries and I was able to learn a ton from them and their example of being Christ like missionaries! This week we also did a blitz in the English sisters area and I worked with elder padilla during that and we met SO MANY amazing, prepared people. One of the ladies has been praying to be able to know God better and happily accepted a copy of the Book of mormon and promised to read 3 Nephi 11 about where Christ visited the Americas! We also knocked on this ladies door and she has a seizure when she answered the door so we were able to help her get the help she needed and when we were leaving she was leaving in an ambulance so keep her in your prayers! Such an amazing week and one of our friends carmelo is praying about a day to be baptized in the coming month so pray for him also! I'm loving it here in West Tucson. We went to Saguaro national park today and it was ap beautiful. 


This week I also had the opportunity to deeply study the sermon on the mount chapter by chapter and it is so full of truth and light that we can apply to our lives. I've read these chapters countless times but this time felt different. I kept close notes of what Christ was truly trying to communicate to us in each verse and his doctrine is so beautiful. There is so much to learn and apply to our lives from these chapters. One thing that hit me was how he says the way we judge others is the same way we'll be judged in the last day. It is so easy as humans to judge our fellow man and live below the standards that we are currently judging. I have been really trying to apply this during this week, love others before I judge them and I've seen so many blessings. Like Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13, "now we see through a glass obscurely" we cannot see or understand all that someone is going through in a moment and we need to have charity always in our thoughts. 

Follow Christ! 


Elder Holman








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