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"truly this is a greif, and I must bear it"

 This week has been super good, we're starting off the new trasnfer right and the Lord is really blessing us with a lot of miracles. Elder Medina and I are staying this transfer and we got a new companion from draper named elder jones. He's a good missioanry and is very eager to work and to learn spanish before he heads out to Argentina! This week we saw lots of miracles in our area. We started teaching two new families and it's been awesome. I have not taught many full families as a missionary so it is a little bit of a change in teaching style but it's been such a blessing to see these families and their desires to come to Christ. This year has not been easy for anyone but it's amazing to see how much people can endure when they have the hope that God and Christ bring into their lives. This week in my study I was reading about Jeremiah and him describe his mission to the people of Israel, He talks a lot about how they do not want to receive his message or the help of God and he descriebes his situation so perfectly in one verse "Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grevious: but I said, truly this is a greif, and I must bear it." I love the way that Jeremiah describes the lot he has been given, he knows that it is a truly greivous lot to bear but he knows that it has been given him of the Lord for some purpose and that he needs to fullfill his part. All of us are given difficult loads to carry but the Lord will never give us a load that we cannot handle. He loves us too much to do so, he would never forsake us. I love the respose that God gives to Jospeh Smith in liberty jail when he felt truly forgotten and forsaken. He says to Joseph, " the Son of Man hath decended below all things, art thou greater than He?" God is the only one that compair crosses, we can in all situations turn to the Savior. He descended below all things that he could succor us and bring us to him. He is with us in all things and will help us on our path. Turn to the Lord in all things and he will give you releaf. 


The Lord has blessed my so much in the past year despite the difficult times I had, I know he listenes to our prayers and will give us the strength to endure all things. Trust in the Lord, he will provide!


Elder Holman 







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