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goodbye Elder Medina

 


Another week has come and gone and with that another transfer is here. We got news this week that Elder Medina will be leaving the area and that Elder Jones and I will be getting a new companion named Elder Law. I am sad that Elder Medina is leaving but I look forward to see how much he is able to grow in his new area, he will be teaching mostly in English. I learned so much from Elder Medina and he was more than helpful with helping me get my spanish back to where it was previously. 


It was a fairly normal week but also a lot of random and unexpected things took place and that made the week go by very qucklily. The weeks honestly seem to just fly by, and often I find myself so focused on the things that are going to come in the future and the events that have taken place in the past that often I fail to appreciate the present circumstances I am in. There was a video put out by the church this last week and it is a really well done and well produced video about a man and his journey to run a 100 mile race. They make the comparison of this man's preparation, practice and training to our lives here on the Earth. This comparison really spoke to me just because of how applicable it is in how we need to approach our lives. They showed in the videos the vast desert and the many diverse terraine that he'd be covering in the coming race. There were mountains, valleys, holes, obstacles of many kinds, and other diverse challenges that he will face in the race. He spoke of his thurst, his desire for food and water. He speaks of the feeling of feeling truly alone in a vast wasteland. All of these different obstacles that he faced can be symbolically applied to the obstacles that we will face and confront in our lives. We will face times of glorious highs and painful lows, confront periods of feeling like we're alone, when even the support of the Lord seems to have withdrawn from us but that we will always be given the strength to continue. If we trust in the Lord he will support us, he will sustain us, and he has the power to lift us out of even the deepest sorrows and trials that we can confront. God is with us. 

This week we were able to have a powerful lesson with Carmelo and he said something that stood out to me that I thought I would share, he said "Each week we have a lesson, each week we read from God's word, each week my understanding is expanded, my questions are answered and I feel the Holy Ghost. I have lived 63 years and I am only now finding these things, I have felt my whole life I've known God but I've never made a full effort to truly know him." 

We have to make an effort to know God, we have to put forth our effot to come closer to him!

It was a good week, I look forward to the coming transfer. Have a good week!

Elder Holman






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