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New transfer

 The start of a new transfer and with that comes a lot of change. Change is something I've become accustom to as a missionary. Every six weeks and sometimes sooner change is going to come in some way or another but you learn to adapt, make the best of each situation and learn from the current cards you've been dealt. Luckily as missionaries these changes come by inspiration, the mission President prayerfully ponders on with whom and where each missionary's needs to be and by the revelation that he receives he assigns companions and to a given area in the mission. I know the Lord has a purpose for my current companions and myself here in West Tucson and we saw so much of that this week. 


This week was an interesting week and took many unexpected twists and turns but it was very enjoyable and I was able to learn so much from the situations that we confronted and the many studies we did. We also had the opportunity to do an exchange with the zone leaders who serve in a YSA ward. It was an interesting adjustment to make teaching and contacting people my own age in my own language, somehow more difficult that teaching and contacting old Spanish women (who are the salt of the Earth). Serving on the college campus for a day caused me to take a moment of deep reflection and pondering. It caused me to reflect on truly what  I was doing as a missionary and how it could be applied to the lives of the young people on this campus. I looked at my peers and just saw in them exactly as is in each young person when they confront this moment in their lives, the existential conflict that is thrust upon each young person as we truly become agents of our own consciousness and lives. It made me reflect and ponder about the tradition that I am representing and proposing to other people, what does it truly give to the individual? 

The gospel of Jesus Christ in its most simple and pure form is the greatest medium available to man on this Earth to access pure light and truth from the most high. It teaches the way that we can connect ourselves with the divine and shows' us the path we must follow in order to receive eternal life. We have access to the source of all light and truth. If we manifest our faith to the Lord, he will bless us fully. If we trust in him and his promises he will show us the way. I trust in the Lord and his plan for me and look forward to what the transfer will bring to those I will serve and to my own personal testimony. 

Elder Holman



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