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Zone Conference




Another great week here in the ATM and it got off to a crazy start. On tuesday we started our working zone conference which is the new way that we're doing zone conference, basically we receive instruction on tuesday from the missionary leaders and then go out on a full zone wide exchange. I was able to go into an english area with Elder green and elder Stucki, they are both really awesome missioanaries who speak portugues and I speak spanish but that did all of that did nothing for us when we taught a man that only spoke french! His name was Yakuba and he did not speak much english so just basically just french and my ability to only say my name did not help me very much in teaching  about The Book of Mormon but it was a very cool and humbling experience, hopefully he is able to get some missionaries that speak french here soon. 

Zone conference was an awesome spiritual outpouring and I felt the spirit so strongly receiving instuction from President Grisel and the other missionaries. We talked about baptism and the specifics of what this covenant truly means I was able to apply this instruction in two specific instances later on in the week. 

On saturday night we always have a lesson with one of our investigators named Carmelo and he is taking all the necessary steps to progress to baptism and make this covenant with God but he keeps doubting himself, he thinks that he is far too worthy to be baptised and be cleansed by the atoning power of Jesus Christ. We were able to share with him the power of Christ's Atonement and how we can apply it in our lives. One of my favorite quotes goes as follows, "We can never sink low enough into the darkness of sin that the everlasting light of Christ's Atonement could not reach in and pull us out of." I am paraphrasing here but the message is all the same, We can never sink far enough that Christ's atonement could not pull us out and cleanse us. 

The other opportunity I had to apply this councel was yesterday. One of the sisters in our district are teaching a younger girl named Mariana and I had the opportunity to meet here and do her baptismal interview. Going into it I did not know what to expect interviewing a 10 year old for baptism but she showed me exactly what to expect! She was amazing, she testified boldly of the truth of the gospel principles that she has been taught in the past months. It just witnessed to me the power that The Holy Ghost has in bearing testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ no matter the age of those that are receiving the message or who are sharing it!

It was such an awesome week and I know the Lord is with me in this work, in our most challenging moments we can turn to the Lord!! 

"The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, for the soul that seeketh him" Lamentations 3:25

The Lord blesses those that seek, trust in him and receive his answers!!


Elder Holman 













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