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Maya's Baptism

 Yesterday we had Maya's baptism and it was such an amazing experience! She is so prepared and was so happy to be baptized. Her friend from Washington and his parents flew into Tucson for the Baptism and it was truly a special day. 


This week was really good and I will be brief in my email today because as always I am running out of time. 

For the first time since his training Elder Midyette and I were able to do an exchange and it was such an uplifting experience. He is such a great example to me and to all missionaries and I cherish my relationship with him. We saw so many miracles together and it was just like old times in Nogales. We had an amazing lesson with this young man named Jason and taught so well together. Afterwards we taught a lesson through facebook with a family that he and I had taught together and I got to hear his spanish for the first time in well over a year and he's improved so much! After that we had about an hour and prayed for a goal of new, prepared people we could find and teach at that time and we came up with the goal of 3. We went out and started talking with this man named Cody, he was SUPER nice and welcoming and agreed to meet up with us this Saturday (we met with him Saturday and it was AMAZING). After that we walked through campus and looked for a while but could not find the house we were looking for so we started the trek back to our car but we still needed to find those two people we were looking for. We were fresh into our journey back to the car when we started talking to these two girls who were actually looking for their restaurant and we sparked up a conversation with them. They were so awesome and humble. Elder midyette asked them if they ever thought about what happens after this life and they both looked at each other and answered in unison "all the time". We got their contact information and hope to meet with them this week! It was such a great day to be with him and made this week truly special. 

We had some other fun events and funny stories but I think this will suffice for now! 


Have an amazing week and always seek Christ! 

Elder Holman






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