Skip to main content

Transfers



 The transfer comes to a quick end. This past week really flew by so quickly and its crazy to think that another transfer has come and gone. It is the last transfer of all of the english missionaries that I came in with to the mission so I'm losing a lot of my great mission friends. 22 leave this transfer and were getting 19 new missionaries coming to the mission today so lots of changed on their way! Elder waltman is finishing his mission so I'll be getting a new companion named Elder Gergenti and I've heard that he is a good missionary so I look forward to serving with him. Elder riches will also be going home and actually is staying the night at our apartment so it will be good to have a nice little send off with him. Lots of changes are on their way. 


This week was pretty eventful, I did an exchange with Elder Morgan and elder Nunnelly which went well and was good to be able to go around such young missionaries, they are always a good time to be around. They just have such a great desire and willingness to give all to their missions that I respect fully they're just trying to find what direction they need to direct their energy. We had a lot of good lessons and contacts during the exchange and a member from another ward who owned the complex we had a lesson at took us out to eat which was pretty awesome. We had an awesome lesson with this man that has been separated from his family since the start of the pandemic and doesn't know when he will see them next and told us how he has turned to alcohol to numb the pain but recently has been turning to God. He was such a humble and loving man. He has such a great desire to change despite how hard it is and has the faith that God can help him. 



Elder Holman


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The miracle of Golf

 Dear family and friends,  We had a really great week this past week! We worked really hard and made a ton of contacts with people in our area and saw a lot of cool tender mercies and miracles! Elder Torgerson and I have been trying out a new style of contacting this past week and it's been really awesome. We put a different contact in for every 15 minute period during our day. Some take longer, some are shorter but it allows us to get in with some people we have not seen for quite a while.  This past week we also went golfing with Tommyee's husband David. We got special permission from our mission President to go and play with him! As many of you may know I love to Golf and so does David so it worked out and we went and played 18 holes at the course in their neighborhood. It was the first time in my life that I've actually played 18 holes and it took a lot longer than we had anticipated it was going to. We were diligent that as soon as we got done we changed and went to ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Last Haul

  Well I'm pushing into the last week of my mission. It is hard to believe that this really is the end. It doesn't feel all too different from everything else that I've done these last 14 months, it just feels like the end of another transfer. I would be lying if I said I was not looking forward to seeing family and friends, some of which I have not seen for nearly 3 years which is crazy to think about. I have cherished the time I've had to serve as a missionary and I'm super grateful that I was able to return to be a full time missionary despite the obstacle of the pandemic. I welcome what comes next and I really don't have too much of an idea as to what lies ahead of me at this point. There is a lot that still is up in the air but I know that the Lord will provide.  This past week was good. Fairly normal. We were able to teach some lessons. Meet some new people. Share the gospel with others and we had some great meals provided for us.  We actually had the oppo...
Post a Comment
Read more

Ya me voy

  Dear family and friends, I received news this past saturday that I will be leaving Sahuarita and Elder Mortenson and heading back up to Tucson. We have 4 tucson zones in the mission and this will be the last one I need to serve in, east zone. I'm excited to for the change and am very optimistic about the area! I was only here for 6 weeks in this area and with elder Mortenson during his training so it will be sad to leave it all behind. This has been one of my most challenging transfers of my mission thus far and the Lord really refined and humbled me in the process, he has a way of doing that to us. I have never pleaded more for heavenly help for something beyond my own personal needs than I have in this past transfer. It truly brought me down to the lowest depth of humility and made me stand back multiple times and say, "I dont know what to do, take my hand and guide me." Each time that I was humble enough to utter that phrase the Lord guided everytime, sometimes it wa...
Post a Comment
Read more