Elder Mason Holman

  Dear Family and Friends,  I don't know who reads these anymore but hopefully someone does (if you do shoot me a text). This week was really good. We were starting to see some light in the journey that we have been embarking on as a companionship. Elder Mortenson and I got transferred into the area and shortly afterwards our other companion was needed elsewhere and now it is just us so we came into this area fairly blind and since that point we've been trying our beat to figure out how to best do the work. I don't know if I have ever prayed more earnestly in my entire mission but this week it finally all has begun to pay off and we've started to see some success with some people that we've met.  This week we had a member who offered to come and work with us for three hours in the afternoon on Thursday and we thought AWESOME, but what are we going to do with him? We really tried to plan out some good things to take him to do in order that he could have a good ex...

 This week has been a crazy ride and I will include just a handful of key things that happened and then I will have to be through. As I mentioned in the title we lost elder Holt this week. An elder down in Nogales ended up needing to go home due to some medical problems so elder holt went to replace him. Now it is just Elder Mortenson and I here in Sahuarita in an area where we aren't exactly what is going on so we are learning together and Elder Mortensen attempts to learn about how to be a missionary.  This week the morning that elder holt left we decided to play some sports as a district and while we were playing I attempted to thread the needle on a throw and ended up hitting elder Mortenson right in the mouth and it knocked out one of his front teeth (I'll include a picture) he took it like a champ and luckily a member dentist had a son just leave on his mission that day so he was so kind as to give this elder a new tooth no charge haha.  This week I studied a lot in...