Tomorrow I will hit one year since I first arrived in Tucson. It's crazy to think about and process that. I'm very fortunate that I've had this time back in the mission and I truly would not trade it for anything. It has been some of the best times but it has also been some really hard times in this past year. Never have I been brought down to my knees with no where else to go than in these past 12 months. Prayer has been such a great support to me in this past year. I don't know what I would do with out it. Being able to communicate with heaven gives me so much hope. Prayer has calmed so many of the storms that I've confronted in the past year. It reminds me where i place my faith, who I believe in and who I trust in each day. Life is not an easy task but we do not have to make this journey alone. Each day that I pray I invite Gods presence into my life and ask for His guidance. I have felt that power each day that I ask for his help. Often it is a small assurance that I'm doing the right thing or that i need to deviate my course in a small way but it points me in the right direction. I've learned what it means to have faith. Learning how to trust in something I dont fully understand but have received enough to keep moving forward. It is a refining process but it has allowed me to grow. God rarely solves our problems for us but gives us the inspiration and help we need so that we can solve them ourselves. At times this tries my patience but each time I'm able to walk a little but further into the dark before I feel the power of the light. I'm grateful for God. I'm grateful for my family and their patience and love for me. I have great friends and have made so many of them in this past year. I look forward to see how the Lord will refine me in the next 2 months. I will trust in him.
This week we had zone conference and that went well. I was able to go on exchanges with one of my past companions, elder Girgenti. We went out with what little time we had together and shared the book of mormon with a man named Joe. Afterwards we felt prompted to knock a certain apartment and we talked with a woman named Nicole. She shared with us some of her back ground in religion and how she has seen Gods hand in her life. We prayed with her and set up a lesson for saturday. (We had the lesson and it was super awesome) It was good to work with him again for the day. He is a good man and a great missionary.
Later that week we had exchanged with Elder Smith and Soifua. Elder Smith and I had such a great day. We felt prompted to visit this long less active member and she was a little cold to us at the start. We offered to sweep her porch and she agreed. As we swept she told us about how she was struggling and dealing with the ordeals of her life. She also told us about her conversion to the church in California. As we left I felt prompted to ask if she would like a priesthood blessing for her sickness she was dealing with. She said yes. In the blessing I said many things but one in particular stood out to her. Afterwards she had her hands on her face as she wept. She told us how that was an answer to her prayers. She asked for the times for church so that she could partake of the sacrament and renew her covenant with the lord. We saw many cool things that day but it was good to work with Elder Smith.
Later on in that week Elder Torgerson and I were able to reconnect with a man that previously was taught by other missionaries. We shared with him the book of mormon and set up a time to visit him in the coming week.
It was a great week and we saw many cool miracles throughout it. We had two of our friends come to church to hear elder Torgerson speak in church. We are also preparing for Tommyee's baptism this coming Saturday. She is such a great lady. Please pray for her.
Elder Holman
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