What a week -

Wow…

If have another week like the past one, I might lose all my hair haha... it was a stressful, crazy week! But a good one, and it went fast! I have just been all over the place lately!

On Monday I was in the office all day. We had and office staff meeting. President and I made some calls to some problem missionaries, I wrote you guys and took half a P-day.. haha it was a long crazy day!

Tuesday, I went over to presidents house for a 3-4 hour meeting about up coming meetings. We talked about agendas, trainings, assignments, etc. Lots of stuff! I walked away from the meeting with a pretty big headache haha... My comp and I have a lot of training meetings to prepare for. I can't even remember exactly we did after that... oh Ya, I finished up a slideshow for going home missionaries.. umm.. what else.. hmm.. oh ya, a bunch of people called me about byu and I got scared I was gonna miss out on classes.. luckily pres. let me call star, and I got my mothers day call with her! :) Don’t worry I can still call you on mothers day, I just got my call with her early ;) Thanks for figuring out all the school stuff for me! I'm glad I don't have to stress about all that stuff for a while... ugh, school? Can't I just be a missionary for the rest of my life? haha jk, I'm sure it'll be great..

Wednesday was crazy too. I took a small P-day to go play some kickball with the zone, which was a blast and just what I needed. I love serving in Des Moines. I think I want to finish out my mission here.. It's just so much fun to be surrounded by missionaries that I know and love. We all wake up at like 5:50 every morning to go play basketball... It makes exercise a bit more fun! Anyway, back to Wednesday- after kickball, we went to presidents, washed his car and did some other stuff to help him in preparation for the new greenies flying in. We got the big old van ready and went to pick up all the new guys! There were 6 elders and 1 sister... every time I go and do that, I think of when I first got to the mission.. it seems so long ago.. I can remember coming down the escalator, seeing president Talbot and the A.P.'s and just being so pumped to go out and do the work, but not knowing what to expect.. I could see the same emotions in all of their faces! we took them all out to lunch and then back to the mission home for some training, dinner and testimony meetings. It was a great night!

Thursday morning started early. We got all the missionaries ready to go to transfer meeting in Iowa City.. We got there, gathered up 100 or so missionaries.. I conducted the Meeting.. It was my favorite transfer meeting I've been to. as each companionship got together with their new companion I had a spiritual confirmation in my heart that that was the right pair and that they were going to the right area! It was a spirit filled meeting for sure! After that meeting we took all the old, going home missionaries back to the mission home. We had a dinner and a testimony meeting. I took president to the airport because he had a meeting in Denver, I'm gonna pick him up today.. It was a fun night though, it made me slightly trunky, but not enough to have a huge effect on me ;)

Friday morning started early too.. 4:30, so we could take all the going home elders to the airport. We got home and president gave us permission to sleep in till noon - thank you president! I took advantage of that, but when I woke up I had more than 20 missed calls on my phone. The day started off crazy once again! I was in the office almost all day yesterday catching up on a lot of organizing and stuff.

Oh, my proselyting area changed.. I dunno if I told you.. but now I am in Des Moines 7th branch. We decided to switch the area and give ours to the sisters so they can do some member motivating. The problem with s being there is all the men are gone during the day so we can stop and visit members very often, the area is really rich and prestigious, the husbands are always working at the law firm or in the hospital, and we can't have lessons with women alone, although we've had many opportunities too.. it will just be a good switch.. That area was made for sisters, and DM 7th will be sweet! I'm excited about it!

...So I need your prayers like crazy this week! Tuesday I have to give a big training in Zone Leader Council, and then I have to give another big training on the fundamentals of Preach my gospel Wednesday and Thursday.. and then again the following week... Ahhh, haha too much stuff to do! Pray for me that I can get through it all! I have so much to do right now that I can barely think! haha!

Well I love you all! Hope you're all doing fantastic! Say Hello to the ward for me.

I'm prayin for ya'll!

~Elder Holman