Another week - May 27th

Hey Holman Family!!

Thanks for all your emails!! Its super fun walking to the church early in the morning and seeing a bunch of pics from the fam and hearing whats going down in your lives!! I loved seeing all the pics from your travels dad! Quebec looks sick!! hopefully you got out of the house before the 24 hour flu bug hit everyone, hahah there are very few moments that I’m happy that I’m thousands of miles away from the holman fam...but when the flus going around I’m happy to be out of the house!!! haha i hope that your all doing better! ill be sure to pray that you all are healthy this week, start drinking that apple cider vinegar!! :) 

As for me this week was a little bit harder then most, but I’m hanging in there. Lots of our investigators were busy this week, and so we didn´t teach a whole lot, but as always there were moments this week that the spirit touched my heart, and caused me always have on mind the importance of my calling, and the urgency to share the message of which we as missionaries bare. 

This week we taught a man named Victor. He was a reference from an hermana in the ward. He is going through a hard situation right now in life. He’s going through a really bad divorce, Filled with lawyers and heartache. And you can see it in his face, as we talked to him, that his family meant everything to him, and now its being torn apart. In the first moments before we teach our investigators i like to get to know them, get a feel for who these people are and what there trials and struggles are in life, Because i know that whatever trails we face or encounter in this life, the gospel of Jesus Christ can help us to find the goodness and happiness in this life. In the beginning moments i found out that he has a child of 3 and a half years, and he means everything to him, he spoke about how he always thought that there is something more to life as well, he wasn’t exactly sure if there is a God out there, but he knew there was something...and then the moments that i love come, we can testify like Amon of old to king Lamoni that there is something more out there, that there is a God and that we are his children. As we began to teach Victor i testified to him, that our message will help him to find peace and comfort in his life, and that through Christ he can be free of all the burdens that he is carrying in his life. He listened with intent as we explained to him that because God loves us he has called prophets in these latter days, as we shared with him the experience of a 14-year-old boy who prayed to know the truth, the spirit touched the heart of victor. Each one of us in the room could feel it. As we presented to him with evidence that our message is true, the book of Mormon, he committed to read it. It was an incredible lesson for me. After the lesson i truly didn´t want the feeling that was in my heart to go away. I hope that we will always live our life in a way that we can recognize the whisperings of the spirit when God speaks to us. It is the greatest of highs that one can have in this life, and i love that as a missionary i get to feel that spirit daily. I hope that each of you are always striving to have that spirit with you...

 As we work diligently to have the spirit in our lives God will bless us, and we can do miracles in Christ’s name, we can help those that are searching for truth and light in there journey here on earth. I had a moment this week where the spirit helped me be an instrument in Gods hands. This past Wednesday we clapped the house of an investigator that we were teaching, and she left her house and looked panicked...she looked pail white, and had obviously been crying. As she began to explain what had happened she broke into tears. She began to express that her son had been in an accident. She expressed that her 15 year old boy was in a car wreck and that in the accident it broke his liver, and he had lost over 1Leter of blood, and had entered into a coma. He was in the hospital in a room that only doctors were aloud in. She began to cry hysterically as she expressed her terror that he might not make it through the night that she might not get to be with her son again. As she feared for the worst i told her that there is something that we can do for her, We explained to her that we are literally representatives of Jesus Christ, and that we have been endowed with the same power in which he holds, we placed our hands on her head and i bestowed a blessing to her. As I gave the blessing the spirit spoke to me, and calmed her troubled soul. As we walked out of the house she hugged me (haha yep awkward for me) and said God bless you boys. Yesterday i fasted for her son, and have been praying fervently for him. As i gave her the blessing i remember that she stopped her crying, and began to have hope. The spirit will always calm our troubled soul. If we live to have him with us, the burdens that life throws at us are bearable. I learned a valuable lesson this week that we can not afford to not have him with us. If we strive to be worthy, and don’t walk with the world, we will have him with us.

Well there’s a little bit of what went down in my week, I don’t’ know what’s been going on exactly, or how it happened, but I have come to the conclusion, that the most important thing that there is in this life is to try and live a Christ centered life. The Great Christian paradox is true, that when we loose our lives in Christ, we find our life. Its happening to me, and I’m so grateful to my father in heaven for the opportunity that i have to be a missionary, and bring to the world a message of hope and good will, even a message of Christ.

Haha i love you guys so much, Star thanks for the pics and videos! William i can’t believe that you got swirled!!! haha i loved that video! And that’s sweet that your doing karate dude! I went to a gym this last Monday for p-day where they teach karate and boxing. We have a member that’s less active in the ward that taught us how to box!!! It was super sweet.... until i got it in my head that i was pretty good at it....haha i made him a deal, i told him that i would enter the ring with him and fight him, and if i won that he would have to go to church this Sunday....he accepted! Everyone in the gym gathered around the ring to watch the fight...needless to say the 1 round of one minute was the longest minute of my life...in the first 10 seconds I’m pretty sure he almost broke my nose....haha still hurts...i’m not gonna tell you who won or lost but lets just say he didn’t go to church yesterday!!!

Hahah i love you guys, i gotta wright my president still so I’m gonna be on for a bit, so feel free to shoot me an email! Remember to live your lives so you can have the holy ghost with you! You’re all in my prayers! And make it a good week!!

Love, 

Elder Holman