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| The Tie I knitted |
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| Visiting Tim King in the Hospital |
Monday, June 3, 2019
Monday, July 6, 2015
Week 90
June 15, 2015
Hey Everyone!
Everything's been going pretty well here in Rochester. We're
teaching a man named Thomas, and he will be baptized soon. He's
the nicest guy, and he would have been baptized this Saturday, but
he's been feeling a little sick and didn't come to church so we've had
to push the baptism back a week or so.
We also have gotten a couple really sweet new investigators. This one
guy moved into our area, who was just released from prison. He studied
the LDS faith with his prison room mate who was LDS and wants to be
baptized. It's pretty sweet.
Let's see what else. I'll send a picture of me with a garbage plate.
Garbage plates are the bomb. You all need to have one. It looks like
junk but its so good.
Also, its been raining like crazy. There have been thunder storms everyday
this week. It's been awesome.
Ok, I love you everyone!
Love, Elder Holt
Hey Everyone!
Everything's been going pretty well here in Rochester. We're
teaching a man named Thomas, and he will be baptized soon. He's
the nicest guy, and he would have been baptized this Saturday, but
he's been feeling a little sick and didn't come to church so we've had
to push the baptism back a week or so.
We also have gotten a couple really sweet new investigators. This one
guy moved into our area, who was just released from prison. He studied
the LDS faith with his prison room mate who was LDS and wants to be
baptized. It's pretty sweet.
Let's see what else. I'll send a picture of me with a garbage plate.
Garbage plates are the bomb. You all need to have one. It looks like
junk but its so good.
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| Garbage Plates...the best thing Rochester has to offer |
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| My own road |
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| In The Hill Cumorah Visitor Center before Stake Priesthood Meeting |
this week. It's been awesome.
Ok, I love you everyone!
Love, Elder Holt
Friday, May 8, 2015
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Friday, May 1, 2015
Week 85
Dear Family and Friends and other people,
Well hey! This was my first week in Gates/Chili. Also known as 4th City. I don't really know what to call my area. It's not Gates or Chili, it's Gates-Chili, because we cover both and live on the border, and its by the city, and it's in 4th ward. So pick one. We also live right next to the airport.
First things first, there's a bar 300 feet from our apartment, and I guess things got pretty rowdy Friday night and a guy got shot dead and 6 other people were injured. The day after there were TONS of cops all around and news teams were in the parking lot all day. There's a vigil right in front of the bar with candles that people made for the guy that died. Crazy stuff.
This week was the bomb because we got 6 new investigators and 4 more are coming this week, which is the most I've ever had in a week, so I'm pretty happy about that. They were all mostly from investigator referrals and part members families so that's pretty sweet too.
We're teaching this one guy named Ed, and I met him for the first time on Tuesday night. He's a guy probably in his 60's, and he likes to yell really really loudly for no reason, but he's great. He wants to be baptized at the end of May. He just has to quit smoking, and a few other things first.
The area is cool. Half of our area is the city, sort of way ghetto, and then the other side is decently normal for Western New York. It's kind of cool because it's like two types of areas combined. Instead of when I was in downtown Buffalo and it was just city or when I was in Lewiston and it was just suburban. They say, variety is the spice of life, and we get that here.
We had a Regional Stake Conference yesterday. Well it was just a regional broadcast from Salt Lake, and Sister Reeves, Elder Anderson and Elder Hales, and then some one from the seventy all spoke. It was sweet! it was like general conference, but a secret session only for the cool people in the North-Eastern United States.
Also, our mission is starting "just serve" in a month. So that will be cool.
Love Elder Holt
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| Me & The Stone's on my last night in Pittsford. Brother Stone was the best mission leader of all time and they were the bomb in general. |
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| Me & the office secretary, Sister Ballard. She goes home next month. She is the Best! |
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| It Snowed. |
Monday, April 20, 2015
Week 84
Hey Everyone!
Sorry it's been so long. Today we got transfer calls and I am being
transferred from Pittsford to Gates /Chili. It's in Rochester but not
totally downtown, but pretty close to it. That should be good.
There hasn't been too much to report on our area, which is
probably why I don't get super motivated to write a weekly
email. We have been trying to find people to teach, so we go walking
around the city of Pittsford talking to people or tracting, but we
haven't had much luck.
There is a lady that has been coming to church with her member
husband for a year and a half now. She's been taught all the
lessons. She was waiting to get baptized until her husband was able to
get the priesthood. Recently he received the priesthood and she came
up to us and said she's ready to be baptized, so we will go over all the
lessons with her again and she'll be baptized on May 9th.
So that's pretty cool! Sort of random, because it's not like she's an
investigator we meet with and teach because she's been
active for over a year and even had a calling. We are excited to
prepare her for her baptism. Well I'm leaving now so I can't
stick around for that, but its still cool!
In other news, its been getting really hot lately, and the other day
we were walking around and I went to feel my lower back, and I haven't
felt that much sweat on my back since I was riding bikes with a
backpack on in the middle of summer in downtown Buffalo last year.
There was no winter to spring transition. It was just winter winter winter
then HOT AS HECK!
The Eerie canal has been cool lately though, because a lot of people
will go chill by the canal and walk along the path they have, so its
fun to go try and talk to people there.
I hope everyone is doing well! This next week should be
interesting in the new area, so hopefully I have cool stuff to say
next week. bye!
Love Elder Holt
Sorry it's been so long. Today we got transfer calls and I am being
transferred from Pittsford to Gates /Chili. It's in Rochester but not
totally downtown, but pretty close to it. That should be good.
There hasn't been too much to report on our area, which is
probably why I don't get super motivated to write a weekly
email. We have been trying to find people to teach, so we go walking
around the city of Pittsford talking to people or tracting, but we
haven't had much luck.
There is a lady that has been coming to church with her member
husband for a year and a half now. She's been taught all the
lessons. She was waiting to get baptized until her husband was able to
get the priesthood. Recently he received the priesthood and she came
up to us and said she's ready to be baptized, so we will go over all the
lessons with her again and she'll be baptized on May 9th.
So that's pretty cool! Sort of random, because it's not like she's an
investigator we meet with and teach because she's been
active for over a year and even had a calling. We are excited to
prepare her for her baptism. Well I'm leaving now so I can't
stick around for that, but its still cool!
In other news, its been getting really hot lately, and the other day
we were walking around and I went to feel my lower back, and I haven't
felt that much sweat on my back since I was riding bikes with a
backpack on in the middle of summer in downtown Buffalo last year.
There was no winter to spring transition. It was just winter winter winter
then HOT AS HECK!
The Eerie canal has been cool lately though, because a lot of people
will go chill by the canal and walk along the path they have, so its
fun to go try and talk to people there.
I hope everyone is doing well! This next week should be
interesting in the new area, so hopefully I have cool stuff to say
next week. bye!
Love Elder Holt
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Week 83
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| Me, Elder Allen, Elder Knudson, and Elder Knudsons new 'son' he got at Transfer Meeting |
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| I got a hair cut the next day...I know it was insane that day, alright? |
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| Elder Ryser and his Suisse Bear |
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| Me looking really cool when I drive |
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| My Trainer, Elder Allen right before his last Testimony at Transfer Meeting |
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Week 82
March 23, 2015
Hey everyone!
Everything has been literally the same. We only have one less active to visit
and besides that we spend all of our time finding. We haven't found anyone
though so we might try to go down to the very bottom of our area to Honeoye
Falls and try to work in that area.
Let's see....we got new iPads last week. It's the start of the new
internet proselyting roll-out, so we won't be on Facebook for one to
two months. We have a couple online ipad trainings to do that will
teach us to Internet proselyte effectively. So, that's about the
only new thing.
What else....it still snows every once in a while, but it melts pretty
quickly so that's cool.
My companion, Elder Garland and I get along pretty well so that
makes things nice.
On Saturday I was on exchanges with one of the AP's, and we decided to
drive out to the country and tract the really big houses where people
own lots of farm land...that was pretty fun. Mostly just pointing out the biggest
houses we could see and figuring out how to get there. There was one big house
we knocked at, of a guy that had 8 or 9 buffalo in his front yard. We didn't get any
answers from the really big houses but we might try to go back.
President Francis says we need kingdom builders, so we're going for it
Alright, well that's about it. Cya later!
Love Elder Holt
Hey everyone!
Everything has been literally the same. We only have one less active to visit
and besides that we spend all of our time finding. We haven't found anyone
though so we might try to go down to the very bottom of our area to Honeoye
Falls and try to work in that area.
Let's see....we got new iPads last week. It's the start of the new
internet proselyting roll-out, so we won't be on Facebook for one to
two months. We have a couple online ipad trainings to do that will
teach us to Internet proselyte effectively. So, that's about the
only new thing.
What else....it still snows every once in a while, but it melts pretty
quickly so that's cool.
My companion, Elder Garland and I get along pretty well so that
makes things nice.
On Saturday I was on exchanges with one of the AP's, and we decided to
drive out to the country and tract the really big houses where people
own lots of farm land...that was pretty fun. Mostly just pointing out the biggest
houses we could see and figuring out how to get there. There was one big house
we knocked at, of a guy that had 8 or 9 buffalo in his front yard. We didn't get any
answers from the really big houses but we might try to go back.
President Francis says we need kingdom builders, so we're going for it
Alright, well that's about it. Cya later!
Love Elder Holt
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