Week 58

Hey Everyone!

I didn't mention this last week, but all the missionaries were able to have an advanced screening
of the movie 'Meet the Mormons' at the stake center 2 weeks ago. It was pretty dang cool. If you haven't seen it, go see it. 

In other news, Elder Hamula came to our mission this week. The training lasted pretty much all day because we had talks by President Francis and Sister Francis, and then Elder Hamula's wife, and then he got up and did a Q&A for an hour, and then the last hour was just whatever he wanted to say to us. He came down and stood in front of the pews so that was cool. The training was super sweet. I wish I would have recorded it, because he is super intelligent and has an incredible way of explaining things. He definitely gave us some ideas on ways to improve. 

 

We went to the temple on Saturday, and Friday is weekly planning, so really we only had Wednesday and Thursday as our full proselyting days. It didn't help that it seemed like every person we tried to see canceled at the last minute. It was just a slow week, so not much of an update on our investigators. It's starting to get cold though. It might snow soon.

 

Anyway, I don't have much else for this week.

ok bye!

Love Elder Holt

Week 57

Hey!

So this week we have Elder Hamula, a member of the Seventy coming to
tour our mission and give us a training. That's happening on Tuesday so
it should be pretty cool! Seventies are always sweet when they come.

This week was good. On Wednesday an older couple that we are
teaching invited us to go to Fort Niagara. It's this Fort that was built
before the revolutionary war by the French, and it claims that it was
the key to North America and really, really important. I'm not so sure,
but it was still really cool. It changed hands 3 times between
the French, the British, and the States which is pretty interesting.
Anyway, it was insanely windy, but still pretty cool and historic and
such. It was good to spend time with our investigators too.

At Fort Niagra

Another picture at Fort Niagra

In the Gift Shop - I really wanted to buy this

Every Friday we go to help out at a soup kitchen. It's called "Heart, Love,and Soul" and we go to help serve breakfast to all the people that come in.
It's fun and I get to wear a hairnet. So yah, if you ever wonder what I'm
doing on a Friday morning, I'm probably serving cereal to people. That's the
station I usually get. Except last time I had to do the coffee station, so that
was fun.

I'll give you a vague rundown of who we've been teaching lately. We teach
a part-member couple every week. The woman, Kathy, has cancer and doesn't
have much time left to live, but she wants her husband to be baptized and she
wants to be sealed before she passes. We've taught them a couple times and we
have good visits. We also teach a couple guys around our age. We teach a guy
named Matt who is 18 and has a baptismal date, and we also teach a guy named
Gerald who is 22 and should be getting baptized next week, but I think he's
going to be baptized in the YSA ward. Those are the main people we are working
with, but we also have appointments with a good amount of recent converts,
because we are supposed to keep teaching them up to a year after their baptism,
and we also have a few less actives to see.

This week we will not have much time to see people, because we have Elder
Hamula training Tuesday, and we are going to the temple on Saturday. The other
days of the week are open but when we lose two days of time that's a lot.

Alright, I've got to go. Cya!
Love Elder Holt

Hiking on P-day

Another from our P-day hike

Me and Elder Anderson



Week 56

What's Up? 

Sorry I haven't been able to get an email out the past couple weeks! Things have been a little

busy. I was transferred up to Lewiston, which is right by the city of Niagara Falls. I love it here.

The City was great but I was definitely ready for a change. My last week in Buffalo went well,

and a couple of the people that we were teaching should be getting baptized this month.

Lewiston has a good teaching pool. Two people that they were teaching before I got here

are getting baptized in the next couple weeks, so that's pretty cool. The past two weeks here
have gone by really, really fast. We have a lot of appointments with people, some are
investigators and some are less actives, so we just drive around to each of our appointments
all day. Things are slowing down a bit though, so we're going to try to do a lot more finding
(tracting) this week.

  

A shard of metal punctured our Tire!

One notable thing that has happened since coming to Lewiston is that we were going through an intersection last week, and when we came out of it there was a loud clicking coming from the car.

We pulled off to see what it was, and some shard of metal or something just punctured the HECK

out of our tire.

Put on the Spare Tire



We still have no idea what it was. We put the spare on and then we had to drive to Firestone to get our tire replaced, so that took about 2 hours from the time the tire popped. Fun stuff.

I'll update you on the people we're working with as I get to know them better. My companion's name is Elder Anderson. He's been out 6 months and he's from Provo. I like him a lot and we get

along really well.

Sorry this is short! Unlike Buffalo, people are pretty normal here so there's not too much crazy stuff to share. I hope everyone is doing well!

Love, Elder Holt



Me with the Burmese Family - the way they take pictures

Me in front of Niagra River