October 24th, 2011

Dear Family,
How are things on the home front? Things are going well here, We have been pushing really hard to be a good example for our zone. We maxed out at 7 member present lessons and 4 new investigators...I read Elder Hayden's letter about getting 20 new investigators in a week....sheesh. Getting people to church is the toughest part, I wish him luck. We had an investigator come to church for five minutes, because he said he would come, but he had some other appointments so he couldn't stay long. But luckily he brought his ENTIRE family, there is nothing more exciting than teaching a family. They will be coming to church next week. his name is Abel, he's committed for baptism next month. Every time I see him I think of the book Abel's Island...strange. Ahh, Africans, love 'em. I feel like I've got to serve all round the world during my mission, this last week we served in the Congo. In fact, I don't think we have 1 white investigator. Huh. Crazy. Our zone is struggling, there are some teams who are having some personal problems which are affecting the work, but we are still accomplishing our goals. We only missed one, our new investigators. Whew. This Friday we drive to Montreal to report to President Cannon our goals and actuals in Zone council in front of all the other zone leaders. And I hear President Cannon gets his wrath on when you don't meet all your goals...I'll let you know how that goes.
This last week we went on splits with the Assistants... Crazy stuff, got to be an assistant for the day. They are busy all the time. But it would totally be worth it to be Assistant just to live in their apartment! Seriously, best apartment in the mission, no joke. I got to be with Elder Jaquier, he's from france, he was actually in the Liahona the other month (just liahona, sorry) it was fun, we spoke french the whole time. He railed on my french, good learning experience. But hey, I've never served with a francophone companion, I've done pretty good despite that. Elder Jaquier is called to serve here in Chinese, so we had some lessons with chinese people....lost. that was a headache.

Thanks for the Package! I finally got the package, thank you, it was good. Mom, you've got this whole package thing DOWN. I haven't had much opportunity to listen to the music you sent, but I will on the way to Montreal this Friday! Anyways, I have to get going, keep it real down there, Winter is a comin!

Peace be the journey,

Elder Holm (1)