FAMILY.
Well, this letter isn't going to be long, because we have to head off to montreal soon, for the Christmas party with the rest of the zone. But I have a great Christmas present for y'all. This Christmas I will not be calling home. It will not be happening. At all. Actually I will be giving one little call. But just to make sure that everything goes right.
I will be Skyping. Yes. Actually I will be using a system called OOVOO, google it. I'm going to call you at 8 o clock pm my time so 6 your time, to set it up with you and make sure it all works out fine. So to make sure we're all on the same page.
Sunday night, Christmas night. your time, 6 pm. Be there or be square.
As for the little truth-bomb that Carter dropped. hmm. WHAT?!?!? Jeez! Congrats! That's good to hear, it's about time! I would like to know more about her, she sounds like a keeper. Inform me.
So I have a lot of stories to tell you and I have no more time, but I will tell you all next week.
Well, have a good week everybody!
Peace be the journey,
Elder Holm
December 20, 2011
December 13, 2011
December 14th, 2011
Dear Family,
Hey hey hey, Things are going well here. We had a good week, a rough one but a good one. We had very many investigators at a christmas dinner. I tell you I have never worked so hard to get an investigator to an activity, than when we took the bus for 20 minutes and walked for 3 kliks to get to one investigators place, so we could ride the bus back with him and show him how to get to church. This is such a big culture shock for him, coming from Namibia. He was excited to tell us about when he takes showers in the morning. When he saw the turkey dinner, his eyes were huge! At our table we had two from Namibia, one from Mozambique, Angolla, and Germany. It was an interesting dinner. And then I tried to pour pepper on my meal and the lid came off. poured the entire bottle of pepper onto my plate. Man. It was not good.
Our Korean family is good, they didn't make it to church unfortunately. We'll have to talk to them a little more. It has been beautiful weather here! Still 4 degrees! No snow. Santa is real!
The work is going really well, we spent the entire last week on splits, it was crazy. Nothing helps the week pass by than having a different companion in a different area every day! We had a District Leader training seminar on Thursday, President Cannon drove down with the assistants and together we trained the district leaders. Elder Leavitt and I had to give a training on splits and Adjusting goals. Wasn't too bad. President also brought down packages, that was nice! I must admit, I already opened the package, it was wonderful! I loved the ricebag. The candy was delicious as well, thank you so much!!! I haven't dove in too deep into the package yet...
Well I have to get going, have a good week!
Peace,
Elder Holm (1)
Hey hey hey, Things are going well here. We had a good week, a rough one but a good one. We had very many investigators at a christmas dinner. I tell you I have never worked so hard to get an investigator to an activity, than when we took the bus for 20 minutes and walked for 3 kliks to get to one investigators place, so we could ride the bus back with him and show him how to get to church. This is such a big culture shock for him, coming from Namibia. He was excited to tell us about when he takes showers in the morning. When he saw the turkey dinner, his eyes were huge! At our table we had two from Namibia, one from Mozambique, Angolla, and Germany. It was an interesting dinner. And then I tried to pour pepper on my meal and the lid came off. poured the entire bottle of pepper onto my plate. Man. It was not good.
Our Korean family is good, they didn't make it to church unfortunately. We'll have to talk to them a little more. It has been beautiful weather here! Still 4 degrees! No snow. Santa is real!
The work is going really well, we spent the entire last week on splits, it was crazy. Nothing helps the week pass by than having a different companion in a different area every day! We had a District Leader training seminar on Thursday, President Cannon drove down with the assistants and together we trained the district leaders. Elder Leavitt and I had to give a training on splits and Adjusting goals. Wasn't too bad. President also brought down packages, that was nice! I must admit, I already opened the package, it was wonderful! I loved the ricebag. The candy was delicious as well, thank you so much!!! I haven't dove in too deep into the package yet...
Well I have to get going, have a good week!
Peace,
Elder Holm (1)
December 6, 2011
December 5th, 2011
Dear Family.
Well it seems like you've had a wilder week than I could have imagined! I'm sorry to hear about Grandpa, and the house, and the fence, and everything else that went down, sheesh! Happy birthday Chandler, those mocassins look super comfortable.
This week we found some new investigators, one particularly who has only been in canada for 3 weeks. He's from....Namibia? Somewhere in Africa, he's a refugee. We've been trying to help him find an apartment and a coat and some boots so he can be ready for winter. Speaking of winter it has been wonderful here! There's no snow on the ground, averaging around 40-50 degrees with light rain, what a blessing! this winter is going to be a short one, and I'm already enjoying it more that the last one.
We're having a big push for baptisms right now in our zone, and it's working. People are giving the last 10% to find those investigators and commit them. We're excited to see the zone double it's baptisms by the end of January.
Church is a hoot, I love Canadian people. So very polite! We've been taking the buses a lot this last week. It's kinda different, because you can't actually contact people directly, you have to casually bring it up in conversation... A little more difficult! but it's a fun new challenge. We've gotten lost a couple times, and usually end up running down through down town Ottawa to get home on time and such. It's fun.
Well that's about all for this week, have a good week, and enjoy December!
Peace be the journey,
Elder Holm (1)
Well it seems like you've had a wilder week than I could have imagined! I'm sorry to hear about Grandpa, and the house, and the fence, and everything else that went down, sheesh! Happy birthday Chandler, those mocassins look super comfortable.
This week we found some new investigators, one particularly who has only been in canada for 3 weeks. He's from....Namibia? Somewhere in Africa, he's a refugee. We've been trying to help him find an apartment and a coat and some boots so he can be ready for winter. Speaking of winter it has been wonderful here! There's no snow on the ground, averaging around 40-50 degrees with light rain, what a blessing! this winter is going to be a short one, and I'm already enjoying it more that the last one.
We're having a big push for baptisms right now in our zone, and it's working. People are giving the last 10% to find those investigators and commit them. We're excited to see the zone double it's baptisms by the end of January.
Church is a hoot, I love Canadian people. So very polite! We've been taking the buses a lot this last week. It's kinda different, because you can't actually contact people directly, you have to casually bring it up in conversation... A little more difficult! but it's a fun new challenge. We've gotten lost a couple times, and usually end up running down through down town Ottawa to get home on time and such. It's fun.
Well that's about all for this week, have a good week, and enjoy December!
Peace be the journey,
Elder Holm (1)
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