Family,
Super busy week! We spent a couple days up in Petawawa, a military base about 2 hours northwest of Ottawa, to help the missionaries up there boost their teaching pool. Afterwards we had a District leader council with all our District leaders and President Cannon, to discuss the missionaries in our zone and how to help them. Afterwards we went on splits, and saw some miracles! Sister Cannon came with me and two other district leaders, Elder Cherry and Elder Hibbard, and we taught two lessons and committed 3 people to baptism! Two of those are husband and wife, a small phillipino family with a 2 year old son. Finally, teaching a family! Missionaries' dream right there. Elder Leavitt took elder Dalton and President Cannon to Petronille...she needs another week before her baptism, she's just not ready yet. So it's this saturday! The suspense is killer. Our chinese friend is still trying to solve the puzzle of Christianity, before passing judgement on the book of mormon. Grrr. That's alright, he'll figure it out eventually.
Zone leader council was good, President Cannon went a little trigger happy with transfers last transfer and swapped out a lot of zone leaders, every team was affected (except elder Leavitt and I). So we helped the assistants train the new zone leaders about Planning and Area book and goals (the most boring subjects). We made it fun though. It's fun to see elder McRoberts once a month, he's been a zone leader in Quebec city for a while now. To be honest I'm quite excited to not be a zone leader anymore and just go and do work, to be rid of all this administration garbage.
Well, that was our week, lots of travel and teaching and committing and all that jazz. Way to go Chandler on fixing the cupboards! That's legit. Noah, you keep womanizing at those dance recitals!
Peace be the journey,
Elder Holm (1)
January 30, 2012
January 24, 2012
January 23, 2012
Dear Family,
We had a great week, we met with our african investigator again. We finished the plan of salvation and taught him the restoration. He had a lot of things to say. He used to really look for the truth and visit a lot of different churches. The kind where the pastor walks around and touches people and they start shaking. Timothy said "The pastor would always touch me, and NOTHING would happen, I mean come on! I thought it was just me, that I just couldn't feel the spirit, then once I went and the pastor touched my friend, and he started shaking! Afterwards I asked my friend, 'Harry! You HAVE to tell me, I HAVE to know. What happened? was it real?" and then Harry turned to me and said "No way! It wasn't real at all! I just didn't want to be the odd one out."
The animated way he told the story gave us a good laugh, he's a really lighthearted guy. We're really excited to help him progress. He told us of the religious corruption he saw in Nigeria and all other african countries. He just wants to follow God, so we're going to show him how. He's very down to earth.
We will also have a baptism this saturday! Our investigator from Rwanda, is going to be baptized! We are super excited for her, it's about time we saved a soul!
Well we have to go to petawawa today, so I don't have much time, but keep up the good work all and go share the gospel with someone today!
Peace,
Elder Holm (1)
We had a great week, we met with our african investigator again. We finished the plan of salvation and taught him the restoration. He had a lot of things to say. He used to really look for the truth and visit a lot of different churches. The kind where the pastor walks around and touches people and they start shaking. Timothy said "The pastor would always touch me, and NOTHING would happen, I mean come on! I thought it was just me, that I just couldn't feel the spirit, then once I went and the pastor touched my friend, and he started shaking! Afterwards I asked my friend, 'Harry! You HAVE to tell me, I HAVE to know. What happened? was it real?" and then Harry turned to me and said "No way! It wasn't real at all! I just didn't want to be the odd one out."
The animated way he told the story gave us a good laugh, he's a really lighthearted guy. We're really excited to help him progress. He told us of the religious corruption he saw in Nigeria and all other african countries. He just wants to follow God, so we're going to show him how. He's very down to earth.
We will also have a baptism this saturday! Our investigator from Rwanda, is going to be baptized! We are super excited for her, it's about time we saved a soul!
Well we have to go to petawawa today, so I don't have much time, but keep up the good work all and go share the gospel with someone today!
Peace,
Elder Holm (1)
January 18, 2012
January 16th, 2012
Hey family!
So this week has been just stuffed full of miracles, and I don't have any time to write them all. I can't remember if I told you about the student who just finished his pre-med. He actually wants to be a surgeon. Crazy eh? I think I told you that. Anyhow we passed him off to the sisters and they have been teaching him and so far it's been a Golden Experience. He is committed to be baptized on Feb. 10th. During the pass off lesson we taught out of Alma 32 and his comprehension of Gospel Topics is outstanding. I hope to get a picture with him to show you. We saw him at church (YSA and two family wards meet at the same building) And he walked up to us and gave us a huge gangster handshake. We love him so much. And he just loved church. But he's now under the sisters' charge, we have our own miraculous investigators to talk about.
She's from Rwanda, she's middle aged and speaks more french than English, but loves church. She actually walked into church on her own, and this week she told us why. She gave an analogy to when "You walk into a room and there are a lot of people but all of the sudden you see the one and you know that he's your soulmate. So you hold onto him and then you get married and so forth...the same thing with this church, I just knew it was right, that's why I want to get baptized." We are so excited for her. I talked to her on the phone today and she told me about her day and said "Tomorrow I'm going to practice taking the bus to church so I can make it on time. (Her ride can't take her anymore)" What drive, fantastic.
Our third investigator is overwhelmed, he feels like he has to investigate every christian sect in order to make an unbiased decision that Joseph Smith restored the true church. I showed him that apostacy chart that someone sent me in a package a while ago and it helped him alot. He told us to bear with him, because having full access to all the information on the internet--and then he EXPLODED about communist china. He told us some terrible stuff about china. It alarmed me to see this gentle Chinese man moved to tears in anger and fear for China. "China Government is DEMON! Is that correct pronunciation?" He would say stuff like "you have no idea the fear in my heart, that I have for China. I still have traces of brain wash that I am trying to remove. China is worse than any other country. worse than libya, than middle east, the worst."
But he believes in God. This is a big step for him. He found his testimony in God by looking in the origin of God within Western Democracy. That's why he moved to Canada. Great Guy. Love him. He knelt and offered the most beautiful prayer I have ever heard. It broke our hearts. He'll get his answer soon.
Well I have to get going. Souls to save, Sorry Mom, don't have time to respond this week.
NEVER DIE!
Elder Holm (1)
So this week has been just stuffed full of miracles, and I don't have any time to write them all. I can't remember if I told you about the student who just finished his pre-med. He actually wants to be a surgeon. Crazy eh? I think I told you that. Anyhow we passed him off to the sisters and they have been teaching him and so far it's been a Golden Experience. He is committed to be baptized on Feb. 10th. During the pass off lesson we taught out of Alma 32 and his comprehension of Gospel Topics is outstanding. I hope to get a picture with him to show you. We saw him at church (YSA and two family wards meet at the same building) And he walked up to us and gave us a huge gangster handshake. We love him so much. And he just loved church. But he's now under the sisters' charge, we have our own miraculous investigators to talk about.
She's from Rwanda, she's middle aged and speaks more french than English, but loves church. She actually walked into church on her own, and this week she told us why. She gave an analogy to when "You walk into a room and there are a lot of people but all of the sudden you see the one and you know that he's your soulmate. So you hold onto him and then you get married and so forth...the same thing with this church, I just knew it was right, that's why I want to get baptized." We are so excited for her. I talked to her on the phone today and she told me about her day and said "Tomorrow I'm going to practice taking the bus to church so I can make it on time. (Her ride can't take her anymore)" What drive, fantastic.
Our third investigator is overwhelmed, he feels like he has to investigate every christian sect in order to make an unbiased decision that Joseph Smith restored the true church. I showed him that apostacy chart that someone sent me in a package a while ago and it helped him alot. He told us to bear with him, because having full access to all the information on the internet--and then he EXPLODED about communist china. He told us some terrible stuff about china. It alarmed me to see this gentle Chinese man moved to tears in anger and fear for China. "China Government is DEMON! Is that correct pronunciation?" He would say stuff like "you have no idea the fear in my heart, that I have for China. I still have traces of brain wash that I am trying to remove. China is worse than any other country. worse than libya, than middle east, the worst."
But he believes in God. This is a big step for him. He found his testimony in God by looking in the origin of God within Western Democracy. That's why he moved to Canada. Great Guy. Love him. He knelt and offered the most beautiful prayer I have ever heard. It broke our hearts. He'll get his answer soon.
Well I have to get going. Souls to save, Sorry Mom, don't have time to respond this week.
NEVER DIE!
Elder Holm (1)
January 2, 2012
January 2, 2012
Family,
This week has been really good. We got our transfer calls on saturday, new year's eve, and discovered that basically Elder Leavitt and I are the only ones in the zone who are staying the same. Ottawa zone always gets moved around...No one really knows why...
We had a lot of miracles, this last week. Lots of good stuff.
We had our lovely chinese investigator, Mr. Johnson, who came to church. He's super great. I've never seen someone listen so intently at church! I've never really encountered this kind of situation though, teaching someone who has never even considered the concept of God. But you know, God is always a part of our lives, whether we know of him or not. Johnson told us of times previous in his life (While living in China) where he didn't know what to do, and prayed to himself, not knowing who else to pray to. This touching experience reminded me of a scripture in Romans 2:14-15. Very applicable to Johnson. Our Zone is seeing miracles as of late, we hope to double the amount of baptisms we had last month--and teams are working hard enough to see this come to pass. It's about time that us missionaries here wake up and take advantage of the members here who are willing and waiting to introduce their friends to the church. Elder Leavitt and I are trying a method that we found in Preach my gospel.
Every family we visit, we hand everyone a piece of paper and ask them to write a list of their friends and acquaintances. Then we share scriptures with them, explaining the importance of sharing the gospel and the blessings that follow. Afterwards we kneel and pray with the family, and then they ponder for a couple minutes over their names and choose one name of the which they can contact and have a conversation about the gospel with. It is working really well, people are becoming excited about the wonderful work that is the work of growing the kingdom. I encourage the Holm family to do the same, to sit down for family home evening and write a list of friends and acquaintances, then pray over a name of someone that could be contacted within the next week or two. Share the special spirit of our home by inviting non-members to come over.
Church was wonderful, one of my favorite hymns is "Ring out, Wild Bells." A beautiful song.
Well have a wonderful week everyone!
Elder Holm (1)
This week has been really good. We got our transfer calls on saturday, new year's eve, and discovered that basically Elder Leavitt and I are the only ones in the zone who are staying the same. Ottawa zone always gets moved around...No one really knows why...
We had a lot of miracles, this last week. Lots of good stuff.
We had our lovely chinese investigator, Mr. Johnson, who came to church. He's super great. I've never seen someone listen so intently at church! I've never really encountered this kind of situation though, teaching someone who has never even considered the concept of God. But you know, God is always a part of our lives, whether we know of him or not. Johnson told us of times previous in his life (While living in China) where he didn't know what to do, and prayed to himself, not knowing who else to pray to. This touching experience reminded me of a scripture in Romans 2:14-15. Very applicable to Johnson. Our Zone is seeing miracles as of late, we hope to double the amount of baptisms we had last month--and teams are working hard enough to see this come to pass. It's about time that us missionaries here wake up and take advantage of the members here who are willing and waiting to introduce their friends to the church. Elder Leavitt and I are trying a method that we found in Preach my gospel.
Every family we visit, we hand everyone a piece of paper and ask them to write a list of their friends and acquaintances. Then we share scriptures with them, explaining the importance of sharing the gospel and the blessings that follow. Afterwards we kneel and pray with the family, and then they ponder for a couple minutes over their names and choose one name of the which they can contact and have a conversation about the gospel with. It is working really well, people are becoming excited about the wonderful work that is the work of growing the kingdom. I encourage the Holm family to do the same, to sit down for family home evening and write a list of friends and acquaintances, then pray over a name of someone that could be contacted within the next week or two. Share the special spirit of our home by inviting non-members to come over.
Church was wonderful, one of my favorite hymns is "Ring out, Wild Bells." A beautiful song.
Well have a wonderful week everyone!
Elder Holm (1)
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