Just another day in Paradise (3/29/10)

Hello hello people,

Wow this has been a really good week. I love being a missionary and doing missionary things. This week we went and saw Casey, she is amazing she loves the idea of Relief Society and she just believed everything we said. She has so many questions and concerns that she is trying to figure out. SHe has a really hard life, family with mental problems her husband doesn't want anything to do with religion. It is really hard on her but she is strong and she is excited about church. She works weekends so she can't go to church right now but she told us to pray that she can get weekends off so she can go to church.

Every Tuesday we go and teach evan he is 17 and amazing I think I've told you about him but this last week we had an awesome lesson. We did a visual lesson about the plan of salvation. We had two curtains one going to the earth and the other to the spirit world. then we made body bags (garbage sacks with a body on it) so when we go to each we receive our bodies then we die and our bodies stay in the earth and our spirits go to the spirit world and in the spirit world we get a name tag and become missionaries and start teaching people that don't know about the gospel. When they accept they look through the veil and see people on earth going to the temple and doing baptisms then they accept the gospel and are baptized. It was so cool. Sorry if that doesn't make any sense. I loved doing it it was fun.

Ok now we are going to do a little compare and contrast. The worst thing that has happened in my mission so far. Ellen is done with the church. She does not want to meet with us anymore. She has just been ignoring us so we went to her house and she wouldn't talk to us. She knows it's true and she will come around some time, whether in this life or the next but I have the faith she will be on the right side. So the contrast to this... The most exciting thing was Roberto passed the Sacrament ahh I was such a proud momma. He was so happy and it just felt so good. He then bore his testimony in a meeting that night and He just KNOWS the church is true. There are things that people tell him and he just says no it's not or yes that is true. He KNOWS it is such a strength to me to see how sure he is with his testimony.

That is the most exciting things that have happened this week. It has been a good week and I suspect this next week to be the same. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!! The Lord has blessed me and I can't wait for Conference this week ahh it is so great and to have it on Easter that is even better. So Watch listen and pray and be happy.

Love Sister Holt

Happy Squirrel!! I see at least 20 a day. and they are huge. but so cute ok see ya have a nice day!!