Hard Work

I love you all, hope you are doing good. Happy Valentines day! Here are just a few great things that happened this week! First we are having lessons from across the world! One of my two companions is learning Japanese because of his original assignment! We are doing lots of facebook work and this led to many lessons and one was with a member in Japan! My companion taught her in japanese! We got to meet with the Hintons again! Thisbis a part member family! The mom has a mother who also is in a part member family and we were able to teach both families together! We have a return appointment for the same thing this Sunday and they all may come to church! We had many services this week! Including cleaning, pruning trees, and planting flowers. We had a lesson lesson with this one semi homeless man and his name is Ryan. He is amazing! I was so happy we got to teach him! I am amazed of how great people can be even though they may be homeless/ semi homeless. We wanted to get to know him then teach but he was anxious to here our message and asked to have us just teach haha. It was so good! He loved it all and was taking everything to heart and he found ways to apply this message for him. He will be baptized soon he just needs a home. We taught some crazy lessons this week! Another was with homeless members! Ah it has been crazy haha. Please keep praying for our friends and please start if you haven't already! We can do miracles with prayer! The reason this email is titled "Hard Work" is because a couple days ago I started getting overwhelmed with work, if you don't know already I am working an area by myself and without anyone stopping me I have been planning to much haha. I learned a lesson of balance this week! People we need to plan time to rest as well as work! A parable often used for this is to sharpen your axe and I love that! I hope we keep our axes sharp, it makes for the best blessings! 

One more miracle is that we met with a inactive member who is a ward missionary and he came to church and even brought a friend! So many great things this week! I find so much joy with people as we continue to progress each other and develope friendships of trust out here! It has made my testimony rock solid to know that every person can come to know that what we teach is true and can put a blessing in their life forever as they want. I know that the scriptures are made for every part of our lives, I know God made scripture to bless you and me! Please pick up scriptures and specifically the Book of Mormon if you are comfortable to read it. We can become a joyful and happy people from this! I love you all and am sincerely grateful for each of you in my life. I pray for you, I hope the best for each of you and say so in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

-Elder Caleb Mathew Holt

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