Holt, Caleb

I hope this week was good for each of you! My week was certainly amazing even though we got covid. We did lots of phone contacting while in quarantine. It was cool how much we really needed to get the contacts made. I know we got sick for a reason because of that. This week we also attended two baptisms. One being a non-member baptism and the other a child of record baptism. These experiences were really cool because we had friends at both of them! We also prayed fervently for someone to show up to church this week and a girl named Carrie came to just check out our church and she plans on coming back next week with her kids. I am so grateful for prayer! I have been trying lately to recognize that me and God really do have a relationship. When I pray now I often remember my past prayers and I feel like I am getting to say hi to my friend again. I love God. He is the best friend! I am so grateful for the mission. I often think about how merciful the Lord has been to me. I u...

Hey! I am so excited to share with you this weeks events and experiences. This week we finally are now back to just being in our area! The past few weeks we have been in a tripan to help some missionaries who had companions go home. Because of this we are now back into our area and deprived of working in it as well so we set new goals, reflected and planned. We realized we have a lot of work to do haha. It has been awesome! Because our desires are to help this area out a lot before we leave it we have been relying on the Lord a lot to help us out and we have seen several big and small miracles every day! One of those miracles is having our recent convert Nikki decide she wants to attend the temple every month! Another one is necessary change in our friend Brandon's life in order to be baptized. Another is having one of our friends stop smoking and drinking coffee out of no where! There are many more. This all started happening once we started relying on the Lord and asking for thes...

HEY-O I hope all is well! I pray for all of you! This week has been awesome. We did the grossest service of my life this week. We were cleaning a home. This home took 13 XL garbage bags just to get the dining room and the kitchen floor cleaned of the trash laying around in a two bedroom 1 bath apartment. We threw away dishes and hope the WHOLE fridge can be thrown away! I got a video but sadly Google email doesn't allow me to send videos. I am so grateful for my Mother and other GREAT friends who have helped me learn cleanliness. Ooo I just had an idea I'll screen shot some parts of the video! We have so many miracles here. We get to see God's hand in our lives often by following promptings as often as we can. The prophet gives a great prayer excerpt about growing into the principle of revelation. He talks about following promptings daily, weekly, monthly and so forth. As I have applied this principle in my life I continue to grow spiritually stronger. I invite you to try t...

HIII! It is always good to be writing an email to you guys and girls. I hope you all loved this week! We got to have the amazing privilege of watching General Conference this week! How neat is that! That's pretty neat! ( I hope everyone gets my "neat" reference). My week has been crazy! An Elder in my district went home. So we got another Elder with me and Elder Parker, my original companion. His name is Elder Cullen, we went to high school together! He is awesome! Now we are working both areas and sure are staying busy! We have seen many miracles. It is crazy how the Lord does His work sometimes. I would explain them all but that would turn into a book! Here is one. Two weeks ago we felt inspired to get a large print copy of the bible so we got one and it arrive two days prior to getting Elder Cullen in our companionship. The day Elder Cullen got here we started talking with a lady who has been trying so hard to get a Large print bible so she can start reading scripture ...