So this week was awesome. On friday my new comp came, and I finally got to get back under a mosquito net again. I was very sick and tired of getting attacked a billion times every night, and I just dont sleep as well without a net. My new companions name is Elder Combs and he is from Denver, he knew Elder Walton, so that is really cool. We got to work on friday night as soon as he got here, and we were able to teach a family and help them understand the importance of not waiting to get married, and put the
lord in the first place. The accepted, and I am so grateful for that. It will still be a long process to get there documents, but at least now they are focusing on the important things. On saturday we had a zone training in the city, which was really good, our zone leaders did a really good job and I really feel like the Ideas that they presented will really help our work progress, I really feel like it was one of the best zone trainings I have been to on the mission. That night we were able to put some of the ideas into practice and on the first door we knocked we sat with and amazing new family and I really hope that they will do well. Then on sunday we got to participate in the first stake conference in all of mozambique. The districts became stakes when I was in the mtc and my first weekend, and so I was really happy to at least be a part of the first stake conference. The biggest blessing of the conference was getting to witness the first patriarch in mozambique be called. He has less than 30 years and so he will be a patriarch for a very long time. The spirit was so strong when he was called and it was truly a blessing for mozambique and definitely a tendr mercy to witness. That night we found another awesome family, and had a great lesson with them. I really hope that we will find some good families that will truly progress so that Elder Combs can see the fun side of missionary work. We have been doing all of the nitty-gritty stuff, and it is really difficult, so I pray that I will have the strength to lead out on it, and make it fun as well. We really dont have anyone to teach, so I feel bad, but it is definitley teaching me a new aspect of the work. We will work with the bishopric this week to try andput together a better plan, and I am ingeneral excited for the things that will happen. I still feel super unqualified as a trainer, I feel like I should be in training, and not doing the training, but Elder Combs is awesome, he speaks very well, and will be an awesome missionary. I also had the oppurtunity on sunday to see my old ward at the stake conference, and one of my recent-convert families had written letters for me. It was super moving to read the testimony of someone you taught the first lesson two. These people definitely have a firm hold on my hearts, and I love them so much. I dont have a card reader today, so i cant send a picture of us, but I will try to find one. I also love all of you, and am so grateful for your prayers.
With all my love,
Elder Anthony Holt
Good morning, how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because through them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Mozambique? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Mozambique in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia, 39
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez