Elder Samuel Holdstock

  What's up everyone! The time has come for the last email. What a journey it's been. I'm just gonna leave you all with a simple testimony that I have gained and strengthened over these last 2 years. I know whitout a doubt that the Church of Jesus Christ if Latter Day Saints is Christ's true church. The only one in fact over the face of the earth. I know that He guides it through the servants that he has called for our times. I know that President Nelson is one of servants that Jesus has called to help us all. I know that we can learn the will of God by reading his words in the scriptures and that the Book of Mormon is true. I have experienced many times the power and the answers that this book can bring to our lives. I know that God gives us answers and hears our prayers because He loves us way more than we can imagine. He loves us so much that He gave us His perfect Son to die for us and save us. I know He forgives us for our errors and wants us to become better every...

  What's good guys? Thus last week was a good one that just flew by. We had several exchanges and just hopped from one place to the other. It was a good week though. We've been teaching Romy for like a little more than 2 weeks now. She met the church because of her cousin and told us she wanted to get baptized after stepping foot in the chapel. From there, she started to get super busy with work and school work that it made it hard to meet with her. Nonetheless, she would get up every morning at 5 to go seminary, even when she was the only student there, and represented the ward in a Seminary presentation when she hadn't even been baptized yet. She has made several changes in her daily life and has seen so many blessings from it. She's set the example for so many people that surround her. Yesterday, she entered into the waters of baptism and made her first covenant with God. It was such a special moment. This week as I've been continuing my Book of Mormon grind, I h...

  What's up everyone! How are you all doing? This last week was a decent one. I had told literally only 2 families about my birthday and we happened to have lessons with both of them that day. As we finished one lesson we were in a hurry to leave to get to another lesson and the family goes, "are you guys in a hurry? We actually made you a little something for your birthday." And proceeded to pull out a massive plate of Pique, and a big cake to complement it. We pounded through, just to show up to the next house and they did the exact same thing. Soooo much pique and cake, but it was a good little birthday time.  This week we've tried to continue visiting all of the guys that were ballers, but they have all gotten so busy. Romy, the girl that told us she wanted to be baptized last week, she has been going to seminary every single morning, then goes to school, and then works until 10:30pm. It's a little hard to find even 10 minutes to get a hold of her, but she is ...

  Whats up everyone? How's everything been going? This last week that we had was incredible. We started by just trying to visit a whole bunch of inactive members, but unfortunately we didn't get as much time to do that as we had originally planned because we just kept finding all these guys to teach. Last Sunday we didn't know almost anyone at church and we saw this guy and felt like we should talk to him. He was a member, but we asked to visit him. He invited us over and presented us to his family. Turned out that his aunt is also a member, fairly inactive, and that he has 3 cousins that are baptismal age. The aunt was so happy to have us over and her kids were so happy to learn. We taught them twice and they cake to church on Sunday. After sacrament meeting one of then came up and said "Elders, what do I have to do to get baptized in this church?" As she started to tell us how she had felt, tears started flowing. So now they are on date for a couple weeks from n...