Hello,
This week was awesome! My new companion and area are amazing. My companion is from the Congo and is funny; it feels like I am walking with an inspirational speaker all day. He said he likes people that DREAM BIG so that's awesome. We are working a ton and what I have really learned with him is that missionaries really do have power and authority. We really teach and call people to repentance. We don't teach the restoration like teachers, but we show them why it's important to their eternal family. We teach the law of chastity and the word of wisdom as the first lesson for tons of people and tell them if they want a happy eternal family they need to follow them, and they love it and want to go to church on Sunday; it's awesome. There was this one lady that smokes that we taught and my companion was like, "you're going to stop smoking so that you can be baptized in two weeks and be washed of your sins and be born again." We are going to give you a blessing and when you have temptation pray and drink lots of water and if you need to, call us." And until now she hasn't smoked once. There was one guy we stopped in the street and told him our job was to help people have an eternal family and asked if he wanted one and he was like, "yeah, I love my family" and my companion was like, "how long have you been married?" and the guy said, "actually we just live together" and we taught the law of chastity and my companion said "you need to get married and follow the commandments or you will never have an eternal family" and the guy was like, "yeah that's true I will talk to my wife tonight." The gospel of Christ is about change every day to become better. Maybe when we are first baptized we make lots of big changes in our life but the moment we stop changing and relax that's when it's over; we've got to get better and utilize the atonement every day of our lives.
Love,
Elder Holcomb
[From Michele: For more on changing everyday: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2019/04/36nelson?lang=eng]
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