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Week 48

WOW~ basically we are done with October already?! Halloween next Monday? Crazy! This time last year I think I was camping with my friends. My how time flys! So, this week was a lot of driving around again to find people. One of the areas we cover is a town called Bronson - and Bronson has a ton of dirt roads. Well we were driving around one dirt road and turned to another, well we would have if it hadn't been for the fact that in the process of the turn the car decided it was going to get stuck in the sand! The road looked totally fine, just like all the rest of the road we had been driving on. The sand on the turn though underneath was very loose and the sand on top appeared to be solid. We had a member come get us out. With no problems either. Though later on, during the night, I was thinking about it, some call this process "reflecting" who woulda thought, me "reflecting" haha! I realized how much that experience was just like how the devil works, he makes things look good, but then once you're there, and in the situation, you realize that you're stuck in sin. Just as we were stuck in the sand. On top it was ok but the weight of the car and the loose sand underneath, we were stuck. But thanks to the member with the truck, was able to come and pull us out, just as Christ's Atonement can help pull us out of our sins and bring us back to safety. That's just my reflections from the week. Hope everyone is doing good!

Love ya'll

Elder Holcombe

Pictures!!!!

Elder Holcombe and Elder Preator 

Elder Holcombe and Elder Preator Florida Gators Stadium 

Travis, Elder Marquez, Daniel, Samantha and Elder Holcombe 

Elder Holcombe 

Elder Praetor, Bishop Janson, Mike Snow and Elder Holcombe 

Elder Praetor, Gloria, Elder Holcombe 

Elder Holcombe 

Friends and Elders 

Brown Family, Elder Marquez and Elder Holcombe 

Elder Marquez, Travis Grosson and Elder Holcombe 

Elder Bigalow, Elder Waechtler, Elder Neville and Elder Holcombe

Week 47

Man, it has been a pretty long week this week that is for sure! Well first off, pictures should be home tomorrow (the 18th) wow.. just realized that today is the 17th, I've been out for 11 months now?? Crazy! It's gone by so fast! Well this week has been crazy, Elder Banner and I have been trying to see a lot of people that used to be taught by missionaries, and the GPS that we have has put us on a lot of dirt roads, but luckily we never got stuck, its been a lot of fun though. We also got a media referral for this lady, Karleen, well our GPS didn't know where she lived. First, we got sent way out on one side of the town she lives in. Then we tried again, and it put us all the way in a different town, well in between the two that she was supposed to live in, then finally we found her, way out the other side of the two areas we had been in. It was crazy. But when we started talking to her she said that they weren't sure if they wanted us to come over still to meet with them. We gave her a Book of Mormon and a few pamphlets, and talked to her a bit, and she said that we can come and talk to them. So things should be pretty good. Things will keep going up, we've made a lot of progress so far. But that's about all that's new this week. hope everything is going good for y'all.

Love ya,

Elder Holcombe

Week 46

Hey everyone, well this week was pretty good. Elder Banner and I have been working pretty hard. We've been trying to find people to teach lately, by going through our area book and visiting all the formers in it. We spent all day yesterday trying to find someone to teach, and after visiting about 20 people or so, we talked to about 15 people, and none of them let us in, so it was kind of a bummer. But this week we did meet Delores, she's an older lady who's met with missionarys before but moved and lost contact with them. She's been reading the Book of Mormon and told us all the things that she likes and doesn't like about it so far, (how Lamen and Lemual beat up Nephi) she's great. Other than that, not too much has happened this week. Hope all is going good for ya'll,

Love 

Elder Holcombe

Weeks 42 - 45

Well it's been a while since I've sent one of these updates! Sorry! Well lets see, seeing as it's been so long, this will basically be a recap of the last transfer that just ended. Elder Preator and I had two baptisms, Mike and Gloria, both are way cool and sweet. And are doing pretty good. We had a lot of fun and got a bunch of things set up for this coming transfer. Elder Preator is now home, that was his last transfer, so he's back in the normal life. I'm now with Elder Banner, he's been out a little bit longer than I have. We both served up in the same district when I was in GA. It was nice to know him before we started serving together. Things are going pretty good, this last week was a bit slow, just because we have been trying to get some things organized for this transfer. We have a lot of big plans and things that we want to do so it should be really good. Man, so much has happened this last little bit it's hard to put it all into words... maybe I'll send some pictures home soon, each one is worth 1000 words right? Haha, also I'll try and get all letters out by the end of this transfer. Sorry I've been slacking, but we've been really busy!

Hope everything is going great for everyone, and y'all learned a lot from conference like i did, it was so great.

Love,
Elder Holcombe