Elder Wily, Elder Holcombe and President Barry

Week 19

Hey everyone! How’s it going? Well this week has been a decent week. It has started to warm up, but then got kinda chilly, not cold just nice and cool, which was nice. Well in all honestly, there’s not a whole lot to talk about really. At least not that I can think of. We've been tracting a lot! Although we did meet with Brother Andy Jones the other day, that guy is pretty funny and loves to joke around. He wanted us to come over and the last few weeks we were only able to meet with him a few times. He has gone to church once, but after that had a reason to not go each week. Well when we went over to his house, he surprised us and told us that he's going to church. Then yesterday comes (Sunday) and he was there bright and early. Well, 10:45! He told us that he could not get hardly any sleep Saturday night, but he wanted to be here, so he still went. It was way cool to have Brother Jones at church with us. We will keep working with him. Not to much else to report on, just the little miracle with Brother Jones that we had. Well now that things are warming up maybe more things will happen.
I hope everyone is doing great.
Love you all!
Elder Holcombe

Zone Conf.

Elder Holcombe, Elder Brimhall, Elder Camp, Elder Jensen and Elder Tenney

Week 16

Dang, this week was so legit! So I’m now companions with Elder Wily. He’s way cool and super funny. We've had a good time so far. He's been out for about 18 months now, and is really excited about this area. All week, everyday something new would happen. We are trying to get a few new things started that should help this area as well, so it’s cool. In all grand scheme of things, the few things we did get done, was not a whole lot, but they were big things that will help out down the road also. We're supposed to be going back to teach a few of the people we met this week, so I'll let you know next week about them. but for the most part they seem pretty solid. Also sometime this summer the mission right above us in GA is being dissolved and we’re getting one of the areas, the Savannah, GA area. So we’re gonna have the bulldogs and the gators in the same mission - that should be fun. Not that I want to go to GA a whole lot, I want to stay here in FL but hey, if im needed to baptize a bunch of crazy bulldog loving people, then that’s where I'll be happy to go! haha. I have got some high hopes for this transfer. Love you all, hope to hear from you to know what’s going on.
Love,
Elder Holcombe

Zone Conference Pictures

We had a Zone Conference last week....

They celebrated all of the March birthdays! Hint, hint!

Back Row: Elder Graham, Sisters LaJuenesse and Shirley, Elders Kellett, Mackey, Webster, Rasmussen, Reid and Turner,
Kneeling: Elders Brimhall, Larsen, Johnson, Holcombe, Osborn and Pelo

Elder Holcombe, Elder Oteo, Elder Taylor, Elder Preator and Elder Webster

Elder Graham, Elder Holcombe and Elder Udy participating in role play....

Weeks 14 & 15

Well, weeks 14 and 15 are really just about all the same, full of tracting! It was so .... fun, yep let’s go with that. haha! But for real it was long and fun at the same time. Nothing too crazy really happened that I can think of at the moment. We had a Zone Conference this week and it was great to see Elder Oteo again. Transfers are tomorrow, Elder Udy got picked up and transferred Saturday night, and we found out that Elder Graham is being transferred as well. I am staying, I didn’t want to get transferred yet. This morning we got a call from Pres. Barry, Elder Graham is going to be a Zone Leader, so we've been giving him a hard time about that. He's kinda excited but nervous at the same time. Later on today were going to the beach, which should be fun, I got some water guns from my brothers this week, and there going to be put to good use! Love you all!
Love,
Elder Holcombe

Week 13

Well everyone, another week has gone by, it went pretty fast actually, We really don’t have a lot of people that were teaching, so most of the week was spent tracting. We haven’t really found any new solid people, everyone that we taught were kinda iffy, I guess you could say, just let us in to be nice, so hopefully things will pick up soon. We talked with Jon and he is basically ready to be baptized but still needs to get married and not sure if they want to yet, which sucks, but I can’t force them to get married....yet... ;) lol! So, Jon and Natalie are doing good, and we talked with Brother Jones, and he went to church yesterday, totally caught us off guard. He told us that he wanted to go to see what it was like, and he said that he liked it but had a lot to think about. Which could be good or bad I guess, depending on how you look at it. Oh! We have a new companion, Elder Udy. He got put with Elder Graham and I last Monday night. He's a pretty cool guy, he's been out for about 22 months and goes home at the end of the next transfer. So about 8 weeks left. It is nice having him with us, but at the same time, tracting is a bit harder just because it’s 3 guys instead of 2 at the front door - which can be intimidating! We’re still doing good, and just keep trying to find people that are ready to hear the Gospel. I hope all is going well.

Love you all,
Elder Holcombe