Week 40?! Gettin excited for the new year!!

Only pictures this week. Didn't have enough time to type everything that happened. But ill be writing a update to my mom and she should be posting it on the blog! Thanks for all the support! And hope all you have a great new year!

 

1. First Fall looking tree I've seen in AZ!!

2. Me and Sister Minkler, biking it up!!!

3. Awesome AZ sunset!

4. Some just for fun!

Sisters with an Awesome Sister from the ward

 

 

Week 39 - This week was packed full of miracles! Christmas ones, maybe?

I'd like to start of this update with a quote that we had in church yesterday that I read, that I really liked.

 

"We cant fully understand the meaning of Christmas unless we understand the meaning of the Savior's life, Atonement, and Resurrection. I cannot think about the birth of the Savior without thinking of His words to Pilate 'To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth hearth my voice' (John 18:37) As we begin the Christmas season, may we consider the scriptural prophecies about the Savior. They are not just odd statements of coincidence; rather they are profound statements of purpose and promise about His life and mission and what He means for each of us"

 

This week was awesome, but crazy all wrapped up into one. But that's what makes missionary work so much fun.  Monday was just a normal pday along with Sister Stovall packing because of her leaving and going to Gilbert (Temple View Zone). We got these sweet new sweatshirts!!  We got to also go to the Temple lights with some members and we had a great last trip with the Sanchez's!

 

Tuesday we had normal district meeting, and more packing!

 

Wednesday was transfer meeting and I got my new comp! Her name is Sister Minkler and she's from North Dakota! She's been out for about 4 months. After that we went to the Gilbert Temple and took pictures as a mission.

 

Thursday we got to go to the Mesa Temple as a mission and after that we had a Christmas party with our mission and every zone performed a skit! It was super fun! Oh and in case your wondering what the muddy drink is... Its called a dirty Dr. pepper. Its SUPER yummy. (; 

 

Friday we had planning and a lesson with Donna! She's on date for baptism for the 11th of January!

 

Saturday and Sunday were super busy as well, appointment after appointment! How awesome that was! We were all on bike too, so we bike about 30+ miles the past couple days!

 

I love this time of year, because of the love of the Savior everyone seems to pick up. This time of year truly testifies of why I'm here. Because of the birth of Christ, I am here. Without His birth, there would be no gospel of Jesus Christ, for Him I'm truly grateful to be able to be out here to preach his gospel to everyone that is in need of it. I love the Savior with all my heart and I hope all of you remember the true meaning of Christmas

 

Hope you all have a great Christmas!

 

Love,

Sister Lindsay Holcomb

Week 38, No transfers for meeee!

This week has been great! Getting ready for Christmas time is always so fun and everyone is always in a great mood since the holidays are coming up. I think its honestly the best time for missionary work, because we teach about Christ and since its Christmas time more people are open to our message!! I love Christmas time for sure!!

 

This week started off with pday, like a normal week. Pdays I swear are one of the busiest days of week, just because we are trying to get everything done to prepare for the week!  We got to play basketball with our zone and other zones, it was super fun. Sister Stovall and I thought it would be fun to dress a little less normal. Below is shown the crazy fun we had :P

 

Our week mostly consisted of being busy, and as much as it is good that we are busy.. We are just so tired by the end of the week!  We had a multi zone conference this week as well which was super fun we learned more about the upcoming events in our mission. We get to go the temple as a MISSION and do a few temple sessions which will be super fun!  I'm extremely excited! Elder Goulding is one of the Assistants to the president and he's going home :( So sad! We also did correlation and when we were making visits we saw this house that was decked out in Christmas lights!!! Sooo awesome!

 

A member gave us a Christmas gift and it was super cute! The 12 days of Christmas!! So everyday tilll Christmas day we get to open something! So fun!

 

Saturday we got to go to the Mesa Temple Lights with some investigators! It was crazy but super fun! I personally have never been and was so excited to go! The pictures don't even describe how pretty the lights were! I definitely wanna come back! There was a gorgeous nativity and all sorts of pretty decorations.  There's even CAMELS!!  (:

 

Sunday night we had transfer calls. Sister Stovall is leaving :( Sad that she is leaving but I know that the Lord needs her somewhere else. Great week for sure!

 

Thank you for all of you that write me and support me! Have a great Christmas ♥

 

Love always, Sister Holcomb

Week 37- Christmas time is here! ... Almost!

This is last weeks update. I thought I sent it :(

 

Feliz Navidad Amigos!! Welll, almost at least! So many awesome things happened this week! Hopefully I can type it all up before my time is gone!

 

This last Monday was so busy but so fun at the same time! We did lots and were exhausted by the end of the day! We went to downeast and charming charlies... it was weird being in a mall.. since i haven't been "shopping" shopping in FOREVER. I also hit my 9 months mark last Monday!!! Now I'm on the down hill part of my mission and I come home soon! Its exciting but sad at the same time! I love being a missionary, but I definitely miss my family and friends!

 

Tuesday we had normal District meeting and  we had a meeting with a member that's over missionary work! it was great and we were able to coordinate and talk a lot about how missionary work can progress in the area!

 

Wednesday was a really good day, we did lots of contacting and we invited everyone we saw to We rode our bikes too! SUPER COLD!! It got down to 60 degrees that day! Same thing happened Thursday!

 

Friday was GREAT! Planning is always super fantastic! After planning was finished we got to go back to the apartment because Sister Stovall wasn't feeling very well and had lunch. Sister Ayers got to be with me for the day so that we could get some missionary work done. We had a lesson with Lauren again. We taught her the plan of salvation, and invited her to be baptized for the 28th of December! She said yes! We also contacted a referral from a member and she is willing to take the lessons from us! So we have a new investigator as well! (:

 

Saturday we had a ward Christmas breakfast! Which was fun, after that Sister Stovall still wasn't feeling good so she slept for a good few hours. After that we did progress records and did normal missionary work too!

 

Sunday was a great day! I love Sundays and even though there the busiest day of the week,We had a great lesson with Elizabeth and she's also on date for the 28th of Dec!!! Super exciting!  

Week 36- So many things to be Thankful for!! ♥

This week was Amazing!! Not only because of the Holiday that was coming but because of all the things that happened. This last week, or for the last 50 days we have been keeping track of one thing a day of what we are thankful for each day. Now we are counting the 27 miracles till Christmas! (:

 

Monday we started off the day with normal study and shopping and email. We had a district activity which was super fun, we played volleyball! We had dinner with a member family who fed us breakfast for dinner! YUM! We showed them the temple presentation

 

Tuesday and Wednesday was normal contacting days. And we had ward correlation. Wednesday we also went to the temple and that was SUPER fun. I always love going to the temple and feeling the peace when we go.  We also had one of the craziest dinners of my entire mission... It literally shocked me. Here it goes: As missionaries, we normally call to confirm dinners either the night or morning before dinners. Well we called and left messages on all the phones we had for this family and asked them to call us back as soon as they got our message. Well they never got back to us so we just went over there and ... when she opened the door, she said... "Oh no, I completely forgot we were supposed to be feeding you..." She let us in anyways. The house looked like a tornado busted through the house.. there was clothes everywhere and toys and furniture. We found out a few seconds later that she was re-arranging rooms and decided to paint too... So she said that she was going to order a pizza for us, we offered that she didn't have to feed us, but I guess she didn't understand. The house basically was a mad house, and its kinda hard to explain what exactly happened but it was crazy!!!

 

Thursday was Thanksgiving which was fun! There was a Turkey run (4 mile) that we did! SUPER AWESOME! && We got to go to Sister Stovalls family, because she has non member and not active family so that was super fun! The funniest thing ever happened too... I made up a story.. obviously joking... but I had a British accent the ENTIRE night.. So much fun, and they all fell for it! :P

 

Friday we had a lesson with Lauren.

 

Saturday we went to Jacobs baptism! And had exchanges with the other Sisters. I was with Sister Ayers the whole day!

 

Sunday was fast Sunday (: and we had another lesson with Lauren. She's on date for baptism for the 28th of DECEMBER! (:

 

Awesome week, more to come next week! Love you all!

 

-Sister Holcomb!

Keep the letter coming!

1001 N. Burk St.

Gilbert AZ 85234

 

 

Week 35, Snowbirds at there finest!

Hola a todos! Como estas?

My week was fantastic! Something happened everyday this week, including rain! Yes, you read correctly... it rained, A TON! I felt like I was back home again! Haha. And this week it was great to hear from all of you! Letters were just pouring, it was great! So thank you! If you haven't had a chance to write me, here's my address:

1001 N. Burk St.

Gilbert AZ 85234

I always write back (:

Monday was a great day! I got my ensign and we had a pretty relaxed pday, although it still seemed busy. But I got my ensign, so now I can re read all the conference talks :D

Tuesday we had 2 great lessons! And we gained a new investigator! Her name is Rebecca! She is super sweet, and super sincere about learning about the gospel! We are so excited to continue to teach her! (: And the other lesson was with our sweet Lauren! She is so cute!

Wednesday we had correlation with one of our wards, which was fun. We got to go out with the Relief Society, SUPER FUN!

Thursday, we had the wonderful opportunity to meet a seventy, called of God, Elder Porter and his wife! It was so cool, he taught us more in depth about the gospel of Jesus Christ (Faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the End).  Sister Stovall I did a musical number too! That was fun (:

Friday we had planning. We also had another lesson with Rebecca and Lauren!

Saturday was another busy day, we did lots of Area Book work and lots of organizing then dinner at the Susims and we had GREAT Hawaiian food! (:

Sunday was probably the busiest day of the week, we had a lesson, correlation, church, we shared the temple videos with the Young Women and Relief Society in Mt Ranch ward, then we went to one of the Elders wards to share the message as well, then after church we had dinner, and then went home for the night! Super fun week! I look forward to this coming week!

Love you all and hope to hear from you soon! (:

-Sister Holcomb

Week 34 My new hair do! Like it?

Hellooo!! This week, as usual has been awesome! (:

 

Started off the week with good ole pday and guess what?  Sister Stovall, my awesome companion is a cosmetologist and so she experimented with my hair.. Well I love it! And everyone tells me how cute it is, so I'm pretty content.  ;)

 

Tuesday was a pretty good day too! As it normally goes, we had district meeting, it was last district meeting before transfers, so of course we had to get pictures! How cute are we! After that it was just a normal day for missionary work (:

 

Wednesday we had a transfer meeting, and it was so funny because like no one recognized me.. A sister came up to me and was like, "Are you new?" and a few seconds later realized that it was me.. she went on to say, "Oh my, I'm so embarrassed... haha" So yeah, the hair thing made a really good impression on all the missionaries and the mission president. haha.

 

Thursday we had a lesson with a new investigator, named Lauren. She's 10 years old and SUPER cute. We are teaching her next week too! Her parents had previously taken the missionary lessons but weren't ready to join the church. But Lauren is the light in her family. She actually talked to a member about getting baptized. She went up to the member and said, "I've been reading my bible lately, and coming to church and feeling the spirit but i feel I need to do something more... I think I need to get baptized."  And with her parents permission, we started teaching her! So cute!

 

Friday was a great planning day, after planning though we went back to the apartment because Sister Stovall wasn't feeling to hot. She was super congested and just needed to sleep. I did lots of studying and area book work for the next couple days. I did lots of cleaning as well.

 

Sunday I was able to go with one of the other sisters that lives with us, to go to present the temple presentation, super good day, and we started prepping for pday! Anyways love all of you and miss you like crazy! Hope to hear from you soon!

 

Sister Holcomb (:

4776 E. Guadalupe Rd.

#2046

Gilbert AZ 85234

The almost completed Gilbert Temple