Elder Mitchell Holdstock

Hey everybody, This week has been kinda wild lots of rushing around and trying to get everything done, But it's been great. The spanish is coming a long I've already got a few things down like the first vision and the missionary objective. I can tell you for sure that the gift of tongues definitely has a lot to do with that.  This week in our classes we had short 10 min. mock lessons with "Catherine" who is our teacher, where we went in and got to know her and teach her a lesson. So in our first lesson me and my companion talked with her and just spent most of the time getting to know her and her family. After we got to know her we taught her the Plan of Salvation lesson and told her she could be with her family forever. She said she needed more faith before she would believe it. So we asked her if we could pray with her and for her to have more faith. and she said yes. Then the next day we taught her again and asked her if she had exer...

(New Missionaries entering the Mexico City MTC on October 22, 2019) Today we were driving home along I-80 when our phones started ringing simultaneously.  It was Mitchell calling!!!  We quickly pulled over and answered the phone.  Since Mitchell's group did not get a P-day this week, they were granted a few hours on Saturday to do P-day stuff.  It had only been 4 days since we last talked to him, but it was music to a mothers ears.  He reported that his companion is Elder Smithson from Mapleton Utah.  He has learned more Spanish in the 4 days he has been at the MTC than in all the years he sat in class at school.  He sleeps on the bottom bunk of a 2 bedroom home that houses 4 American missionaries in his room and 4 native speaking missionaries in the other room.  Elder Bowen of the Seventy gave a devotional there this week.  He is happy and working on speaking more to those around him.  As we spoke to him, he would temporarily halt ...

Mitchell is called to labor in the Bahia Blanca Argentina Mission.  He is to report to the Mexico City MTC on October 22, 2019.  Today we said “Adios” to a great young man.  Let’s be honest, it’s one of the best and hardest days of a mother’s life.  ...Later that day... Hey i just got to the mtc i made it safe my Pday is thursday. i dont have much time to write theyre rushing everybody through so thats all love you bye :)