Week 2

Hello friends and familia!!!!
oh man, can you believe that I'm almost done at the mtc? i'm a veteran here now! Ya, i'm flying out on monday to pennsyvlania!!! I can't believe it's already here!!! Aaahh! The real part of my mission is coming!! But guess what? We are allowed to call home at the aiport, to let you know that I'm safe and everything. So i'll either call home at like 7:00 in the morning from SLC or at about 12:30-1:00ish from Cincinnati! I hope either of those times work for you! 
So I actually had a pretty cool "real" missionary experience the other day. We were at the referrel center on Tuesday...where people who have gotten pass a long cards call in to recieve DVD's or books....and this man called in who randomly found a card and just needed to talk to us! He actually is in a lot of spiritual pain! He was telling us how even though he's not going to hurt himself, he doesn't see any point in living. He is a very religious man. Not church going because he says all the churches are just trying to take money from him, but he reads the bible and prays all the time. So my companion and I started talking to him about how our Heavenly Father does have a plan for us and that we are on this earth so we can become like Him and be worthy to live with Him again. He totally understood that and we told him that we would get missionaries to his house as soon as possible (in FL). Usually it takes a couple weeks for missionaries to get the referrel, but when we called him the next day just to talk, he told us the missionaries were coming to visit him that day! Amazing!!! Our prayers were answered!!! When we talked to him yesterday, he told us he wants to read the Book of Mormon and told us that he has heard of joseph smith and he believes he is a prophet. We also asked him to go to church this coming sunday and he committed to go!!! Doesn't this sound all too good to be true???? I pray that he stays committed!!! he does have a problem with the word of wisdom but he knows he needs to stop! So that is one step to getting better! Talking to him seriously sends shivers down my spine! He's more than ready to be a member! It's so amazing and miraculous how he just fell into our laps! But I sure do love it! This is what gets me excited about missionary work. :) 
Other than that, things are going well still and time is flying by! Aaahh, i'm actually leaving on Monday!!! That's crazy talk. 
I'm sorry my emails are so scattered! 30 minutes is really not enough time to write to you! But I love, love, love you! Thanks for your love and support! Bye!!!

Holly's Email

From Krista:

Holly's Email address is sisterlamont@myldsmail.net. (Sound familiar?? That's the email address I used! crazy!) 

Anyway, anyone can email her, but she will probably not be able to respond. It depends on what her Mission President says.  Lets keep up our support for Holly and keep those letters and packages and emails comin'!!

Thanks!!

My First Email!

Hello family!!!!! I finally get to write emails! haha, it has taken way to long for it to be P-day! The days really have been going fast, just not getting to do laundry or write emails for 9 days is a long time! So I have so much to tell you, but I don't know where to start or what to say!! This past Tuesday at our devotional we had a pretty amazing, surprise speaker come talk to us! We had Elder Holland come and he gave such an amazing talk! He talked to us about how there is no place in the world (besides with his wife) that he'd want to be then with missionaries. Then he gave a very very passionate talk about how when we are done with our missions, we should still talk, act, and live like a missionary. It is like the right of passage as mormons into becoming mature adults and after preaching the gospel and converting people, how can we fall away from that? How can we not be converted ourselves? He also very passionately spoke about how as missionaries in the field, we CANNOT be stupid! Not only for our sake but for the sake of the church. And as we are out in the field, we should be totally and completely dedicated for all 18-24 months. It was such a good talk and so powerful! And when I say powerful and passionate, I mean raised voice and umph behind his words!! haha, I wish you could have been there to hear it!
Lessons and classes have all been good too! I really feel like I'm starting to become a better teacher and understanding how to invite the spirit into the lesson by adapting everything we tell them to their needs. There really is a need to have a strong listening ear when you talk and learn about your investigators. But it's amazing how easy it is to incorporate problems or difficulties into the gospel! My companion, Sister Pooley, and I have taught a couple lessons to teachers and classmates and people from other districts and are starting to feel more comfortable with it. Oh man, there is just so much to tell you and so little time!!!! I hate being timed when writing mail! haha! Well I just want to let you know that I love, love, love you! And even though its great here in the MTC, I cannot WAIT to get out to Pennsylvania and actually get to know and teach people!! Thanks for all you help and support! Love you!
Sister Holl-i-Sister LaMont :)