The timing of emails, Christmas and going to the Caribbean means that we have to go back in time slightly before we can move forward. Just before Soeur Holt left the MTC she was able to celebrate Christmas. This was a bittersweet time for all of us; it was the first Christmas where we weren’t…
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Guadeloupe!
Late Tuesday night Eleanor left the MTC in Provo to travel to Barbados with two Elders: Elders Casady and Griffin. They were to have a two stage journey- first to Miami and then, after a two hour layover, on to Barbados. Needless to say we were tracking her flights every step of the way: On…
Piano Guys and Infield Training
This week’s email was a bit less detailed than previous ones. This is probably due to the excitement of going to Barbados next Tuesday; Eleanor mentioned that in her district meeting we went through departure procedures, very exciting. As we checked our weather app this week we realized the contrast that Eleanor will be…
A visit to Temple Square and the ER!!!
Aside from the usual activities of service, teaching and learning there have been a couple of events that led Eleanor to describe this week as crazy! Though having said that, we’d rather she didn’t title her email ‘A trip to the ER’. After her preparation day last week Sister Tolman got poorly rather quickly. Soeurs…
The days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days….
Eleanor signed off her email this week with something that she thought rang true: the days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days…. I think as parents we could agree with this as well. For Eleanor she is cramming so much into each day that they seem to last a long time; and…
The first ten days!
Last we left her, Eleanor- or Soeur Holt as she now is- had arrived in the Missionary Training Centre. She will spend six weeks here learning French, studying the Gospel and preparing for missionary service. Her experience will be very similar to many missionaries, but in her first ten days she had the experience of…
That was the week that was
Eleanor entered the Missionary Training Centre in Provo yesterday and began life as Sister/ Soeur Holt. This was the culmination of a week of mixed emotions in the Holt house. Last Thursday Eleanor celebrated her 19th birthday which continued into the weekend. On Saturday night we had birthday party to which we had invited lots…
Sister of a Sister!
Eleanor is the eldest of four children. Her youngest sibling, Martha (aged 10), wanted to write something about her feelings about Eleanor leaving to serve a mission: Some people know me as a friend; some as a daughter or a granddaughter; some do not even know me; but only 3 people know me as their…
The Barbados Bridgetown Mission
It’s been a week since Eleanor received her call, and unsurprisingly it has dominated our discussions and our thoughts. As it’s an area of the world that we are unfamiliar with and had not really considered when thinking about where she might go, some of the last week has been spent researching it. The Church…
Sister Holt on a Mission 