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…
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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…
Life as a missionary
Summer at work (a University) is somewhat odd- I work at home sometimes and when I go into University to work in the office it often seems as though everyone else is working at home on those days. As such I’ve not really had any conversations with colleagues except by email on work related issues. This…
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…
The Opening
On 3rd August with as many members of the family as we could get together, and some very close friends, Eleanor opened her mission call. Martha, our 9 year old daughter, had designed a poster and also a chart that listed all of our guesses. Eleanor had also posted on Facebook in the morning asking…
Sister Holt on a Mission 