Friday, May 23, 2014

What do you do on Fort Bragg?

What is the every-day life on Fort Bragg like as a missionary? I have gotten this question quite a few times from family friends and people who we talk with on the streets. Life on Bragg Is very interesting. It isn't like the other areas where I have served, In fact on military installations we can not proselyte, or start a conversation about our church, about the Savior, or about things pertaining to spiritual topics. We can talk to people about their day and how they are doing, but while not bringing up the topics we are bound from, unless they ask a question to us then we can answer it and set up a time to help them learn more.
 So what do you do all day? There are many activities which help others come closer to the Savior that are appropriate on post. We go and see people who are members of our church who struggle making it to church every week, we see those members who come every week to see what service we can provide and how we can help them! We get to go and talk with people who have asked questions to us or to the members of our church on post.We went out just last night and talked with some of the members that lived in on of the barracks and as we were walking back someone who previously lived in Utah asked us how long we were on our missions and how it was going and asked if he could learn more about us. We will be going back to talk with him and help him understand us a little better! We spend most of our time seeing active-members and less-active members, Teaching the youth and helping them prepare for missions and for the priesthood! It is interesting how the work happens but god always helps his work go forward even when it isn't as traditional as we are used to! This is about the outline of what we do, if you have questions please share them with me through Facebook. You can leave a message on the called to serve page or look up Elder Colby Holt and send me a message I would love to answer your questions!

2 comments:

  1. Enjoyed this post Elder Holt. You are doing a fine work here at Fort Bragg.

    ReplyDelete
  2. It's awesome how you are so willing to share your love of Christ's gospel, with others! I've enjoyed your blog. I too know God's hand is in this work. Thanks for sharing!

    ReplyDelete