Week 11

 It's the happiest time of the year!

This week has been rock on awesome! God is blessing us so much! After our 6 o'clock appointment on Wednesday which went fantastic, we were driving away when we saw a family with a trailer. They were moving, so we helped out a bit. Then the man brought out a motorcycle and started to drive it into the back of the trailer. When he was half way up the ramp slid out and fell to the ground. So my companion and I lifted the tail end up and pushed it the rest of the way in. The man was sooo glad that we were there to help. Then we went to some apartments and as we were walking to contact a referral we heard this weird whining noise. Turns out there was a man in a mustang stuck in his driveway on ice. His friend was trying to push him out with no avail, so we ran over and helped them out. Then we proceeded to contact the referral who wants to learn about baptism. And she gave us a referral to one of her friends. We contacted her to that night and she wants to learn about baptism too! They were both super excited. Man, when you are in the service of your fellow beings you are truly happy. I know that for a fact.

This week we also went to the Payson temple!! It was a very pretty temple, it looks a lot like the Gilbert temple on the outside. Then later that week we went caroling, me and my companion did it for a few of our investigators, and a few ward Mission leaders. Their reactions were soooo heart warming. I love people. We got a few tamales and some hot chocolate in return.

But yah other than that my week has been pretty awesome, The pictures are mainly of snow, but that's because there was almost a foot of it Christmas morning, and a foot and a half by mid day. It was ssooo thick that our car got stuck in it. But thank heavens I have boots. Anyway, I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!! I love you all!

Love,
Elder Minson

My zone at the Mission Christmas Party

Dinner appointment while on exchanges with Elder Agus

My Christmas Skype call home

The view from my front door

Christmas at the G's house.

This is how thick the snow was at the end of the day. That's our trash can

One of our awesome ward Mission leaders gave us chocolate.

It was snowing on the way to church.

Week 10

Hey everyone! This week has been pretty awesome! First off, we had a baptism! A young man named K. He is awesome. We are so glad we got to meet him. He got confirmed yesterday in church. Other than that, God has been very merciful and been blessing my companion and I so much. 

It has taught me so much about gratitude. 

So for Christmas we're are going to be primarily at a family named the G's. They have a son out on a mission, so I'm worried they are going to try their best to pamper us.. but i don't know. :)

Any way other than that. I rolled my ankle last Monday,  we were playing basketball and I jumped and landed on someone else's foot. So to protect his foot I tried to bend mine as I landed. But it didn't
really work. It hurt pretty bad. It has been getting better. It hurts just a little now. So I'm better. 

Ohh! And the SNOW!,! Has been AWESOME!!! Last Friday it was coming down in flakes about an inch and a half wide!! It was sooo fun. We went around and shoveled driveways and helped out some elderly people in the stake.  I loved it soooo much. It was so cool.

This is K! We are so excited for him.

At the G's for dinner last Pday

My Christmas card :)

Amazing icicles. I love Utah.

Week 9

On Friday night, I became a real missionary!! I had the opportunity to be bold and bear my testimony to some less active and nonmember door approaches.!! It was awesome, two of them rejected me pretty hard core. One of them practically shut the door as I was bearing testimony. In a polite manner. The other rolled his eyes whilst I was testifying. I felt pretty bad for them. I prayed and asked god to forgive them and help them to realize what they are missing out on in life. But yah, it was a great experience. It showed me that through God I can do tough and very scary things.

But other than that, the work is going GREAT!! The Lord is blessing our area soooo much! We have 6 people on date to be baptized this month and the next few. Man I'm so grateful for the spirit which has been touching our investigators lives. We actually have a baptism for K on the 17th. I'm so excited for him. He's a great kid.

But YAY, I'm not getting transferred. I love this area so much. Believe it or not this has to be my most favorite area so far 😉😁. But yup! The work goes well. I love it to death.

Any questions? 

Love, 

Elder Minson.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

 Haha, just a few fun moments from this past week. This Christmas tree is at the home ( more like mansion) of D. He's one of the YSA's we're teaching. And then that car is hilarious, me and my companion had a good laugh about the words on the back.

It says Mexican Pride :)

And there's the tree we got! I have not yet had the chance to put the
decor on it, but will tomorrow.

Me and some other elders at the Mission Conference.

This was a snow storm a little while back. I got soaked.

Week 8

At a dinner appointment with a great family

After sacrament meeting. The members here love to take our picture :)

So this week has been great. Very busy though. Which is great I guess. On Saturday there was a Mission Conference, and Elder Quentin L Cook came! It was awesome! I was the first to shake his hand! Our Mission President came to the pulpit and said that Elder cook would like to shake each of our hands. And then he said " We'll start in the back, Elder Minson if you want to lead us". HAHA It was really cool. But he really didn't speak on anything specific. He had us ask questions. We only got two questions in. They talked about those questions the whole time. But it was awesome. Apart from that.. not much else has happened. The Lord is blessing our efforts. He is giving us golden investigator after golden investigator. But most of them are part member families or families that have grown inactive. 

Anyway things have been going really well. I miss everyone so much. But this has been so good for me. And will continue to be good for me. I love it very much. I'd encourage all of you if you aren't already doing it, to share the gospel. God loves us and wants to bless us. So please let him, by blessing others with the gospel.

Shout out to mothers. Mine is absolutely awesome, and I'd love to invite all of you to give yours a kiss and a hug. Because you never know when you won't have that chance again. Mom, I love you to death.

Keep hanging in there.

Elder Minson