Week 28- Training!

Soo this week has been pretty swell. Now that I am a trainer there is never a dull moment.

Something I've loved doing is asking questions to help strengthen my companion's faith in the lord. It's sweet to be with someone so determined to share the gospel. My companion's name is Elder DeAlba. He's a studmuffin. He has such a desire to share the gospel, that it makes me want to be better. So in other words I've learned Sooo much and I have a good desire to be better. Training is a huge blessing to not only the trainee but also the trainer.

Also I'm a district leader. So it's been pretty stressful preparing for district training meetings. It's been very draining. Idk I'm learning as I go, and it's very faith building, sorta like jumping off a cliff and trusting God to catch you. So that's been a good experience.

We taught a few really powerful lessons last week. My companion has a really powerful testimony, so it's been cool in lessons. I'm excited for the experience we're both going to gain. One day he will be a very powerful elder, so it's been a great privilege working with him. We have a some people on date for baptism: We have a 13 yr old girl, a 50 yr old man, and two boy siblings set for May 13.

See some pics down below.

 Me with Elder Pierce before transfers. An investigator gave us scrubs!

Me and Elder DeAlba in front of our house! (my new haircut)

In our house  :)

Me and Elder DeAlba making breakfast.

Week 27- Transfers!!

This week has been fantastic!  My companion is getting transferred, to the Chinese area! Haha go Elder Pierce! Then I'm going to district leader and training a new missionary. So that should be way cool. I'm terribly excited for it. I want this new missionary to learn as much as he can, so I'm going to devote myself to much prayer and supplication for it. I love this gospel soo much.

Other than that my week has been pretty fruitful. We've been riding bikes lately so my legs are always tired. But it's good, I actually feel like a real missionary. Haha but none the less the gospel is more important than my love for riding bikes.

So we've been teaching a lot this week. On Friday we had a sweet lesson with a family of four, all nonmembers, and we taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That's lesson 3 just so yah know. And as we were teaching the spirit just filled our mouths and we invited them to be baptised. The parents weren't quite ready just yet, but the kids definitely were and expressed their great desire to do so!, 😀 Then we invited the Dad to say the closing prayer, and he prayed that one day he and his wife would be ready to be baptized. So it was incredible! As he prayed I could feel the spirit soo strong. It was incredible. I know they will be ready very soon.

Soo yup, that was our week. I'm super excited to train and teach this upcoming week.

I love you all. Email me if you have any questions!!!! dallin.minson@myldsmail.net

Love, Elder Minson

Not too many pics this week, But more so than anything else, people took a lot of pics of us in action. Haha so I guess that's pretty cool.

A dinner appointment

Pretty serious about scooping that ice cream :)

They never catch me with a smile

 Biking! Yay!

Is that a kangaroo? or a wallaby?

Planning time :) I'm not sad, I'm trying to look serious

Teaching a great lesson

Week 26- All good things

This week has gone by so fast! Lots of great things have been happening. I cant believe I've already been out for 6 MONTHS. The time really flies when you're in the service of your God.

First off I've been trying to eat healthier. I've gained too much weight, so I'm going to change that. Someone in one of our wards owns a private gym because they're a Power Lifter, he's huge. So we go every morning to that. And whilst we're talking about exercising, I've been trying to exercise my faith more. I'm trying to work on having more faith in God's plan for me and less faith in what I want God to do for me. It's less selfish and thus a more righteous and worthy goal.

Besides that most of our lessons fell through this week, I'm pretty sure we had a total of 12 fall through. It's definitely been tough, but we've pushed through. Also the extra time we had went straight to finding new people, so we have a couple of fruitful looking prospect.

Then last night we had a few fantastic lesson, those were the only ones that didn't fall through all week, one was on the plan of salvation with these three young women. They're all really sweet. Only one of them has been baptized. The other two are really wanting to be baptized. So we are doing our best to teach the lessons simply for them. But they're all really smart.

Then the next lesson was with P! He has not been baptized, cool thing is that he's read the Book of Mormon and prayed about it, before we even challenged him to. He said he Knows its true, but lacks the commitment to be baptized. So we're praying about that, and that'sgoing to change. We're insanely excited for him. That's about all folks.

Any questions? Any one you know that needs the gospel? If so PLEASE talk to the missionaries. :)

Love you all. Btw, here are some pics of this past week.

Love, Elder Minson

 There are these Hilarious statues all around my area, so who wouldn't pass up that chance.

Our finished knives. They look great!

Yay for service. We got a referral out of it too!

A sweet photo op we had at Walmart today. See me there in the middle?

IT SNOWED. yay!

A delicious salmon dinner we had, the maker is one of our Ward Mission Leaders, he was a Professional chef back In San Fran before he moved here. :)

Week 25- General Conference!

So if any of you watched general Conference then you'll know how stinking awesome it was!!! The whole conference and all the speakers were completely inspired. It seems like they were all talking to me and telling me that I need to have more charity, so that was way cool! I've learned a lot about charity. My favorite talk was by elder Palmer. His talk really inspired me to behold the good in people and love them more like God does. It was a special moment to realize how much improvement is needed of me to be an effective tool in Gods hand.

Other than that we had a few lessons and taught the gospel of Jesus Christ 3 times, the plan of salvation about 4 times, and the restoration 2 times. It was a pretty productive week. We don't very many service opportunities which is too bad, I wish we got more, I love helping and serving others like my savior Jesus Christ.

Speaking of him have Y'all seen the new Easter Initiative?. Oh it is sooo cool! It perfectly shows a sliver of how much our Savior loves us. Watch it!! Its called #Princeofpeace. It is sooo amazing! Please watch it. I promise you if your heart is open to its message, Jesus Christ will change your life. I promise.

Love Elder Minson

 Not too many photos today, I'll get a lot more for next week.

The knife I've been making is almost done, it's looking sweet.

 Working on perfecting the art of the selfie, at my mom's request :)