Week 39- Transfers!

The great Utah Provo Mission

(I'm on the back row- Can you find me?)

So this week has been amazing, my companion Elder Redmond goes home in… Like three days, no, less, two days. He's kind of trunky so I'm keeping him on his toes. Apart from that though lots of great things happened this week, we attended a baptism on Saturday, not one of ours. But a family wanted us to fill the font for the eight-year-old daughter who missed stake baptisms. So we did.!

On Monday we woke up at about 5 o'clock and got dressed, and hopped in Elder Tuaui's and Elder Hernandez's car. They drove us to Provo, where we waited through a district trainers meeting, and then had mission leadership Council. Then we hung out with Elder Rony and Elder Burdette, at that night and slept at their place.

On Tuesday we woke up and had to be at a chapel in Provo at 7:15 sharp, to make it to the parade. We got there sort of on time, but there was a ton of traffic so it was pretty difficult. The parade was amazing, we walked in two lines with the Orem mission on the opposite side of us. There's about 320 missionaries total. Let's just say we got lots of love.

Wednesday was preparation day, and it was very busy, we had a barbecue at the Nielsens home. It was pretty yummy!

 On Thursday we did exchanges with the Ferron Elder's, I went with Elder DeFord. It was a great exchange altogether, he came into the Mission at the same time as me, and is a very solid Elder. Also we had zone training meeting, and the focus was on Chapter 9 of preach my gospel "How to find people to teach," it was good overall, we could've done better planning. But I felt the spirit so I think we're good.

 Saturday we filled the font for that family to be baptized, and did a lot of other missionary work. We also cut someone's grass, because their hand was in a lot of pain and they could not use it.  

Sunday we went to a special location for church, it is a thing the stake president initiated for people who don't like going to church but like nature, it's called the Argyle location. They serve the sacrament, there are lots of nonmembers but members too. It's just a sacrament meeting about 30 minutes away out in the woods. There were lots of pine trees and chipmunks, me and Elder Redmond were the speakers for that meeting, the spirit was incredibly strong. I spoke on Heavenly Father, and he spoke on the atonement.

 Today, we got transfer calls, my new companion is Elder Christiansen from Virginia! We were actually in the MTC together. So this is going to be a great transfer! Woohoo! Our area is also absorbing the Price north elders area, so now we're covering two stakes!

Wow, do I have a testimony of missionary work. God loves us, and everything is for the best! I love you, everyone!

 Love, Elder Minson

The first two pictures were Zone Training Meeting, we have a riot of a Zone. The last pictures were right after the parade on Tuesday. Disregard the hair.