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

Week 7

Happy Thanksgiving!

A couple local members caught us at the Walmart Pharmacy last week

Dear people, everything has been going great. I've been reading and praying quite a lot. THE SNOW IS AWESOME!!! We should move down to Utah and live here when I get back. It is amazing, I love it so much! 

Anyway, not too many cool experiences, although I'm doing my best to become a consecrated missionary like Alma, or Ammon. I want to bring the entire state of Utah to repentance and baptism. So I'm talking to everyone. My confidence has grown so much. The Lord has been blessing me abundantly. 
So we are mainly teaching kids, we have 3 on date. They are between the ages of 9 to 11. We have about 6 progressing investigators, and we are teaching about 4 less active family's. It's awesome, these kids are amazing. The spirit is working wonders in them.
Also we have been to Glades Drive-in. It is a fantastic restaurant and it lets missionaries eat free. So does Two-Jacks, a pizza place, and so does Jimmy Johns.  But yeah, we really don't have to spend all that much money.
I've really learned the importance of testifying of Jesus Christ and the atonement at every chance. It helps invite the spirit so much more. ALSO I gave a talk on Sunday about the importance of member missionary work.
Quentin L Cook is coming to speak to the Utah Provo Mission. So I'm pretty pumped!
Other than that, I love you!

Week 6

We have had some awesome experiences this past week, and we have gotten about 5 new investigators! The work is going great. We have 3 of them on date for baptism, and we're still working with the others to resolve the concerns and help them move forward. I love the spirit and how much I get to testify.

We got snow this week! It was wonderful! It's all gone though, and the cold is awesome!!! I've been wearing the trench coat lately, and it is soooo warm!

The weather today!

Eating dinner at HuHots!

 
Dinner appointments last week

A wonderful family has us over to their Pizza Place once a week!

This kitty made me miss home :)

Week 5

Hello all, how art everyone?  So my week has been great, I've been learning so many awesome lessons and been teaching them too. The people here are wonderful, so is my companion, he's a real stud muffin! I love this work with all of my heart. I have several awesome experiences to share although I forgot them. I appreciate all of your love and support with all of my heart, it might comfort you to know that the people of Utah love missionaries. They love them with all their heart! Let's just say that people like paying for us.
Oh wait I remember the experiences now, so this past week a few really cool things have happened. To start we were knocking doors for people who are in the ward but were not baptized, when a young man answered, and we asked if he was interested in the Gospel. He said yes, and then we asked what he thought about baptism. He said, oh yeah I want to be baptized, I want to make promises with Jesus. So that was really cool, he's a great young man, we're very excited to teach him. Then when we were driving down the road we saw a woman with suitcases on the sidewalk. We pulled over into a church parking lot (because there's like 1000 of them on each block here,) got out and ran over to help her. Long story short we gave her and her friend blessings and now they want us back to teach them. It was a really cool experience, a great learning lesson!!

Also we're giving talks in church on the 27th. So I'll make sure and try to email you all a copy.
I'd like to leave you all with a commitment before I go, if you could all read my favorite scripture, (Mosiah 2:41)and then make a list of things (sins) that you can give up to come closer to Christ, then for 40 days abstain from everything on that list! I promise you that as you do this you will be blessed. Your family life will improve, God will grant you the blessings he has up in heaven. You'll find advice in the scriptures that you've never seen before, and you'll be happier and more confident than ever! Alrighty all. I love you soooo much and I hope to see you again, in like two years.

With fantastic love,
Elder Minson

Eating ice cream from a place that serves missionaries for free.

Wednesday lunch at Elder and Sister Collings house

Grocery shopping and a kind lady paid for our groceries.

Here we were teaching a vacuum during study time

Zone meeting

Silly picture at zone meeting

My district

Week 4 (first week in the field!)

So when we got to the mission home on Tuesday, they made us sing outside in the
freezing cold before they would open the door! LOL the Mission President and his wife are the sweetest people though. We went inside, and then we had dinner, it was some sort of pasta, but very good. After that we had a sort of training where we were taught about driving safety. We then had Mission President interviews. But yah, after that we went to sleep. The next morning we woke up quite early and got dressed..  then we were ushered to a chapel just across the way where they gave us a little training, and then they told us our Companion and gave us our iPad.

From there me and Elder Barron left to go to Spanish fork. And guess what?? We're white washing the area!! (That means both of us are brand new to this area.) It's sooo much fun, I love this work with all of my heart.!! Our zone is Hobble Creek. But yah anyway my companion is awesome, he's been out for 21 months, and he certainly knows what he is doing. He is about exact obedience which is super nice. I was hoping for that.  We have had 4 member dinners so far. I LOVE the people here in Utah. They are all so nice and the LOVE taking care of the missionaries. 3 times so far people have paid for our meals when we have gone to eat out.  So I'm definitely well off in that area, the members love us! Several times now we have come home from lessons with our arms full of goodies, like cookies, chocolate, candy and food. I think they are just trying to fatten me up though. Haha, gotta love it. I have gained about 6 pounds so far. But yah basically our days have been pretty slow, we are white washing the area, so we don't have tooo many investigators. But were being diligent and asking for referrals from everyone. The lessons that we have had have been huge testimony builders for me. Several times now the spirit has filled my mouth, and spoken for me.

On Sunday we visited two wards and I bore my testimony in each. It's amazing how easy it is when you have the spirit with you, it really gave me extra confidence. We are over two stakes, Maple Mountain stake, and Spanish Fork YSA stake. So it's a lot of work, but definitely rewarding! So ya that pretty much covers my week so far, I'm so excited for the rest of my Mission, it has been AWESOME so far.!!!

Oh something AWESOME! They gave me and my Companion a new car, a brand new Chevy Malibu. 2016!!! It has built in wifi which I'm using on the road to email you!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhh!!! I love this car. It is the safest car ever!!

Seeing my friend Sammy Rios-Lazo from back home at the MTC last week.

Sunday at church with a family we ate dinner with last week.

Utah's beautiful mountains!

I love this picture of Christ with all my heart, it really shows how
much he loves us just by looking at us, I hope to be able to exemplify
that someday.

Arrival at the Provo Mission

From Dallin's Mom: I received an email from the Mission office Tuesday afternoon to let me know Elder Minson arrived safely at the Mission home.

We received your wonderful missionary today, Tuesday, November 1, 2016.  We are eager to serve together in the Utah Provo Mission as we endeavor to invite all we come in contact with to “Come unto Christ.”  Thank you for preparing such a faithful missionary to enter the mission field.

  

Attached is a picture we took with them at the Mission Home.  What a wonderful group of missionaries … thank you for sharing them with us and The Lord!

Week 3 (MTC last day before heading to the field!)

WOOOHOOO! I leave at 3:30 Today!!! I am sooo excited! I have no idea where I'm going yet. But I know whereever it may be, it'll be right for me. I love you all so much, this email is going to be kind of short, I have very little time, and soo much to do.
For our devotional speakers at the MTC, we mostly just had some local stake presidents, Oh and Elder Nattress. I talked with him it was pretty cool.

Yah umm not much more to say.. I've gained 5 pounds... Lol.

The Mtc is wonderful. I think we're taking a van 2 miles down the road to the mission home. So that should be fun.The other half of my district left at 4 this morning to fly to the California Roseville mission. The rest of us are going to Provo.  We are all pretty great friends.

Here are the pictures this week:

My All Male district at the Provo temple!

My district Pointing to where we are going.

My district and our teacher on Halloween! We have vampire teeth V^^V

I was bored so I too a picture of my eyeball. Lol

The view from the fifth floor in our class building.

A cool black and white pic of a great verse!