Week 35

For Pday some of my district took a trip to Cleveland, Utah near Price and saw the Wedge, which is like a mini-Grand Canyon here, some petroglyphs and a bunch of other places like it.

At the Wedge with Elder Redmond

I found a cast in our house so I put it on, it looks
like I broke my leg :)

The Price Zone at Zone training

A leather
jacket we found at a chapel.

Week 34- Helper, Utah

This week has been awesome, I'm serving here in Price, Utah, actually Helper, Utah, and my companion is Elder Redmond, sort of like almond but red. He's a studley guy with a lot of good priorities. Like preparing to go home in five weeks. Yep that's right I'm sending home another missionary. It sounds bad but his two years are up.

 I'll try to get some pictures with him, he doesn't seem to like them. But stay posted. So we live in helper but our boundaries are huge! We go into Price and all the way down into Scofield. So it's a very fun mission. I think we actually get the second most amount of miles in the Mission. So we drive a lot.

The scenery here in helper Utah amazing, I'm sort of surrounded by a wall of sweet looking mountains, because there used to be a giant lake here, but now it's all dried up. Plus the famous balance-rock is here so that's cool. As for the work, it is a little slower, which is kinda expected with only 2000 people that live here. But we're working hard. So we're still successful missionaries  :)

As for being a Zone leader, it's not too glamorous, consider it more like a zone babysitter. We do stuff like deal with chastise and support troubled missionaries, and collect key indicators at the end of the week to send them to the assistants. We also advice on how to be more successful and positive, not that I know how yet :), because here in helper price and the members aren't as friendly, some missionaries of trouble with that. So it's pretty simple, and fun too. We get and give a lot of training too! On Tuesday we have to go to 8 hours of training, called missionary leadership council. Then on Thursday we do a Zone training meeting for 3 ish hours. That's going to be fun. So Christ was right, we serve our missionaries a lot and he said it perfectly. "If any are chief among you let him be your servant".

But that's about all folks.  Here are some pics:

This is Helper, Utah :)

Elder Redmond broke his taser, and gave it to me, so I fixed it.

Me and Elder Redmond

Me with Elder and Sister Peterson before transfers last week

Week 33- I love being a missionary

So last night I got a phone call, it was president, he started out by saying thank you, for me as a district leader and explained to me how important it was and one of the great joy's that comes from
being a leader like that, and then he released me!. And I thought it was over.
The next thing he said was "the Lord has in mind something else for you, you've been called to be a Zone leader in the Helper area, Price zone."
Like what the heck, I literally started to hyperventilate. Eventually president hung up, and I didn't know what to do, I really kinda liked the idea of me being a district leader for another transfer. I was
JUST starting to get the hang of it!! Now I have to do ZONE TRAININGS! aHHHH
 
So, this week has been amazing! It's such a great time to be a missionary, but sad that I'm leaving my area here in Springville. At least I left behind some seeds. It's exciting really getting a change of scenery. And a fresh pool of people to teach! But any way. I'll give y'all a tidbit of each day of the week.

Monday we didn't do too much, just prepared for the rest of the week, and at the end of the day we had a lesson with the Garcias, crazy thing is, they're moving!! We got to teach and baptize them and right after they moved to Layton Utah!! So we're getting their address and
give the missionaries up there a call soon.

Tuesday we went on an exchange with the Zone Leaders. It was a good experience. I learned a lot from them about hard work, and diligence and a better way of teaching the restoration. We taught a young'n name X, and put him upon date for June 16th! But I'll be gone for it.

Thursday we had district training meeting and we learned about the importance of finding, and how to be better at door approaches and contacting events.

Friday we had another lesson with X and did weekly planning. We had a really good bonding session of companion inventory. And that day we also put E on date, she's been wanting to get baptized for a few years. And she's finally been found.

Saturday we had a lot of contacting and door approaches and we did some house cleaning.

Sunday we gave two talks, in the first one I talked about the importance of the sacrament, and church attendance. And in the second spoke about the restoration and the first vision. But then at night I got called to be a Zone Leader in the Price Zone.

So yup! That was my week! This work is amazing. Love all of you!

Love Elder Minson

More cats :)

Being silly at District meeting

Saying goodbye to Sister Bowen who is going home

Week 32- Pictures

 

Just some pictures this week:

 This is A and R's baptism on Saturday! They are such goof balls! 

My Zone (The Wasatch Zone) at Zone conference

During weekly planning Elder DeAlba and I went for a walk along the Hobble Creek. We found this beautiful piece of scrap metal. This is the only pic that I don't look weird in.

Us and the sisters had a service project and had some lunch afterwards, we found some kittens!

This is a wonderful note we found attached to our car door when we were out proselytizing in a neighborhood! I felt soo loved!

More kittens!

Week 31- Woohoo Mother's Day!

Hi all! My week was great! Clearly it was Mother's Day, so we got to call home! It was such a sweet experience, the time we get isn't very much, but that's okay, my thoughts should be on the work.

Skyping with my family

Right now Elder DeAlba is getting a hair cut, and I'm emailing in case your wondering. Haha but yep this week has been good, our weeks have been very busy with at least 3 lessons a night, some with more, and some where they fell through. But all in all, we are staying busy and that's the point right! One cool thing I've learned is that the spirit does not work in a robot. Be professional not robotic. It is sooo important that we have and show the beautiful personalities God has given us! So fun is important in every day. Not too much because we still have a calling we have to focus our efforts on, but finding fun along the way is sooo important! I'm grateful I've learned that soo early in my Mission, cause I was ready to submit myself to two grueling years of no fun. But now it's soooo much better!

We had two baptismal interviews and one of our candidates isn't ready. I felt so bad for him, but we're going to reprepare him, and have him interviewed again. He'll pass this time!

Love, Elder Minson

Week 30

Sorry I didn't really write this week, we've been slammed on Preparation day, but none the less it's been great! Not too much happened this week other than I've learned quite a lot, and I've had to rely on the spirit quite a bit more while I teach, not only my investigators but my companion as well!

I love my mission soo much! The thing that I've learned so much so far is that God loves us with all of his heart, and wants us to be happy. Sometimes that happiness comes through trials through growing and learning. He is much like an earthly parent who wants their child to be happy

but to be the best they can be, so sometimes trials are necessary and important even. With the new calling that I have I learned this through the refiners fire and much-needed stress, LOL.

I love you all so much I want you to know the only best thing in this world serving our heavenly father so much growth so much learning can come from it I love him with all my heart. Also something to look out for in the next few weeks will be having a lot of baptisms, keep an eye out for pictures and just stay aware, also pray for our investigators, please they need it.

I know this church is true I know that the mission is the best place for me right now and for my investigators, I love you all, have a good one!

Also enjoy some pics

At a dinner appointment

LOL these animals are awesome.  I want to stop every time I see a cute animal and get a picture with it. Even if it is weird like the last one!

 

Week 29

Not too much happened this week friends! But it's very fun being a trainer. Never a dull moment that's for sure! The work in our area is fabulous. Elder DeAlba is awesome, and since I'm soo new as well, he's training me! But we are soo similar. We usually have around 8-10 investigators come to church on Sunday and we've been getting dinner appointments every night except Monday.

We got kicked out of our house by the Zone Leaders, and we got their basement apartment. It's a serious downgrade.. theirs mold and leakage all over the place! Haha! But we understand that it doesn't matter where we live, we're still doing God's work.

Yesterday we gave talks in sacrament. The topic was inviting all to come unto Christ. I mainly spoke about love and charity for God's children. Elder DeAlba spoke about the importance of every member a missionary. I have a love for speaking in church now! And it's a good thing too, because we are going to be speaking a total of 6 times this month! Haha! Wooohooo! One Sunday we will be speaking 3 times! And then another twice!

 I appreciate all of you and hope you have a good week!

This adorable kitty that ventured into our back yard

A ton of rain and a very pretty rainbow.