Week 47-

 

Just some highlights of the week:

Soo on Tuesday, we did a ton of contacting.

On Wednesday we got new tires! Our front ones were wearing thin.

On Thursday at a dinner appointment, a woman said that I looked like one of Hitler's Youth!!! LOL Haha also we had district training meeting! Which was good, we learned about saving less active members.

On Friday we ran Onion Days at the booth from 4-8, we were with the Nephi sisters, Sister Young and Hancock, they are super high spirited! It was great! We got to talk to a ton of people, and open up a lot!

On Saturday we did some service, and went to Costa Vida as a district! ''Twas awesome!

On Sunday, I bore my testimony in the 18th Ward. It was great, I've come to have a lot of love for speaking, it's a great chance to touch many of God's children, and it is a great teaching opportunity as well, so that's cool!

And today I ate with Alex and Mary Minson! Their grandfather is my Grandpa Roland's cousin. So yep!

 

A couple of weeks ago Elder Duncan from the seventy, came and gave us training, it was pretty cool, we learned a lot about having more faith to do things!

 

Several zones meeting with Elder and Sister Duncan from the Seventy

At Onion Days Festival

 

 

New ties

Week 46- Payson, Utah

Payson is not much different than Springville or Spanish Fork, but smaller and much more friendly than Price and Helper.  I am still a Zone Leader , probably will be for 1 more transfer. But who knows.
  We are in a basement apartment. We cover the Payson Mount Nebo area. We don't have a washer/dryer so we do our laundry at a members. We cover three stakes. 25 wards.  My companion Elder Conley is from Ohio, and he has been out 13 months. He is a very cool elder, and wants to be very obedient which is awesome!! Surprisingly we're not teaching many, but that will change.

 GUESS WHAT! We gave talks on Sunday and afterwards a man texted us and said he heard our talks. He is a professional trainer and has a gym in his garage, he wants to train us. We had our first session today, it was crazy. We are going to get soo fit.

Getting our haircut today from a member for free:

A few other pictures

We drive a Frontier truck

Week 45- Transfers

These past weeks have been great, but they are very quickly coming to a close.

This morning the assistants called us and informed me that I was being transferred to Payson, Utah. The mount NEBO Zone!
In the past when I covered the YSA stake I went into that zone but have never been part of it. So now I'll be there for good. My new companion will be Elder Connelly! Apparently he loves the gym, so I
might get huge! Lol!
This week we had a few good lessons, one specific one that I loved was with a seventeen year old kid that live In carbonville. His name is K and he has had some experiences in the past that have pushed him into atheism. We talked with him, and the spirit testified soo strongly of prayer. It was amazing. I firmly believe, or rather hope that he will pray. It brings me quite a lot of joy to minister, and administer in the Lords vineyard.
I love you all soo much.
Please keep praying to your loving Heavenly Father. Like your earthly father and mother, they joy in hearing from you.

Sly,
Elder Minson

More from Moab

At Washington Park

Week 44

Dear parents, and people that love me.:

On Monday, as you know, MOAB! It was soo cool!

Tuesday, we had two five star lessons. The first was with a woman and her daughter. Their names and K and N. They are awesome, they both showed up to church last Sunday, and loved it. They loved all the love and attention that people gave them.! We taught a little about our purpose of being there and what not. It went splendid! The next lesson was in the evening with a young man named T. Missionaries in the past taught them, and T had expressed that they were too pushy. So we went in and had a little more relaxed lesson, we sat outside on the grass and played with their dog while we taught. It was quite a spiritual experience.

Thursday, I GOT PULLED OVER! I was going 70 in a 65 and the cop didn't like that. He pulled us over and came up to our window, first thing he said was, "Awe it's the Elders, I was already planning on giving you a ticket." Long story short, he didn't, but he ended up not being able to find our insurance, so I've had to figure that out, and had to call the courts and get the church to fax them proof that we had insurance at the time of the "pull over". It was a big barnacle. Soo much wasted time. But I've learned and I've been going the speed limit lately. Haha.

Saturday we were on exchanges! I went with Elder Joachin and something crazy happened too! Our dinner appointment canceled, so we went to this restaurant called Big Dons, where we ordered pizza. Right when we finished I placed a call to someone in the stake, and a man walked into the building. He went right up to the counter and when he thought no one was looking took a bunch of cash out of the tip jar. I didn't really realize what was going on till I got off the phone. Then we ran after him, and found him after five minutes of driving, we pulled over and started talking to him. It was too late to get the cash back, he had already purchased a bunch of chips with it. He is kinda homeless. It doesn't seem like a big deal, but we asked him about God, and offered to come by his home and teach him and he said sure!

Tender mercies! God loves all his children no matter what choices they make. And they all deserve the gospel.

These pics are of 1. Another picture from Moab last week

2. A cross eyed cat LOL

3. A kitty we found.

 

Cross-eyed cat

Last P-day (Moab trip)

Week 43- Moab!

Dear Family and Friends,

This week has been super eventful, we started the week off on Tuesday by waking up at 5 and driving to Provo for Mission Leadership Council. That was amazing, because the new chapter focus is chapter 13 which teaches us how to work with members better. And that's super exciting, because as we as a Zone focus on this new chapter focus our finding will increase. Technically we as missionaries don't have keys to find. The bishop of each ward does. He then delegates it to the members he calls. Which is super cool.

Also! Before I left Springville I started making a knife, and then I left for here. So I left my knife there for the man to finish and he finally did! It is sooo pretty!

On Thursday we once again woke up early and went to prepare for Zone Training Meeting. It was a very good meeting. Holy cow, there were soo many inspired comments. I learned a ton, and I'm still reflecting on it. Then we immediately start trying to work with members better. We've already started to see more lives be blessed.

Saturday we went on an exchange with the Spanish elders. It was a very good learning experience. I learned a ton from Elder Hernandez about being your self while still teaching with the spirit. It was pretty cool. He has been out about 6 months. He and I also had an interview in Green River at 12:00 so we booked it over there. We worked primarily in the Helper stake as well.

Sunday was great because well, it's Sunday! And it was fast and testimony meeting! Yay, I always love hearing testimonies. Also, people came to church in the Gordon Creek Ward that weren't members! And they were interested learning more, so we set up a lesson on Tuesday.

And today we went to Moab! We saw a couple of arches and got a lot of sweet pictures. It was breathtaking. Plus my companion is super good looking so that was fun. Haha jk, but really I love nature soo much, God really knows how to make em doesn't he?. But please enjoy the beautiful pictures of some of our Zone. Woohoo! It was a blast.

So most of these pics are of Moab. And one is of our Zone Training Meeting last week.

Love Elder Minson

Our tradition when someone is going home

Moab bound! (me in the back)

 Moab pictures

Week 42

Sorry I didn't write a bigger email this week, I was totally planning on it, but things went the opposite way, sorry! I'll try my much best next week!

This Sunday we taught gospel principals. It is a class for less active members and non members. The bishop attends too, we taught about our heavenly family.

This week I'm looking forward to Mission Leadership Council!!! I find such a tender mercy in the scriptures! They've really been blessing our companionship and teaching lately.

Here are some pictures:

 We were driving to an investigators house after church and their neighbor has a mischievous pet tortoise that likes to escape.  And we just saw someone on the sidewalk carrying this huge turtle and we were like "what the heck?" So we stopped and found out that the turtle has escaped and was just walking down the road. (See pic below)

 

Week 41- Good Ole Price

Dear family and friends!

This week has been totally groovy! Can you tell I'm trying to bring that word back? Haha there's not really too much to talk about other than what I've been learning. From being a missionary every day and having the chance to study for two hours a day. It is a great pleasure, but what I've learned most

recently is the power of the Book of Mormon and bible in missionary work.

Opening up this new area is a great privilege, because the people there are not like any other in the Mission. Here member and nonmember alike they all love the Bible, it's been great to be able to teach

with it right along side the Book of Mormon and to be able to really show people how the run together and coincide. I've never been soo appreciative of the Book of Mormon and bible before. It is truly God's gospel, and there can never be anything better. It truly helps us in any and every situation. Being out here has helped me recognize that.

Anywho a young Woman was baptised this week, on Sunday, she is a great little gal. Her mother has recently become active in the church, and loves to come, she has a really strong desire to raise her

daughter in the church as well! It was such a cool process to see! Anyway, gotta get going!

Love Elder Minson

K's baptism