Week 62

Sorry I haven’t written the group in so long. It’s been crazy busy!  Since we use our Shoeberoos, Lamborfeeties, Chevrolegs, Nissandles, Ford F1feeties, Legus, Mitshibishoes, Kawasocksi’s, Ishoezu’s (Isuzu), Pontislacks, Kia souls, Footieraris, Ford legspidition, Kneesans

OUR FEET so much we have to leave thirty minutes early most of the time, and all the productive times in the day get cut down.. though we still talk to people on the street.  Lol,  when I was with Elder Conley, we came up with all of those feet analogy’s. Haha it was super fun!

I want to share one neat experience that happened because of my ignorance. It was actually last night. Elder McKinney and I had gotten so busy on Friday that we didn’t have time to Weekly Plan. So we were finishing it up last night. Eventually somehow we started talking about (a topic) and then that led to an argument which led to some yelling, which led to Elder McKinney storming out of the house. I kept the phone. So he had nowhere really to go. A lot of the argument came because of me. 

The problem was that I wasn’t trying to understand his point of view. Instead I was trying to push my point of view on him. 

You see, that’s the key, the key to a healthy companionship is “understanding” if I had understood where he was coming from then less yelling would have happened.  Because I understand some of his other flaws I get less impatient with him as a person.

Moral of the story OH I totally forgot to say that he came back shortly after with another set of elders that live right next to us, and he was totally okay. He told the other elders that he was not even mad when he stormed out.. :/ 

Any way.

Sly, (Sure Love You)

Elder Minson

 Pictures!

 Here we were helping with a food bank that Bishop S started. It was amazing!

Baptism of J.

Lunch at Taco Bell :)

We went to the temple last Monday! Yay! ALSO SUPER COOL THING. Yah know how I trAined Elder DeAlba? Well his brother was at the MTC going to the temple the same time as us! So I met him! That was crazy awesome!

This is A. She is the daughter of someone we teach. She is crazy adorable and kept asking me to take pictures of us. Lol

Week 61

My district at District Meeting,

Saturday we had a baptism of J. It went phenomenal! J is amazing, he really wanted to bear his testimony during it but he was not given the chance. He is a very solid convert! WOW.

 SADLY it hasn’t snowed yet!

Week 60

We were going to have a baptism but we moved it to this Saturday. And he wants me to baptize him. So yay!

 

This week we put M on date to be baptized second Saturday in January. She really wants to be baptized so we are super excited. She even went to church last Sunday. 

We also met and taught D who also wants to be baptized and went to church on Sunday. He is super humble and and cool. He wants to understand everything before he get baptized. So it will be slow with him. Haha :) 

 

At service a few days ago

At the mall

 

Week 59

For Thanksgiving we got to sleep in, and had a Turkey Bowl with our zone,  then had Thanksgiving dinner with the Aranda's and the Balls.

Spoke in church yesterday in Freedom 4th Ward and I noticed a girl from my home ward right before I gave my talk. So as I was saying I’m from queen creek I looked at her and we both smiled super big. It was crazy! 

We have a baptism for a super man on December 9th!

Me and Elder McKinney at a dinner appointment

My favorite shoes are all taped together now.

Week 58- Provo Freedom and Elder McKinney

Hi every one! I didn’t write last week due to a series of unfortunate events. But here is the email I drafted last week.

Dear people who listen.

Hi everyone! Right now I’m sitten by a lake fishin.

You can very easily compare this to missionary work. We are told to teach those who will listen. Similarly in fishing we are to catch those that will bite.

Here is a quote from Preach my Gospel, it uses fishing in its analogy so I thought it was fitting.    None of us should be like the fisherman who thinks he has been fishing all day when in reality he has spent most of his time getting to and from the water, eating-lunch, and fussing with his equipment. Fishing success is related to how long you have your line in the water, not to how long you are away from the apartment. Some fishermen are away from home for twelve hours and have their line in the Water for ten hours. Other fishermen are away from home for twelve hours andhave their line in the water for only two hours. This last type may wonder why they do not have the same success as others. .

This week has been super eventful. My new area is Provo Freedom, and my new companion is Elder McKinney from Arkansas! We are in a walking area so it is super different trying to have multiple lessons every night. Our area is large and people’s schedules are tough. It’s been a good experience in managing time and resources. It’s also been super fun to talk along the way as we walk, share cool lessons and ponder about the things of God.

I’ve recently studied the tree of life a lot lately. It’s been really neat to see the similarities between it and the life we have right now. Also, at church Sunday we spoke on member missionary work and received several referrals.
Sly,
Elder Minson

Here is me and Elder McKinney:

This is what our new area looks like:

Week 57- Transfers!

We just got back from fishin!

As far as transfers I’m moving to Provo to train a new missionary. Y Mount Zone. Most likely in a walking area for winter. (We are not allowed to bike in winter.) Elder Conley is staying in Payson. I feel good about it. Email is being very wonky for the whole mission. I might not get any other emails out.

Sly,

Elder Minson

 Fishin at the lake!

Week 56

Lots of pictures this week! Two baptisms on Saturday and some fun leaf-raking for service.

"I stand at the door and knock"

Baptism of A and L

Baptism of T. One of the coolest ones I've had!

Raking leaves for a service project

Me and Elder C after church

Dinner appointment