It was a snowy muddy week- September 26, 2016

So this week was fun! WE GOT SNOW! ITS COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But right now its 70 degrees?

But we also got our car stuck in the mud!!!!!!!!!! 

But out here I absolutely Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Being a missionary is the best thing EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But we really seriously got our car stuck in the mud. That really was fun in retrospect! Took us 2 and a half hours to get out. A member had to get us out! That was a fun exchange haha. Really won't forget that one!!!

We found a new investigator this week!! She even came to church too!!! She came with her friend! So that was really sweet!!! She really wants to learn more and more!! Her name is Kadie. 

Our ward out here is a lot of fun! They help us out a ton! 

Um so I kinda proctrastinated the day of me sending this email so I don't have time to write a ton! Sorry yo! 

PICTURE DISTRACTION 

This was our text to the Mission President's wife.

The snow in Chandler's area

I love each y'all and all y'all! 

Elder Miner

Happy Times in Spring Creek!

So this week was really cool! 

How's it going? Out here in Spring Creek it is great! We got to meet with some awesome people this week! We were able to meet with the Travino family, who are a part-member less active bunch. The mom and second oldest son are members. The father and oldest son are catholic's and the youngest daughter wants to be a member. And the mom has asked us to come and teach the missionary lessons to the family! And so we were able to teach the restoration this week! The catholic Dad was there for the lesson and it was super cool to be able to have him there. The family is really awesome and the ward council is ready to follow our lead with whatever we need our help. We had multiple people ask if they could come to our lessons with them, so that was really exciting! 

It has really been the best thing to be able to stay for the entire ward council! It has helped us get so much trust with the other members of the ward council because it has shown how much the Bishop trusts us. The ward absolutely loves and trusts us! And the Bishop really wants to help us and gives us lots to do! I really love working with this ward! I absolutely love being out here in Spring Creek!! 

So earlier this week it rained, and because my wonderful companion and I are from Arizion, we were freezing our butts off in 50 degree weather. We got flippin hailed on while we were biking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I had a picture......But I didn't take my camera because i was afraid of ruining it... Which I definitely would've had I taken it. But the weather out here is crazy! The people are amazing! And I love the spirit that comes from serving the Lord! 

We found this awesome piece of wood in our church yesterday. I love what it says. It truly is how life works. In the Book of Mormon Captain Moroni takes the weakest places of the Nephite lands and makes them the strongest. He fortified the towns and gave them the most men. That is what the Lord does for us. He takes our worst weaknesses and makes them our best strengths. For example, I was not the best at talking to new people. I was not super shy, but I definitely was one to go out of my way to meet new people. As a missionary that is a weakness. And one that I still struggle with sometimes, but through the atonement I have gotten better. From new companions to new zone members to new  people on the street. I love new people and every single day we meet them. I promise each of you that if you work on your tests today, tomorrow they will be a testimony. That promise comes from God and his authorized servants on the earth  

Elder Gailey is really doing quite well! I trust him with taking over this area when I leave. He will do a great job on his mission! He knows what is important in this mission experience! And it is super duper awesome to have him as my companion! 

 

Well i love all y'all and each y'all!

Ps this week we made steak 

Chandler loves his new hat!!!

Fun Week--September 12, 2016

howdy y'all! 

so this was a fun week! 

We cooked a chicken! I wiped out on my bike! I cut my hand by throwing a fence over another fence! Elder Gamble my homie from Sparks is now out in Spring Creek! I've given myself a couple of haircuts now. I have a new planner (which looks really cool!) and yeah it's just been great!

So first off, we cooked a chicken we found frozen in our freezer. so that was pretty cool!!!! Really liked it! 

AND I have successfully cut my hair multiple times now, so y'all can't say that I can figure out stuff! haha and the hair even looks good! 

This week we did some more tracting and we saw so many miracles every single day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love how many we see! And even though they may not be HUGE to y'all, they are huge to me. 

On Tuesday we were tracting and we found this family named the Coochyoumas. They are from the Hopi reservation down in AZ. We started talking to them. Come to find out that they are members and that they are less active. So we started sharing a message with them. We also found out that the Daughter goes to the college in Elko and that she is YSA age so we asked here if she knew what it was and she didn't so we explained. We told her we would get the info for it and tell her. So that was tuesday. On sunday after church our Bishop asked us if we could go see this same girl and see if she wants to go. The thing is, we hadn't told him about the fact that we had met her yet. And we found out that he called her about YSA a few hours after we left their house! SO super duper inspired and it was a huge huge miracle and now she is going to go to YSA! And go back to church for the first time in 2 years! SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!!!!

But this week was awesome and we saw tons of miracles just like that! I love this area so much and i have learned so much! And I know I am supposed to be out here and working out here and that this is where I am needed at this moment and that Elder Gailey is supposed to be my companion! 

I love all y'all and each y'all!

Elder Miner
NRM

The chicken we cooked

After the wipeout

Transfers--September 5, 2016

So Elder Gailey and I are staying together this next transfer!! I am really excited to be able to finish his training!!!! 

This week we had some cool stuff happen! 

1 we have found a new investigator. Her name is Lanna. She is the 9 year old daughter of a less active and she asked us when she could be baptized, so that was kinda awesome! She draws out everything we teach her so that she can remember it all better! Which is kinda awesome. SO we are excited to be able to meet with her some more. The entire stake fasted for missionary work up here, so we know we will be seeing some miracles. 

2  Our ward mission leader pities us because we are from Arizona. To quote him "I would rather be back in Vietnam than around all that Jumping Cactus" So................................................ yeah....................

3 we took a wrong turn and ended up taking a 22 mile bike ride around the base of the mountain? We thought it was a short cut from one end of the area to the other, and we have made the executive decision that it is not a shortcut... SO YEAH. But it was super super pretty up there in the trees! 

4 We cooked some backstrap we found in our freezer from 2014. It ended up being the second best steak I have ever had! It was pretty dang flipping good. And I guess if any of y'all know anything about hunting, apparently the backstrap is the tenderest best part of an elk or deer? So that was really good! 

And something that I have been thinking about lately comes from a BYU devotional Elder Holland gave. It's called Unless You're a Mormon. So some of you BYU Provo folk who were there when he was the President of the university may have heard this before. But something that Elder Holland says in it really struck me. He was quoting someone but he didn't say who. He said "if you were accused of being a Mormon, would there be enough evidence to convict you in a court of law?"  This has really been impacting me lately because it really makes you think. I'm on a mission right now so maybe there is enough evidence for me? But what about all of y'all? Maybe some of y'all served missions, but since then have you stood "in holy places" to the extent that people know you are a member? Do your friends know where you stand? I'm not trying to accuse anyone of anything. But I am trying to give some food for thought. Where do I stand before the proverbial court? Would I be convicted? or would I be acquitted? I hope and pray that I can live my life in a manner that I may always be guilty of that. And for those of you who aren't Lds, "if you were accused of being a [Christian], would there be enough evidence to convict you in a court of law?" More food for thought to you guys too! 

  I love all y'all and each y'all

Elder Miner 

#NRM (best mission in the world)