Ely Week 2- Oct 31, 2016

So i'm in a tiny town. And that is because there is only one place to buy food! this is weird! 

But it super awesome out here!!!!!!!! I've been using rat traps to teach people! And whoever wants to know what that means, "ask the missionaries, they can help you!" 

I love being out here! We had some less actives come to church for the first time in years! 

The ward out here is really good and i actually got to meet them this week! It is a super small ward! They don't even fill up the chapel, but they are all really awesome! The missionaries out here are really awesome too! They are doing good and having fun! Which is super great! We are all seeing tons of miracles! From defusing bombs about the church being anti-gay, to helping people feel the spirit for the first time in 11 years. It really has been a good week! I love the people out here and they are special to me! Dear to my heart already! I really love the people. There is this man named Brother Jensen who has opened his scriptures for the first time in over a decade! So we have been working with him a ton! He really wants to be better and overcome his issues and his past! We love him and love being in his home and reading with him. His testimony is rekindling! 

Well I love all y'all! 

Elder Miner \

Ps

Shout out to the Bonds, Shaws and Miners for the package palooza this week! 

Between the four elders in our house, we got 14 packages this past week!  

His Kylo Ren outfit courtesy of the Bonds

Mustaches also courtesy of the Bonds

Ely - Week 1--Oct 24, 2016

SO this week I got sent out to ELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our here is the promised land!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it out here!! it is freezing cold out here in the mornings but that is okay! During the day it is about 70! Every morning we have morning program with the whole zone. All 8 of us haha. Wahoo smallest zone in the mission! And the one that is closer to about 8 mission offices than to our own! Yippee! 

So the first half of the week was wrapping things up in Spring Creek! Then on wednesday I got to make the 3 hour drive from Elko to Ely!!!! And the only thing to look at is Sagebrush. hot dang it is a boring drive!!!!!!!!!!

But we got here about 6 on wednesday night! And it has been great since! We got right to work! So we cover two wards. Ely second ward. And Lund ward. Lund is a small small town about 45 minutes away. We have two investigators out there who are set with a baptismal date! They are Jake and Faith. They are 14 and 10. Kids of a returning less active mom. They are studs and super awesome! They are getting baptized January 7th right now, which is a little far away, but it is because they are out on their ranch friday and saturday and they want to have the baptism on a saturday so that all their family can come! So january 7 is their first free saturday still in town! But we are super super excited for them. We taught them the restoration and plan of salvation last thursday! We are going back out there on tuesday!!!!

We have lots and lots of less actives we are working with out here! And it is super nice to be here because we live with another set of Elders, who are the zone leaders, and it is super fun!!! I love being around missionaries a lot! It is something I missed in Spring Creek. We see all the zone every morning and every thursday and tuesday we eat lunch together! Members own stores and they feed us for free!!! 

Yesterday was kinda crazy!!!!!!!!!! So friday night the zone leaders got a text that we needed to be in Elko for interviews with President Chesnut yesterday! So we got to drive the 3 hour trip there. And then the 3 hour trip back!!!!!!!! We got back about 8:45 and left about 12:30! There was a meeting for new missionaries being trained and so we drove up with the elders who are being trained in our zone! And I drove too! man oh man that was a long ride! But it was fun seeing President and seeing the training meeting and being with the elders! 

In our zone there are two brand new missionaries! A sister and an elder! So pretty cool!

  

Nevada Drivers are all crazy! They are super risky with the way they drive and we almost died about 3 times! granted twice was because we were following the sisters...................... not doing that again.....

But out in Ely is a lot of fun! I love it out here lots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I love y'all lots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elder Miner

Elder Anderson and Elder Miner and a cool car

Ely Zone

Elder Anderson and Elder Miner

Last week in Spring Creek-Oct 17, 2016

So we had a fun week this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lots of a miracles too!!!!!

We found 3 new investigators!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I'm also being transferred, so ya know. 

I get to go to a little town called Ely Nevada! Apparently its the coldest place in the continental USA? So that'll be fun!!!!!!!!!

But this week we had zone training so that was a lot of fun! We got to hear a lot of great training's from some great missionaries! i really liked being in this zone. I like the sheer amount of people here. It's nice!

We had two blitz this week. We helped the sisters in spring creek find all the members in their ward. We all went on splits with a member from their ward and went out and met tons of people! Holy dang that feels like so long ago!

Then the next day we had a blitz in our area with the zone leaders and they went with one of us each and we went out and tried to find for 3 hours. Long story short we found 3 new investigators! So that was really good!!!!!!!! 

We had a Why I Believe fireside and we had lots of people from our ward there and some nonmembers! It was super cool to see all them! The people we've told I'm leaving are really sad, but it's okay

Spring Creek is an awesome place and probably the only place in Nevada I would live. Even though the water prices aren't that good out here.

The 3 new investigators and the other people will be under good care here with Elder Gailey and his new companion! 

The Book of Mormon is true and is the convincing evidence of everything we say!!!!!!!

I wish I could add my name to the page of witness's to say how much I know it is true!!!! There is no doubt about it's validity! i know it without a doubt!

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

ELder Miner 

Elko Zone

Elder Miner and Elder Gailey

Elders are strange!

Spring Creek--October 10, 2016

HOWDY Y'ALLL 

Out here in the crick Is a lot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!

We get to see all kinds of stuff! Like deer every day! And also the fact that everyone here is ready to shoot anyone who says they like Obama or Hilary is kinda funny, but also really not good! 

So this week, In honor of one of the most inspired men in history, and since today is the day we remember him, here's a cool scripture about him! 

From the Book of Mormon 

1st Nephi 13:12 And I looked and beheld a man among the Gentiles, who was separated from the seed of my brethren by the many waters; and I beheld the spirit of God, that it came down and wrought upon the man; and he went forth upon the many waters. even into the seed of my brethren, who were in the promised land. 

This man changed history and led to a lot of cool things happening, including the most butt kicking best country this world has ever seen! (aside from the city of Enoch)      

The hand of God is in every little thing in the world! i challenge each and every one of you to go out into the world and see what God has done! 

And if you feel like you can't see the good that God does, then I have a different scripture! 

this one is in John 6:68  Jesus has just asked "will you also go away?" 

To his eternal credit Peter said "Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou has the words of eternal life" 

God and the Savior have the way and the path to salvation. There is none other way. And God has given all of us the option to accept him. Please do. He has His arms outstretched to us

God Loves you! I love You!!!!!!!!!! Let the Savior help!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I love all y'all and each y'all! 

Elder Miner 

Oh here is a new scar I got out here! I got it from throwing a fence over another fence! That was a fun time haha 

Scar he got from fixing a fence

CONFERENCE WEEKEND!!!!!

SO THIS WEEK WAS PRETTY GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For one thing I had steak 4 times this week! 3 days in a row! And two of those times it was Elk steak and Elk is one of the most delicious things ever to exist on the face of the earth! 

Also got to wear a jaguar mask thingy and for anyone who has seen the Testaments of one Shepard and one fold, I thought I was being really funny! Or maybe I'm not..

But this week has been full of driving around and trying to find people! 

Last Monday we had to wait for an hour and a half to get our oil changed, so we wandered around Elko for that time! Elko is boring.........

on Tuesday we had district meeting. So I totally got two other elders to try to drink a raw egg with hot sauce in it with me. Yeah we totally failed.....twice...... We gave everyone else a couple of really really funny videos!!! SO yeahhhhhhhhhhh

definitely threw up....

But after that we had exchanges and we saw some super cool miracles happen! I was with Elder Thomas and that is when we had the first steak. And it was Elk!! Super flippin good!!! Had a super good lesson with some of the people! Then the next day we ended exchanges and Elder Gailey and I went with our ward mission leader to the Star in Elko! We had Steak sandwiches!! And oh boy they were great!! Then we went out and tried to find tons of people! But we didn't....We had some great genuine conversations though! It has been rainy and stormy this week! But lots of fun! That night we had more elk steak for dinner! And then the next day we made steak! 

But really the highlight of this week has been Conference!!! We watched all of it and oh my gosh we had lots of fun watching it! we watched most of it with other missionaries! There is some really good stuff in there! Unfortunately I forgot my notebook with all my notes, so I can't send highlights! But I absolutely loved Elder Uchtdorfs talk in Priesthood session! It was all about finding your Alma or your Amulek! And which one am I? How am I like Amulek? It was a really good talk! Everyone of you should go read that one! It was really great! And also I loved Elder Hollands talk! All about home teaching. 

Also Elder Nattress talk was super cool!! He had some super good stuff in there! 

oh also we kinda had snow today! 

Love all you! 

Elder Miner 

Elder Miner and Elder Gailey at Zone Conference

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