There's a Chick-Fil-A in Reno!!!!A

This week was good! 
A couple of really good things happened too! One was that we got to meet with the man named Kevin! He is super cool! He is getting married to his active wife tomorrow. In the Lesson we had with him, we talked a lot about the restoration. He is prepared to accept the fact of a world-wide apostasy. From the answers we have given him, it makes sense to him that it could happen. He is searching for a spiritual answer as well as a logical one. And so far he loves everything he is seeing logically. He just wants to make sure that nothing said or taught isn't what he agrees with. He says, though, that everything he has heard and seen from Church and the missionaries, is more or less what he believes. The restoration isn't what he was raised with, but he can accept it. Something really funny is that his Fiancee towards the end of the lesson said "I'm gonna break you babe". Then he said "yup I signed up for this for the rest of my life." We all laughed at that. We really like Kevin. He is a really good man who just wants to know the absolute truth. He asks so many questions, and realizes that some cannot be answered by anyone but God, so he does have a lot of real intent to act upon what he learns. 

Something else that was really cool, is that we were helping a less-active man get started on his family history yesterday. He also blessed the sacrament for the first time ever yesterday! But we were helping him with his family history and when we entered his Dad's name into the computer, nothing came up. So he created a new file for him. As we kept working on it, about 15 minutes later a little blue box appeared on his Dad's name. This blue box was some document hints. He opened them up and it had three hints. A birth record, a death record, and also a grave record. With those first two documents he has enough information now to take his Dad's name to the Temple. He announced triumphantly to everyone in the family history lab, "I'm going to be baptized for my Dad!" It was a miracle that we were able to help him in that moment. And that the needed documents appeared. We helped him to reserve those ordinances, and that will be the name he takes when he goes to the temple for the first time! God is allowing us to assist with the missionary work on both sides of the veil!!! It is so cool to see!!

I was able to go on exchanges with Elder Lyman this week!!!!!!!!!! I loved being with my first companion again!! It was good to talk about our time together again, and also to see how much the two of us have grown. I love that man and the example he sets to everyone else and to myself! 

I love all y'all and each y'all! 

Elder Miner 

A snake we saw

Sunset

Elder Lyman visited!!!