Christmas!!!!

I HAVE ONLY 30 MINUTES!!

I LOVE ALL OF YOU AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

So cool things real quick, we set our investigators Sophie and Robert with baptismal dates. Sophie in February and Robert in January. We went on two exchanges this week. One with Elder Sorochan up here in the YSA and also Elder Judd in the YSA. Both were tons and tons of fun! I was really lacking on sleep after both of those and I don't have enough time to do either of them justice. ​​​​​​​​

But the week was good! Miracles happened and now we are enjoying our Christmas. Yesterday we didn't get to proselyte because of Christmas eve, and today it's the same thing! Super strange days!! 

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

Elder Miner 

Merry Christmas

Hello Family!
This week has been good! Elder Steck and I have really tried to hit the ground running. We've been out contacting and talking with everyone that we possibly could. So many different less-actives. There are a TON that are YSA age in the Reno area. So that has been waaaayyyy sweet!! On Friday and Saturday I think we had maybe one or two hours open each day. They rest of the day we were teaching and testifying. We've been operating a #LIGHTtheWORLD booth on the institute where we normally did the Waffle Wednesday stuff. We offer out free hot chocolate to everyone we see. Since we usually do this at night when it's pretty dang cold, we have a good amount of takers. Then once they come we tell them that their cups have a link to a website with a sweet video about Christmas. We usually give them a little calendar that a lady at the institute had printed off . We met quite a few people by doing this. And we had a good amount say that they would be interested in attending a service. The Sisters are also seeing a lot of success with this as well. 

Elder Steck is a solid missionary! He is from Richfield Utah. He has been out as long as Elder Wegelin. I really like him. It's kinda strange because he was in my zone about four transfers ago when I was in Reno North. But that has been nice to know about him and know him beforehand. We get along well. We seem to do the work well together too. He has jumped into the YSA work and he loves it. 

Winter Break is nearly upon us. It will run from December 22 until January 22. So the rest of the transfer we will have a closed campus.... But, many of our people that we work with are local! So we won't really be losing much of our investigators or Less-actives! We are happy about that. We hope to continue seeing miracles! 

Last night we were able to participate in the Reno stake Sing-along. It was well done, and didn't take too long either! At the very end the whole stake divided into Soprano's, Alto's, Tenor's, and Bass's. Then we all sang the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah. It was sssssssssssssssssooooooooooooo sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was powerful to sing praises to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. It brought the spirit in a big way. As we stood together as missionaries, we were able to stand as his soldiers and representatives, bound by covenant to serve him. We gave glory to him who deserves it all It was a first and it was spectacular! 

I love all y'all and each y'all

Elder Miner 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Transfers!!!!

Here is the ominous news........ I"M BEING TRANSFERRED!!! TO CARSON CITY!!!! jk I'm staying. But Elder Wegelin will be leaving and going to Sparks! My new companion is Elder Steck! He is a cool guy. I took his spot in Fallon when i got transferred there. He is a great missionary! Elder Wegelin is taking his spot in Sparks, so they just switched places I am super super pumped! 

So this week, I honestly can't remember what happened actually? Something happened! I know we did a TON of #LIGHTtheWORLD stuff! So every Wednesday we go on campus for 2 hours and essentially yell at people to come and eat some free waffles This week we did Light the world stuff too! Gave out free hot chocolate!  

But I honestly can't remember what happened? I don't have my planner from last week?

It was great! let me tell you that! 

So everyone keeps making jokes about me going home. It's a pretty common thing to do in the mission. Make fun of those who are soon to "die". So a ton of missionaries have been saying that to me, expecting me to react in a certain way. Something along the lines of "Heck no I'm not leaving! I'm staying out forever!" But my normal reaction is "Yeah, so?". And to that they have no response and it's super super funny! The mission is the best decision of my life. I don't know who I would be without it And I don't feel stressed at all. it's pretty whatever actually. I don't feel different than when I did when I came out. Except I feel more confident . I know I can handle any situation the Lord places in my path. I know where I stand. But gosh dang it I'm old. I've been out for a while. But I love this life. It's the best way to live. Focusing our entire lives on Christ!! I love it! I would use so many crazy to describe how much I love it, but I'm terrible at typing now.... So I can't do that haha. 

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

Elder Miner 

NRM

PS

I actually just remembered something I did! We were able to have about half of the zone go to the Grand Sierra Resort ans we got to collect food donations for several hours in the shadow of the largest Casino in Reno! So that was pretty cool! It was a ton of fun! Super dang cold! But good times all around!

pps-  Here are some funny pictures.

December

So on Monday, we had our weekly FHE. We were able to run this one and to create the program. We had a musical number and also some speakers. A recently returned missionary spoke about the success he had with #LIGHTtheWorld last year. And then we had President Perry speak about Christmas and #LIGHTtheWORLD. The spirit was so strong as both of them spoke and testified of the validity of this initiative! Then after they spoke, we watched the video together. We then passed out two pass-along cards to each of the members there. We told them to write down a good deed, or a way to #LIGHTtheWORLD. Then we gave each of them balloons with LED lights in them. They attached the cards to the balloons and we filled them up with Helium. Then we all proceeded to walk to the campus, from the church building, and we gave out the flashing balloons and cards to people we saw on the street! So at first there was this MASSIVE mass of glowing balloons, but slowly you saw single balloons walking other directions. Our giant group got smaller and smaller. We had so much fun wandering around campus inviting people to participate with #LIGHTtheWORLD! The ward really really loved it!

On Tuesday I was able to be on exchanges with Elder Whetton! He is a super super good Elder! I would also say we are now close friends. We hit it off super well earlier in the transfer. He payed me probably what has been the highest compliment I've ever heard. A couple p-days ago he asked me, "Do you know what I see when I look at you Elder Miner?" I said nope! He said, "I see myself in one year". Now I don't think that I am a good goal to have in mind of someone to emulate, but apparently he does. I've never thought of anyone trying to follow my example before. Anyway, Elder Whetton understands the doctrine super well! We had a stellar lesson with one of our investigators named Richard. Elder Whetton jumped right in and we had a blast! Also, we had all you can eat sushi too.

On Wednesday we had another exchange. This time I was down in Damonte Ranch. I got to know Elder McBride super super well! I really like him a ton! He has only been out for 3 transfers, but he has the attitude of being out for much much longer! We did a lot of walking and we set up many appointments.

I've been sick for most of the week, and on Saturday Elder Wegelin told me that I wasn't going out. And to top that, he arranged splits with other Elders to cover our appointments for the day while I was in the shower... So I had to stay in. I feel better, but still not terrific.

On Sunday we did this super cool activity in Elder Quorum and I wanted to share it! We had to come up with a name for the Savior for each of the letters of the Alphabet! Here is what we came up with:
Advocate, Adored, Alpha
Beloved
Christ, Counselor, Creator
Divine, Deliverer
Emanuel, Eternal, Everlasting Father
Father, Finisher of our Faith, Friend
God, Good Shepard
Healer, Holy one of Israel
Instrument, I AM, Imanuel
Jehovah, Jesus, Judge
King
Lord, Lamb of God, Light of the World, Lion of Judah
Messiah, Master, Mediator
Nazarene
Omega, Only Begotten
Prince of Peace
Quieter of the sea of Galilee, (Un)quenchable fire
Redeemer, Rock, Rabonni
Savior, Shepard, Son of Man, Son of God
Teacher
Upholder of all things
Victorious one, Vine
Wonderful
(E)xalted
Yaweh, Yeshua
Zion

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

Elder Miner 

Elder Miner and Elder Coronado