Week 7: Of course we have pamphlets!

This week has been an incredible week! Even though we had both baptisms fall through we ended up rescheduling one of them for this week and there is no canceling this one! This girl is absolutely incredible. She has one of the strongest testimonies and it has grown so much in the past 8 weeks that she has been meeting with the elders. She actually referred herself online! One incredible thing that she shared with us is that she wants to wait a year to be able to go through the temple and the second that is done she wants to serve a mission! It was incredible to meet and teach her!

We had Greenie Follow up this week in Edmund. It was one of the coolest training meetings that I have been to. I learned that my personality type is expressive!

Greenie Follow Up Training

(Elder McMinn is in the back row by the mission president)

During the training, we had an earthquake and it was pretty strong. It shook the church building but it didn't phase my mission president. He just paused while it happened then continued talking. I'll be honest, I was a little scared when it happened.

This week I have seen quite a bit of miracles! One of the most incredible ones happened yesterday. After church, we had planned that morning that we were going to visit some less active members and go knock some doors. Two seconds before we were about to head out the door, my companion and I had the impression that we needed to go visit some specific people instead. Obviously, that is what we did. We went and visited the first two and there was no answer at either home. The next house we planned to visit someone actually answered  the door. It was super cool to visit with him. He told us, "Hey, I'm kinda curious about what your church believes, do you have any pamphlets or something that I can read?" We are missionaries, of course we have pamphlets! He then told us that he wants to come to church with us next week! As we left his house I was thinking that we had done our job and that is where the Lord wanted us to be. It absolutely was but we still had one more house to visit. The next house that we went to was one that we have knocked 6 times this week but nobody answered all week. I was really hoping that somebody would answer this time. The second we knocked, the door swung open. The guy that we met is named JT. We had met his wife, who is a member of the church, two weeks before but JT was out of town for business. We had an incredible conversation with him and got to know him really well. It turns out that he has read/listened to the Book of Mormon three times through and is working on the 4th time. He loves it and says he gets a special feeling as he reads it. He says that it is the only book that he has read that does that to him. As we kept talking to him, he expressed his desire to be baptized and sealed to his wife!!! I got so pumped at that moment that I had the largest smile on my face. I don't think that smile left the whole night! This week has been incredible. I love it here!

He might need some cooking lessons!

So I didn't realize that I hadn't taken any pictures all week until last night so I took a picture of me with my toaster strudel that was sitting in the over for over an hour while we played Ticket to Ride with the other elders and I completely forgot about it! Then my companion and I had a photo shoot this morning with Miley the Malibu. (Do you see what I did there, because of the song...) I think that I'm pretty clever! (Oh dear....)

Love,
Elder McMinn

 Miley the Malibu

Get on your knees and pray. Then get on your feet and work.

- President Gordon B. Hinckley