Elder Kyle McMinn: Week 34: Guthrie, Oklahoma

Transfer Day with new companion Elder Theurer

The last few days in my area were fun. We went and saw Todd Walker. He is the coolest guy ever and he is slowly making progress. Then we saw Belinda Cloud, who is a less active member who loves missionaries and had finally started to read the Book of Mormon again. It was hard to leave but I did what I need to in that area and now its time for the new area.

Belinda Cloud

Todd Walker

Guthrie is a really small rural town but we have North Edmond which is really, really rich. We have no in between. It is really different and difficult but it is really fun.

Transfers

My new companion is Elder Theurer (pronounced "tire"). He is from Orem UT. He is really cool! He has only been in the mission one transfer longer than I have been here so that is cool to have another person close to my age that I am serving with. He has only been in Guthrie wards one transfer more than me so we are both figuring things out but it is going well so far. There is a lot of cool things to see in our area. One really cool thing that I have seen so far is the world's largest Masonic Temple. It is massive and super cool. We do not have very many investigators at the moment so we are almost starting new. We are doing a lot of finding which is fun but it is also a drag sometimes. We always feel pretty accomplished afterward even if we don't find anyone. There are a lot of cool members here. Everyone is either a doctor, dentist or works in oil so that is pretty funny to see.

When we were in Guthrie this week we went to visit a potential investigator named Jason. He was so cool. We walked up to the door and he invited us right in. He lives in a home that was built in the 1920's. He took us inside and showed us his workroom. It was filled with these massive computer monitors and a ton of other cables and stuff that I had no idea what they did. He told us all about his companion, Tanium. He blew our minds and we didn't know what to say. Sadly, he isn't too interested in the church but his wife is so that was a cool thing to hear her say.

There really aren't very many investigators that we are working with. Wedefinitelyantly working on that. I need to rely a lot more on finding by faith. That is going to be the key this next transfer.