Elder Kyle McMinn: Week 70: Birthday Week and Transfers!

“You hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can imagine”.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

McMinn and Hymer

My new area of Lawton is so awesome. It is a military town with the Fort Sill Base as part of the city. It is a fun area to be in and there is a lot of work. I am still trying to figure out the area and to see if I can get all the people and roads figured out.

My role is to get to know the members and to be with investigators at sacrament meeting. My companion goes and teaches church on Sunday on the base while I go on splits with another elder from the Lawton 1st ward. Then I go to that ward for church. We meet up again right after all the church services. It is a fun dynamic and really different but works well.

My new companion is Elder Hymer and he is from Queen Creek, AZ. He is the coolest guy. We came out of the MTC together so I am pumped to be with him.

I am splitting the area with a set of sisters and the way it works is you find, you teach. It is a free for all and the dinners are really fun. We have a few investigators but none that I could tell you about yet because I don't konw much about them because we haven't met them. Something cool about the area is that on Sundays I go to church alone while my companion goes and teaches on a military base. The base sounds awesome. He had 3 baptisms on Sunday and should have 3 more next Sunday. That doesn't count for our area but it is still awesome.

It's been a great week in Oklahoma!
Elder McMinn

“God knows you. You are His child. He loves you. Even when you think you are not lovable, He reaches out to you. This very day — every day — He reaches out to you, desiring to heal you, to lift you up, and to replace emptiness in your heart with an abiding joy. He desires to sweep away any darkness that clouds your life and fill it with sacred and brilliant light of His unending glory.”

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sister Collier called me earlier this week to ask me for Kyle's favorite meal and treats. She took really good care of him and made him chicken pillows. He was pretty excited about that. We appreciate all of the special families that watch over and take care of our missionaries!

Birthday dinner with Kathryn (Hanks) and Greg Welch. Kathryn is Kyle's Grandma McMinn's cousin. They drove all the way from Edmond to celebrate his birthday with him. She also met Rob while he was serving in Tennessee many years ago. It was such a fun connection for them.