Week 79: A Visit from Some General Authorities

Elder McMinn hit his 18-month mark this week! 

My week out here is going to be interesting. I have exchanges with the Anadarko missionaries on Wednesday. On Friday I am going to be with the Witchita Falls missionaries for exchanges so this means there will be a lot of switching around but we will be in our area most of the week. We have some pretty cool lessons with investigators coming up. A new one is a member referral and her name is Destiney. She is the coolest lady ever. She was looking into the RLDS church when she lived in Kansas but she was sharing a room in the hospital with a member of the church and that member talked about our church and invited her to come to one of our services. Now she told us that she is never going to stop coming. We are meeting with her again on Thursday and we are going over the restoration with her. The previous lesson we went over the Plan of Happiness and she loved every minute of it. I drew it out on a piece of paper and she told us she looked at it everyday and read the Book of Mormon everyday. Another awesome thing is that a part member family came to church. His name is James McQuillen and he is so awesome! They invited us over Tuesday night to visit with them. A lot of fun things are happening out here. 

With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that’s how bonfires begin as a simple spark.

-Elder Dieter Uchtdorf

This week we has 3 general authorities come to our mission. They gave the best talks about giving up your will to the Lord. Then they shared ways that will help us grow a deeper conversion to the Savior and to grow our relationship with our Heavenly Father. It was Elder Ochoa, Elder Harris, and Elder Teixeira. It was a whole mission conference! That was the same day that I hit 18 months on the mission so we got a picture with all of the missionaries still out after that 18 months. It was cool to see so many of us. We still hold the record for the largest group coming into the mission at one time!

“Doing better does not always mean doing more!” -Sharon Eubank

Elder McMinn