From: Nathan Miner [mailto:nathan.miner@myldsmail.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 10:29 PM
To: NathanMissionary@thepickandshovel.com
Subject: [Elder Miner’s Missionary Mailing List] (no subject)

Hey everyone! so its been a crazy week! we haven’t gotten a ton of success but i know that what we are doing will have some sort of impact for sure! we went of exchanges this week it was me and elder King it was so fun because we are both training! it made me use my chinese which is slowly improving for sure! had a really good lesson and got a referal which ended up being a good new investigator! his name is feng and he’s super quiet but super solid! now we have a total of 2 investigators!!! hard work does pay off! 🙂 Life is amazing i love it! this work is hard but worth it for sure! now picture time 🙂

-an awesome sunset for the first time

-super good indian food 🙂

-saw this on the sidewalk just chilling!

Not much this week…. sorry hope i can have more next week!

Elder Miner

Alright so….

This morning i woke up and went to run a track in the pouring rain because we can. then we came home and i had two big super amazing mangos for breakfast! 🙂 the fruit here is the best by far! other then having the best food in general Taiwan is great! im continually learning and i have to force myself daily to make those changes which is a blast haha in all honesty though i do love Taiwan. the mission experience is something that you couldn’t help anyone understand unless they went through it themselves. i’ve had tough past couple weeks with little success if you look at our key indicators but i have had a ton of success in changing myself and becoming what i need to become in order to do gods work here. i think that this area or at least this past transfer was all for that reason. im thinking im going to be completely different when i get home, which is a good thing. ive had some very great moments that make everything all worth it and im going to keep having them i have no doubt! life is great and nothing can change that 🙂

Funny little story! so we had this investigator that we met because we were saying a huge long prayer in front of his friends bike… haha he said he didn’t want to disturb us because we were really into it 🙂 but then he said that we just prayed for a super long time…. so he came up and asked if we could move haha! it was funny but then we ended up teaching him the first lesson right there and he came to church yesterday! probably one of the biggest miracles that i have seen so far on my mission! it turns out though that he didn’t live in our area…. so we gave him to the other Elders in our apartment haha! its all good! he’s a super great investigator and as long as he’s taken care of im ok with that 🙂 life is good! church is true and the atonement works!

Elder Miner

-my cool new name tag!
-My trainer (Elder Jensen), Me, My Grandpa (Elder Willes), and my Uncle (Elder Tan)!
-This is a hotpot which for anyone that knows is just about the best thing on this planet!
-yes….just yes…

Hey everyone!

alright so i wasn’t able to really email home this last week because of skyping home which was amazing so to be honest i don’t really feel that bad about it all 🙂 haha anyway, this week has been good! its been kind of rough but its all good. my companion is struggling with some things about home but even through all that he has pushed through! we haven’t had many super crazy experiences or anything but hey missions aren’t always going to be like that! we did actually set up a baptismal date for next month the 11th! so im hopeful that they will keep it up and i think they are going to continue to keep their commitments and such! its awesome to see the improvement of those that we teach and what happens as they accept the gospel!

side note that is actually really funny! we were walking through the park and we saw this big set up of Buddhist things. we went over just to kind of check it out and as soon as we got close they came up to us and just started telling us about it and they wouldn’t stop! next thing i know we had blessed water in our hands and were walking on our way….. i wonder if that is something like what people feel when we come up and talk to them… haha 🙂 lifes good i have no reason to complain! love a mission and would love to hear from everyone about how life is going! till next week!

Elder Miner

-This random family that wanted a picture with two strange Americans
-a super awesome member that makes my day 🙂
-The blessed water that we got from the Buddhists… its was good… ba
-only the best job that you could ask for is all

hey everyone!

so this week im sorry but i forgot the stuff i need to put pictures up…. so those of you reading this for the pictures can stop now don’t worry about it… 😉 but i will do that next time!

so….this week has been and incredible learning experience! i have done so much growing and i have no doubt that im not done yet! again prayer is amazing and works everytime! and know that as you listen to the spirit you may not get a solid “do this or go there” answer sometimes you just have to go ahead with whatever you think is best and pray in your heart it works out! and i may be frustrating but i know it works!

We are going to a place called dan shui today and apparently it has amazing icecream and some really cool views! oh and it is pouring right now! its typhoon season and i can’t wait to go biking in that in a minute! haha 🙂

The church is true and life is great! everything happens for a reason! Thanks for all you guys do!

Elder Miner