Hey everyone!

So this week was another good week! to start off we had interviews with president! super great, i love that man. He shared with us many things that are going to help our missionary work now and then he shared things that we can do now to ensure we have a strong gospel centered family when we have one of our own someday… he’s a good guy and definitely inspired of the lord! Then after interviews i had a chance to test on my phase 2!

so our mission has a great language study tool. its broken up into 3 phases. first is strictly on gospel related vocab and phrases. second, is just 2 thousand most commonly used words in chinese… or close to it. Then 3rd… IS ALL CHARACTERS BABY! and i passed on the phase two test this week so i have started on learning characters! im so flipping excited you have no idea! 🙂

Then we had a baptismal interview this week which was the sisters in our wards investigator! she is probably the most solid investigator ive seen, and she is getting baptized next week! she asked me to baptize her so that will be cool to help with that! its been exciting to see her progress even though she isn’t my investigator haha!

We have had many good investigators but despite all we do to help them we haven’t had any progress to the point were they are willing to put the gospel in front of their work or other things… we do have one that is making it super close! his name is Bluce… yes i spelled that right haha 🙂 he is super cool and im super excited to see him make these steps for baptism! we also have another investigator named leo. he is also making great progress! we just figured out though that he might have a pretty serious problem with some of the commandments so when we teach those i will be praying we can teach in a way that will show him the hope the gospel has! im very hopeful for him though 🙂

I love this work guys! its so much fun and the most tiring work ive ever done! i constantly am put into situations that i learn so much about myself as a person and learn to change as hard as that is. but aside from my shortcomings it is great to be a part of this work! life is good! love you all!

Elder Miner

this week…. i literally only took this picture… my bad… but hey my famliy is awesome they sent me this for my birthday! super sick boat!