Fall 2015

NORTH CANYON
MISSIONARY NEWSLETTER
Elder Alex Miller
Londrina Brazil Mission
Av. Higienoppolis 1000
Sala 61 Centro 86001-911
Londrina PR, Brazil

Elder Josh Preston

New Jersey Morristown Mission
5 Cold Hill Rd South, Suite 10
Mendham NJ 07945

Elder Bryan Nally

Mississippi Jackson Mission
175 Burnham Rd
Brandon MS 83709-1869

Sister Martha Bale

Mozambique Maputo Mission
Caixa Postal 1166
Correio Central
Maputo, Maputo, Mozambique

Elder Nathan Clark

Philippines Manila Mission
PO Box 1997
Makati City
1110 Metro Manila, Philippines

Elder Hayden Bigelow

Mexico Xalapa Mission
Av. Arco Vial Sur No. 738 loc. 5
Col. Lomas Verdes
91098 Xalapa, Veracruz, MEXICO

Sister Kennedie McKinstry

Des Moines Iowa Mission
Reports on September 9th

Sister Mary James

Utah Salt Lake City East Mission
Reports on September 16th

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Elder Nathan Clark

Nathan was recently transferred to Bonafacio and

is working on the big island of the Philippines. He
was asked to serve as a zone leader in this new
area and is very excited to learn and continue to
serve the Lord. Serving a mission has definitely
had an impact on Nathan, his perspective, and
his desire to serve the Lord. Here is what Nathan
had to say about his new area and the blessings
and miracles he is experiencing.

The miracle that I saw this week is just looking back on my last area, and thinking about all the
people that I have helped and how much that area has changed. I saw so many people's lives
change, almost like day and night. I think the biggest miracle I saw, however, was within myself. I
have grown so much in the past 6 months, and learned that I can't do anything, but the Lord can do
everything. I am so grateful for all that I have learned there. I think that was the refiners fire of my
mission, and I know now that I need to be humble enough for the Lord to teach me, and mold me. I
am thankful for the opportunity to serve in Bonafacio, and I pray the Lord will continue to teach me
and help me become a better person.

This week has been so great, I am with my new companions, and we are doing so good. I think they
are my favorite two companions in the mission so far. They are great. Elder Rydalch is from Idaho
falls and he is like a walking dictionary. He is kind of tall, and super nice. My other companion is
from Cebu. He is super cool, and really nice. Cebu is another Island here in the Philippines, so his
native language is Cebuano. That is the language that the Ewok's speak in Starwars 6. That too is a
crazy language, but Tagalog is harder. haha He is super good at speaking english because people
from that region can naturally
pick up an american accent
better. Its so weird how there
are so many dialects in the
Philippines. Anyways. So my
companion, Elder Rydalch is
so smart that he finally
explained to me what Dad
does for a living. He explained
to me what cloud computing
is, and its actually super super
cool. Kudos to Dad his work is
really cool, and complicated,
and actually is really changing
the capacity that computer
have to compute.

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Sister Kennedie McKinstry

Des Moines Iowa Mission
Reports on September 9th

Sister Mary James

Utah Salt Lake City East Mission
Reports on September 16th

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Elder Alex Miller is doing great out in the

Londrina Brazil Mission field. He is now serving in the Apucarana area. Apucarana is a
town about 220 miles east of Sau Palo. Alex was quite excited with this last transfer, as he
was given the responsibility to train a new missionary, Elder Alves. Every e-mail we get is
about prospects for baptism, and improvement in the lives of those around them. We
received a voice recording from him
for fathers day (In brazil it is August
9th), and you can hear the joy in his
voice and the camaraderie of his
companions is uplifting. I know he is
having a great impact in the lives he
touches, back here and over there. He
would ask that everyone continue to
pray for him to find those that are
willing, and to pray for our own
missionary experiences.

Elder Alex Miller

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Sister Martha Bale

The Stake President said that he received

a letter in the mail from Boyd K. Packer on
June 23, that the Maputo Stake is ready for
a Patriarch. YEs, Boyd K. Packer sent it
before he passed away. How incredible.
They talked a lot about the temple and how
we will be preparing more families to go.
MANY families have not been. He said that
we are very lucky to have a temple just 8
hours away. The temple is a priority. Its
really hard for the people to travel because
almost everyone doesn't have a car.
Everything is truly a sacrifice. I just want to
say, I was so EXTRMELY happy at this Conference! I
just have this deep Love for everyone. I love the
members in our stake. I love the relationships I have
with them. I love how I can finally communicate! haha. I
just love them so much. I remember feeling so grateful
and so happy at conference. What an opportunity. So
this last week, we met with our branch President and
talked about our branch and the members and how we
are going to help. Some that he said was many people
think that since they are members of Gods church that
all problems will go away and life will be bliss. They
dont understand the plan of salvation. I had this
thought to make sure that all families in our
branch have a Proclamation to the Family. I love
this scripture! We shared it with our family Nilsa
and Flornecio. I just want to tell you that they
needed those words of that proclamation and
miracles happened. I am just so grateful for
righteous and inspired leaders like the prophets
and our mission president. We also have
amazing district and zone leaders. I also have
like the best companions so that always makes
it good. Our famlies are doing good. We have
this incredible familiy, Lino and Gina. We are
excited to help them. I love you all!! Today we
went to the salon because my companion got
her hair done. We took a few fun pictures. I asked the salon lady to braid my hair in the
front, Man do they braid good and fast here! I love you all!!!!
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Elder Hayden Bigelow

Fall 2015

I honestly feel like I have been out for maybe

a month. Time is honestly flying and I don't
know how? I feel super comfortable with just
everything, not like comfortable to where I
am not trying to
learn. Just that I can do everything necessary
to be a missionary. I am really grateful to my
pap in the mission because he taught me a
ton. I am really excited to keep progressing
and working and
everything.
My week was super awesome, we had our first divisions of the
mission and I went with a gringo named Elder Moulton to Tuxpan.
We messed around, but also worked. It was a nice break from the
normal pace of the same area all the time. Not being in the same
area for a day was refreshing and it was cool to meet and teach a
few of their investigators. It was pretty bad for my Spanish though
because we talked in English the whole day and so when we got to lessons it was hard to
switch and talk again in spanish. We ate pizza at night and it was fun.
My investigators are super chill. There are I and E which are 2 brothers that are really cool.
They are progressing and going to church and really liking it. I, who is kinda like me, said
the other day that he wants to get baptized, but just wants a little more time to get
prepared. I think I will be able to baptize him the 23rd! N, a sweet old lady, was such a
surprise because she really couldn't read and didn't want to go to church so we thought
she wasn't going to progress. But suddenly she showed up and now is really liking the
support and love the church brings. She feels the spirit really, really strong in her life.
Other news is that we have a mission wide
conference the 23rd of Agosto with Elder
Christofferson. That should be super cool to
hear from an Apostle and everything. I will also
be able to see and talk to all my comps from the
CCM, Elder Bravo and also the girl from our
stake that got to the mission this transfer!
Super pumped for that.
Everything is going really well for me and I feel
really good.

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Elder Bryan Nally

So I'm up here in Texarkana, AR now! It's a pretty

cool place. Apparently it has more fast food stores
per populace than anywhere else... So that's
saying something. The drive up here from Biloxi
took aaaalll day. With all of the stops and such, Im
not sure how long it took actually. But we left at
7am or so and Ididn't get home to the apartment
until 9pm. It took quite some time there.

As far as experiences go this was a good but short week! Elder Hernandez and I have
been teaching a woman for just about all of the time we have been here and in that time it
has been super difficult to keep her on focus! But we met with her later on the same
Tuesday and had a 2 hour lesson.. Long right? It started out on a really good note
because we were able to keep good focus on gospel topics and share the entire plan of
salvation with her! As we were closing up our scriptures and getting ready to ask her to
say a prayer she stopped us. This is where all the off topic finally burst out but at the
same time it was full of purpose this time! She told us about some dreams that she had
had. And how they have been coming true throughout her life and how she usually doesnt
tell anyone but she felt like she could tell us. I dont think I need to share all of the details
but the most recent dream she had she shared with us to be a palace in the center of a
huge city! And she had no idea where it was or what it was. Elder Hernandez and I really
didn't know what to say at this point so we were silent and the Spirit was just chillen in
the room. She closed her Book of Mormon and flipped through the back pages. In the
back of the BoM there are pictures and one of the pictures is the Salt Lake City Temple.
She thought she saw a glimpse of something and then went to searching for what she had
seen. When she found the picture of the Temple she stood up. Put the book down. Walked
to the dresser. And started to cry. We were silent for longer and Elder Hernandez and I
both were on the same track of mind. He asked her
if that Temple was the palace she had seen in her
dream and she nodded her head. After a little bit
more silence, I ask her very simply and
straightforward, "do you believe the book of
mormon is the word of God?" And she responded
saying, "Don't do that to me.... I haven't even read
the whole book and I know it's true." The rest is
history. She plans to be baptized on the 25 of this
month!
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Elder Josh Preston