Minify has it's advantages. While it does make it harder to work with, you can alwys "un-minify" or keep your original copy. When it comes to the template files in particular, generally you're not doing daily editing, so having a master file around that you edit once every few months in order to get a boost of speed is usually a good thing.
That said was the test you ran for the "www.uscandleco.com" domain or something else? It seems when you posted the link it didn't copy all the way through and just shows "pingdom.com/fpt" instead of the actual URL.
If it is that domain, then you've got some serious DNS/Database/Server speed issues. When I ran the test here, it took nearly 3.5 seconds of "wait time" before it even started to show the website. Thats an even bigger concern than the CSS and JS files.
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/IRRay8Uj7/http://www.uscandleco.com