12/22/2014

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 3:21 PM
Subject: Weekly letter to Family and Friends

Dear Family, Friends, and the like,

I will try to write for the past two weeks since i didnt get to write one last week! Two weeks ago we had the Christmas musical devotional that we set up with the Sister Missionaries! It went so well! We had more people there in the chapel than we usually do in Sacrament meeting! Everyone seriously sang and performed so well and the Spirit was so strong! So lucky to be a part of that. Two weeks ago was super warm too! 30's and 40's almost everday! There was one day when there was no more snow on the ground! It was also SUPER foggy for a couple of days and it was almost impossible to drive on the roads! Kind of scary! This week has been fun too. We keep showing a lot of people the He is the Gift video and everyone seems to love it. I personally love the video so much. On Thursday we had some appointments that fell through and we needed to get to someone's house on the other side of Lake Bemidji...so we decided to walk the whole mile and a half across it and then back! Haha super fun! On Saturday we were able to give 5 people Priesthood blessings. Such a cool opportunity. I think it's incredible how whenever we give someone a blessing, whether they a member, less-active, or nonmember, they are always so appreciative and you can tell they felt the Spirit. we were also able to help out a part-member family move out of their house which was cool. All the peope in ward are so nice and fun! I love saying hello to everyone on Sundays at church because I love them all so much! Most of them are pretty darn goofy too! One old guy was wearing a bright red sport coat to church yesterday! Haha well anyways I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas! Don't forget the real meaning of Christmas!...it's Christ, in case anyone forgot ;)

12/08/2014

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 2:07 PM
Subject: Weekly letter for Family and Friends

Dear Family and Peeps,

This past week has gone great! Monday i bought this sweet green suit coat for Christmas for $5 at a thrift store! Hopefully there will be a Christmas party or something where it would be appropriate to wear it! On Tuesday we taught this guy for the first time about the Restoration of the gospel and he seemed to take it pretty well. We should see him again sometime this week! Yay!! It turns out that he is a graphic designer and he actually made the sign that was put next to the giant Christmas tree that was brought from Minnesota to Washington D.C! Haha who knew!? We, the members in our ward, and the Sister Missionaries in our ward have been working super hard on the Christmas musical fireside that will happen on Saturday! It should be so Spiritual and i cant wait!! On Thursday we taught a friend of the Stacy family and her daughter for the first time and the daughter asked us a bunch of questions and seems pretty interested in the gospel! They both seem pretty promising as well! We went to Grand Forks, ND, again on Friday for Zone Training Meeting and it was so Spiritual. We all bore a short, personal testimony about why the Savior is important to us and it was just so awesome. On Saturday my companion and I went trapping with an investigator named Tim. His family are all members and he's is so close to getting baptized but he just fears the full commitment of becoming a member. Anyways, Tim has expressed that it brings him closer to baptism when missionaries and members just spend time with him and help him out with stuff so thats just what we did! But he anticipated incorrectly how long it would take to check all of his traps and we were out in the woods with him from 7:30 am to 5 pm without any meals! Haha but it was fun and he caught a raccoon and a little weasel right in front of our eyes! super Cool!

12/01/2014

On frozen Bemidji and Cass Lake!

From: Ronald Adair
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 3:07 PM
Subject: Weekly family and friends email

Dear Family and Friend-people,
Hey everybody! Sorry i couldnt send an email last week, i was pretty busy! Lemme just depict some of the cool things that have happened recently.

It's getting colder!

Thanksgiving morning it was -19 degrees! My companion and i have been walking around on the frozen lakes and it's super cool and fun! i wish i could send videos i have taken! The work is still going forward out here in Cass Lake and neither i nor my companion got transferred

so we get to stay here for the holidays...WOOHOO!

On Thanksgiving we ate a hefty and delicious meal with the wonderful Gunkel and Stacy families. Super fun!! Last week the Chessmore's (the family  we live with) went to Nebraska to celebrate Thanksgiving with family so we had the entire house to ourselves for about a week! Hahah a few nights ago Tawzan the cat was playing around with a mouse in our apartment/basement. Usually the cats just play around with mice until they die, so to make the mouse's death a little more hasty and to put it out of it's misery i shot it twice with a blow dart gun and killed it. I thought it was pretty cool!

This weekend at church was the primary program and it was just so awesome! I feel so close to all the members in our ward including the children so it was so much fun to watch all those little goofy kids singing and talking on the microphone. Sister Meneely in our ward got out of knee surgery recently and shes pretty old so we have been taking meals to her that other members in the ward have made. On Saturday we visited her and she asked for a blessing because she felt so nauseated and fatigued from the pain medication she was taking. She asked me to give the blessing and it was such a faith-builder for me about the Priesthood. She couldnt hear the blessing because shes pretty deaf, but she was crying by the end of it and it just touched me how much faith she has. What a privilege it is to interact with her and her husband often. Anyways i hope everyone had a splendid Thanksgiving! I strongly encourage all who read this email to watch the "He is the Gift" video on Youtube and invite others to watch it and to remember the Savior this Christmas season.

Love,

Elder Adair