05/18/2015

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>

Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 9:22 AM
Subject: weekly letter to family and friends

Dear Family and Friends,

Crazy stuff this week! So in order to have Elder Wright at their baptism, our investigators that got baptized last week asked to move the baptism to last Tuesday night instead of Saturday! Their baptism was so awesome. They asked me and Elder Wright to baptize them and I could feel the Spirit so strongly. Their confirmation was yesterday at church and it was great too. 

So last Thursday Elder Wright and I drove to Dickinson to drop him off and pick up Elder Bewall. I'm confident that Elder Wright will sufficiently fill the role as Zone Leader in Rapid City! Elder Bewall is the bomb! He's way nice and he has such a strong desire and focus to find, teach, and baptize. He also LOVES to workout and he dragged around 210 pounds of weight equipment in his suitcases! He is way cool because he's totally jacked, but he doesn't workout for pride or vanity; he just has a passion! I'm learning Spanish with him and it's going swimmingly! I love it! My Spanish name tags should come in the mail shortly.

Today we are heading off to Bismarck for Tri-Zone Conference tomorrow. And guess what! We get to go to the temple afterward!! I'm am way excited to go for the first time after 9 long months! We are going to Minot today first to catch a ride from there to Bismarck with the Zone Leaders. Hopefully we can get to Minot a little early so we can have fun celebrating my 20th birthday today (keeping it missionary appropriate of course)! I cannot believe today my teenage years end...they have been inexplicably valuable to me in countless ways and I will miss them.

I love you all!

05/11/2015

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 11:04 AM
Subject: weekly letter to family and friends

Dear Family and Other Nice People, 

This week was another good week. A less-active in our ward called us and asked if we would start sharing the missionary lessons with him. We got there and realized that his wife wanted us to teach her as well. They are a really sweet, young family with a little baby boy. 

This coming Saturday we have two investigators (husband and wife) getting baptized! We were at their house the other night with one of our bishops and they were telling us how desperately they wish they could have raised their children in the gospel. That night one of their sons asked if we would start teaching him as well!! Their prayer was answered pretty quickly! You see, here in Williston we don't need to go finding people. This is such a good area that people come to us and members refer people to us all the time!

Today we got transfer calls and Elder Wright is going to Rapid City to be a Zone Leader and my new comp (Elder Bewall) is coming to be District Leader in Williston. He is a Spanish-speaking missionary.

We went paddlefishing today with a member and it was pretty fun! We don't have licenses so we just watched him do it. Paddlefish are HUGE and they require a 10-foot fishing-pole! Look them up! He unfortunately didn't catch any:/

Last night after church we got to Skype our families at a member's house (the same one that feeds us breakfast a bunch and took us paddlefishing) and it was great! My family is so awesome:)

Anywho, I love you all!

Elder Adair

my tiny new scriptures!

paddlefishing on the Missouri River

05/04/2015

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 9:20 AM
Subject: weekly letter to family and friends

Dear Family and Comrades,

This past week was great! On Tuesday we went on exchanges with the two Elders we live with. I was in my area with Elder Walker and we had a great time! The day started out slowly and we didn't too much success, but by the end of the night we were excited! We stopped by to see a recent convert from Liberia named George. His brother Bill opened the door and told us that George wasn't home but he said to come inside, so Elder Walker jumped on the opportunity and speedily lead the way in the door. Bill told us we could hangout inside but that he didn't have any time at the moment to watch a video with us that we offered him. Elder Walker said, "Could you really not spare two-and-a-half minutes?" So Bill conceded to watch the Because He Lives video with us. We also talked about the Book of Mormon shortly with him and he seems somewhat open. I bet if Elder Wright and I don't ever baptize him that someone will down the road. 

As we were driving out of Bill's apartment complex parking lot I saw a somewhat sullen man sitting in one of the storage garages. Something told me we needed to go talk to him so we parked the car and walked over to his garage. We got to the edge of the garage and I asked him if we could walk in and he asked us not to. We asked him questions about his life and got to know him a little bit. We shared some things about the gospel with him and he eventually warmed up to us and let us come inside. He told us that he felt that there was a reason that we had come to visit him that day and that maybe we were an answer to his prayers. After Elder Walker got back in our car we were like, "Yes! that was 100% the Spirit that told us to go talk to him!"

A couple days later we visited a man that was a referral from a member in one of our wards. The member wanted us to give him a copy of The Book of Mormon. We met the man at his house and offered to share some things about our church with him and he was very appreciative. He told us a little about how he had grown up kind of rough and that for past several years he had been trying to find God. He was very well versed in the Bible and told us that none of the churches he had previously investigated had the full truth though they taught some good things. He received the message of the Restoration well. We taught him some about The Book of Mormon and before showing him Moroni's promise we asked him how he could find out if The Book of Mormon was true; he paused for about 2 seconds and answered, "Well, I would have to read it...and I would need to receive a witness from the Spirit that it was true." He was totally correct! We committed him to read a chapter out of The Book of Mormon. At Stake Conference in Minot this weekend we saw the member that referred him to us and he said, "Thanks so much for giving Bronson that Book of Mormon! He called me 10 minutes after you left his house and told me that he read a couple of chapters and that he knew it was true!" We are very excited for him:)

Our two investigators that got married a week or two ago drove us to Minot on Saturday for Stake Conference. We had a fun time talking with them about questions they had about details of the gospel. They are on date to get baptized on the 16th! 

Love,

Elder Adair

Elder Wright, Elder Trost (my first Zone Leader in Fargo), Elder Holman, me