11/30/2015

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 12:15 PM
Subject: Thanksgiving! (Nov. 23rd- Nov. 29th)

Dear Family and Friends,

Well this was another fun week! 

A few days ago I gave myself a haircut for the first time, using scissors and the works, and it actually looks good! Cutting hair is easy haha;)

The weather has been in the teens and 20's this past week so it's not very cold yet. It has been a very mild Fall. There is some crazy fog in the mornings sometimes! 

I had a splendid Thanksgiving! We ate a bunch of wonderful food and played board games and even tag! It was awesome!! We were invited out to Makoti to eat with the Hathaway family. They are the bomb! Thanksgiving morning we tracted for about an hour trying to share a short Thanksgiving video with people, but it was to no apparent avail. One guy was pretty rude and was like, "Nope, nope, don't wanna hear it! No thanks! Save you speech!" To which I replied, "I don't have a speech, Sir. We were wanting to share a Thanksgiving video." He still didn't let us in. It made me angry then but now I just laugh thinking about it. Before dinner with the Hathaway's we also went to another family's place and had a decent-sized meal there too. After the Hathaway's we drove to Stanley and went "black Friday shopping" with the Elders there. All we had for options were a Shopko and a Cash Wise which are two little grocery stores basically. 

Last night we had a wonderful time with the Cook family. They are newlyweds so they are very young and don't have any kids yet. Brother Cook actually served his mission in Gilbert, A.Z. and got home last November. I definitely wouldn't complain if I was married, to the right girl of course, as soon as he was after my mission! They also let us hold their baby hedgehog and made delicious, huge candy apples with us:)

Saturday we were having a lesson with an old member lady in a wheelchair. She was babysitting her little granddaughter and the during the whole lesson the little girl was climbing all over us and throwing food at us! Haha it was rather humorous.

It finally snowed some and Tuesday morning we got to go running in the snow:)

We have a baptism coming up this Saturday for this 14-year-old named Glenn and we are way excited! He is very ready to make this big step in his life and he is very mature for his age:) Woohoo!

Today for P-Day we are in Minot to play basketball with some more Elders. We went to Denny's and I beat the restaurant record for most pancakes eaten in one sitting! Score!

Anyways, it was a great week and I hope everyone else's was also great! I love y'all! 

Happy Holidays and thank you so much for your prayers!

Elder Adair

11/16/2015

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 2:05 PM
Subject: Week of Nov. 9th- Nov. 15th

Dear Family and Friend-People,

Another week has gone by and we're having fun still! Elder Ashe and I are getting good at teaching together so that's good! We are working hard to get all of the people we have on date for baptism sufficiently ready. Last Tuesday we went on exchanges with the Stanley Elders, Elder Trejo and Elder Brinkerhoff. I was in Stanley with Elder Brinkerhoff and we had some fun together. We also spent last P-Day with them and played basketball for many hours. It was one of the my favorite P-Days ever! I have been drinking a lot of different flavors of Martinelli's and Welch's Sparkling Cider and also a lot of flavors of egg nog. My favorite so far of the Martinelli's is Apple-Grape and my favorite of the egg nog is Pumpkin Spice. Running in the morning has also been a lot of fun. We are careful walking around at night because of the many dogs in New Town. There hasn't been a mean dog come try and do anything to us yet, but I keep my knife with me just in case.

I hope everyone's week was splendid! I love y'all!

Elder Adair

11/09/2015

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 1:28 PM
Subject: And he's dunked! Week of Nov. 2- Nov. 8

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was wonderful!! 

We were teaching a friend of the Olson family at the Olson house last Tuesday night and it was awesome! He's 18 and we taught him the Restoration and he accepted to be baptized December 5th!! Woohoo! He is a really cool person and a super nice guy. We also contacted these two boys who had been on date before I got here but had their dates pushed back. Now they are both on date for December 5th too! AND these two girls that belong to a member in the ward are scheduled for baptism on the December 5th! 5 baptism scheduled for the same day! I am confident they will all be ready by then as well:) There was a lady that came to us during church that told us she would like us to start teaching her little girl so she can get baptized. We have an appointment scheduled with them for Wednesday and we're excited! The members here are wonderful and way fun! We get fed almost every night too!

Elder Ashe and I get to go running every morning on the school track across the street from our trailer. It has only been in the low 30's in the morning so it's not too cold yet. 

We had a baptism this past Saturday!! It was awesome. Austin is one of the coolest kids I've ever met. We had the our district leader from Stanley give him his baptismal interview and then right after we found out that Austin's dad is a member so Austin wasn't a convert baptism technically. So the morning of his baptism he was interviewed by a member of the branch presidency instead. It was somewhat a bummer that his baptism didn't count toward our numbers, but what's important is that he got baptized and entered into a covenant with his Heavenly Father! We are way happy for him:)

This week was the bomb and I hope everyone else's weeks are going great too! Thanks to you all for your prayers!

Love,

Elder Adair

11/02/2015

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 11:57 AM
Subject: New Town, new adventures! (Oct. 26th- Nov.1st)

Dear Family and Friends,

Boy is it weird to be back in oil fields again! I have been here in New Town since Thursday night and it's awesome:) 

Monday, Elder Gines and I drove to Pierre for one last P-day with our beloved Zone Leaders. We ate delicious food at a nice restaurant and played board games.The next day we ate lunch at Pizza Ranch one last time and I finished with a new record for number of plates! We traveled to each of our 3 areas, packed up all of our stuff, and said goodbye accordingly to people and places:( We got back to Pierre and finished packing and spent the night with the Zone Leaders. 

The next morning we traveled to Bismarck for transfers. I then rode with the Minot Zone Leaders up to Minot where I was picked up by my new companion Elder Ashe who is way cool:) He is from Rock Springs, Wyoming and has 3 younger bros like I do. He is 1/4 black which is pretty cool because he has blonde hair and blue eyes but his hair is way curly! He has been on his mission for three months. Our district consists of only us and the Stanley Elders. If you add up how long the 3 other Elders in my district have been on their missions collectively, it only reaches 9 months which is 5 less than me! 

New Town is a little town on a reservation in the middle of nowhere in the oil fields of North Dakota. We have 5 people on date for baptism and they are all under the age of 15! One kid is getting baptized this coming weekend! The branch members are way cool too!! On Halloween I was given some candy while tracting so that was pretty cool:) Church yesterday was a lot of fun and we also have a half hour extra sacrament session each Sunday at 7:30 pm for oil workers in the branch that can't make it to church earlier. We live in a trailer right behind the church and it's pretty nice for a trailer. I get my own bathroom! So yeah, I very much miss Gettysburg, Miller, and Chamberlain, but New Town is great too luckily:) 

I love y'all and hope your holiday season is splendid!

Elder Adair

P.S. My new mailing address is P.O. Box 1336 New Town, N.D. 58763