01/25/2016

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 1:12 PM
Subject: FARGO (week of Jan. 21st- Jan. 24th yes, it's shorter than a week)

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was the bomb!! Thursday morning Elder Ashe and I drove to Stanley and then Minot from New Town and hung out with a few Elders there that were also getting transferred. It was hard saying goodbye to Elder Ashe:( We were together for 3 months! From there I drove myself and another Elder down to Bismarck. In Bismarck I got to talk with a whole lot of Sisters and Elders that I haven't seen in a while and it was truly so much fun!! I rode the transfer "train" from Bismarck all the way to Fargo and that drive was way fun. The assistants Elder Gardner (from Mesa) and Elder Jolley drove and I talked and reminisced with them a lot. We got to Fargo Thursday evening around 6 and I met Elder Jarman (my new comp) and Elders Hansen and Laws. They are all so awesome!! And almost everyone in this zone has been out just a few months! Thursday night we had our first dinner appointment and it was in Glyndon, Minnesota!! It felt so good to be back in that wonderful state after so long:) We rarely go to dinner appointments without being accompanied by the Elders and/or Sisters in our ward. Elder Jarman is from Bluffdale, Utah and is a big ball of energy! To make things easier, let me list of the things I love so far about this area:

• My companion and all the Elders AND Sisters in Fargo/Moorhead (Minnesota) are really nice, are great missionaries, and are way fun
• Elders look up to me as a zone leader and I can be a good example to them
• I get to go on exchanges to a lot of areas with a lot of great missionaries
• Elder Jarman is already really helping me talk with people a lot better than I have before
• Many people are prepared to hear the gospel
• Fargo has way more attractive women than any other place I've served
• We cover NDSU so we talk mostly with people our age, no one in our huge apartment building is over the age of 25
• We talk with cute college girls all the time, and a lot are athletes or dancers
• Fargo has seemingly endless places to eat and to shop
• the members are a heap of fun
• We get to eat at dinner appointments with other missionaries very often
• We live in a nice apartment
• there are people EVERYWHERE to talk with and teach
• all the houses are old-fashioned

I will probably include more things in the coming weeks:) Haha the other day we were tracting, which we do a lot, and we stumbled into these four nerdy looking college guys playing a board game in an apartment on a Friday night. I guess sometimes stereotypes prove to be true! I am so happy to be in Fargo in this position and I can't wait to continue doing missionary work here. 

That's my week! I love y'all!!

Elder Adair

01/11/2016

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 12:59 PM
Subject: Finally got cold (Week of Jan. 4th- Jan. 10th)

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was great! We taught 19 lessons I think! I properly shined my everyday shoes for the first time and I can't believe the difference! We had Zone Training Meeting on Friday in Minot and that was pretty fun. We ate at the Cooks' house a few times this week which was very preferable. Haha we have so much fun with them. Sister Cook burned a cake in the oven and it looked pretty funny afterward. Bro. Cook also ordered me some of my new favorite cologne!! I am so excited to get it this week because it's amazing! Saturday it was actually cold and we almost had to stay in for the day. I think it got to -20 with the wind chill. But haha we went tracting that day anyway and found a cool potential investigator family!:D 

On Sunday we got a call from a less-active lady that wants her two kids to be taught and baptized! Yay! I taught the lesson in Elders' Quorum yesterday and it was great! Here is the sequence of events: I asked a simple question to the class. They gave answers and insights and personal experiences for about 5 minutes. I asked another simple, thought-provoking question. They class gave their insights for about 5 more minutes. I asked one more question. The class gave their insights for about 25 minutes, I shared my personal testimony for maybe a minute, closing prayer, done. Haha I hardly had to do anything but the class made the lesson great!

I love you all and I hope your weeks are going very well! I know that Jesus is the Christ and that He loves and cares about each and every one of you more than you can understand. 

Love,

Elder Adair