02/22/2016

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 12:59 PM
Subject: Crazy College Kids, Arabian Horses, and Old Memories (week of Feb. 15th- Feb 21st)

Dear Family and Friends,

Oh man, there is a lot I have to write about this week! 

Well, on Tuesday, which was our P-Day last week, a member in the ward took us to a friend's barn to see some Arabian show horses that are sold for up to $800,000 a piece and maybe more! It was pretty cool and we got to see their little baby horses too. These horses are so well taken care of that when an Arabian show horse is pregnant, someone will take out the fetus and plant it in a surrogate mother horse to carry so that the Arabian isn't at risk of looking less pretty from being pregnant.

We were tracting the other day and we found this college guy that seems really prepared to hear the gospel and is way cool! We taught him the Restoration and next time we teach him his roommate who plays baseball for NDSU will hopefully be there!

We had an awesome church tour with an investigator of ours and he is planning on coming Institute this coming Tuesday! He's another college-age guy and he's cool too. Giving the tour reminded me of my very first Zone Training Meeting which was here in Fargo and we role-played giving a church tour:)

On Friday night we began an exchange with the Fargo 2nd Ward Elders and it was a blast! Beforehand we ate at HuHot Mongolian Grill which was DELICIOUS! That night I was able to go to the church for a bit while the stake youth dance was going on and say hello to a member that I knew in Bemidji, Minnesota! She had drove a few of the young women to the dance. It was so great to see her and she told me her family and the rest of the Ward was doing great! It was crazy also because I met her family when I first started my mission and now I'm 18 months out and I got to see her again in Fargo which is where I was dropped off to meet my trainer way back in September of 2014! Being on exchanges with a greenie only enhanced the intense feelings of my past meeting up with my present.

On the exchange Elder Brush and I had a lot of fun and we were able to talk a whole lot of foreigners! We taught a guy with seemingly good potential from Nepal, talked with a Muslim guy, talked with a recent convert of theirs from Liberia who is going to the temple to do baptisms soon, and much more! We also ate lunch with a fun Lutheran couple at McDonald's who have been married for 63 years! I was very privileged to eat dinner on the exchange with a recent convert I knew in Williston. He is such a great testimony and I'm so glad he moved to Fargo.

Saturday night there a major party going on the floor above our apartment. The smell of weed was very apparent in the elevator and a few times we were invited by a bunch of drunk college kids to join the party but we declined. 

Sunday at church a guy came up to us and said he recently moved here from Las Vegas where he was taught by the missionaries and he wants to get baptized! And he's been going to the Church since he was 8! What a blessing to have run into him! Also last night we gave a returned missionary college guy in our ward a cake for his birthday and celebrated a bit with him. He's way cool. At his place though we were confronted by his friend who is very strong in his beliefs and talked at us endlessly about them. He doesn't believe any Christian religion right now has all the truth and is anxious to read the Book of Mormon. His arguments did make a lot of sense. He's in for a real treat when he reads and prays!! I love those kind of experiences because they strengthen my testimony!

Have a great week! I love y'all!

Elder Adair