02/29/2016

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 12:20 PM
Subject: Temple!! (Week of Feb. 22nd- Feb. 28th)

Dear Family and Friends,

Happy Leap day! This past week was great (like most other weeks)! On Tuesday we went on exchanges with the Jamestown Elders and I went to Jamestown with Elder Fisher. We had a fun time tracting a bunch and we were able to talk with a lot of people! We keep teaching a lot of people but not a lot let us back in to teach them again:/ We did teach seven lessons on Wednesday which was pretty cool! We were teaching almost nonstop the whole day from 10am to 10pm. The Sisters I came out with are going home on Friday! I can't believe the past 18 months have gone by so fast! I will definitely miss all those wonderful Sisters. On Friday I went on an unplanned mini-exchange with Elder Bennett and went to Pizza Ranch with the same recent convert I ate dinner with when I went on exchanges with Elder Brush last week! I love Bro. Claypool:) And Pizza Ranch! It was great going there again after quite a while. We ended the night with a nice Bible Study with some people of different faiths. Saturday we went with a bunch of recent converts and missionaries to the temple in Bismarck!! It was the bomb:) On the way there transfer calls were going on so we were getting a bunch of texts from missionaries telling us what was happening with them. Both Elder Jarman and I are staying!!

At the temple I saw people from each of my past areas!! It was THE BEST!! Excluding Fargo I saw there were 12 different people there from the areas I've served in on my mission. Going through an endowment session with a lot of them was such a blessing too. Yesterday after church Elder Jarman felt inspired to tract a certain building and we actually ended up knocking on the door of a less-active guy that has been coming back to church! We had a nice scripture study with him and then he tracted the rest of his building with us. Last night ALL the Fargo missionaries were invited to the stake president's house to watch the movie Freetown. It's a wonderful movie about missionaries in Liberia during the Liberian civil war back in the 80's. It teaches so much about faith and selflessness and and integrity and fearing God more than man. I recommend it to anyone!

I love y'all and I hope your week was great too! Do something cool for Leap Day!

Love,

Elder Adair