02/23/2015

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 5:19 PM
Subject: Weekly email to family and friends

Dear Family and Friends,

A lot has happened thee past couple of weeks! On Valentine's Day we got some awesome gifts from the Chessmore's and celebrated a little with them. Later that day we had a baptism and it went really well! It was sure a good turnout. That day was also transfer calls and we got called just after the baptism and were told that we were both staying in Cass Lake and Elder Beazer was to become the new District Leader! Way cool! I have a lot more time to myself now when he is performing his new duties. Yesterday the season ended for walleye, northern pike, muskie, and perch:( But at least eel pout (some may know them as burbot) are still up for keeping! We went fishing with an investigator this past Friday night at it was way cool! I caught my first 3 eel pout! They are ugly fish in my opinion but they sure do taste great and are exhilarating to catch! Last week was butt-cold and was in the negatives and super windy most of the time. One day reached -50 with wind chill. Yesterday was -27 but I'm sure the wind chill made it much colder! Today is a toasty 20 though!

Picture

02/09/2015

a slab of the Christmas tree that went to the Capital

my first "legally" caught fish

my first northern pike

a good day of ice-fishin'

02/02/2015

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 10:56 AM
Subject: Weekly email

Dear Friends and Comrades,

I will keep this email short so I can go ice-fishing as long as possible! Woohoo!! Last week I caught some walleye and some northen pike and perch and it was awesome! Today is my bro RJ's birthday and he is the best bro ever and I love him so much! He's 16 and ready to date! What a stud he is. We have a baptism coming up on Valentine's Day!! Holy carp this transfer is flying by so fast. 

We had Zone Conference in Fargo, ND, this past Wednesday and it was amazing as usual. One of the Assistants to the President gave an amazing talk about how agency gives us the power to act instead of be acted upon, even in the face of trials. If we continually let our struggles and weaknesses control us then we will never achieve our goals and we will let outside forces control our destinies. We need to be in control and accountable for our destiny. 

I also invite everyone out there to do their family history work and perform the temple ordinances for them as well. Joseph Smith told the Church that our most important duty is to missionary work. A year later he told the Church that our most important responsibility is to do the temple work for the dead. How are these two concepts similar? It is because as we bring the opportunities of the everlasting gospel to both the living AND the dead, we are all hastening the work of salvation for ALL of God's precious children.

I love you all:)

Elder Adair

01/20/2015

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:18 PM
Subject: 

Dear Family and loved ones,

This past week we had Zone Training Meeting in Grand Forks and it was amazing! It was about overcoming discouragement in missionary work and also how to have more affective companionship studies. We truly do have amazing and hard-working Elders and Sisters in our leadership positions. Elder Beazer and found a potential investigator and we are excited to go teach them this weekend! Bro. Chessmore took us out to get chicken wings today and they were awesome! We also got to teach their family an FHE lesson last night which was fun:)

01/12/2015

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 1:44 PM
Subject: Weekly email

Dear Family and my homies,

It has been a pretty interesting week! On Tuesday Elder Wendell and I went to Fargo, ND, for transfers. Sad to see him leave! My new comp Elder Beazer is pretty cool though! He's from Syracuse, Utah, and he loves to hunt and fish. He's been out for 16 months and has served in Madison, SD, Casper, WY, and now Cass Lake, MN. It turns out that since I have been here in Cass Lake longer, I am the senior companion. It pretty different being charge and planning out every day and teaching appointment and showing someone how the work goes out here! Haha but it's a fun transition! We have a baptism set up for Feb 14th and we are planning everything for that. We had our investigator Roberta and her daughters come to church for the first time on Sunday! She said she's coming next week too! Sister Park in our ward also has a new comp and her name is Sister Haycock and she seems like a knockout missionary! We have been splitting lot of wood at the Chessmores' and having fires in our fireplace! We like buying super cheap lighters and throwing them into the fireplace and watching them explode! Anyways, I'm super excited for the new challenge of leading the work in Cass Lake and I love and miss you all!

01/05/2015

From: Ronald Adair <ronald.adair@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 3:25 PM
Subject: weekly letter

Dear Family and people I am friends with,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! These past two weeks have been so much fun! On Christmas we opened presents with the Chessmore's and their kids and had a blast! Their kids are so adorable! It felt so cool to wake up and know that it was my first mission Christmas! I got to Skype my family which was amazing!! I love them so much:) That night we were able to eat a big dinner with the Stacy's and the Gunkel's in our ward and we had a great time there as well. Haha they are so goofy. On New Year's Eve we were able to go to the Humphrey's house for a party and we played Just Dance! Haha it was so much fun!! We got home at about 9:30 and we played board games and drank Martnelli's with Bro. and Sis. Chessmore and his brother who was visiting. What a blast! Im so grateful to have grown close with them:) We have taught a mother and her daughter the first three missionary lessons out of Preach My Gospel and i think they will get baptized! They are friends with the Stacy's. We have now gone ice-fishing and spearing with members a few times and it's pretty cool! Every day there are a bunch of little fishing houses out on all the lakes around here! Last Monday we went and i caught two decent size Walleye's! I was pretty darn excited because I had never caught a fish before! We would have had three investigator's yesterday at church but unfortunately it was about -18 degrees all day so a lot of members didn't even show up:/ This past Saturday we were ushers at Bro. Meneely's funeral:( He was the oldest person in our ward and I sure enjoyed spending time with him and his wife. He was a great man and boy was he funny! He was diagnosed with late stages of Alzheimer's before he died so it was probably fortunate for him to die. I ate dinner at his house my first night in Cass Lake and I sure will miss him! We also had transfer calls on Saturday and we were expecting Elder Wendell and Sister Springer to be tranferred. Turns out we were correct! Elder Wendell is going to Casper, Wyoming, and is going to serve with one of my MTC roommates Elder Hubbard! Elder Hubbard's companion Elder Beazer is coming to Cass Lake! He's from Syracuse, Utah, and has been out for a little over a year I think. I was hoping I could train a new missionary, but there are only nine new Elders coming out so I didn't have much of a chance. But I'm very excited for Elder Beazer and we will be going to Fargo tomorrow to pick him up and drop off Elder Wendell. I'll miss you Elder Wendell!