Wow, Williston is just a great place! I never even knew what the work is like for most missionaries, cause I've been serving in literally the middle of nowhere my whole mission! It's just weird to have support from the ward and other missionaries, we work so much more closely with others here than we ever did down in Valentine. It's awesome to have member dinners every night and get closer with the ward and to be able to work with the sister missionaries.
This week has been great, we've picked up three new investigators in the last four days! One is named Hyrum, he comes from a polygamist family down in Mexico -- like he's not Mexican or anything, but I guess polygamy is legal down there or something, cause there's a bunch of compounds down there. Hyrum pretty much just came to the bishop and told him that he wanted to meet with the missionaries and get baptized, and he's definitely ready! We're gonna put him on date next time we see him.
We also picked up a former named Clement, who's from Ghana (shout out to Elder Knecht!!) There's so much diversity up here in North Dakota, people come from all over the world to work in the oil fields. We cleared up some things about the Church that he didn't quite understand and gave him a Book of Mormon. He came to church at 11 yesterday, so we weren't able to see him, but we're super excited he came.
The last one we found is named Robby. I guess Elder Garner tracted into him a few weeks ago and he offered to take them to lunch. So we finally did that on Saturday. He took us to Buffalo Wild Wings and we talked a lot about our Church, especially the Family Proclamation. He was super into that so we sent it to him over text and he wants to meet with us again sometime this week. The work's definitely going pretty well up here!
Other than that, we went and weeded in a member's garden for about four hours on Saturday. That was pretty nuts, there was literally just a field of weeds with a couple plants hidden inside that we had to weed around.
We went to a member's barbecue on the 4th of July. There were a bunch of non-members there that we were able to talk to, and Brother Heaton made some dang good food. So that was a good time. One of the missionaries in our zone had the idea to do snow cone and lemonade stands where we'd pretty much just hand out free stuff and get a bunch of contacts. We got assigned to the lemonade stand, so we went and tried that out for about an hour, but we pretty much saw absolutely nobody while we were there, so we packed up and went contacting somewhere else. We heard the snow cone stand went well though, so that's good.
We went to Buffalo Wild Wings again on Tuesday (or I guess this was before the other time but I'm not telling this in order at all) cause like four of the guys in the zone hit their year mark that day. That was a good time, definitely not something we could have ever done in Valentine.
That was pretty much the week. As far as things I've learned in my studies go, I started to read a chapter from the Book of Mormon in Portuguese the other day. President Hinckley said a while ago that doing that would help a lot in learning another language, and I don't want to forget the things I learned last year. It's awesome to realize that God truly does speak to everybody in their own language and that no matter where somebody is from or what language they speak, God is able to reach out to them through His scriptures.
Hope everyone had a great week!!
Elder Hart
1. A dog we saw yesterday. It's a German Shepherd/husky mix and I want it really bad.
2. Some sweet fields we saw driving to a member's farm on Saturday. I still don't like the flatness of North Dakota but it's got some pretty things.
3. A dog that the Heatons were babysitting on the Fourth of July. He was probably honestly the cutest dog I've ever seen in my life.
4. Brother Heaton and the ribs he was making. Man those things were good!
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