Ya know, I think these emails must just get more and more boring to read the longer my mission goes, cause nothing exciting really ever happens so I just kinda say the same stuff in different ways from week to week :'D So sorry about that, but on the bright side, you've only got like twenty-something more of them to go.
I'll give a quick update on how the work is going in this area real quick: so Sam is finally on date! We had a really good Gospel of Jesus Christ lesson with him and the Daltons a few days ago (if anyone remembers, Sam doesn't speak much English and Sister Dalton is from Mexico, so we bring her to all the lessons). The Spirit was really strong and I even got to whip out a little of the Spanish I know, which isn't much, but it's similar enough to Portuguese that I can kinda get by. Brother Dalton asked Sam if he was willing to work towards baptism, and even though he was kinda hesitant because he doesn't feel like he knows much, he accepted the invitation to work towards August 24! So we're super excited about that.
Hillary came to our ward's Pioneer Day celebration on Saturday, and he had an awesome time there. He told Brother Dalton as they were driving home that he felt like the whole Church was just one big family and that he felt happier there than he had in a long time. We're still working on getting a baptismal date for him, but hopefully I have an update on that next week.
Floyd came to church again this week!... actually thinking back on it, I'm not sure I even covered who Floyd is last week. Basically he's this crazy old rancher dude who stopped us as we were backing out of a parking lot and asked us a bunch of random questions about the Church and what we were doing out on missions. But then he started asking some super personal questions, like if we ever looked at porn or broke the law of chastity and stuff like that, so we were like "Kay, that guy is nuts, we're never talking to him again." But then we ran into him about a week later at a gas station and started talking to him again. He said he was pretty disappointed that we never called him, which we felt bad about, but we set up a time to come over to his place later that night and start teaching him. So we did and he came to church the next day, but after sacrament was over he said that the kids in the room were too loud and he wasn't sure if he'd be back. But then a couple days ago he texted us and asked if he could come to our church again, and after sacrament meeting yesterday he told us that he feels something really special in the church and he wants to keep coming. So he might be weird, but he's progressing pretty well and we're excited about him.
We had MLC in Bismarck Thursday night through Friday afternoon and that was a blast! I got to see Elder Lamb and Elder Schellenberg and a few other old friends from past areas, which was great. We also got to go to the temple on Thursday night. That was great; it's been almost a year since I went last and it was awesome to be able to do an endowment session. The meetings we had were pretty good, we just set a few mission goals and talked about how we can continue to increase our number of baptisms as a mission. It was a pretty good experience!
I already mentioned the Pioneer Day barbecue on Saturday, but that was pretty fun. The ward just got together at a park, grilled some hot dogs and hamburgers, and put together some games for the kids to play. We helped out with the potato sack races, which was fun. Then they had a kickball game for all the youth and primary kids. It was a great thing for Hillary and Sam to be able to attend, and it helped them both to get closer with the ward members.
That's all I've got for now, I hope you guys have a great week!
Elder Hart
1. Elder Schellenberg!!
2. I told the Gale kids that if they paid really good attention to the lesson we could do five Bae Blade battles after, so here we are doing that 😂
3. Us and the sisters!
4. Us and Hillary at the ward barbecue
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