lots of cold, lots of snow, lots of ice, lots of where is spring?

Things are going fine over here, we recently got a new person on date to be baptized, his name is Bryan, we've been teaching him for a little while now, we really haven't taught him a whole lot, but his kids love going to church and he kind of goes for the sake of them, but he enjoys learning about native american history, so he sort of enjoys it too. Anyway, we asked him if he wanted to be baptized after reading Mosiah 18 with him, about baptism, and he gave a real quick, yeah, to our question if he wanted to be, but then, afterward he went into the deepest thought I've ever seen him go into. He was thinking long and hard about what he had just said, I hope we don't scare him off with moving too fast, but he voiced that he's a little nervous, he's "never been baptized in another church before" he was baptized catholic as a baby, and that was it. Never went to church, it's funny how many people you find up here with that exact same story. Virtually everyone up here has been "baptized" but not a whole lot are active in their church. But on the flipside, North Dakota, has the highest percentage of people that attend church in the entire United States, granted, there isn't a lot else to do, but it's still impressive, I think it hinders missionary work a little bit, only because people get in the "I already have a church" notion. In fact, by us showing up at certain investigators houses after a few visits, we learn that they have gone re-active in their own church, Doh! but oh well, as long as they're still getting a spiritual fix, it will make them better and give them a better chance of accepting the message later, if not in this life, in the life to come.




Other then that we are also teaching a different family, Chris and Jessica ****, who are way awesome. They love having us over and just asking little questions here and there about the church, One day I answered their question about abortion, with a 'we really don't condone abortion, we believe that the rights that God gave us to create life are sacred and shouldn't be misused in that way' and then the next time when we came over he was looking at LDS.org and said "Oh! so you DO allow abortion" I was like... oh no, what did he read wrong... but then come to find out that he was like "oh wait, just in instances of rape, incest, danger to mother, blah blah" but it was still funny. Chris said a prayer at the end of that meeting and said in the prayer "please help us as we make this decision to go to another church" I was like um... excuse me? as you make the decision? he didn't say help us make the decision, they said help us as we make this decision. So I had high hopes that they would be at church yesterday, but no such luck, oh well.



Anyway, things are normal up here, lots of cold, lots of snow, lots of ice, lots of where is spring?