Elder Dittmers Journey to New Mexico

This week flew by like none other! The work has been progressing wonderfully and my new companion is the best. 

We have met three people that we started teaching. One of them, Drake, shows a lot of promise. His mother is a member who hasn't been to church in a while, and we were able to help her understand the importance of the gospel and commit her to attend church. We will see if she comes next week with Drake.

We had a great stake conference over the weekend! Elder Robert C. Gay of the 70 and Elder Douglas of the 70 were there. They announced the new stake presidency, and I was very surprised to hear that President Pearce was called as the 2nd counselor in the stake presidency! He is a member here in Sanders that we work with very often. He shared his testimony along with the new presidency and then we got to hear from the two members of the 70. They were very good talks.

I'm all out of email time, but thanks for reading my email!

View of Sanders

Rainy day crossing a bridge

A semi truck full of Tesla cars

Walking in the mud

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Elder Hansen is a very good missionary who likes to work hard and have fun at the same time!

The teaching is really good. Elder Hansen really knows how to speak boldly and effectively in lessons! He is the driver.

I can't wait to get home and play dad at ping-pong. While I was in Steamboat, I learned how to put spin on the ball and I really practiced that a lot.

One of my favorite scriptures now is Alma 26:27. It says in it that we should "bear with patience [our] afflictions, and I [The Lord] will give unto you success." Patience is a great quality. To me, this scripture is saying that the more patient we are when we face trials, the more success we will have in life.

 I don't do much in church anymore, but I have played the piano once, blessed the sacrament once and gave a talk. 

We don't do splits anymore, it's against mission policy. Instead, we just take someone with us to go and teach. We haven't done it too much, but there's a lot more potential of it happening while we are in a normal companionship instead of a trio. women that live alone tends to happen a lot where we are.

With Elder White, wearing t-shirts made from a member.