Oh my goodness the weather warming up back here has been like the best thing since winter hit! Holy cow can you believe i actually survived the winter and made it to spring, i thought it was never going to show up! Its sooooo nice not seeing snow on the ground anymore and just seeing some grass and the sidewalk! I haven't walked on the sidewalk in months its been so covered in snow! I am loving life, and everything just seems so much happier with the sun out. Its amazing. We have been a little busy this week, we are still working hard to try and get a lot of work going for the singles branch but we still don't have too much work going on. We went around to a few more colleges this week to advertise about the joseph smith movie night we had on friday. Its way fun to be able to go do that. And the coolest college i have been to yet out here in Ny is definitely NU, niagra university. It is sooo pretty and it is right up the street from the falls and the niagra gorge is just like 10 feet away. And then if you drive up the road even a little bit further you can just see the outline of the city toronto and it must be a massive city to see it from that far away. It looks like a really fun school to go to, but like most schools out here it is pretty hardcore catholic. But they were nice and let us post all over their school with stuff about joseph smith. So that was fun, its just different because when we go to do stuff on college campuses we aren't allowed to approach people with the gospel or we can get kicked off their campus for good, so people have to approach us and ask us questions, or we can just advertise for stuff.
The movie night we had was kinda a flop, but we tried our best with it. It was kinda poor planning though, we forgot all about it being spring break for everyone around here, so that was kind of a bummer, but at least it was a learning experience so we know how to do it better next time. But our exchange up in niagra falls was a blast, we had district meeting, then we went to the hard rock cafe for lunch, and then we got to see the falls at night time with the cool light shining all over the falls. We have to come do a trip here for sure when i am done with my mission, and everyone should have their passports so we could just head over into canada too, that would be so much fun. The elders seem to be doing pretty well up in that area. And i had one of the coolest experiences of my entire mission on this last exchange.
So the whole time i have been out on my mission, and all the hours and 1000's of houses i have tracted, i have never been let in one door. So sometimes its just kinda depressing haha, and thats a reason not a lot of people are fans of that! But finally for the 1st time I was let into someones house, we taught them the 1st lesson, and now they are a new investigator for niagra falls and the elders there have already been back! It was soo cool. So we went to contact this referral we had gotten from the church, and they lived on this amazingly beautiful road looking over the niagra river. And of course they werent home. It was a way rich looking area and i was like hey lets just tract it for fun and get a look at these houses. So pretty much everyone was not the most pleasant, telling us we aren't christians, slamming the door, getting mad, so the usual tracting whatever haha. Then we decided we got to hit one more house before we head back. Some man answered the door in his boxers and we gave him a little invite for the gospel and he said we could come in. He went and threw his clothes on real quick, and then we taught them, and he loved it. We taught lesson 1, you should check it out in preach my gospel. And we focused on prophets. He was so nice and he told us to come back, and he wanted to go to church with us on sunday. That felt so good to find someone and teach them again, haha it feels like its been forever since that has happened with me. I have had people let me talk to them at the door and then say they aren't interested, and one time this old lady let us in real quick to get a drink because she felt bad for us, but other than that i have never really gotten into some random persons home from tracting. It was great.
Well momma, things are going well. And when you guys send back my memory card you should send out some goodies too, we don't ever get feed since we are in the singles ward, so we have food, but nothing good besides the essentials haha. I love you mom, you are the best, and tell sam i am proud of her for realizing that all you need to do is read your scriptures every day. Thats so true. Love you, and i'll talk to you later! sorry if i didn't give enough details, i forget sometimes haha.
Love,
Elder Ingram
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