Happily Havre After: April 2013

Well, it looks pretty much the same as November, December, January and February, here. Snow off and on, cold, sometimes windy. But it is warming up. We sometimes hit 50 and the sky is clear and sunny a lot of the time. I find myself looking forward to Spring, with leaves on the trees, huge expanses of green fields of grain, and birds and flowers!
The Gospel is being spread here in Havre! We had one Baptism last month and will have three more this weekend. Also several investigators in Havre and Chinook. Dad and I taught a couple lessons to a woman in Chinook. I guess I should admit to not saying much, so I guess technically Dad did the teaching. But it went well and she is still interested!

We've contacted many more people on the ward list, the less-actives that is. Some are in Big Sandy which is about 35 miles toward Great Falls. We met one of the Montana senators, who is a less-active member. He lives about 5 miles out of town in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road, fields surrounding his house and barn. He is a farmer as well as a senator. We'd heard that he was not that cordial but he was nice enough to us, although he said he couldn't meet with us since he was eating dinner.

We visited a working ranch a week or so ago. The wife is a member and her husband is not but he is really nice and enjoyed showing us around. We went in the barn where he had a newly born calf who had almost died and they were having to feed him with a tube down his throat. We found out later that he made it.

Then we went out to the pasture where there was straw all over so the cows could give birth to their babies. Lots of newborns and mommas.

They told me to grab his tail so he would stop but he bawled for his momma and she started toward us. So I let go!

This is Momma and her baby.

He had to give shots and tag the ears of the newest ones, usher some to another pasture and roll out some hay (off of one of those huge cylindrical bales).