THE BLACK HILLSSSS

 Alright Belle Fourche is pretty dope. The ward here is tight and there is an elevation change. The thing people would say in my other areas is that you can watch your dog run away for 2 weeks and that is facts. It is so nice here it is BEAUTIFUL (pictured down below )

This transfer is gonna be cool I'm the District Leader which is super fun and I'm finishing my comps training. But to be honest I'm tired of everyone out here being in a serious romantic relationship with their dang Cummins truck like the stereotypes are so accurate. If you drive a Cummins you most likely ride a KTM too which is just a double big NO NO!! **@scottlarson** I just don't really care if your 2nd gen cummins blows clouds of black smoke anymore hahaha 

This week we have been grinding the ads that we have on facebook the page we manage us The Church of Jesus Christ in the Black Hills but it is lowkey a mess so I've been trying to grind that and get our message response time down and follow up on conversations and stuff. It is a good time.

There is a member here who runs an animal sanctuary so a pet a freaking WOLF this week a literal wolf. He has ostriches and stuff but those homies are mean they kept giving me a nasty look. They didn't want the smoke tho.

We were driving on transfer day which was pretty much a big road trip I ended up driving 10 hours within my mission boundaries haha. And I was whipping an sr5 2021 tacoma of course and there was a truck full of elders in front of me and then this dang deer books it out on the road and they don't even hit the deer,  the deer runs full speed right into the side of their truck! What a moron! My last comp was right Deer really are dumber than cows and cows are STOOPID. but anyway I literally watch this deer hit and bounce off like 10 feet into the air doing a backflip past our truck it was like slow motion. So we had to pull over and drag the thing off the road because if you hadn't figured it out yet he was dead as heck he was spazzing out in the road and stuff it was crazy.

3 Nephi 18:18 says "Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, ye must watch and pray always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat"

Satan wants us to give into temptation!! Well why would we willingly give in? In order to have help from God himself to resist temptation we can pray! If you pray to have his assistance to resist temptation I PROMISE YOU he will help and you will be able to resist! You still have to do your part though. But pray always and you will have the help from God who really is all powerful.

Love you all! Here is my new address if you want also email me matthew.dalton@missionary.org

816 STATE ST #6

BELLE FOURSCHE, SD 57717

United States

OMW TO MT RUSHMORE

 Well my time is up in Thief River Falls! We reopened that area as well as the Crookston area with a wiped area book so had very little info but we put in the work there and got it up and running! It was a good time but I was ready for a change too and now I am headed to Belle Fourche South Dakota!! Like an hour and a half from rushmore but I heard that really is a one time thing just so you can say you saw it and that's about it. Also gotta be on the look out for the City of Gold from National Treasurer so I don't have to work a day in my life 

This week we went and scooped horse crap for my last time which I'm so sad about, SIKE. The service was good and it was fun to be outside but that shtuff is shtinky for real.

We also went fishing with a friend and my comp caught a fish so that was cool but I think he caught the last fish in the ENTIRE river because I didn't catch anything! That's really the only logical reason I can think of that I wouldn't catch anything. 

We did some more BillionGraves and stuff which was cool and met some dope people with some really cool stories. I actually love meeting all of these people from soooo many different backgrounds it is the best.

In 1 Nephi 16:29 says "By small means the Lord can bring about great things" and that's no cap! If you show Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ effort to better yourself and to live life in a manner that you are trying to improve HE WILL HELP YOU!! He helps us in ways we may not expect but he will help us in our journey to better ourselves!

Pics:

- free my boi Louis they put him behind bars he ain't even do nothing wrong #freelouis2k21

- saying goodbye to some Elders this fine Pday

- cemetery pic

- rocking the pit vipers of course (sadly not mine but I have a pair coming )

- short video of Elder Duckett kinda trying to catch this River otter and failing 

Love you all email me matthew.dalton@missionary.org

Zone Conference and Such

 This week was pretty cool!

Had my last interview and Zone Conference with my current Mission Prez. Gonna miss him he is the coolest so so inspired pretty sure he could see into my soul which was why interviews with him are so cool it's crazy how someone can read you like a book like that with the spirit on your side. 

Did a whole lotta driving only issue with that is I need some more music I think I have listened to all the songs I have like 100 times possibly even 101 times it's crazy. 

So this week we were at one of the people we are teachings place and his name is LeRoy so pray for him to progress but we went fishing again and I had bought this cheapo lure from walmart and cast it in the river next to his house and I got a Northern Pike it was pretty sweet! We also went fishing again and this time it was on a different river and it was super muddy but didn't look like it and so my shoes started sinking in and I tried to jump out and then I lost my shoes in the mud I literally jumped straight out of my shoes haha it was a good time. 

Today is Pday and my mom was at the beach with a bunch of my closest friends and lots of my other friends are on missions too so all the moms called their kids at the same time and all the BOIZ got to talk to each other it was sooo hype! It was the best. Even got to see lots of the other homies like Ellison and Aaron Ewell of course it was a blast.

Spiritual thought! A buddy of mine *Elder Case* sent this to me a while back and it really just pierces to the soul. It's actually out of the Old Testament even, and it is Proverbs 21 verse 19  "It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman."

I will let everyone interpret that one themselves 

Pictures: 

-moms, Ellison, Troy, Josh, Mason, and I (and Tanna)

- Zone at Zone conference

- We don't down dress to fish out here

- pretty pic of Minnesota

- me in front of the falls in Thief River Falls

- pic of President and I posted up in our suits lookin nice