annually. What I remember from Bismarck was that you could be in downtown and then totally out of town "in the boonies" in very little time. There wasn't much suburbs. Outside of town, I was driving around and I came upon a field where the field corn had just been harvested. There were hundreds, upon hundreds of pheasants on the ground in that field scurrying around. It was an incredible sight.

Our business concern there was coal mines, and driving to a few of them, I saw fields that as far as you could see there were sunflowers planted. In the right light it was quite a memorable sight.

I saw a LDS Church that was no bigger than a 7-11. I had seen small built ones in Chile on my mission, but never one that small in the US.

The other strange memory of North Dakota was that most of the places where you park, they have extension cords to plug into your car to keep your block warm in the winter for diesel vehicles.

Lastly, we had a big wind one day and in the company parking lot, the wind had been so strong that it actually blew the side windows out of two vehicles parked there. I have never experienced that anywhere else in my life.