July 11, 2011

Hello.

Well thanks for the email. and the reminder that it is coming to an end. Its kind of wierd. I dont have the feeling that i am going home. I go through everyday trying to make it better than the last. I talk to every person that i see and its just normal. I am just a missionary. that is life. I cant imagine life any different than just teaching and committing to baptism and serving. Its going to be weird for sure. I think. I have no idea what normal life is like. Work, School, ect. i just cant seem to imagine it. hmmm. oh well.

The week went great this week. Elder Reschke and I have been tearing it up. We found an awesome family, Family Dos Santos. they are from Angola Where they speak portuguese. The husband is already a member, what are the chances of that. But his wife is not. tHey have three beautiful daughters one is 6 months the other is 2 years old and the last one is 6. They are all so funny. We had a good time. The wife wants to be baptized. So ELder Reschke will continue the work there. Im excited to see you all as well. Hope you haave a great week till thrusday. When you go to this appointment with the councilor could you see if i could get into a german class or if i could test out of german so that i could get credit for it. Thats kind of lame that i didnt get my scholarship. thats not too cool. but whatever. i love you all and will see you later. Bis später.

ELDer ADams

July 4, 2011

Sei Gegrüsst!!!!1
Wonderful family of mine.
Thanks for writing me. thank you for all that you do. The new mission president has come to the mission. President Miles and Sister Miles from Bountiful Utah are so cool. they are absolutely great. I am however going to miss president and sister condie. this church is the greatest how callings work president condie was at the beginning of this week a Mission President and next week he could be playing the Organ in his home ward for the Primary or he could be called as a member of the seventy. I would probably guess the latter because of the goodness of his heart and the diligence with which he served his mission. What a great and inspiratory man. What a great opportunity i have also to get to know and work with a new mission president. I get to learn from the spiritual giants. A missionary is the greatest thing to be. You should be excited to be a missionary one day. I cant wait either. being a missionary without transfers or having to change companions. That would be the greatest.
Which is exactly the opposite of what i have been doing. for this week i was in Interlaken on monday then i went to Dornbirn which was great. Then the assistents had planned that i would go and do exchanges in the stuttgart zone for the last two weeks of my mission but then a problem came up where a missionary had to unexpectedly leave the mission. Its so sad to experience thta, to see what happens to some misssionaries. So now i am in Rosenheim covering his spot. I get to work with Elder Reschke. He is a great missionary. We are in a wonderful city and an awesome apartment. Its so cool we've even got cold water. Thats it. So every morning has been an amazingly refreshing cold shower.
We are working hard. I am getting pretty tired. but its the best feeling in the world. Nothing better.
You can tell spencer that he doesnt have to come to meet me. you should also tell him that he needs a motorcycle permit on his driving licencse to drive it. so he can go ahead and try to pound me. Friday sounds great for the temple. I miss the temple.
well not much to say. I wanted to ask how much i have in my account so that i can know what i can buy to bring home. Plus my suit that i was wearing on my traveling missionary times is destroyed. I wore holes through the knees and the butt. So i have one suit left and its pretty tattered as well. let me know.
That is really cool that you want to be a missionary. There is a quote hanging in the mission office about the word missionary it says: "Missionary: (noun) someone who leaves his or her family for two years, so that others can be with thiers for Eternity". Its true. I love seeing the Gospel change the mindsets of families to eternal.
HAve a good one.
ELDer ADAms

Those pictures are from Interlaken. most beautiful place on earth. ANy how i almost forgot to write you. i totally forgot about class registration. My comp had to remind me. please if you can, i know you are busy and you had a ton to do at youth conference with cooking but if it wouldnt be so hard you could sign me up for classes. Talk to the counselor if you can and maybe just get me classes that will work towards my major also that will help me get done with my undergraduates. i hope its not too late. thanks mom.
lovies!!!!!!!!
ELder Adams

June 27, 2011

Heu!!!!

Well swiss german is about as understandable as the subject of this email. But that is ok. I am actually understanding pretty well. I can also speak a little bit of swiss german now. i gotta live here. This is the most beautiful place in the world. Guess where i am today? go ahead and guess? ya thats right im in interlaken!!! The Country land of bern. i will have to send some pictures. Im doing dood. I am still among the living. I am also baptising. In this week i was in Wettingen, Altstetten, Biel and Interlaken. In each area i was able to help find teach and invite someone to baptism and they all accepted. With the help of preach my gospel and the Holy ghost baptismal dates have been set in every city that i have been in. I attended church in the mountains of Interlaken. So beautiful. They have a swiss fest going on right now. Also cool stuff. Sorry that i used money out of my account i had to buy a train ticket from Offenburg to frauenfeld. the office didnt transfer money into my account because, well i have no idea so i have been going around washing my garments in the sinks of different apartments living out of my backpack and sleeping on floors, not having to worry about what im going to take with me or what i will wear, what i will eat. Im living the sermon on the mount. I am the liles of the field the birds of the air. I take with me purse nor scrip. its the greatest thing in the world. I love you all and wish you the best. This church is true. I have felt that so strongly in these days where i have nothing but the holy ghost to keep me warm at night. :)

With love and biggest hugs,

ELder ADAms

June 14, 2011

Schoen von euch zu hoeren,

Gruess euch!!!

Well this week has been another amazing week filled with powerful testimony and lots of love. I love these people so much. Even when they act against Gods commandments. I feel even then a greater love for them and want them to repent so that they can enjoy the full blessings that Heavenly Father wants for them, and that they can recieve when they are baptized! Its great to preach repentance and baptism.

I am doing great we had the opportunity on p-day last week to clean. That helped alot with my allergies. I found that apparently missionaries don't know how to clean an apartment properly and for that very reason there was a layer of dust everywhere that caused me to sneeze anytime anybody moved. So all is better now. I made the apartment super clean and finally got unpacked and a little bit comfortable. I've built up a decent relationship with the branch here, and president condie called me this morning and asked me to , "pack your bags you're coming back to München and then we'll send you off from there. We've got a couple of tasks for you." Im pretty stoked. I have already worked in the entire mission as Assistent, i know basically how its going to work in most of the wards and areas in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. i am just a little bit afraid that i really am going to turn to dust by the end of my mission. Here with elder jacklin has been great. Its been lots of running because the busses here are just that awesome. and I believe that for this last little bit of time im going to push myself harder than ever before. Im not sure if thats possible but that is how exchanges work. something that i love about exchanges is that, that is the time when you are allowed to expect miracles. You pray, invoke the powers of the heaven and then go to town. you give everything you've got and about 200% more and then that is where you have an experience like in the scriptures and 10,000 souls are added to the church. i love having faith in such experiences that God blesses us with them when we live faithfully and give that what we have to him. There is a great scripture about that in Doctrine and Covenants 124:49. In that section that is where the Lord commands them to build a temple or a house to His name and that is what he says about the work that they are supposed to do. It is also with us. When we are commanded to do something, anything, then he expects that we do it. however when we are destroyed in the doing so, or held back from accomplishing that from some unknown source than he will accept our sacrifice. But in the seeing of our sacrifice i have seen where he blesses us and helps us to accomplish that which he has commanded us to do. (1 ne 3:7)

Speaking of Temple and sacrifice, i have not been there in a long time. It would be a great wish from me that when i come home the first thing to do after i step of the plane is to go strait to the temple. Can you arrange that, maybe the salt lake temple?

I dont have anymore vitamins. i gave them to an old couple missionary as i was in innsbruck. Allergy stuff i dont think i have had since my first summer. but its ok. i have lived without drugs for the last two years i think i will be ok for a little longer.

As for the money. They cant reimburse it into my perspnal account they dont have access to that. They reimbursed it into my MSF account and then i just take that money and put it into my personal fund. i have the money. all is well in ingolstadt/zion.

Life is going great. i am still kicking. and baptising. We set a couple of baptismal dates this week as well and a couple who were going to get baptised here got into some anti stuff and no longer want to meet with us. But its ok what satan doesnt know is that the anti's make us stronger.

I love you all and wish you a wonderful week. any questions and comments about my service or my driving just call 1-800-TAUFE

SERVUS!!! LOVIES!!!!!!

June 6, 2011

Dearest family and loved ones that know nothing of my existence,

Wow, has it been a long time since i wrote or what? But time flies when you've planned according to preach my gospel and you are using the very precious time that you have been given to lead souls to the One who loves us the most. I love it so much being here and realize that the time that i have is longer than that what was expected but still incredibly short. I would gladly give my whole life to the gospel. I should. I dont deserve all the blessings that i have recieved in my life and i think i need to work it off. Just kidding mom. but really i would gladly stay forever, even if i was captured and held hostage by the german government. Wanna know why. because then i would teach them the gospel and baptise them!!! Plus all of the good missionaries have been in jail. Paul, Joseph smith... and so on. Need i say more.

probably i should write more because i haven't written in like three weeks. So here is what happened. President asked me to stay longer on my mission. I think that you caught wind of that, as he called you. Then he asked me to train a new missionary. Elder Eaker is his name. I got sent back to Wien with Elder Eaker and we were working in a new area. We whitewashed the Wien 4 international ward. That means we were speaking englisch. We got to contact all the brothas on the street. that was so much fun. They are really open to the gospel. Anybody that speaks englisch is golden. We found in 4 days 7 new investigators and then we set 4 baptismal dates. that was awesome. We tore it up. Elder Eaker is an amazing missionary. I respect him a ton. Sad thing was that he had to go home. We had to ride back to munich and the day after i rode with him to the airport and he is now back in georgia. president condie talked to me and we set up a new plan for action. I am now in Ingolstadt. The place where Audi is made. Everyone in this city works for Audi. aDn everyone and their dog drives an audi. Cool stuff but what is cooler is that i get to work with elder Jacklin from american fork utah. he says he has family that might live in our ward boundaries. He is in his second transfer and so that means that he is still on fire and full of faith from the MTC. We tore it up this week as well. We found also seven new investigators and set two baptismal dates. It is considerably harder because the bus system here is pretty off and on and comes only once in a blue moon. Upon that i am feeling drowsied and worn upon from my allergies. I have never had allergies this bad but thats ok. I'm not gonna lie. I understand why missions are only two years long. Im getting tired. But im pushing through it. There is nothing that brute force and will power and faith can't conquer.

Faith is something that i have been studying lately how just the way you think about a subject or a person or anything for that matter can be influenced majorly by your own faith. There were a couple of experiences where i was calling old investigators and elder jacklin told me that they never have answered, but through simple faith and the thought in my head and heart that this time would be the time that they answered really worked. They answered. Baptismal dates were set and the work of the Almighty goes forth. I love faith. it brings a certain confidence in Gods plan and his love for us. I know that.

the cool thing about it all is that i love being here. I work and just do it for the simple fact that i know that all that what i preach is true. I dont do it for glory or fame but rather for Gods Kingdom. I give my best even though i know i wont be here in ingolstadt much longer. President and the assistents (elder BAird and ELder Bernhardt) planned that as soon as an elder that injured himself in the MTC comes to the mission then Elder Jacklin will get a new companion and I will be able to travel the mission and do exchanges with missionaries all over. They plan where i will go. I stay there for two days or so and then on to the next city. I look forward to that, although i know it will be tiring. I promise you i will turn to dust at the end of my mission. I hope to press forward in my life as well with the same kind of attitude of service to God and hope to progress to the day where i get to kneel at His feet.

Say hi to the fam. Also to elder wright. Tell him that i love him. Say hi to sydney and Aaron and tell them sorry that i didnt come to the wedding. Tell Dad he's a champ for setting up or taking up all those tents without me. Tell chelsea that i'm sorry for not writing in a long time and not saying that i'm not coming home for a while. Say to spencer that he's a stud and that soccer is not the most important thing in life, but because he is on the B team i will now call it the A team. He is a great kid. dEvin is too. I love him and wish the best for him. and mom Im telling you that i love you. thanks for putting up with me and the decisions i make in my life.

Each one of you i love,

Elder Adams

June 6, 2011

Dear Sister Adams,

Thank you for your email and, more especially, for allowing Elder Adams to remain with us an extra transfer. He is certainly putting his time to good use and is serving with Elder Jacklin in Ingolstadt. His new address is

Kirche Jesu Christi HLT

Elder Joshua Adams

Dollstrasse 10

D-85049 Ingolstadt

Germany

We pray the Lord will continue to bless your family because of your sacrifice and support of your great missionary son.

With kind regards,

Robert G. Condie

Alpine German-speaking Mission, Munich

Lommelstrasse 7

81479 Munich

Germany

June 1, 2011

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