October 12, 2009

Hello
I love you little man. cept you probably aint so little now. Here are a couple pics share with the fam read my email that i sent to mom. Cant write long but know that i love you and i pray for you. :) Peace!

So wow i will answer your questions first. Mom no! Do not, I repeat do not buy me a GPS. That is way too expensive. We have really decent maps here and i am really good at using them. And actually i as for transfers i am staying here in SALZBURG! Elder Wright is going away to München and he is going to be the Zone Leader there. So I am going to be getting a new companion. His name is Elder Ensign. Yes like the magazine. But i really know my way around all of salzburg so please dont buy me a GPS. that is way too expensive and I have already bought a bike and lederhosen. I need to be frugal with money. That is something i am learning on my mission. Cool huh? Elder Adams is learning how to budget money. I do it with the money i get everymonth. Set it all aside and make sure i leave enough for everything i need to buy. I am becoming a big boy out here. Gettin' all growned up. That is way cool about Dallan. Tell him congrats!
As for the translation. Yes that is what we do. One of the missionaries will have a separate mike in his hand. He is still in the same room however and he just does a live translation of the meeting as it goes down. I have only done it once. But ya last sunday there was a whole ward of people here and we had to work our butts off to find batteries and headsets for all of them. Cool stuff though. Mission Work is awesome!!!!!!
I already recieved grandmas letter. That is so cool. I heard Wien is a really cool place. The elders here calsl it the black hole because if you ever get transferred there you end up staying for a long time.
Tell the ward thank you soo much for the donations and the help that we are recieving. Mom that has been one of my biggest worries. That it would be super hard for all of us financially with two missionaries on a mission. We are so blessed. Speaking of blessings. So Sister condie said i need to be careful of how i tell you this story so as to not worry you. But this week i had another bike accident. Dont worry all is fine. But I now realize how protected we are as missionaries. So there is this tunnel in salzburg that is on a downhill incline. It was the end of the night and we had like five minutes to get back to the apartment so we needed to keep up a quick pace. We were booking it through this tunnel and i am not gonna lie i was probably going at least 60 or so kilometers per hour. as we came out of the tunnel i was coasting and pedalling towards home and when all of a sudden a car pulled out a side street and it was directly in my path. I pulled my brakes but one thing that most people dont know is that when you are going that fast, brakes dont work. So within a matter of milliseconds i pushed the handlebars as hard as i could to the side and took the force of the contact into the car with my shoulder. I heard something crack an the girl sitting in the passenger seat screamed. I then bounced over the hood and then landed on the ground with my helmet saving my life. I was out for a bit but elder Wright came from following behind and shook my shoulder and woke me up. The paramedics had to come and the police had to fill out a report for the man who was driving. But all went well. At the crash a Doctor showed up first before the paramedics on her vespa scooter and she started speaking in perfect english. she checked me out made sure i was ok and then just left. I think it was an angel sent from Heaven to make sure i was ok. The only place i was bleeding was from my finger from a tiny scratch. My shirt was completely ripped on the sleeve from where i destroyed the guys mirror. But the cool thing was that it was ripped just under my garment line. Later that night i took off my shirt to see what was wrong with my arm and it was just really really bruised but the crazy thing is that the bruise and the road rash goes up from my elbow and then just stops like a tan line right where my garments are. All that i can say is that i am protected. That is the promise being fullfilled from living right. It was a really cool experience and i will promise to be more careful. Mom i promise you i really am ok. Love you.
I have not bought a coat yet. But there is snow in the mountains. The Hills Are Alive With Snow!! I tell you what you can send me for christmas. Peanut butter. They have it here but it costs more than gold. And its not real peanut butter it is like tooth paste.
Diese woche war ganz gut! Ich kann es nicht glauben wie schön es ist ein missionar zu sein! I am going to write in english now because that is much easier. So this week we found 4 new investigators. I am so excited. Elder Wright and I last night were using Teach to find like profies and we got like four new appointments for the coming week already set out, In addition to the appointments we already have with our progressing investigators. The work is exploding here in Salzburg. Our ward mission leader is starting to get the ward fired up about the work as well. We are really going to busy ourselves with finding people and teaching and converting, because that is what we are called to do, and when the members see that, as they already have, we will start to get more and more refferals from them and then we will be so busy teaching their friends and the people that we have found that we won’t have any more time to do any more doors. Sad thought i know but that is how it should be. The members should do the finding and we are the ones who have been called to teach. However, yesterday, we had an investigator of ours in church. His name is Ney he is from Brazil and he speaks absolutely no german and about two or three words of englisch. But we are still able to communicate with him and get our point accross. We showed him the introduction to the church video in portuguese and he loves our church. He wants to keep coming to church adn to keep meeting with us. Oh and another little miracle to add to this weeks amazingness, there is actually a member in our ward who speaks portuguese!! Who would have thought? We totalled up our zusätslichesonstige lektionen and we had a total of 104! this transfer! Wow that is so many. Elder Wright says that is more than he has ever had on his whole mission. It just goes to show that What we have learned in Zone Konferenz is really helping us progress this work. Austausch this week was amazing! I learned so much from elder Feild. He is a really good missionary. So is Elder Wright and all the other elders I have been able to meet and work with. I just hope that i can keep improving and one day be the best missionary that i can be. Not only for myself but for my Savior and Reedeemer who leads us along in this work.