October 5, 2009

General Conference was so amazing!!!!!!!! Ahhhhh! Can you even believe it!???!!!! We have Prophets! Apostles! Men called of God to lead us in these days! Men just like adam noah moses. We are so blessed. I learned so much from this general conference. I Loved the talk by elder Ballard about fathers and sons. In the priesthood session. Dad I love you. Thank you for being the good example that you have been to me. I wanna grow up to be just like you! I took like ten some odd pages of notes and I cant wait for the liahona to come out. THat magazine has all of the general conference talks in it and i hold that as scripture. So ya the schedule for us was that we watched a session saturday night at six o clock then at eleven o clock sunday morning was priesthood then a small break then one at 2 o clock then a small little break then another one at 6 o clock. Sunday. Six hours of pure amazingness!!! one of our investigators came during one of the sessions so elder wright went into the german translation room to sit by him then a little later another two of our investigators that we invited came and wanted to watch it as well so i went into the german translation room as well to sit by them and to answer any questions they had. It was sooooo cool. I can understand german. It really is weird I cant tell the difference between german and english. Remember how i used to talk in my sleep when i was in the room right across the hallway from you? Yup I still do except now i do it in german. Elder right says its getting kind of old. I keep waking him up in the night because i am either teaching about the plan of salvation or contacting people on the streets in my sleep in german. I assume it would be a funny experience to hear what i say. I am glad people that visit here say i am doing a good work. It helps sometimes to get approval from somebody. I try my hardest everyday. Skip said i look sharp? I am not gonna lie i do look sharp. It feels good everyday to get up and put on a classy european tie and a fresh pressed white shirt. What can i say? Im representing the Lord I gotta act the part. Sorry that is a little bit stolz. I mean proud. You have no idea how many times i have had to delete german words and retype in english. You should buy a german dictionary and just translate just in case i mess up. I owned your octoberfest quiz. it was good though. hey i will try and email you back but we are going to the salt mines today in hallein where we can slide down the mine shafts where the miners were. I will try and send pics next week the computer i am on right now wont send pics so i am also sorry about the pics from last week as well. i gotta send a progress record to president condie. Tschüß!!!!!!
oh mensch!!!!!! General conference was amazing!!! Elder Eyering was my favorite with the story at the beginning with the consecrated Oil. He is such a powerful speaker. Elder Uchtdorf is awesome too. I realized a lot of the talks were about love. I think that is something that i am going to study a lot about now. Charity. Nächstenliebe. If we can develop that love for our investigators for our companion for all of Gods children we meet on the street then i know i can become a more effective missionary. The words came from the mouth of the prophets.
so all was good in conference for us untill frau martina showed up. She (i dont know if i have told you about her before but she travels around the mission and follows the missionaries) but she is basically a stalker and she wants to marry a missionary. so pretty much she followed us around the church and she took pictures of me and the other elder adams. i took my nametag off so that she wouldn't know who i am. But she knows where we live because earlier this week she was waiting outside of our apartment. We couldn't go home and eat. So we went to the Mangums. and we just chilled for a little bit. That is something i have noticed lately. Elder wright and i have been working so hard and so diligently we hardly ever take a dinner break. That is bad i know. I know. But we are just so busy with appointments and contacting and wanting to do this amazing work that we end up just taking a snack with us and eating it on our bikes inbetween appointments. But ya now frau martina (a toothless 50 year old, smelly missionary stalker is following me). Kinda scared. A little bit creeped out. i will have to tell you the full story when i have more time. any how I have managed to somehow gain 2 kilos in the past little while. it was probably all the food the members gave us yesterday at general conference. I was pretty super stuffed. Transfers are next week!!!!! What!!!! the time went by faster in this transfer than the last. WE must have been working hard. I hope i stay though. I love salzburg. Everybody says im going to be training soon or at least a zone leader. I dont think im responsible enough. But they say i am a hard worker and that i should get ready. anyhow. alles gute hier in österreich. tschüß!!!!! LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!