Dear Family friends acquaintences,
Well I am just so thankful that I have the opportunity to be serving the Lord. I wake up everyday excited to be a missionary. This week has been absolutely wonderful. We have been definitely working hard to get done what needs to be done. We worked hard trying to get to some less active members this week and that was good. There was a referral in hallein (a city about 20 miles south of Salzburg) that we have been trying to contact, his name is Amin Paulin. We spent a little bit of time on trains this week, in going down there to contact him and to teach a contact I had made on the train. I want to say WE, but I don’t know what to do. You told me to stay excited about the mission work and I have been, but I don’t think Elder Ensign has even a drive to do this work anymore. Maybe it is a problem with me. Any insights on this one would be great. So when we are on trains I contact and he just sits there, so if you have any ideas how we could better develop a spirit of urgency or spirit of excitement here that would be helpful. Anyhow I can still see that the Lord wants us to succeed here in Salzburg and triumph over the enemy. There was a cool story. We were in Bad Reichenhal trying to visit Lutz Halmanseder, (our investigator with a baptismal date, who we haven’t had contact with for the week), well we were up there trying to visit him and then all of a sudden the phone rings and so I answer it. The man on the other end of the line asks me If I am from America and if I am talking about a blue book about Jesus Christ. I answered in the affirmative. He then began to unfold a great and marvelous story about how he had met at earlier times with the missionaries and how he was even invited to be baptized. He said he had turned the invitation down because he didn’t know how many life Paths he could follow at the same time, because he was also involved in the Krishna chanting religion, and he was a baptized Christian. But he called us up and said that None of that matters to him anymore. He said that he has been reading the book of mormon and he knows that it is true. He said that he wanted to give us his number and his address. So that we could meet with him. He also said that he wanted to come to church but that he had a doctors appointment in munich on Sunday but that he said he would come next Sunday if that was ok with us. We of course said yes and we made an appointment out on the phone for this Tuesday. It looks like we will probably be setting another baptismal date as soon as we find out how much he has been taught. But I have the faith and the trust in the Lord that he has prepared this man for usit is just so amazing to see the miracles that helps us make it through the times when it is the hardest. We have still got to work with the members better because finding on our own time is pretty tough. Hopefully we can get the excitement going in our ward so that we can start winning and doing what we are called to do. Teach.
Mom question, can you put more money in my account? You see i bought all the christmas gifts last week and this week i would like to send them but i dont have any money in there to do that. I only have pdays to do this kind of stuff that is not related to misisonary work so it would be helpful if you could help me out in that respect.
You already got my christmas gift? hmmm i wonder what it is? well i found what i really want for christmas. Could you send some burts bees chapstick. I am almost out of it and the winter weather makes my lips crack. another thing that you or dad could maybe work on and send me later is my ipod with my ihome, no headphones. Work on deleting all of the old bad music and see if you can go on to the church website and download all the hymns in mp3 form. then see if you can get some classical music from grandma. the reason why i ask is because our investigator ney invited us to his concert this week and we had to get approval from president first. president said yes and that we could always llisten to classical musik so. we went there and got to enjoy an evening of Brahms symphonie number 2 In the salzburg mozart concert hall. It was so beautiful. So if you could send some of that mozart brahms beethoven other of the older century classical music and other gospel music that would be cool. well not a lot of time. I love you all and this is my wish for you, to have a happy and wonderful week!
Elder Adams
Monday, November 30, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
November 24, 2009
Dear Sister Adams,
We apologize for the delay in responding to your email. You are welcome to send Elder Adams a GPS if you would like, but you should know that it might be subject to customs fees and delays. We have not yet been able to determine a pattern as to what is held up in customs or how much the fees might be, but sometimes the delays are long and the fees can be as high as 50 euros. You just need to be aware of that. Another alternative, if you don't want to run that risk, would be to have him buy one here.
As to whether he needs it or not, that would probably best be decided between you and him. We do not have many car areas, so most of our missionaries use public transportation or bikes and seem to be very proficient.
Again, we apologize for the delay in responding. Elder Adams is a wonderful elder--we are so impressed with and grateful for him. Thank you for sending him to us so well-prepared and for supporting him as he serves. You might also have heard that your other son served in our daughter's ward in Evanston, Illinois for about nine months--a happy coincidence!
We hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving and a very Merry Christmas.
President and Sister Condie
Monday, November 23, 2009
November 23, 2009
So, this week has been pretty good so far. Let me tell you about it. I know that i have to have hard times in the mission because then it will make me savor the good times better. you cant know the sweet without the sour. So last week was tough. Elder Ensign (from Chugiak Alaska) and i had some troubles. We had to work through some obedience issues. But now I think that we are all good. We have returned to a state of homeostasis. All is well. But last week i was wishing that at transfer time we would get separated. Which by the way this week was transfer calls.... (drumroll).... elder adams is staying here in salzburg for christmas!!!!!! We are needed in this area. Elder ensign and i, we got everything worked out and thank goodness we did because as we taugtht lutz this week we needed the spirit with us. We were teaching him and during the lesson i had the strongest feeling to committ him to baptism. He is accepting everything so well and holding all of his committments. I acted upon the feeling and invited lutz to be baptised. He said he wants to change his life and expereince the joy related to the gospel message and the spirit that we share. So Lutz Helmanseder will be baptised on the 19th of December 2009. In another lesson we taught him der wort der weissheit.... um i think it is called the word of wisdom in english, anyhow he wants to stop drinking coffee. He has held it so far. I am so proud of him. He is preparing for this baptism and we are super Excited. I think that that is the reason that we are staying. We need to help lutz learn more about the gospel untill that day when he closes the covenant of baptism and then we can help him gain his own testimony so that we can have strong members and new leaders of the church here in salzburg.
Elder Ensign had his birthday on the nineteenth of november. We didnt do anything special. we bought a dönner for dinner and we worked hard through the day.
We also had a musical fireside that the ward mission team (we call ourselves team salzburg) here organised for the purpose of finding and teaching new investigators of the church. We invited so many people and also told members that they should invite their nonmember friends. it was so spiritual. It was themed about the family. We had members give special musical parts where they played the cello and the piano. I also had the opportunity to sing in this musical fireside. I sang i am a child of God (auf deutsch ich bin ein kind von Gott) we would read a paragraph from each section of the Family a Proklamation to the World and in between each paragraph we would sing songs or songs would be played. It was so powerful. But the members here weren't so excited about missionary work or inviting people so not too many non members came. But it still worked out. I loved it. The spirit really was so strong. Music just has that power to invite the spirit.
As for thanksgiving here... it doesnt exist. I'm pretty sure the history behind thanksgiving is that the pilgrims landed in the UNITED STATES OF AMAZINGNESS!! and not Austria. So we dont celebrate that here. However we do celebrate christmas (also known as weihnachten) and we celebrate it for three days here. Well not us as missionaries but people here in austria do. so i assume that we will be getting some pretty angry people at us as we go knocking doors and as we go working on christmas.
Oh so i took some money out for christmas gifts. it might have been too much so if you could transfer some that would be cool. But that is amazing. I get to stay in salzburg for another transfer! thats during christmas time. People dream about being here in salzburg for christmas. Im living it. I am so blessed. The work is going so amazing, Slow, but we are seeing the blessings each and every step of the way.
by the way translation of what dad said to me, "dry your hair with a towell. Cut your hair like usual." Might i ask where this came from? Kommische leute. ha ha
Question about my companions. I think i answered earlier in this email but elder ensign is from Chugiak, Alaska Elder Wright is from bountiful, utah (by the way my trainer who became ap is now going home and now elder wright is the new ap) Elder Williams is from ogden Utah. Everybody says that i was trained by the greatest and that it shows and that soon i will be also taking positions of authority. I vote no. I just want to work it out here in salzburg the whole time and find people. well i gotta go write president. All is well here and I love you all. Have a wonderful week.
Elder Adams
Elder Ensign had his birthday on the nineteenth of november. We didnt do anything special. we bought a dönner for dinner and we worked hard through the day.
We also had a musical fireside that the ward mission team (we call ourselves team salzburg) here organised for the purpose of finding and teaching new investigators of the church. We invited so many people and also told members that they should invite their nonmember friends. it was so spiritual. It was themed about the family. We had members give special musical parts where they played the cello and the piano. I also had the opportunity to sing in this musical fireside. I sang i am a child of God (auf deutsch ich bin ein kind von Gott) we would read a paragraph from each section of the Family a Proklamation to the World and in between each paragraph we would sing songs or songs would be played. It was so powerful. But the members here weren't so excited about missionary work or inviting people so not too many non members came. But it still worked out. I loved it. The spirit really was so strong. Music just has that power to invite the spirit.
As for thanksgiving here... it doesnt exist. I'm pretty sure the history behind thanksgiving is that the pilgrims landed in the UNITED STATES OF AMAZINGNESS!! and not Austria. So we dont celebrate that here. However we do celebrate christmas (also known as weihnachten) and we celebrate it for three days here. Well not us as missionaries but people here in austria do. so i assume that we will be getting some pretty angry people at us as we go knocking doors and as we go working on christmas.
Oh so i took some money out for christmas gifts. it might have been too much so if you could transfer some that would be cool. But that is amazing. I get to stay in salzburg for another transfer! thats during christmas time. People dream about being here in salzburg for christmas. Im living it. I am so blessed. The work is going so amazing, Slow, but we are seeing the blessings each and every step of the way.
by the way translation of what dad said to me, "dry your hair with a towell. Cut your hair like usual." Might i ask where this came from? Kommische leute. ha ha
Question about my companions. I think i answered earlier in this email but elder ensign is from Chugiak, Alaska Elder Wright is from bountiful, utah (by the way my trainer who became ap is now going home and now elder wright is the new ap) Elder Williams is from ogden Utah. Everybody says that i was trained by the greatest and that it shows and that soon i will be also taking positions of authority. I vote no. I just want to work it out here in salzburg the whole time and find people. well i gotta go write president. All is well here and I love you all. Have a wonderful week.
Elder Adams
Monday, November 16, 2009
November 16, 2009
Hey papos,
How are you doing? I wanted to tell you how grateful i am to you for all that you have taught me. You really are a good example to me and i just wanted to let you know that. For example my last two companions elder Wright and Elder ensign both had no idea what to do when they got a flat tire or a piece on their bike broke. or also for example what to do when the plug on the vacuum is shorted out after shooting fire across and sparks accross the room. Thanks to you and the time we spent together working on repairing stuff and working on my car and bikes i knew how to repair the vacuum and how to fix the flat on the tire and the kugellager (or bearing storage in english) for the pedal crank on the bike. Thanks for being the best and teaching me how to get it done. A lot of stuff has gone wrong this week and it has been a hard one with Elder Ensign but thanks to the ability that i learned from you of how to fix a bike i was able to serve my companion and make things better between us. I never thank you enough. Or tell you enough that i love you, but i am telling you now. I love you and i hope that all is well with you and the fam. and by the way congratulations on the award! :)With love Elder Adams
November 16, 2009
hello,
thank you for the emails. Thank you for everything. this week was hard. Not gonna lie. It has been super tough. We could tell that we are doing something right because satan has been throwing everything at us. One of the families that we have been teaching just told us the other day that they dont want to meet with us anymore. that was hard. I was so excited to be helping this family come closer to the gospel. but ok. We had some struggles as a companionship. Elder Ensign and I were doing some doors because one of our appointments fell out, and a man answered. i initiated the conversation with the man and started to talk to him about the book of mormon. He had a few questions and i tried to answer them as best as i could, and with them i gave as powerful testimony that i could. However elder ensign just stood there. He didnt back up my testimony. I confronted him about it and asked why he didn't help me and i told him that i felt alone on the door as the man talked to us, and immediately Elder ensign just got super defensive and said it was because i was trying to bash the man. I just gave my testimony i dont know what was wrong with that. Oh well we are working through it. I heard my trainer say one day as i was with him that as long as i serve my companion as much as possible then everything will be better. So i have been working at it. Doing as much for him as i possibly can.
We had companion exchanges this week and I got to work with elder Gabbot. He is a really cool missionary. It turns out that he is my brother (they have a whole missionary relation thing). So he is my brother in the sense that he was trained by my trainer (my father) . Cool right? On this exchange we went to an investigators of ours and we had a member with us on this teaching appointment and I wanted to make it good so that the members would start coming with us more on joint teaches. So this was a way super spiritual lesson. we taught about the plan of salvation. He was loving it. He said it all made sense now why adam and eve fell. It was going so good in the lesson that as we started coming to the end i had the strongest feeling to commit him to baptism. so at the end i reviewed all that what we had talked about and then i committed him to baptism. He said that that is something that he would want. He acceppted!! So hopefully we can keep helping him come closer. He actually came to church on sunday and he loved it. It was the primary program and that was really good. Not gonna lie these little austrian kids are good at singing. but our Investigator Lutz Helmanseder, i don't know if i have said his name before, said that he loved it. I introduced him to like the entire ward. and he was absolutely stoked to be there. So hopefully soon :) We found a new investigator this week and his name is Jeff. He is also from brasil. He can also speak portuguese. We have only taught him once so far but we already have appointments set out with him next week.
But ya that was my week. it was tough. i wanted to break down and cry at some points but all will be well. i am really learning how to pray and rely on the Lord. I know that he can take my burdens from me and help me through these struggling times.
Elder adams
thank you for the emails. Thank you for everything. this week was hard. Not gonna lie. It has been super tough. We could tell that we are doing something right because satan has been throwing everything at us. One of the families that we have been teaching just told us the other day that they dont want to meet with us anymore. that was hard. I was so excited to be helping this family come closer to the gospel. but ok. We had some struggles as a companionship. Elder Ensign and I were doing some doors because one of our appointments fell out, and a man answered. i initiated the conversation with the man and started to talk to him about the book of mormon. He had a few questions and i tried to answer them as best as i could, and with them i gave as powerful testimony that i could. However elder ensign just stood there. He didnt back up my testimony. I confronted him about it and asked why he didn't help me and i told him that i felt alone on the door as the man talked to us, and immediately Elder ensign just got super defensive and said it was because i was trying to bash the man. I just gave my testimony i dont know what was wrong with that. Oh well we are working through it. I heard my trainer say one day as i was with him that as long as i serve my companion as much as possible then everything will be better. So i have been working at it. Doing as much for him as i possibly can.
We had companion exchanges this week and I got to work with elder Gabbot. He is a really cool missionary. It turns out that he is my brother (they have a whole missionary relation thing). So he is my brother in the sense that he was trained by my trainer (my father) . Cool right? On this exchange we went to an investigators of ours and we had a member with us on this teaching appointment and I wanted to make it good so that the members would start coming with us more on joint teaches. So this was a way super spiritual lesson. we taught about the plan of salvation. He was loving it. He said it all made sense now why adam and eve fell. It was going so good in the lesson that as we started coming to the end i had the strongest feeling to commit him to baptism. so at the end i reviewed all that what we had talked about and then i committed him to baptism. He said that that is something that he would want. He acceppted!! So hopefully we can keep helping him come closer. He actually came to church on sunday and he loved it. It was the primary program and that was really good. Not gonna lie these little austrian kids are good at singing. but our Investigator Lutz Helmanseder, i don't know if i have said his name before, said that he loved it. I introduced him to like the entire ward. and he was absolutely stoked to be there. So hopefully soon :) We found a new investigator this week and his name is Jeff. He is also from brasil. He can also speak portuguese. We have only taught him once so far but we already have appointments set out with him next week.
But ya that was my week. it was tough. i wanted to break down and cry at some points but all will be well. i am really learning how to pray and rely on the Lord. I know that he can take my burdens from me and help me through these struggling times.
Elder adams
Monday, November 9, 2009
November 9, 2009
Well HELLOOOOOO,
Guten morgen liebe famile, freunde, bekannte und verwandte! Ich habe etwas besonderes heute mitzuteilen! Wir habe so viele erfolg diese woche gesehen! Und ich kann einfach sagen dass ich liebe die missions arbeit!!!! oh whoops i forgot that german is not the same as english. I get confused sometimes. One time we were doing some doors this week and a lady answered the door in english and i answered back in german because they both sound the same to me. the level of understanding is the same. so as to what i said at the beginning. Good morning beloved familie, friends, acquaintences and relatives! I have something special to share with you today! We have seen so much success this week! and I can simply say that i love mission work!!!!! WE have found 5 new investigators this week and i can just copy and paste what i wrote to president condie to you!!
-Präsident Condie,
Wow! Everything is going so great here in Salzburg. I cant believe the success we have seen this week. We have been comparing our numbers and where we are at during the week, to our goals and what we want to accomplish and it has really given us a drive to do better. We have realized that there is always room for improvement, and we are exercising the faith and the effort we put towards it in making this improvement. So in the comparison we have found that this week was our most successful week so far in the transfer. I am amazed at how many new investigators we found this week and I know that it is because of the new things we have learned from you and from the spirit.
To start it off I would like to talk a little bit about Elder Ensign. Wow! What an amazing missionary. He is really awesome and he really knows his stuff, why he is out here and, how he is going to get the job done. Thank you again for letting me be out here and working with such amazing examples. I talked to him about begeisterung and what his views on it were. We had a really good conversation about it and I could see a change in him afterwards. He has been putting more effort forth to be more excited and stoked about the work. Thank you once again for the advice that you gave me in interviews.
I think a direct result of this begeisterung and more motivation for the work is the amount of new investigators we have found and the overall complete success that we have seen this week. That coupled with faith led us to a new family. Their name is the Family Meilinger. We had contacted them forever ago and had tried to make out appointments with them but they always fell through. We finally made contact with them again and we taught them a lesson. The father, even though he was not used to church practices such as praying, said the prayer at the end of a very spiritual lesson, and also promised us that he would read in the Book of Mormon and pray with his family about it that evening. We also found a man named henry that we had also met a long time before and we had such a spiritual lesson. He said that he doesn’t really have a religion and is in the search for one right now. We also had a wonderful experience where it was late in the evening and we had the choice to go home and make a ton of phone calls that we didn’t get that chance to make before because we were so busy, or to stay out and work till the last second. We chose to stay outside because we had the feeling that we should stay in the area and work some doors. We had two wonderful people who answered the doors a man who is really excited to meet with us but did not have time to right then because it was so late in the evening. So we made an appointment out with him. The next lady that answered the klingel, her name is Frau Schernhammer, was excited as well to meet with us. She invited us right in and we had an amazing lesson and discussion. She had met with the missionaries before and only lost contact because she was busy raising a family and she didn’t know what she wanted to do with religion at that point. But now her kids are grown and she has felt the need to start finding what she wants religiously at this point in her life and she is ready to make decisions and take time to find that out. My mouth is hanging open this week at the blessings the Merciful Lord has been pouring out upon us here in Salzburg. We also reestablished contackt with a younger man named Sebastian and he would also like to investigate the church. We recommitted Ney to the baptism but he also believes that his church has an authority to baptize. This is getting hard with him. But I am happy at this time as the work progresses. We are extremely busy all the time and we are finding it hard to find time to accomplish all that is in front of us. It is a big task but we will come off the conquerer. I have gained a testimony of potential investigators. That is how we have found all of our investigators this week. And all that I can say is that it is a lot better than going door to door. But I love the work!!!! I love the Lord!!!!! President Condie I love you!!!! Thank you for all that you do for us. Your guidance and help and example is the fuel that keeps us missionaries going!!! Thanks a million!
Sadly ney does not as of yet want to get baptised. he still loves coming to church with us and he is meeting new people. I am so amazed at how many people here that we are finding speak portuguese that can help him in converting to the church. We were looking through the church records during our lunch break and we found two less active members who also come from brazil and can speak portugese. we are now working on reactivating them and converting ney. It is such hard work with trying to balance everthing else upon that. Appointments and lessons, meetings and study time. i have found that time is an enemy to us out here. I wish i could just battle it and force it into the submission of my will. but that will not likely happen.
Ummmm dont worry about contact solution. it is ok we have found a place that sells it for cheap and we usually have enough money so that i can buy it. Plus i think it is illegeal (is that how you spell that?) i think it is illegal to send liquids through the mail.
My goodness, Of course it is ok to send my emails to chelsea. I asked you to do that a long time ago because i was not able to always write her. i get really busy here. P-days are some of my busiest days because we have to get everything worldly done so that during the week we can only focus on the work. Please send my emails to her family as well. Just send them to everyone :) that would be coool. Everyone needs to know just how awesome the mission is and how the church is true!!!!
Wow that is really not good with sydneys mom. I hope that everything will be allright. I will pray super hard for their health and safety.
So yesterday, sunday, we had a couple hundred appointments. we are so busy not gonna lie. But for one of the appointments we had a joint teach who came with us. His name is Br. Malzl. So we knocked on the door of this american student home where our investigator lives and nobody answered but we could see them in the kitchen and so bruder Malzl just says to us, "have you tried the door already?" At this point he take the door knob in his hand and turns it and just walks right in to these peoples home walks into the kitchen and asks if brian is there. oh man we were so scared that someone was going to get shot. WE were like Br. malzl these are AMERICANS! they have guns. Its not like germany. Ha ha but we had a good laugh about it. and then he talked to us afterward on the way home and he has his own business called pro shlaf. which means pro sleep. and he is beginning to expand his business to the chiropractic field in america and stuff and so i told him that is what i wanted to do after my mission and then he said that i can have a job working for him as i study to be a chiropractor after my mission. Which is cool because he is one of the weathiest members in our ward. Cool. well i dont have a lot of time to write more. Its going good. Christmas Ideas from everybody would be wonderful. I dont have time to think about what i can buy you so if you do the thinking then i can just do the buying cool!!!! ok love you Alll with meinem ganzem herzen! (with my whole heart) Tschüß!!!!!! Aufwiedersehen!
Elder Adams
Guten morgen liebe famile, freunde, bekannte und verwandte! Ich habe etwas besonderes heute mitzuteilen! Wir habe so viele erfolg diese woche gesehen! Und ich kann einfach sagen dass ich liebe die missions arbeit!!!! oh whoops i forgot that german is not the same as english. I get confused sometimes. One time we were doing some doors this week and a lady answered the door in english and i answered back in german because they both sound the same to me. the level of understanding is the same. so as to what i said at the beginning. Good morning beloved familie, friends, acquaintences and relatives! I have something special to share with you today! We have seen so much success this week! and I can simply say that i love mission work!!!!! WE have found 5 new investigators this week and i can just copy and paste what i wrote to president condie to you!!
-Präsident Condie,
Wow! Everything is going so great here in Salzburg. I cant believe the success we have seen this week. We have been comparing our numbers and where we are at during the week, to our goals and what we want to accomplish and it has really given us a drive to do better. We have realized that there is always room for improvement, and we are exercising the faith and the effort we put towards it in making this improvement. So in the comparison we have found that this week was our most successful week so far in the transfer. I am amazed at how many new investigators we found this week and I know that it is because of the new things we have learned from you and from the spirit.
To start it off I would like to talk a little bit about Elder Ensign. Wow! What an amazing missionary. He is really awesome and he really knows his stuff, why he is out here and, how he is going to get the job done. Thank you again for letting me be out here and working with such amazing examples. I talked to him about begeisterung and what his views on it were. We had a really good conversation about it and I could see a change in him afterwards. He has been putting more effort forth to be more excited and stoked about the work. Thank you once again for the advice that you gave me in interviews.
I think a direct result of this begeisterung and more motivation for the work is the amount of new investigators we have found and the overall complete success that we have seen this week. That coupled with faith led us to a new family. Their name is the Family Meilinger. We had contacted them forever ago and had tried to make out appointments with them but they always fell through. We finally made contact with them again and we taught them a lesson. The father, even though he was not used to church practices such as praying, said the prayer at the end of a very spiritual lesson, and also promised us that he would read in the Book of Mormon and pray with his family about it that evening. We also found a man named henry that we had also met a long time before and we had such a spiritual lesson. He said that he doesn’t really have a religion and is in the search for one right now. We also had a wonderful experience where it was late in the evening and we had the choice to go home and make a ton of phone calls that we didn’t get that chance to make before because we were so busy, or to stay out and work till the last second. We chose to stay outside because we had the feeling that we should stay in the area and work some doors. We had two wonderful people who answered the doors a man who is really excited to meet with us but did not have time to right then because it was so late in the evening. So we made an appointment out with him. The next lady that answered the klingel, her name is Frau Schernhammer, was excited as well to meet with us. She invited us right in and we had an amazing lesson and discussion. She had met with the missionaries before and only lost contact because she was busy raising a family and she didn’t know what she wanted to do with religion at that point. But now her kids are grown and she has felt the need to start finding what she wants religiously at this point in her life and she is ready to make decisions and take time to find that out. My mouth is hanging open this week at the blessings the Merciful Lord has been pouring out upon us here in Salzburg. We also reestablished contackt with a younger man named Sebastian and he would also like to investigate the church. We recommitted Ney to the baptism but he also believes that his church has an authority to baptize. This is getting hard with him. But I am happy at this time as the work progresses. We are extremely busy all the time and we are finding it hard to find time to accomplish all that is in front of us. It is a big task but we will come off the conquerer. I have gained a testimony of potential investigators. That is how we have found all of our investigators this week. And all that I can say is that it is a lot better than going door to door. But I love the work!!!! I love the Lord!!!!! President Condie I love you!!!! Thank you for all that you do for us. Your guidance and help and example is the fuel that keeps us missionaries going!!! Thanks a million!
Sadly ney does not as of yet want to get baptised. he still loves coming to church with us and he is meeting new people. I am so amazed at how many people here that we are finding speak portuguese that can help him in converting to the church. We were looking through the church records during our lunch break and we found two less active members who also come from brazil and can speak portugese. we are now working on reactivating them and converting ney. It is such hard work with trying to balance everthing else upon that. Appointments and lessons, meetings and study time. i have found that time is an enemy to us out here. I wish i could just battle it and force it into the submission of my will. but that will not likely happen.
Ummmm dont worry about contact solution. it is ok we have found a place that sells it for cheap and we usually have enough money so that i can buy it. Plus i think it is illegeal (is that how you spell that?) i think it is illegal to send liquids through the mail.
My goodness, Of course it is ok to send my emails to chelsea. I asked you to do that a long time ago because i was not able to always write her. i get really busy here. P-days are some of my busiest days because we have to get everything worldly done so that during the week we can only focus on the work. Please send my emails to her family as well. Just send them to everyone :) that would be coool. Everyone needs to know just how awesome the mission is and how the church is true!!!!
Wow that is really not good with sydneys mom. I hope that everything will be allright. I will pray super hard for their health and safety.
So yesterday, sunday, we had a couple hundred appointments. we are so busy not gonna lie. But for one of the appointments we had a joint teach who came with us. His name is Br. Malzl. So we knocked on the door of this american student home where our investigator lives and nobody answered but we could see them in the kitchen and so bruder Malzl just says to us, "have you tried the door already?" At this point he take the door knob in his hand and turns it and just walks right in to these peoples home walks into the kitchen and asks if brian is there. oh man we were so scared that someone was going to get shot. WE were like Br. malzl these are AMERICANS! they have guns. Its not like germany. Ha ha but we had a good laugh about it. and then he talked to us afterward on the way home and he has his own business called pro shlaf. which means pro sleep. and he is beginning to expand his business to the chiropractic field in america and stuff and so i told him that is what i wanted to do after my mission and then he said that i can have a job working for him as i study to be a chiropractor after my mission. Which is cool because he is one of the weathiest members in our ward. Cool. well i dont have a lot of time to write more. Its going good. Christmas Ideas from everybody would be wonderful. I dont have time to think about what i can buy you so if you do the thinking then i can just do the buying cool!!!! ok love you Alll with meinem ganzem herzen! (with my whole heart) Tschüß!!!!!! Aufwiedersehen!
Elder Adams
Monday, November 2, 2009
November 2, 2009
hey well that is a cool thing about that little kid. we have an investigator that is the exact same way. he is not a little kid but he is a black man his name is peter and he loves to explain all the bible stories to us. It is really funny because he explains them in such a way that even a child can understand them. But hey guess what awesome news! We committed our investigator ney to baptism! Tell spencer that is the guy who was in the picture with me in last weeks email to him. It is really cool. He already has a testimony he says that he knows that all that we have taught him is true. Im way excited about it!!!!!! Anyhow we just gotta keep praying and hope that he follows through.
On other terms. I did happen to get your package. If you could call it a package. The post office destroyed it. The contact solution was gone. there was only one candy piece in there and it was smashed. I got the card that was inside. Thank you very much for that mom. You really are the best for sending that to me. the post office however had destroyed the package. it was all torn and smashed so they put a plastic bag around the remains and said "sorry that your package was damaged, we try to prevent instances like this as often as possible to ensure the satisfaction of our customers -sincerely yours United States Postal Service" So i guess i will go and buy some contact solution. we found a place where you can get it way cheaper its only like 12 euro for a bottle. so i will go and do that.
Judging by the subject on your email you wanted to ask something about daylight savings, but you didnt write anything so i will try to answer as best as i can. Yes we do have daylight savings time here. We got to sleep an extra hour so that was nice.
This week we had something called mission tour. It is where the area general authorities come and teach us how to be more awesome than we already are. It was so spiritual. that was a really cool experience. Elder Cumargo of the Second quorum of the seventy came and taught with his wife for the first half. and then Elder Tischera (don't know if that is spelled right) of the first quorum of the seventy came and talked to us for the second half. It was like six hours long of training and awesomeness. they taught us about faith and taking our faith to the next level. As we have started to apply what we have learned we are starting to see more success. it is awesome we have found two new investigators in the past two days. We are giving out copies of the book of mormon like it is nobodies business and i am loving it. this work is really amazing. I am amazed each and everyday as i wake up and think about what im going to experience today.
That is soo cool!!! Mitchell got his call. Im excited for him!!!! He's gonna love it! Wow! Mexico! tell him congrats!
As a matter of fact they do celebrate halloween in austria. that was a cool experience. I had totally forgot on the 31st that it was halloween. Untill night time when we had a little bit of time in between appointments to go out and do some doors. We went out and there were little children dressed up as bats and witches and ghosts running around as if they were hopped up on crack and candy going door to door as well. It worked out. Lots of people thought we were knocking doors to get candy but when we told them that we wanted to give them something it was a bit of a shock. All that i can say is that several appointments were made and several of Gods elect were found. They give better candy here too. German chocolate is just way better. :)
Next topic on the agenda. Europe is weird i think i have been scarred for life. I dont know how many people have answered their doors in speedos. really really starting to get creeped out. plus there is a man who just moved into the flat behind us and he likes to walk around his apartment stark naked with the windows open. We have resorted to buying blinds since our apartment has not had them before and ya.
next topic...... well i dont know what else to write about. maybe i will get back on in a second. Im gonna go write president. tschüß!!! :) LOVE YOU!!!!!!!
Hey i gots a little more time hope all is well with the family. here is a cool scripture that i found while studying this morning. phillipians 4:13
I really do love you all and i am thankfull that you all do so much for me. Have a wonderful week and know that you are all in my prayers. :) LOVE YOU!!!!!!
Danke shön für die email!!!! Hey it is good to keep hearing from you. How is it going with the car? We see a lot of those roaming around the streets here in germany. Wanna know what else we see here? Ferrarris. thats right. Well you have fun now. Run along and be safe and play nice. Love you tons little spency!
On other terms. I did happen to get your package. If you could call it a package. The post office destroyed it. The contact solution was gone. there was only one candy piece in there and it was smashed. I got the card that was inside. Thank you very much for that mom. You really are the best for sending that to me. the post office however had destroyed the package. it was all torn and smashed so they put a plastic bag around the remains and said "sorry that your package was damaged, we try to prevent instances like this as often as possible to ensure the satisfaction of our customers -sincerely yours United States Postal Service" So i guess i will go and buy some contact solution. we found a place where you can get it way cheaper its only like 12 euro for a bottle. so i will go and do that.
Judging by the subject on your email you wanted to ask something about daylight savings, but you didnt write anything so i will try to answer as best as i can. Yes we do have daylight savings time here. We got to sleep an extra hour so that was nice.
This week we had something called mission tour. It is where the area general authorities come and teach us how to be more awesome than we already are. It was so spiritual. that was a really cool experience. Elder Cumargo of the Second quorum of the seventy came and taught with his wife for the first half. and then Elder Tischera (don't know if that is spelled right) of the first quorum of the seventy came and talked to us for the second half. It was like six hours long of training and awesomeness. they taught us about faith and taking our faith to the next level. As we have started to apply what we have learned we are starting to see more success. it is awesome we have found two new investigators in the past two days. We are giving out copies of the book of mormon like it is nobodies business and i am loving it. this work is really amazing. I am amazed each and everyday as i wake up and think about what im going to experience today.
That is soo cool!!! Mitchell got his call. Im excited for him!!!! He's gonna love it! Wow! Mexico! tell him congrats!
As a matter of fact they do celebrate halloween in austria. that was a cool experience. I had totally forgot on the 31st that it was halloween. Untill night time when we had a little bit of time in between appointments to go out and do some doors. We went out and there were little children dressed up as bats and witches and ghosts running around as if they were hopped up on crack and candy going door to door as well. It worked out. Lots of people thought we were knocking doors to get candy but when we told them that we wanted to give them something it was a bit of a shock. All that i can say is that several appointments were made and several of Gods elect were found. They give better candy here too. German chocolate is just way better. :)
Next topic on the agenda. Europe is weird i think i have been scarred for life. I dont know how many people have answered their doors in speedos. really really starting to get creeped out. plus there is a man who just moved into the flat behind us and he likes to walk around his apartment stark naked with the windows open. We have resorted to buying blinds since our apartment has not had them before and ya.
next topic...... well i dont know what else to write about. maybe i will get back on in a second. Im gonna go write president. tschüß!!! :) LOVE YOU!!!!!!!
Hey i gots a little more time hope all is well with the family. here is a cool scripture that i found while studying this morning. phillipians 4:13
I really do love you all and i am thankfull that you all do so much for me. Have a wonderful week and know that you are all in my prayers. :) LOVE YOU!!!!!!
Danke shön für die email!!!! Hey it is good to keep hearing from you. How is it going with the car? We see a lot of those roaming around the streets here in germany. Wanna know what else we see here? Ferrarris. thats right. Well you have fun now. Run along and be safe and play nice. Love you tons little spency!
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