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