November 30, 2009

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