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