June 28, 2010

Good morning beloved loved ones,
Wow that is really scary. Grandma had a stroke. When did she have the first one? I dont think you ever told me about that. But i hope that she will be ok. I will pray for her. Keep me updated, and tell her that I love her. Its times like these where you really think about the plan of salvation, The plan of happiness and what God has in store for all of his children. I know that He loves each and every one of us. He will watch over and protect grandma. His plans our greater than ours and i find comfort in that fact. I am thankful for my knowledge of His loving kindness and his tender mercies that he gives each and everyone of us daily. Thank you for letting me know about this so that i can pray for her and also that i may understand the will of the Father in this situation.
Hmmm. that is a heavy matter.
The work here is going great. We are helping people to come to this knowlege as well of the plan of Salvation and of God and how he has given this information to us anew through the prophet Joseph smith. The work is going great. I am so happy to be here in Wien. Did you know that there are so many people here. When i first arrived an elder said something to me that i didnt at that point understand. But apparently rumors had spread around the mission to other elders that i am a contacting machine because i talk to everybody, and i mean everybody, and so he said to me, "Wien is a big city, good luck trying to contact all the people" And i lie not i have seriously tried to contact everybody that i see but it is so hard. There are about 2 million people that live in Wien. I talk to people in busses, street trains, underground trains, trains on the street and somehow there is just not enough time or capability in my body to be able to speak to everybody in Wien, i like to compare the amount of people here with the same number of grains of sand in the sea. Its pretty awesome. It gives me a challenge. This just means that there are a lot of people that need to be found here, that have never heard of the goodness of Jesus. I love it here. It is a little dirtier than innsbruck. The air quality is definately a little worse. My poor beautiful pink lungs that i had before my mission are going to be hopefully preserved by the hand of the Lord, but when not i might have need to fear of the Black lung. (cough cough). Just kidding. Oh by the way. WE Elder Blair and i (whom i have sent a picture of he has blonde hair) we went to mission council in München on friday. We had a way amazing spiritual experience there with all the other zone leaders of this mission before they combine the two missions on the first. We planned and counseled as the leaders of the mission how we were going to help the missionaries and then we made out a basic fundamental plan for what we would teach at zone konferenzes and interviews. And i found my package from bamberg there. They had it in the mail that was supposed to go to the innsbruck area but i got transferred so now i have my garments. Cool right!!!!! My new address here in Wien is

Kirche Jesu Christi HLT
Elder Joshua Tyler Adams
Obere donau str. 45/25
1020 Wien, Österreich

So as for the bike situation. You can send it in. I just didnt know if it would make sense to pay 250 dollars from your own pocket only to get 70 added to it. the only reason why i said that is because i will not be using the money to pay for another bike. It wouldnt be worth it. Send it if you want to. File the claim. I will just not be buying a new bike with the money. i could buy you chocolate or you could go get a new dress for church or something. End. Plus money isn't really important to me. (2 nephi 9:50,51; 1 timothy 6:10 ; Mosiah 4:23,24) and those are just the ones that are off the top of my head.
We have a couple of really cool investigators here in Wien. We have introduced the Stop smoking programm to Herr Stankovic. He wanted to quit smoking and so the missionaries have a special plan that is garunteed to work in 7 days so that was really cool to do with him. The ward here is huge. There are so many members here than in the Branch in Innsbruck. so many possibilities to do member mission work. But ya since i got here it has been a lot of finding time. We havent had too many appointments and whatnot but we will get that fixed real quick like so that we can start seeing success here. This area is going to be a challenge, a struggle, a fight but it will be awesome. The zone hasnt seen to much success lately, but we will hopefully be able to build up the missionaries in every aspect of mission work, obedience, dilligence, teaching, finding, faith, simply be more like Christ!!! you all know what im talking about. But Anyhow, I love this work. Even when i have been eaten alive by mosquitos, i love it. NO lie i have like 8 mosquito bites on one foot. dont ask me how that worked. They apparently can go through socks and shoes. By the way Elder Blair is an amazing Missionary. He is from manti utah. he has been a zone leader here for about 4 transfers now and i get the opportunity of working with him. He is an amazing singer and also a good cook. We make salads. They are tasty. He is a spiritual powerhouse as well. I love being a missionary. So great to be here!!!!! And I love all of you. Too bad you have to celebrate the fourth of july without me, but God Bless AMERICA!!! Have a great week. LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!
ELDER ADAMS


Wow i just looked at my eyes in these pictures. The red rings and black circles of tiredness are getting pretty noticeable. hmmm. maybe i will just turn into dust at the end of my mission because im never giving up at giving my all!!!!!!

I love you!!!!!!! Scriptures are the bomb!!!!! Thanks. So do you wanna do a little mission work. We will be having zone konferenz on the sixth of july. The theme that we came up with is Effectiveness and becoming the missionary that you want to become. We will also be touching a little on obedience actually a lot because the missionaries here need a little work with that. So you can study about that a little bit and then send me your ideas and i can see if we can incorporate them into the workshops that we will give and the time we have to teach our zone. Sound like a deal? I love hearing from you adn i love the uplifting words that you send. That is what is most important. LUKE 22: 32 when we have converted ourselves then it is our duty to strengthen our brothers. I dont know if it is different in the Englisch translation but that is what it means in german. So strengthen your brother. Give your ideas to me and together you can help me help wien!!!!! cool!!!! Love you Bro. Have a Great WEek!!!!!!!!