June 7, 2010

Grüß euch!!!!!

hey family of the year!!!! Well i wanted to let you all know how much i love you all for the support and prayers. This week was tough. we made out like 18 appointments and then only five of them went through. I dont necessarily like it when appointments fall through but hey it goes. Wait that is an englisch translation of a german saying. Well who cares. Anyhow. my english is horrible. to prove that, we had interviews with president condie this week. The three districts in our zone had to come to salzburg where we gave a workshop to the three different districkts and that was awesome. It is wierd to teach in english. I often struggle with the word order and sometimes finding words to say. But life goes on. Well we are not going on to the mountain today. The weather this morning was really bad, it rained like no other this week. We will hopefully go next week. We are still wearing lederhosen today and we are going to a castle in the area. schloss Amras. the church here is also pretty close to that.

Well all that i have to say is that the next week looks better. We made out a lot of appointments for next week. It looks good next week. I love talking to people. Its just downhome good clean fun!!!

Speaking of my bike it got stolen from in front of our appartment. It was locked up. i have not yet had the chance to call it in and report it to the police. but i will try and get to that in the next couple of weeks. But we have an exchange with the salzburg elders this week. i bought my bike there adn they wrote it down so hopefully i can go there and see what they have. I do not have the serieal number for the bike. The bike is a kalkhoff Raider. year 2009. i paid 279 euros for it. So that is pretty much 320 dollars or something. Oh well i will try adn work on it.

as for the pics i tore a phone book in half with my bare hands. My trainer taught me how. there is a trick but brute monkey strength helps as well. we just had a couple of extra old phonebooks in our apartment so i tore them in half. Im cool. Well not so much time. I am so greatfull to be a missionary. i have found such a joy in this and getting to know my savior and redeemer. I try and make progress everyday in coming closer to Him. I love you all and i wish you a wonderful week. Love ELDER ADAMS.

Ha ha. well you remind me of a letter that my trianer sent me. he also talked about life after the misison life. He said that," it is new worries new stress new joys and new fun. and girls only bring a thinner wallet." It is just new but there is alway going to be different stuff adn things are going to be hard but there will always be things that will be good as well. The question we need to ask ourselves is, "was it ever easy for the Lord?". Let that change our perspectives so that we can be happy in whatever the situation is that the lord puts us in in that very moment. I love you Devin and i hope that all is going better for you and that it will continually get better. Have an awesome week adn try and not get skin cancer. I think that is why they give us garments. They protect against skin cancer. Protection. Did you ever hear my story about my bike accident? if not. i will write it next week with all of the details that i left out of the story for mom :) have a great one bro. LOVE ELDER ADAMS

Oh a piece of information that i failed to add in the other letter is that my bike was stolen on the 28th of may in the year of our Lord 2010. I asked some members of the ward if i should involve the police and they said there are so many bikes in Innsbruck because its europe and because we live right in the area of a university that it would be useless. They said that it would probably be already taken apart and sold for pieces. Which leads me to the whole story of how it was stolen. I didnt think i needed to tell the story because i didnt know if there was any thing that we could do about it. so We got back from our exchange in klagenfurt adn i saw my bike in our little garage alcove thing right by our building and the handle bars had been stolen. that made me sad but i just thought ok i can just buy new handlebars the whole bike is still there because it is locked up with my Brinks 20 pound lock. But then we went jogging the day after in the morning (the 28th) and i looked and saw that my whole bike was gone. so ya. it was a good bike. but its ok. Whatever you can find out then that will be cool. LOVE YOU you are the best.