July 12, 2010

Hey thanks mom for the Email!!!!!!

i love you to death. I have not as of yet been able to pick up the package. We are planning to do that today. We have lots to do. Having lots of fun being a part of it. However i have to get a new battery in my old watch and my new watch that i bought in bamberg for my b day is broken. But its ok i have a warranty on it. So i will send it to the repair center which happens to be right here in wien. But hopefully we will go check out schloss belvidare today. Supposedly it is a super beautiful castle with really purdy grounds. But all is going well with me. We worked way hard this week we taught a lot of lessons but the people didnt want to meet further with us so they didnt reall become new investigators. Yesterday we had a ward picnic after the church and we built some serious trust with the members. We got to talk to them and eat with them in a park right behind our church. It was great. And then afterwards Elder Blair and i entertained the kids of all the parents. We played red rover which was a hit. and we had arm wrestling matches in the grass. The parents wanted to know if they could rent the elders for birthday parties. and we said only if you invite your freinds to hear the gospel as well. Ya it was great. plus we made a lot of appointments out with members where we will help them with their mission work goals.

we have two grandmothers here in this ward. Oma steffi. She is the mother of one of our investigators, heidi pohorsky whom we hope to commit to baptism soon, and anyhow she is amazing she is like eighty two years old and just loves to feed us. THen there is also Oma borscka. She also loves to feed us and give us food. They both however dont want to get baptised. They say that if they join our church their children will call them crazy and throw them in the luny bin. Which is sad. they have their agency. anyhow. they are nice.

I made potatoe salad this week by myself and without a recipe and it tasted so good. i just kind of guessed what needed to be in there and whatnot and so that turned out pretty well.

We had our zone konferenz this week and that was great. We did a really cool workshop that pumped all the missionaries to commit themselves to become who they want to become and what type of missionaries they feel they should be at this the new beginning of the merging of the two missions. It was a super spiritual konferenz. I love mission work. it is the greatest. I am so grateful for all the expereinces that i have had in my life prior to this that prepared me for the things that are happening here at this moment and this time. I am so thankful for my patriarchal blessing. It has been such a guide and a strength to me throughout my time here on my mission and i am sure that it will lead and help me through the rest of my life. Thanks for being there for me mom. Thanks for sending the package. i am sure that it got here safely i will go pick it up today. I love you with all my heart. Have a wonderful week. and may the Lord bless you in all your doings.

your son,

Elder Adams

HEy DEV!!!!!!!

That is so coool that you got the job!!!! you are now working at bestbuy!!!! way cool. Wow that is so crazy that all those people are coming home from their missions it seems just like yesterday that everybody left. crazy stuff. man i hope time will start to slow down a little bit. i look back at my mission and i have a ton of great memories and tons of crazy awesome experiences and lots of people that i have taught and stufff like that and it is just gone by crazy fast. I have so much to do and not enough time. Ha its ok. i work it with what i got. Give it my best and tear it up. Zone konferenz went great this week you have no idea. It was so spiritual. And there is nothing better than to have members of your zone come up to you afterwards and tell you how much they learned from it. and how they want to be better. it was awesome. Elder blair and i work pretty awesome together. WE are going to be doing lots better soon. We have not had time to have a full planning session before this week, and i had to really push that we have a full planning session, The way i was trained is to plan for the week, but elder blair was not too keen on getting that finished. We finished it this morning and i have a really good feeling about what we have in front of us this week. we will see success this week. Even though we didnt fully plan for the first three weeks of this transfer we saw an ok amount of success and a lot of tiredness because i just talked to a lot of people adn worked my brains out. Cool stuff. well I did not manage to read all the way through the fourth missionary because i dont have a lot of time here in the internet shop and the printer is broken. so i havend been able to read throught that yet. thanks for the obedience stuff. i was able to read through about a third of it. and for the rest i would need to be able to create time. However we are a very busy breed of missionary. I love it though just concentrating all of my time and energy on other people adn not on myself or what i need. So hopefully i will be able to get to it one day. :)

So with allyson...... details. and yes i remember krista mohammed. that is really cool wish her the best of luck. I served with a companion who is from seattle. and that is where zac durrant is, i think. ASk mom but cool.

WEll have a good week bro. Love your brother

ELDER ADAMS