HELLOOOO!!!!!! What a lovely mother you are. I love you!!!
Well this week went amazing. Thank you for letting me know about grandma. WE have plans already to go to the cemetary. it is so big. A member lives there right there in the area of it. Did you know that there are little sections dedicated for all different types of religious groups and stuff like that. There is places for famous dead people like mozart. He is buried here, (cool fact he was born in salzburg). But the coolest thing is that the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has its own section in this cemetary. Amongst all the places for the Catholics, the Protestants, the Jews. I find it pretty funny how all the religions are separated and stuff like that but at the day of His coming everyone will be resurrected and that place will be a disco. Not really a disco, but every one will know that Jesus is the Christ. Speaking of that i am reading that book in german. Jesus the Christ. James E. Talmage is awesome. That is a great book and a cool way to strengthen your knowledge of the Savior.
Thanks for the cool story from that book that you are reading. I hope that all goes well with work this week. you think it is hot there? Ya we just wont talk about that. My clothes dont dry out. i have lost 6 pounds in sweat. not even joking. I got here and i weighed 150. That was at the beginning of here in wien. it stayed pretty much the same for the first two weeks and then for the past week and a half i have sweated my brains out and i lost 6 pounds. But we can look at the positive side i have a wicked sick tanline on my neck from my collar :)
Heidi is not planning to get baptised on the 31st. She backed out. She said that she loves the book of mormon. She reads in it and she feels the spirit so strongly and the love of the Lord so strongly that she cries. She knows its true but is not sure if the baptism and the whole life change is the right thing for her. She thinks about the baptism still and so i have hope that if we keep working with her that we will be able to help her make this covenant with God. I am excited for heidi. She is still making progress and reading and praying. It will come we just need patience. However this week we had exchanges with a couple sets of elders. I love exchanges. I had the chance to work with elder bishop. he is having a hard time. He doesnt want to be on a mission and he finds it a waste of time to talk to people. There are some other problems but i dont feel it necessary to share them but that was a hard exchange. I felt however that it was my responsibility to show him that through hard work and through faithfilled prayers miracles could be brought to pass. I put so much trust in the Lord. Trust and faith that he would show Elder Bishop that a mission is worth it, that you can find joy through bearing humble testimony and loving others. However he told me that my efforts were in vain and that i am a fake, that i dont believe in what i am teaching. it hurt me but i was determined. I know that the Lord blesses his faithful and obedient servants. Through my efforts i found three new investigators on this exchange. Denise, Herr komnn, and Hans Stempfer, Each with an amazing story. I do really believe that the people that we found this week really will get baptised. They are all so prepared and i found them at a time where i know the Lord wanted to bless me for my actions. I feel so built up this week. Everything is going really well with Elder Blair. We had to have a couple short conversations with each other this week because we were not working in complete unity. I suppose our thought processes were as follows: I am a good experienced zone leader missionary, i can contact teach and baptise all on my own. We worked it all out. These thoughts of pride and whatnot pushed us away from seeing the successs that we thought we could reach on our own when we could have easilly reached it together. What a great lesson learned. I am so grateful for this opportunity to be here. To learn these things. Elder Blair and i planned for interviews. I am pretty stoked for that. We took a little bit of time. and discussed what our zone needed. and because of lot of missionaries are going home this transfer and lots of new ones are going to be coming in we are going to have to step it up in the urgency department. We need to find those that are going to be baptised and have the DESIRE to come to Christ. I love it i will tell you the outcome next week. :)
I got the package last week. The garments are great. probably could go with just a medium next time instead of a medium tall. they are like night gowns. plus what were you thinking sending fireworks throught the mail!?!?!?! did you not know you could go to jail for that. We cant even have fireworks as missionaries. Have devin show you his white handbook. I dont know if its different in other missions but we follow the white handbook here. Obedience is key.
Hey i also wanted to know what you sorted out with the bike and the insurance?
Well i am doing great. We had a great successful week. I got to also do an exchange with ELder Ensign. He is so cool. My old companion from salzburg. i am totally going to chill with him in my lederhosen later in life. We are going to old men together. I have such a christlike love for ELder ensign. Such a good missionary.
Speaking of lederhosen. ELder blair and i decided that today we would visit schönbrunn today in our lederhosen because we didnt get to it last week. last week we went and looked around in innenstadt. hopefully we will get something cool done today. Well i love you mom. Have a great week!!!!!!!
Yours :) ELDER ADAMS
Hey devin,
With the unidendtified lip fungus. hows it going. There is a such thing as chapstick. Burts Bees is what i recommend. The cooling bees wax and mint extract cools and heals cracked and dried lips. but that is not what matters. This week was a little tough. I wrote mom about it and what not so you can check that out. It is a little hard to lift and inspire and help a missionary become a better misionary on exchanges when he doesnt even want to be here. But. He needs to be here i wanted to help him see how this will influence his life and help him become the child of God that God wants him to become. Tough stuff. But i did my best I helped him see tons of success. Success that comes through talking to everyone and just the joy of doing mission work and sharing the gospel. And it worked the Lord answered my prayers. I made a pretty good relationship with him. I just hope he will become that which he needs to become. Love you bro. SCripture for the week. Mosiah 24:13-14
Good luck with work.
ELDER ADAMS
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