September 27, 2010

MOM!!!!!|
I LOVE YOU!!!!\

Sorry that i wont be able to write to much today. I wrote the highlights and most of everything else to dad adn devin and spencer so you can piece those all together if you want to to put it on the blog. it was a great week and i hope you had a great day and week as well. I found out about the camera. IT costs 30 euro to get it repaired. it is repaired and i just need to pay for it now. We had a great pday in an underground lake and so hopefully i will get pics from the other missionaries that were there. Have a great week mom. LOVE YOU

ELDER ADAMS

Thanks bro fo the letta. I luv dat wen yous be sharin yo testimoni. dont have a lot of time to write today but i had fun next week i will send you the pics of see grotte. Check it out online or something too.!!!

ELDER ADAMS

Hey!!!!!

GReat news!!!! but first you need to tell me how it is coming with the dating situation. But ya anyhow back to my great news. I love being a missionary and i love helping people. We have found a lot of new investigators this week through part member families. We have been teaching the husbands of two strong members in our ward. The two husbands after meeting with us and feeling of Gods love have shown excitement to learn more about the Gospel and find out if the book of mormon is actually true.

Plus heidi wants to get baptised. I have been waiting for this day since i came here to wien. We had an appointment with her and i committed her to be baptised on that first day and she said no. WE have worked hard with her and prayed that the holy ghost would open her heart and let her feel of the truth. He did. The holy ghost is real. He testifies of the Father and radiates his love. And in the words of heidi that is what it all comes back to is the love of the Father in everything. Its true. She has felt it. I LOVE YOU DEVIN. have a great week.

ELDER ADAMS

hey pops.

I love you so much!!!! That is really cool that you made spencer a priest. I hope that you have a great week this week. We went to the See Grotte this week for P. Day so i dont have too much time to write. It was really cool. It is Europes largest underground sea. It was really cool we got to take a boat ride 60 meters underneath a mountain!!!!! I hope that you have a great week. It was our stake conference here and i got to sing in the choir with Elder paschen. O and just to let you know i am not working with him anymore. There was an emergency transfer and he is getting transferred away to stuttgart. I am staying here as zone leader and I still get to work with a german. His name is Elder Simon. He is from Berlin. We have still been teaching heidi and she has decided on when she wants to get baptised. She said that the day for her is the 10th of October 2010. I am so excited for her. She has made so much progress and i am happy that she is making this step in her life. She has asked me to baptise her and confirm her. I am so excited. I really love this work. I love you pops.

LOVE ELDER ADAMS

September 20, 2010

MOM!!!!
I love you!!!!! I love you more than Germans Love sauerkraut!!!!

Wow. that is such a cool story that. That is so wonderful that you did that for shaun and spencer. The amount of charity and pure love of Christ that i felt as i read that story was amazing. Thank you for being so amazing!!! MACON GEORGIA. is that like the russian georgia,or is that the southern kind of georgia, you know the Chicken and Waffles kind of georgia? Im so stoked for Brannen. he is such a stud. Tell him that i said that and that i really look up to him!!!! Tell spencer to watch out. A senior!!!!! in what class is spencer? that is crazy. he cant be so much of a playa. ha ha anyhow. Ya im still in wien with My ELder Paschen!!!!! We had a pretty good week. It was really successful but not as successful as it could have been. WE had a ton of appointments planned and made out with people that had showed interest, but then most of them fell through. I give my best and contact like crazy and make out as many appointments as i can, and then sadly they dont show up or dont let us in. It was a little tougher this week, because even though i am used to dissappointment, i dont let myself get dissappointed. however it is tough when it feels like you are going through it alone. There are still some differences between the old swiss zurich mission and the united mission of the Alpen land German speaking Mission. Mainly in obedience, adn discipline or dedication. Elder Paschen and i are trying to work through what is obedience and how President condie does things as compared to the old president. it makes it a little tough. Both of our goals are the same to help people come to Christ, but we have different directions of doing that. Its just that we are supposed to be examples for the zone in all areas of mission work (talking to people, obedience, talking to members) and i feel that i am carrying the example by myself. So we talked a lot this week about how we can be more of a team and do that better together. We have lots of fun together. and we are seeing success, its actuallysuper funny how well we get along together but how much we disagree. you would find it funny i do believe. but anyhow. WE have a great week ahead of us. Heidi is talking to all of her friends about how she wants to get baptised and if they would come to her baptism. She is getting closer and closer. I am so excited for her. She is really making super progress and she has a great strong testimony. She realizes it too. So cool. We got fed twice this week by a professional cook. His name is Alexander zeilinger. he is so cool. a great cook as well. I gotta get on to writing president. I love the work and I love you. Have a great week.

LOVE ELDER ADAMS

September 13, 2010

THat is a wierd greeting. Wow it sounds like you are having a great vacation. That is super cool. I am not jealous of the sand or the waves. That would be cool to hit up and do but i have more important stuff to do. you know like saving souls and what not. Coolest story this week i went on exchanges with Elder Ramage. He is from pleasant grove. He is in his first transfer with his trainer, and another elder who lives with him (Elder Ensign) told me that i need to go on exchange with him, because he was having a hard time with the work and that my attitude towards the work could help him. So Elder Paschen and i set up an exchange with the Elders from the wien 3 ward and we went to work. We had such an amazing experience together. They only had one appointment set up that we could go to so we pretty much had a full day of contacting. I was ok with that. Contacting is really awesome, there is only one thing better than contacting and that is teaching. But when you teach when you contact then you manage to have an awesome time. So we contacted like crazy. his german is not that great but we just talked to thousands of people. I gave him a couple tips and we went forth. and it came to pass that we found many of them who knew not God. We found two new investigators and we made out five appointments with other people. We also met a lady on the street. I think she fell in love with me because she wanted to make us thai food and i said that next time i was not going to be working with elder ramage, and she was like no way you have to come with you can bring your compainion as well come with as many people as you want just as long as you are there. so we went there a couple days later and she wanted to learn more about the book of mormon and we gave her one in thai and then she gave us thai food. I had requested massaman curry and she was so amazed that i knew what that was and so she made it for us. That was way cool.

So this was a really cool week we saw lots of awesome success but as we learn in the scrips there must be opposition in all things. it was pretty tough this week. Lots of people been hatin on us. A lady called the police on me, because i gave her son a book of mormon. he looked like he was 24. but his mom called me up after i gave him the book and after he came home with it and she probably thought we were a demonic sect and so she called me up and freaked out on me. two guys that didnt even know us tried accusing us of just being here in austria because we couldnt find work in america and that we are just trying to sell our religion. they made so many comments about how we are so horrible and how we just force people follow what jo smith just made up. It was a tough week. but i gave my best. I gave them the chance at hearing the gospel. I opened my mouth and did what i was supposed to do and i wont quit. They cant stop me. I just keep on trucking along. i am happy. I am also hungry. i am feeling a dönner. Its starting to get colder here. the leaves are changing color and everybody is preparing for the wintery death that awaits them. I have heard that winter in wien is super cold. but dont send handwarmers i have eight thousand from last winter still. thanks for all that you do. LOVE YOU!!!!!

+ ELDER ADAMs

ps as for pics i am awesome at making crepes. and uncle sam wants you!!!!!

September 6, 2010

Hello!!!

yup so im going to go check today and see how much it may cost to fix my camera. I dont know how much it might be. I hope at least that there is a little bit of money in my account. just let me know, how much i have.

this week was awesome. I am really tired. Elder Paschen and i, we get along really well, however i feel lately that i have been doing most of the work. He just kind of talks a lot and whines. He asks me why we dont have appointments on a certain day at a certain time and that pushes me to work harder to get appointments then, however he doesnt do anything to change the situation. He was in the former swiss mission and the president then had some different ideas than that which is in the white handbook about obedience so we have had a couple of discussions about that and how he thinks that since he hasnt heard anything different than what the old president said then he doesnt have to change that. Dont get me wrong, i love elder paschen. I have never seen so much success in my entire mission as i have seen this transfer, and i know that the Lord has blessed us greatly with that. Elder Paschen and i work grand together. The thing is, is that it is really draining physically and spiritually to try and be the example the whole time, in areas such as obedience and contacting people on the streets and in trains and stuff like that. The finding and appointment making part of the missionary work, as well as being an example of obedience to the other zone members feels like it lays all upon my shoulders. With teaching and whatnot Elder paschen is a genius, i love teaching with him. He can explain the Gospel and all the points of the teachings so wonderfully. I have learned so much from Elder Paschen as a teacher. At mission council we learned how to ask questions through the spirit, and as we practiced that, Elder Paschen asked the greatest question to Sister Condie so that we could find out her concerns and help her to overcome that. So we work great as a team he is an amazing teacher and i do the contacting and appointment setting along with teaching. Which turns out to work out pretty good. Just a little draining when he asks why we dont have appointments and why the member work is not going as good as we want it, and yet he doesnt do anything to fix it. So we are working on it, getting better and better each day. That is what this life is about. Making constant progress. Its great.

So ya we were in München for two days. Its really cool being there with all the leaders from the entire mission. So wonderful to learn and get experience from all the best teachers from the entire mission. We managed to have a good week although we were away from our area for two days. We had an exchange with the Wien 1 elders. And the assistents and Wien 4 elders. It was a super busy week and pretty stressful but i learned a lot.. I love you all and i am super greatful for all the support that you send my way in the form of thoughts and prayers, emails and love. i send my love back to you all. I have never been more greatfull to be on a mission than i am at this very moment. I wish you all however a wonderful time in california. You have to tell me all about it! :) You goin´ surfin`? love you all have a great week !!!!! peace out!!!!!!

-p.s last week for p. day i went and saw the grave of Falco. Thats right. Rock me Amadeus!

lovies!!!

ELDER ADAMS

Super cool pics of spencers eagle!!!! Thanks for sending those. You can give my email address to ELder Garcias mother. ELder garcia can write me all he wants, i will read them just as i read his emails that you forward but i will not reply. Email is only to be used to stay in contact with immediate family members. If he writes me and wants me to reply he will have to wait for written mail. By the way can i have his mission home address. I would like to write him. thanks. super cool american cake. I have not seen that much frosting in a long time. I bet it tasted so good. THey dont have frosting in such large amounts here. Perhaps that is why all people here think that all americans are obese. But then they look at me with my chiseled 100 pullups a day body and think that americans are awesome. I preach the Gospel. There is nothing better.!!!!!

Bis nächste woche!!! ELdER ADAMS