November 29, 2010

hi hi hi I just wanted to say that we will be emailing on saturday. I want you all to know that i love you and that i pray for you. I will read your emails on saturday and then write you a response. have a great week.
LOVIES,
ELDER ADAMS

November 22, 2010

Family,

All is well. Super stressed, lots to get done. but i love it. I have really really learned the meaning of serving, and forgetting yourself in the work. I have absolutely no time for myself. I love it. i cannot write long today i wrote a little too long last time and that put us behind in getting the records done for President condie. He is amazing by the way. he came on a joint teach with us yesterday. What a great example. We had a really great week. I called a lot of people in the car. We have a car in this area. which reminds me i will be ordering a drivers licencse here in germany. They are lifetime drivers license so that is a plus. another positive thing is that i dont have to take any tests written or practical they will just translate my utah license however i have to pay 100 euro from personal money so that is a bummer. So if you could also transfer money from my savings that would be great. well to answer your question little tidbits sent during the week will do you no good. i only get to check my mail on p day and that is usually only for 20 or so minutes.

The work is moving forward here as i said i called a lot of people and they wanted to meet with us. I dont know why not before but ya. We got a few more appointments this week and im stoked to get even more to become even more busy. . We were in salzburg this week. I got to work with Elder Foremaster. He is awesome. What a great zone leader. it will be great. I love you all have a wonderful week.

ELDER ADAMS

November 15, 2010

Mother, Family, Friends, beloved,

Well its is a really new adjustment. The first week after a transfer is always a little tough. To get to know the new area, the investigators, and the apartment. Our apartment was super messy when i got here. I cannot handle untidyness, the spirit doesnt and cant live there. We are so busy with so much stuff that i hardly had the chance to unpack and get my stuff in order. but after a couple of days i got it done, now i will be able to get into the groove of things. dont expect too detailed emails from me from now on. I am emailing you at 6:30 in the morning. I found out that as an assistant we dont really get a p-day because we have so much to do. We get this time in the morning about a half an hour to get emails to president and family and everything else done. and then maybe an hour later today when we get everything done.

I love it here. I am really going to learn the meaning of serving. i had a really cool experience my first day here. no wait it was on the second day. I dont know the time is so messed up. anyhow. The first day a sister got on the wrong train somewhere and she got lost so we had to stress out and get that all sorted out, so that she wouldnt be alone and so that she would be safe. President is so amazing. Before we all started running around to get that figured out, he called everyone in the office together and said we are going to need all of your faith. We kneeled down and he offered such an amazing prayer. You can really tell he just talks with God. Second day, he called us into his office, and asked us to think for a minute about the mission, an then, "Elder Adams and Elder Christensen, what kind of Prophesies do you have for the mission, what is the mission going to become what is it going to look like." we had a couple of minutes to let the spirit of the Lord open our minds and our eyes and then we begann to Prophesy and develop how we wanted the mission to be. We have just between Elder Christensen and I we have the two main goals, To bring others to Christ, and To lift the mission.

Im stoked for all the work that lies ahead of me and there is a lot. The area that we are assigned to work in right now is not doing so hot investigator wise, however that is going to change we are going to tear it up and the members are already starting to like me here. We were able to meet with a couple of them and it is going to be great i have nothing but high hopes and dreams for here. have a great week. I love you all tons. cool fact: I was in the same MTC group as Elder Christensen but never thought that i would see him untill after the mission because he went to the swiss mission.

Ok gotta go.

LOVIES

ELDER ADAMS

November 8, 2010

Beloved fellow Missionaries,

President Uchtdorf promised us six months ago that one of the Christlike attributes has the power to “heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels” as well as “deepen [our] happiness, focus [our] action and offer hope for peace and healing.”

What is this Christlike attribute?

Wait for it . . . wait for it . . .

Patience!

What is patience, and how can we reap the blessings that patience brings?

Preach my Gospel expounds on patience, clarifying it as the “capacity to endure delay, trouble, opposition, or suffering without becoming angry, frustrated, or anxious. It is the ability to do God´s will and accept His timing.” (PMG, p. 120)

President Uchtdorf says that true patience is more than just waiting. “Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with [your mission] and doing all that you can—working, hoping, and exercising faith, bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring, it is enduring well.” (“Continuing in Patience”, May 2010 Liahona)

The delay, trouble, opposition, and suffering will come to us, no matter what. Jenkins Lloyd Jones observed, “Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”

Let us remember whose Church this is, and whose missionaries we are. Jesus Christ leads this Church. Alma promised his son Helaman that “whosoever shall put their trust in God shall be supported in their trials, and their troubles, and their afflictions, and shall be lifted up at the last day.” (Alma 36:3) The Savior will “strengthen thee, help thee and cause thee to stand, upheld by [His] righteous, Omnipotent Hand!” (How Firm a Foundation, Hymn # 85)

“Therefore, dearly beloved [Missionaries], let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed” (D & C 123:17).

With love,

Alpine German-Speaking Mission

HELLO,

We did live off of scraps. but it went great last week. I already pretty much wrote you about that. the only thing new that happened between friday when we emailed you and monday when we emailed you is that we had an awesome saturday. we did service at a wonderful members house in the mountains. Wien doesnt really have mountains they are more like hills but anyway we were there in the WienerWald (vienna forest) and we got to rake leaves at his house. Brother Cornelius Cunia is his name. He is a really wonderfull man. He has such a super strong testimony. We raked and raked and ate then raked some more. I tell you what. I have the sickest amount of muskel kater. I dont know what that is called in englisch. its what you get when you work out really hard and then your musckels hurt really bad. i raked using my whole body because after the first hour my arms were dead and so my abs and everything else is super tight. Im not gonna lie though. it was good. I needed a good muscle toning workout. my abs look off the chain now. that was great. Then after that we had the opportunity to fast. I love fasting. I had a special purpose for fasting. As usual. however this time was different. I dont think i will share it because it is really special to me, but i can give testimony to the power of prayer and fasting. The Lord hears our cries. He is there to stand by us and support and succor us in our times of need.

And i suppose that he hears the prayers of president condie. He is really an inspired president and i trust in that. This trust and faith that he is an inspired president will help me through the next little bit. I have been humbled. President Condie called me up yesterday morning before church, which was weird we usually talk to him about the zone on tuesday and it is the middle of the transfer. However he called me up, and said, "ELDer adams i have a new calling for you. I want you to come to münchen and assist me." I have seen the missionaries who have been assistents to the president before adn they are all exemplary missionaries, and they end up getting really tired as assistents. I Hope that the Lord will help me in my new calling and help me to help others. I will tell you how it all goes. I leave for München on thursday. All i can say is that i really love wien. I have loved everyminute of it. I have made so many friends here. Felt the love here. Special experiences, have been given me here. I look forward with hope and faith to every opportunity that i get to move forward to learn more and to serve my God. Im excited, no i take that back im stoked outta my mind to help the mission move forward and to learn from president condie, a very inspired and spirt filled chosen servant of the Lord. Have a great week and let the love of God fill your lives.

ELDER ADAMS

oh sorry i forgot to anser to a couple of items in your email to me. I really dont need anything for christmas. im good on garments. deoderant as well. handwarmers im good. My joy is full. My cup runneth over as david the psalmist would so beautifully say it. i would just maybe need some money. my shirts are starting to get worn through where my backpack sits, as well as my pants but nobody sees that when i am wearing my suit which is still in pretty good condition. so maybe just some money to buy a shirt or two. my new address by the way if you want to send a package is the one for the mission office. Lommel strasse 7, that is the one. So if the ward is sending something then that would be the place. have a great week love you mom. !!!!

ELDER ADAMS

November 5, 2010

Hallo leut!!!!!!

that is how the german people say whats up my peeps!! just kidding but almost. Thanks for writing me. I always appreciate getting mail. but it depends on what kind of mail. Email. Fan mail. those are the good kinds. junk mail. black mail. and other kinds like that are not good, but what can you do. according to 2 nephi 2.11 there has to be an opposition in all things. Im just glad that im blessed enough to get the good kind of mail. Speaking of mail. Grandma sent me just a letter. I doesnt have to have money in it for me to send her something good or nice in return. I love grandma. the thing is is that here in wien they are really stingy about me sending chocolate through the mail. im still trying to find a way around the system. just give me time im smart i will break it. i will get you a picture of the shoes sometime, that means when i get a camera to take a picture of my shoes, only then will i be able to send you the corresponding photos of evidence of the many kilometers walked. Ha ha that reminds me of a song i think it is called 500 miles by the proclaimers. it goes a little something like this:

"when i wake up, ya you know im gonna be, ya you know im gonna be the companion whose waking up next to you,

and when we study, ya you know im gonna be, ya im gonna be the one whose studying with you,

and when we go out, ya you know im gonna be, ya you know im gonna be, the one whose going out contacting with you,

chorus:

cause i would walk 500 miles and i would walk 500 more just to be the missionary whose gonna come knocking at your door

la da da da! la da da da! .....

and so on and so forth.

Missionary work is amazing. and it is great to have fun with it as well. i have never found such a great joy in my entire life as i have here in wien and here and now. the joy of my mission just continues to build and i dont think it will ever stop. I hope that it just keeps going on and progressing just like the stone that was cut out of the mountain without hands. My joy will continue to roll on and continue forth until it has filled the whole earth.

This week sorry that the email didnt come untill today, friday the 5th, because this week on monday and tuesday there was a really catholic holiday called all saints day on monday and on tuesday there was one called all souls day. and then after that so on tuesday wednesday and thursday and we had an awesome leadership training meeting in the mornings with president and sister condie and that was great. We upped our skills on teaching and most importantly teaching with the spirit. I love the source of knowledge that president and sister condie are for us. they are so well experienced. it was really a great experience.

We went to munich again for a special zone leader conference also last week. that happens monthly now. I am getting really used to riding in trains and talking to people. We found an awesome familly last week they are coming to church and loving it and loving meeting with us. im super happy, except for the fact that elder simon and i have apparently ate something wrong or we need to change our diets. He has been consitpated for the past 6 days and i have had nothing but the runs. We are getting along pretty good. our apartment stinks cuz he just farts all the time. i feel like i should strap car air freshners around my nose. but we are working on getting along better. Nothing like being with someone 27 hours a day and 8 days a week to help prepare you for the awesomeness of etermal marriage.

Well that is about it for me. Halloween was great. the only piece of candy that i got was a stick of gum. it was the best piece of gum ever. thank you for your card. that was also nice. tell spencer to suck it up and to push the bone back in and keep running. I love you all and wish yall a good one till monday!!!

Love Elder Adams