February 20, 2011

Danke Sehr,
Also wunderschönen guten servus!!!!. We had a great week this week. The past two weeks were intense. We were constantly on the road. We haven't had the time to go grocery shopping for three weeks and because of that we saved a lot of money. Sister Condie watches out for us though. We were planning on riding with them these last two weeks from zone conference to zone konference but it always turned out that president condie had meetings with the stake presidents after the zone conferences and so that meant that Elder Baird and i had some time to go out and work with the missionaries. We went out and we baptised!!!! We went on splits and exchanges everywhere. I went to a family in wels in the salzburg zone and had the wonderful opportunity of committing them to baptism. They want to be baptised on the 12th of March. We helped the elders in Aarau, switzerland find 4 new investigators. We made out about 4 appointments in Bern. In wien on the way to the trainstation we were able to get a few contacts. It was awesome. It was the greatest two weeks of my life till now. the next two weeks im going to do better and make them better than the last and so on and so forth. But it wasnt without its trials. We only got to spend three days in our own area, we spent many nights sleeping on the floors of other missionaries apartments, no blankets no mattresses.... its cool. But we still had an amazing week. we packed double appointments in during the couple days that we were here and the members just did splits with us so we were able to teach and meet with just as many people as we wanted. The members here are so ready to help us. its wonderful. they saw a couple sundays ago that we had like 9 investigators at church and just wanted to drop everything that they were doing and help the missionwork.
We are working so hard and it is so worth it. Georg Gaier is making amazing progress. I am so impressed with his will to do what is right. He wants to give up smoking. So yesterday i did the stop smoking programm with him and he is willing to give up smoking. He is so excited to get baptized on the 5th of march. I am also very excited for that day.
Well i gotta say that elder baird is my valentine. I love him so much. We work so hard together. We feed off of each others momentum, and we keep pushing each other to be better more christlike missionaries. I would give him my firstborn child. So even though we were only together these past two weeks during the actual zone konferences, and every other minute we were apart teaching with other missionaries encouraging, inspiring, lifting and blessing others, it was a great week. I dont actually know if that sentence made sense. Hmmm. my english is pretty sad. thats why im staying here. I got it. Its pretty final, or in other words official. President is allowed, from the First Presidency, to extend my mission for an extra month. That is the maximal amount of time for anybody because of Visa regulations. But im ok with that. So..... hope you are all ok with that. :) Its the greatest thing in the world. wanna know why? Wien, Salzburg, Wels, München, Stuttgart, Esslingen, Winterthur, St. Gallen, Zürich, Wettingen, Bern, Zollikofen, and Aarau. Those were the cities i was in, in the past 2 weeks. Each city has at least 30,000 inhabitants, most of which need the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am so stoked to share this saving message, the healing words and love that our Heavenly Father has for all of us, with every single one of these people. Have a great week, and enjoy the blessings that you daily recieve at the hand of Him from whom all blessings flow.

Elder Adams