2Timothy 4:5-8. Most are about being a servant of the Lord, and how he wants us to do his work. They are great missionary scriptures and have been a great part of my study this past week. I love you bro. and Keep preparing. The time left is short, but you are so lucky that you get 2 months in the mtc ahead of you. That place is like the temple, it is one of the greatest places on the earth to be. Love ya tons bro. and sorry I didn't wish you a happy birthday last week, but you are 19!!!! Congrats.
Love the elder ELDER ADAMS,
P.S.- You're not a missionary yet Big Chief!
So it's been one week with my new companion. He's still fresh, he's only been in the mission field 7 weeks now. He is really shy and or nervous on doorsteps, and so I'm trying to work with him on this. He also seems to have difficulty in wanting to talk to everyone. Talking to people is probably the biggest thing. It's almost like it's awkward for him when he does do it. That's the thing, a lot of the times he will let people pass him by and he won't talk to them. He's told me he doesn't really like finding people in general, especially tracting, but he likes teaching. He's actually a good teacher, especially for just coming out of the MTC. Anyway we're getting through things. He's also a little slow getting ready. Things are good though it's good to be able to help him along and teach him things.Wow!!! What a conference weekend!!!! This weekend of Conference was 2 of the fastest days of my mission, next to the days in the MTC. I feel like I'm getting robbed. It truly was uplifting and Elder Holland and Elder Eyring touched me the most. Conference was simply amazing, I loved it. There were so many things that I pulled from it. How about that new Apostle. I love him, one of his talks from last conference I really enjoyed. Conference seemed to just come and go. It seems like we just had the one in October, so I know the next will probably come just as fast. It saddens me to think that I only have 2 more interviews with President Stoddard before he goes home, including the one this Friday.We got on our bikes yesterday, and that felt good. President wants us to start conserving the miles on our cars and using our bikes. So we did some biking yesterday which felt really good.Mom I want you to know....You'd be surprised how much cleaner I am than the companions that I've had. With the exception of my trainer. He was clean also. Some of these missionaries though.....I think you'd be impressed with how clean I am mom. I know you used to say that I lived like a wild animal. Anyway most of this weeks news has just been me trying to teach and continue to train Elder Stanger.
Love ya tons, Elder Adams
P.S. The past two Sundays in a row we've had snow. It's ridiculous!! It's April, Winter is over, it needs to take a seat on the bench!!
Mom, you need to email Zach or tell his mom to, and tell him that I can't email him!!!! Tell him he has to write me. I have to be obedient, I know it's tough and we don't see the reason, but we have to. I can only email family. As much as Zach basically is my brother and of my own blood (I mean we shared the womb practically) I can't email him. Tell him not to email me. You can tell him these things that I wrote to you. Just have him write me a letter, and I will promptly respond. I love him.
Thanks for the brief update. I wanted you to know that I still have the little piece of wood with my name on it in my backpack that you gave me. I still carry it with me. I love you litte bro. I hope everything in your life is going well and that you are being blessed. Continue to pray each night and morning and to read the scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon. If you do this I know that you will be happier each day, and that the trials and frustrations of life will become lighter. You will be able to take whatever each day throws at you. I love you kid, you're a good bro. I wish we had been closer and that I had treated you with more respect. Keep striving to excel in every aspect of your life, and rely on the Lord in doing so and he will bless you.
Love your Big Bro.
Elder Adams
It's about time, we are just sitting here emailing. My companion is almost done emailing President. Then we need to get groceries. I might come back later. I'm here for maybe 10 min. more. You're slow out of the gate. Just kidding
I don't know, but if he wants to break a rule he can. I've known of missionaries emailing girlfriends. That missionary ended up choosing to go home.(Probably homesick) That's the thing, you could break the rule and president probably wouldn't know, but the Lord would, and you would and so would the Spirit, and you'd feel that. You'd know you were without that, you'd feel naked. It's a personal choice, Obedience, you have to be obedient though.
Andrew's Farewell was on mother's day so...I don't know. Anyway it's good to hear all is well. Now are you sure that the socks in my drawer ate the ones that say kb on the toe. And they are thin. I thought I packed them all, but I'll trust you. Wow, what a tax return, that's nice. Looks like Josh had a good birthday too.
Good bye. I might be back later on today, so look for me. Gotta get some groceries.
Nice so then he can pack his!!! That's messed up. I'm ONline again
I forgot to tell you. The a week or two ago when we were on the L train going downtown we ran into some peole from Rome, Italy. They spoke English, a little. Elder Brown and I helped them find out which train they needed to get on and when they needed to get off. They got on the same train as us and we talked with them the whole way. They were here for a wedding of a family member. They told us about Italy, and we told them a little about who we were and that there are missionaries in Italy. Italians are really cool. It was so cool to talk to them. It was mainly these two older ladies in this group that we were talking with. They were really nice though, both Catholic. One of them spoke better English than the other and had to do some translating. The diversity here is incredible. I like to think of this city as the crossroads of the world. I've also spoken to people from African on the L. This experience talking with these people from Rome, Italy was really cool. Also with Elder Brown, I forgot to tell you that we were let into a home of a man from Iraq!!! We don't have missionaries there. He has converted to Christianity, and now he makes trips back to the middle east to try and convert other muslims. He said thats what we should be doing here is converting people who don't have a faith in Christ. "Find every Jew, Indian, and Arabic, and convert him!" That's what he wanted us to do. We tried talking to him about our message but he wasn't as interested. There was probably 10 members of his family there in the living room just listening to us. It was quite the experience. We ended up giving him some dvds that he could share with the people in the middle east. This was neat. We then all stood his whole family included and we had a prayer together. There are so many different kinds of people here.
We have a dinner appt. @ 5:30 so that's 4:30 your time. Jump on.
I forgot to wish you all a Happy Easter. This Sunday is our stake conference, where Bill Murray will be sustained to the Melchezidek Priesthood. Afterwards I think the ordination will take place. I will get to ordain him to this Priesthood, how cool is that!!!! I let you know how things go.
I don't know, but if he wants to break a rule he can. I've known of missionaries emailing girlfriends. That missionary ended up choosing to go home.(Probably homesick) That's the thing, you could break the rule and president probably wouldn't know, but the Lord would, and you would and so would the Spirit, and you'd feel that. You'd know you were without that, you'd feel naked. It's a personal choice, Obedience, you have to be obedient though.
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