Happy Halloween

Hey I'm on.  I didn't get any e-mail from you.
Okay awesome! how was the week?
Yeah hahah why is that?
Why was your week good?
Hey did you contact UVU?
No you don't have to I was just checking.  Sorry I didn't mean to make you add more things to your todo list...
possibly soc10cer32 or 10soccer that should be it...  I think it was just half tuition.
I have no idea... Shawn??  Jack??
try 10soccer
Sweet thanks!
No I do not....
Is there any way that I can just give you power of Attorney over e-mail?
Yes I got it thank you!!!
Yes I did! that looks super sweet!  and that's good that you were able to not spend your whole life on the house.

That is so awesome that you were able to talk in church!  It sounds like everything went super well.  I'm impressed that you could understand Dad haha just kidding.  It sounds like you all are super busy and having a lot of things to do with the Christmas committee and all that fun stuff.  That is super fun though.  The mountains in that picture look crazy insane.  Haven't seen those things in a really long time.  The biggest thing that I've seen out here is a hill.  The hills are pretty though that is for sure.  All the leafs out here are changing color and it looks absolutely amazing!  It's getting a little bit colder out here to so that's always nice.  I love the cold weather out here.  The winter is so beautiful.  Apollo looks like he is getting huge!!!.

So this week has been a very interesting week.  There has been a lot of miracles and things like that but I would first like to start off with the things that I have been able to learn.  These last couple of weeks have been a little stressful trying to be a good example to the missionaries that I serve and trying to do all that I can acting in faith so that Heavenly Father will trust me to be able to do his work and help his children progress to the gospel.  As I sat there one night thinking about how I can help missionaries realize there potential and help them build there faith the thought came to me, "What are you doing?".  Now I could have just brushed that off and said, "Well I'm doing all I can so I'm good, what can I do to help others."  I let that thought sit there for a while and pondered it.  I thought about what am I doing?  Am I doing the bare minimum and why am I doing it?  What are my true desires?  Now that I think about this a little more I realize that our Heavenly Father whats us to have the eye of Faith.  He wants us to dream big and to shoot for the stars when we set goals or do anything in our life.  What is our desire though?  Are we doing it because we want recognition or because we want to simply put that on our pride self so that when we are feeling bad about ourself we can hand ourself a pick me up.  Desire are what shape us as God's children.  It all comes down to why.  We can study the how all day and not see a change in our life but until we understand the why and obtain the true reason why (the love of Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father) that is when we become changed.  I love this gospel and I love how my Savior Jesus Christ teaches me and helps me understand more about his gospel.  I know that this church is true and that he lives and loves each and everyone of us.  I know with all my heart that the gospel does changes lives.  That  this is the work of God and truly the power of Godliness is manifest in the ordinances of the gospel.  I know all these things to be true and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

I love the area of Cville and love the people here. The work of the Lord is going forward and so many great people are ready to be baptized. We had some really great miracles that occurred this week. One of the greatest ones that happened was with a guy that one of our ward members brought to church. He had come last week but told us that he wasn't interested in listening to the gospel. He then came again this week and in gospel essentials class there was a lot of talk about Joseph Smith and about temple work. The ward member asked him if he would want to sit down with the missionaries after church and he agreed to it. This gentleman has never had really any religion in his life. He had a very basic understand of a higher power but nothing else. It was interesting to basically start from scratch. As we started to teach him he had a puzzled look on his face and didn't understand the things we were teaching. We then shared the story of Joseph Smith and how prayer works. When we told him that God is a being like us. His entire countenance changed and you could see that the spirit was then working within him. As we finished the lesson we asked him to pray and it was one of the most powerful prayers that I have every heard in my life. He is amazing. We invited him to be baptized but he wasn't sure quiet yet. I know though that the Lord is going to make this desire work in him and that he will come to a true knowledge and understanding of this gospel.

I love you so much and I thank you so much for all that you do for me.  I thank you so much for the support that I receive from you.  I am so sorry for making you do all these things... I promise I will stop I don't want you to have to do anything else.  You've already got enough on your plate.  I love you so much and hope that you have a great week.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

ok awesome. Thank you mama!  You are the best in the whole world.  I better get going.  I love you and hope that you have a great week!!! Hope everything is still going great.  If there is anything that I can do for you just let me know!  I love you mwah from virginia with all my love.

Elder Adams

Meet the Mormons

Hello I'm on!!!!
Saweet!!!! how is your week going?
Ok awesome!!! and i'm sorry just take a breath.  I learned a lot about that this week.
Just we have been having a hard time with our Zone getting people on date to baptism and then getting people baptized.   We then had a meeting with high councilor over missionary work and I got really frustrated to see how much we have dropped the ball.  The High council men then said, "Look you can't worry if you worry things just don't work out."  I thought about that and it's so true when ever we worry we don't/can't have faith in Jesus Christ.  Worry is simply a form of fear.  Fear and Faith can't co-exist.  Just don't worry take a breath and everything will work out. 
hahaha just let it out mom.  It's really not worth it and it's not fun.  It makes life a whole lot harder then it needs to be.
I write in my Journal and at night I lay in my bed and breath in through my knows and out through my mouth until my body feels like it can just float away.  I know mom that that was hard for you to sell the house...  It's definitely something that I don't understand but He does.  Our Savior knows exactly what you are feeling.  Go to the temple that will bring a lot of release.
No of course not!!  Missionary work is just fun that's what it is.  Honestly most of the time I feel like I'm on a two year vacation helping others find Christ.  Yeah it's hard sometimes but it is so rewarding.

Thank you so much mom for doing those things for me.  You are the best mom in the whole world!!!  It sounds like you are having the best time of your life being able to sell the house and get everything ready.  You are going to be pro at this if you keep selling houses.  I mean you've done two on my mission why not go for a third!! Just kidding no one needs that kind of stress.  That is way awesome that you have the opportunity to talk.  There are some great talks on testimony by Elder David A. Bednar I want to say it's called, "Converted to the Lord".  Language I am not sure it's not something that I have really studied every...  Meet the Mormons is a way good movie.  We were able to see it about one week before it was released to the public.  The church wanted us to see it so we can know what it's all about.  That movie is doing wonders for the missionary work.  We haven't seen anything come of it yet but now Walmart wants to be able to sell it and Netflix is waiting to release it.  It's only open in about 300 theaters right now but then this week another 300 will be releasing and the best part the church is now trying to get ready to release it internationally.  It's way sweet.  I will be praying for you this week so that you can close on that house and be done!!!

This week was a great week and we have another great week ahead of us.  Khalil Reid will be being baptized this weekend.  He is such a special person to me.  He has gone through so much in his life and is still trying to find where he fits into this life.  He has asbergers and just has a really rough family situation.  I love this work to simply help others find Christ there is nothing better!  We have been so blessed in this work as we have gone forth with faith to build up the kingdom. We did a lot of finding this week because our investigator pool wasn't looking to good. As we went out and tried to talk to everyone and invited people to read the Book of Mormon there were so many people that accepted the challenge and wanted to learn more. I know that as I have been able to read the Book of Mormon and strengthen my testimony that it touches others hearts. We had a really awesome experience with a guy that is from Africa. He is going to UVA and is about to graduate we met him about two weeks ago but we only taught him this week. We taught him Monday night and he completely understood why there was a need for a prophet in this world. It all made complete sense to him. We invited him to be baptized but he didn't want anything to do with it. We then had a lesson with him this Saturday and we talked all about prophets, priesthood and covenants specifically baptism. As we taught this guy you could see the spirit working in him and it all made sense to him. At the end of the lesson he said, "So I need to make covenants and this is the only church that I can do that. What is your plan for me?" We simply invited him to be baptized on Nov. 9. He thought that was a little soon but he said that he would pray about it. He then said this, "There is something different about you two. The way that you talk and the light in you eyes." I know that that was nothing of our power but simply the light of Christ shinning through us. I love being an instrument in the hands of God it is such a blessing!!!

I simply know that this is the work of the Lord.  That I was called here to Virginia to build up the kingdom of God and that God prepared people here so that I could be his instrument to do his work.  This is his work.  I know that my Savior lives and that he has the power to forgive sin.  I love my Savior with all my heart and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.  Well I hope that you have a great week.  Thank you so much for all that you do for me.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

I did not!!!  I'm here for another transfer!!!
Well I better get going.  I love you so much thank you so much for all that you do for me.  I hope that you have a great week.  Thank you and I love you with all my love from Virginia.

Fall Break

Hey I'm on.  I didn't get an e-mail from you... plus I need my social security number for church purposes.
OK!!! loves!!!
The church needs it because of all new health care laws.  It's weird but o well.
No I only got one
Yeah ok I got those then.

This week was a great week.  Hailey Jensen got baptized and now she is preparing to go the temple!!!  It sounds like the selling of the house is going great and that you are getting everything into place.  Just imagine when this is all done it will be sweet!!!!  I was thinking about changing my profession to be like a seminary teacher of some sort.  If that was the case I was thinking about going to like a BYU or something to be able to take really good religion classes.  I'm not sure I was just thinking in my mind a lot and tossing some options around.  That's sweet that you have fall break off this week.  UVA had fall break this week and it was crazy how dead the campus got this week.  It's like a ghost town here in Cville.  There are some things on my card that you probably don't understand.  There is a charge for a insta care probably like two weeks ago.  That wasn't for me I promise.  Doctors are over rated and unless I'm dying I won't go to one.  I was on an exchange with a missionary that was really sick and so we went to the doctors and he didn't have his card so I helped him out with the co-pay.  Also there was one last monday at a place called mincers.  For my birthday I bought me a nice UVA hoody.  It's pretty sweet.  Thought I would just let you know.  As for this week it's transfer calls so we will see if I get transferred.  I'm really hoping that I get to stay here in Cville I love this area it is the greatest!!!

This week has been a great week as well as a trying week. There has been so many sweet moments that I will remember for the rest of my life but along with the sweet comes the bitter. The greatest blessing though is that through it all the Lord has taught me more about Him and how I can rely upon him for my strength. I love my Savior with all my heart and know that he is in this work. The first experience of the week was when we were able to confirm a young lady to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The spirit was so sweet and peaceful. The words that were spoken in the blessing were poetic. This young lady was prepared by God there is no doubt in my mind. The greatest thing is that right after her confirmation she was given a calling. I know that this is the Lords church. The next thing that occurred this week that really taught me about my Savior Jesus Christ had to do with two recent converts. We have been trying to help these two converts stay strong in the gospel but one of them just seems to always have something bad occurring in his life that keeps him from finding the peace of the gospel. As we went to go teach him this week he had lost control of his life and he was down in the dumps. He told us to never come back. Now through this experience I have learned that we must always seek joy even in the hardest times. Another thing is that we can never give up on those that we love. I know with all my heart that my Savior Jesus Christ would never give up on any of us so why would we give up on anyone. The Savior is always there I know that with all my heart and I know that he lives and that he loves each and everyone of us. I know with all my heart that the Prophet Joseph Smith was called of God and that Thomas S. Monson is the prophet that lives today. I know that this is the dispensation of the fullness of times and I know with all my heart that his work is hastening. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

I hope all is well and know that I love you with all my heart.  I think about you and pray for you daily.  I love you so much.  WIth all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

Not yet he said that he would.

She is in the Communications comity.  No one has any idea what that means.  Welcome to the Singles ward where you make up callings.

wow that is awesome!!!  Hey just a question.  If you have time this week and only if you have time.  Would you maybe just see how hard it would be for me to get into BYU provo or BYU Idaho?

Thanks mom you are the best!!!  Well I got to go.  I love you so much and thank you so much for all that you do.  I hope that you have a great week with fall break and all.  All my love is sent to you from Virginia.

Elder Adams

House Part Two

Hey, I'm on for the day!
Hey how are ya?
no I ment it like I'm here for right now ya know.

Holly snap!!! That is a lot of People.  well good thing you bought a bigger house;)

hahaha nice why not! So other than your crazy week how is everything going?

Holly cow it sounds like you have just had the week of your life... I am so sorry that is no fun:(  I'm not sure what to say about the whole Andy thing.  That is a tough situation that you are having to go through and you definitely in a hard spot.  My heart goes out to you mom I know how hard that must be and how much stress this stuff is causing you.  I am so sorry that you are going through this.  Just remember that often times we have to go through challenges and trials for a reason.  The right things are usually the hard things.  Just take a deep breath and go to the temple.  That is way awesome that Candace is getting her endowment that is way sweet.  General Conference was way awesome! There is nothing better than being able to listen to the prophets voice it was such a great experience.  There were so many great talks.  What was your favorite?  I think that my favorite would have to be all the talks that were on the Sacrament.  The sacrament is a very interesting topic to study.

This morning I had a great study.  It was on the spiritual significance of a prophet.  I have never realized how important the prophet is in our eternal Salvation.  I read a story about Wilford Woodruff “I will refer to a certain meeting I attended in the town of Kirtland in my early days. At that meeting some remarks were made that have been made here today, with regard to the living prophets and with regard to the written word of God. The same principle was presented, although not as extensively as it has been here, when a leading man in the Church got up and talked upon the subject, and said: ‘You have got the word of God before you here in the Bible, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine andCovenants; you have the written word of God, and you who give revelations should give revelations according to those books, as what is written in those books is the word of God. We should confine ourselves to them.’

“When he concluded, Brother Joseph turned to Brother Brigham Youngand said, ‘Brother Brigham I want you to go to the podium and tell usyour views with regard to the living oracles and the written word of God.’Brother Brigham took the stand, and he took the Bible, and laid it down;he took the Book of Mormon, and laid it down; and he took the Book ofDoctrine and Covenants, and laid it down before him, and he said: ‘Thereis the written word of God to us, concerning the work of God from thebeginning of the world, almost, to our day. And now,’ said he, ‘whencompared with the living oracles those books are nothing to me; thosebooks do not convey the word of God direct to us now, as do the words ofa Prophet or a man bearing the Holy Priesthood in our day andgeneration. I would rather have the living oracles than all the writing inthe books.’ That was the course he pursued. When he was through,Brother Joseph said to the congregation; ‘Brother Brigham has told youthe word of the Lord, and he has told you the truth.  That story changed my out look on a prophet.  This week we were able to see the baptism of Hailey Jensen it was amazing.  She was so ready to be baptized and has the strongest testimony that I have ever heard.  It was amazing to be able to hear her testimony.  Another great thing that happened this week was I was able to read the entire Book of Mormon is less than a week.  It was the greatest thing to read it that fast.  You really begin to see all the different themes and things that we must look out for in these last days.  I know that this church is true and I know that my Savior Jesus Christ lives and that he loves each and everyone of us.  I know with all my heart that my Savior is with me everyday always helping me and strengthening me today.  I know with all my heart that he lives!  I know that President Thomas S. Monson is the prophet of God and that he leads and guides this church to day!  I know all these things to be true and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.  I love you so much and thank you so much for all that you do for me.  I thank you for your prayers and all the strength that you give me.  There's one thing that I just wanted to ask you about.  Having been serving in a YSA ward on a college campus I get asked the question a lot of what I want to do when I go back pertaining to school.   Now I know that I shouldn't be worried about this but I just wanted to ask you.  What do you think I should do for my career or where do you think I should go to school?  I just want your input I know that parents can receive guidance for their children.  Will I hope that you have a great week and I love you remember to just take a breath.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams