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he I'm on I didn't get your e-mail.
I got it thank you!
So what's up with DAD?????????
ok I just wanted to make sure that everything was ok.  You can tell me things don't worry mom I won't freak out.
At the library in woodbridge.  I don't get moved or know where I'm going tell tomorrow.
Yeah fun stuff... 
No I haven't gotten anything.
Ok will do!!!!

IT HAS SNOWED SO MUCH HERE THIS WEEK!!   Thank you so much for the e-mail that is a really good parable.  I'm not sure if that was a silent rip on me but it was really good.  That sounds like a lot of fun going to Logan again.  That is so much fun I remember when we went up there.  I hope all is going well.  Things are going great here in Woodbridge.  Guess who's getting transferred?  Yes I am getting moved I'm not sure where so I will have to tell you next week.  Thank you for your e-mail it's always so great to be able to hear from you!!!! This area should be having three baptisms next week.  A guy named Frank Mcdonley and two girls named Amani and Timia Hubbard.  We have been teaching this really prepared mother and daughter these last couple of weeks along with these two girls that are friends of a recent convert. Something that has been so amazing to watch is how the Atonement effects everyone in such a direct way. With the two girls they haven't had the best lives and are not doing the best things with their lives. As we have taught them for the past two weeks and helped them prepare for their baptism next week we have literally seen a change in them that is indescribable. With the Mother and the daughter it was so amazing. Yesterday we got permission from out Bishop to be able to do the Sacrament. Paul Batista had a great idea of taking our investigators for a tour and then latter blessing the sacrament for them in the church. It was such a powerful experience. The spirit was so strong and you can see the mother finding new light in her life. I love this work so much it is so amazing.   I know that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is real and that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored here on this earth. I know that it is only through the gospel of Jesus Christ that we can receive happiness in this life and peace in this life and in the life to come. I know that He lives and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.  I love you and hope that you have a great week.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

I am doing great and yes.  It's not that cold out here.  These Virginians are crazy they cancel everything if any snow falls.  Well I got to go I love you so much have a great week!!!

Elder Adams

Happy Presidents Day!

Hey I'm on.
Hey I'm back

This week was a great week.  It was so good to hear from you.  It sounds like you had a really great week.  I did get the Walmart and the Olive Garden gift card.  I have used the Walmart one so thank you so much for that!  Elder Holloway and I have yet to use the Olive Garden one.  Transfers won't be tell next week, we get calls this coming Saturday and then we will depart that Tuesday.  That was such a funny story about Brother Butler.  That man is my hero.  There are so many great things that you learn on you mission.  It is such a blessing to be on a mission.  You constantly have the opportunity to be an answer to peoples prayers even when they don't know it.  The greatest miracle that happened this week was with a lady and her daughter. We had met the daughter many times in the complex we work in. She was always willing to listen to us so just to be safe we would have her go get her mom but her mom would never listen, she wouldn't let her daughter listen either. One night Elder Holloway and I are in the neighborhood and we decide to go and knock on the door again. The mom answers the door but instead of slamming the door she says come back tomorrow at 4. We go back and teach her and she loves it. A couple days later we go back again for another appointment and she had read the chapter we had left and wanted to learn more. She is now progressing towards a baptismal date of March 7th. It is so amazing to be able to see how the Lord works miracles in peoples lives and we as missionaries get to be a part of it. I love my calling as a missionary it is the greatest thing to be able to wake up every morning and put the white shirt and the black name tag and go teach the gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is all you truly need in this life and it is so essential to our eternal perfection. I know that these five simple principles if lived correctly will transform anyone's life. I know that we teach the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and I know that Joseph Smith was the prophet that God called to restore this Gospel. I know these things to be true and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.  My studies this week have been really great.  One of the greatest decisions of my life was to begin reading the bible from the beginning.  There is so many great and interesting things that you can learn about our Heavenly Fathers plan from the Old testament.  One of the greatest truths that I have learned this week is the importance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  When you think about it the five simple principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ were what the Lord needed to Restore in this dispensation along with the Priesthood.  Which one came first though?  It was the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  If we has Gods children do not have gospel of Jesus Christ it is impossible to even come close to becoming like our Heavenly Father.  The gospel of Jesus Christ is the most essential principle and ordinance that have been practiced all through out time.  The Gospel of Jesus Christ will bring the highest blessings of the heaven into our life. I invite you to gain a stronger testimony of these essential principles.  I love you so much and thank you so much for all that you have done for me.  I couldn't do the things I do with out a supportive family.  I love you so much and thank you so much.  Have a great week.

Elder Adams

Happy Valentines

I'm on
Ok I still didn't get it
yes I am still here.

Well it sounds like you had a wonderful week.  Last week I didn't want you to think that I was mad or that my life is harder because it's definitely not.  You have three boys and all the other things like work and stuff like that.  The only thing that I have to worry about is teaching people the gospel, it really is the best thing in the whole world.  I think what I will be doing is just going to UVU for a semester and them applying to ROTC latter.  It sounds like it's going to be a process and is going to take a lot of work from what members have told me out here.  That sounds nice with the weather.  Over here it's been pretty cold most of the days, but yesterday was so amazing!!! It was so nice!  But yeah...

So this week was a huge blessing and there were so many miracles here in the Quantico Area.  One miracle we really cool.  So one day Elder Holloway and I were just going around tracting and trying to follow up with investigators.  Everything was dead there was no one out and no one wanted to talk.  We finally are just like, "ok where does God need us to be?"  We got in the car and started driving and Elder Holloway says lets go over to this area that hasn't been worked that much.  We go ever there and start tracting.  As we are doing this a guy gets out of his car and Elder Holloway yells to him and asks him if he wants to hear a message about Christ.  He walks over to us and starts talking to us.  We find out that this guy is an assistant Pastor at a Church.  Right then we were ready to Rip on the bible but something told us to not do that, to just hear the guy out.  So we do and come to find out this guy is a man of faith.  Just has faith out of his mind and really knows how to follow the promptings of God.  We end up teaching this guy the Restoration and at the end of it all he says, "Just a few weeks ago I was asking my Pastor why there are so many different Church in the area and why we don't just consolidate."  I know that listening is such an important part of Missionary work as it is discipleship.  It was so amazing to be able to see this lesson that we thought was going to be a bash session to being a teaching opportunity that brought this man closer to the truth.  There are so many more miracles that happened this week that I wish I could tell you but I don't have time.  Know that I love you.   I know with all my heart that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored and that it is the only way that we can come back into the presence of our Father.  I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that he was the prophet of the Restoration.  I know that the Book of Mormon is true and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.  I love you so much and hope you have a great week.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams 

Thank you for that quote that is really good.  Elder Holloway and I have been teaching a lot and doing a lot of great things but haven't been able to see these people come to Christ through baptism and that quote really helped.  thank you so much I love you and have to go.  MWAH!  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

Scholarship Link

Hey I'm on I didn't get anything from you....

Awesome sounds good.

did you send it?

Yes I did get it.

to me that looks like I can't apply to get that scholarship until Dec of next year right?

ok or what I could do is when I come home go to UVU for fall semester.  Get a good reputation in college then apply to the Air force so that I would have a better chance at getting a scholarship.

But still talk to BYU and see what's up.

HEY!!!!!  but still talk to BYU and see what's up.

OOOOOO Thank you mommy you are d best!!!!!

Well it sound like you had a pretty eventful week this week.  I'm sorry that the struggles of life are getting to you.  The best thing that I can tell you is keep your head up and keep trudging away.  There are so many times while I am out here on my mission that are hard.  You see people that don't wan't to be baptized or that don't understand the importance of the message that you are saying so they shut the door.  They just don't understand they don't see eye to eye.  It's a fact of this world we came into this world understanding agency understand that we would all have our own thoughts our own bias and that things would get tough but we did it anyway.  It was the only way that we could become like our Heavenly Father.   This is the only way that we can sacrifice the self centered natural man and seek the Lords will.  How to do that?  I do not know.  It's something that I am trying to work on every day out here on my mission.  Every day we must find truth we must take the Holy Spirit as our guide and do the best that we can and when we stumble and fall we've got to learn to pick ourselves back up and no longer focus on ourselves that's why Peter began to sink in Mat 14 it's because he no longer focused on Christ but he focused on himself.  I know that our Savior loves us and that he is eager to help us out, he understands that we are imperfect all he asks us is that we are perfect at trying to be the best that we can be.  Don't worry mom everything will work its self out I know that.  Look back on what our Family has been through in the past.  We have been through a lot together and the one line that you always said is, "I will not let Satan win this one."  We can't let him win anyone.  We must act and do all we can so what if we fall.  Get back up and keep fighting.  I know that my Savior Jesus Christ lives and I know that even when it seems that we have no way to turn or no one to help us there is always a way and there is always someone.  He LIVES he is alive in each and everyone of our lives if we will just let him.  He will change us and help us to become who we need to become.  True faith in Jesus Christ begins when we let go of the outcome and say, "I don't care what I have to go through but I will do anything the Father needs me to do."  The plan of the gospel is for us to loose to the Fathers will so that we can win in Eternity.  It is only the will of God that will bring true happiness.  I know those things to be true.  I love you and I know that he knows you and he knows your concerns.  I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

I did get those shoes thank you so much.  They are working great!  Sorry that I'm a little ditsy sometimes next time I won't be that way.  This week was a great week of missionary work.  We met a really sweet guy he's from Searleon Africa.  We were walking out of this apartment complex after getting turned down by everyone and we saw a guy walking.  I yelled to him and asked him if he wanted to hear a message about Christ and his restored gospel.  He turned around and said sure.  We walked with him to the store he got what he needed and then we went back to his house and taught him about the Restoration.  He's a muslem but he said that if God told him to follow Jesus Christ and be baptized that he would.  God is always placing prepared people in our path it is amazing.  I know this work is the work of God and that he is active in our lives and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.  I love you and hope that you have a great week.  I know that our Father in Heaven is watching over you.  Don't worry and be happy.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

Well I got to go.  Have a great week.  I love you and know that you are the best mom in the whole world.  Don't get down!! Be happy!! I love you.  MWAH.

Elder Adams