Happy Memorial Day!

Hey I'm on!
That's fine. Did you see how I am emailing you today?

Hahahaha no we actually got our iPads!  It's way sweet!

It was just sweet.  So I will fax that paper to you today so that we can figure all those things out.  Thank you again for doing that for me.

What do you mean you need to notarized it?

Ok and then you just want me to scan it to you?

Well this week was another great week.  You will be happy to know that I am e-mailing this week from and iPad mini.  Our mission will be getting them this week so our mission president let us use them for a week just so that we are familiar with them.  It's really sweet!  Personally study is taken to a whole new level when you have the gospel library app.  It's way sweet! That is way sweet that you were able to get the yard all done.  You should start sending me pictures of the new yard.  It sounds like you've created your own private get away.  I mean that's pretty sweet if you ask me.  Thank you for putting the money on my card. Sorry again that you had to do that.....    President Wilson is definitely an inspired man!  He is an amazing man.  If I could ever be half the man that he is I would deem my life as a success.  Have a great time with the last couple of days of school that should be a lot fun.  

We were able to find a lot of great people and see a lot of growth in the people that we have been teaching. It has been the greatest miracle on the VCU campus to be able to see the gathering of Israel. What I mean by that is we met a guy this week by the name of Mohamed. He grew up in Sudan and has been Muslim his whole life. As we were teaching him the spirit was superstrong and it was cool to see how the understanding of who Jesus Christ was came into his eyes. He was not able to see it at first but but other Ray then showed him a video that I was able to help them see how Jesus Christ will bless his life it was really cool to be able to see the spirit of videos bring into a lesson. Missionaries in the digital age truly are changing the effectiveness of the work. This work will be able to go forward at such an alarming rate it will be crazy! I know that this work is the lords work and that he is gathering his children for the last time. I love this work with all my heart! There is nothing greater than to be able to go out and serve the Lord all day everyday. I love my savior and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. 

My entire mission it's been really interesting to discover how people view God and what has brought them to that belief.  Have just the faintest belief in God is such a blessing from our Heavenly Father.  I hope that we will all hold onto our belief in God like a pearl of great price. It is one thing that I will never regret nor wish I never had.  I love this work and being able to strengthen my testimony on a daily bases.  It is such a blessing.  I invite you all to strengthen your belief and understand of our Heavenly Father and his son Jesus Christ because that is the only way that we will find peace in this life and eternal happiness in the life to come.  I love you so much and hope that you have a great week!  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

School

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I will for sure be praying for you!  I hope that your week goes well and that everything works out.  Thank you so much for helping me with the UVU stuff I'm sorry I should just do it myself but it really means a lot to me that you are willing to do that.  That's exciting that Arista's 24 Happy birthday to her I will have to e-mail her and let her know.  I thank you so much for being such a great mom and loving me so much.  It's about everyday that you wake up and think about how much love you showed me all through out my life always trying to help me and support me in all the crazy things that I did.  I thank you so much!  I love you with all my heart Mom.

This week was a great week.  We were able to do a lot of finding this week and teach a lot of great people.  First a couple of weeks ago I told you about the 6 topics that Elder Hales invited us to study.  It has been such a blessing to be able to study these 6 topics your testimony of basic gospel principles grow and learn so much more about our Fathers kingdom.  I love the gospel so much and studying it.  There is so much knowledge to be gained if we just open a book and begin reading.  Yes Elder Adams the boy that you could never get to read now absolutely loves to read and learn.  Anyway here is the miracle of the week.  We were on campus contacting trying to talk with everyone and this one girl walks past us.  We got her attention and began asking her questions about the her relationship with God.  She told us about how God had reached out to her and from a very young age began helping her to know that he was there.  We then started to talk about the Restored gospel of Jesus Christ and how it will bless her life.  She started to make a lot of sense of it all and began to become very intrigued with the gospel of Jesus Christ and how it will enhance her relationship with God.  She LOVED it.  We invited her to baptism and to come to church and she completely agreed.  So church comes around and she arrives and brings 5 of her friends two of them we had already taught before.  It was such an amazing miracle and blessing.  They all enjoyed it and were really able to feel the spirit.  I love this work.  As long as we are willing to work are hardest and do the very best that we can our Heavenly Father will always be behind the work and wee will literally see his had revealed.  I know that this church is true.  I know that my Heavenly Father lives and loves me.  I know that this work is the work of God and that he is mindful of all his children.  I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God called to start the dispensation of the fullness of times to bring all dispensations that have begun before into one.  I love my Savior and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.  On the UVU thing I'm not sure if I will be flying my first semester.  I just want to be able to start on my general classes because I still might be going to the military... not sure yet.  Also I did really bad at budgeting my money this month and will need to use some of my home funds for work this week tell the end of the month.  I am so sorry I know I need to be better. Sorry for being a burden.  I love you and hope that you have a great week.  Know that I will pray for you.  You are the greatest.  My advice to you today comes from President Wilson, "Be comfortable with who you are and what you're doing."  Don't worry about those around you just do you best and that's all that matters.  Love you with all my heart from Virginia.

Elder Adams  

Phone Call

Hey I'm on.
Yes I did I love you!

hahaha Your e-mail is just funny.  And you are the greatest mom ever!  So we have a waterfall in our back yard???????

just your thing about contact solution.   No one in the house uses contacts yet you still bought some...  That's fun. sounds like you've made yourself a little get away.

hahah of course it was on sale!!!  You will always be a mom always thoughtful and looking out for her children.

And you are the best at it!

Mom don't think that way.  You were an amazing mother that raised three boys that love the gospel and are trying to be the very best they can and are very hard workers.  Don't get down on yourself you did a great job.

hahaha No we are definitely a product of our Parents for sure.

It was so great to be able to talk to all of you yesterday.  It was a great phone call and a great opportunity to be able to re-check my goals and push forward.  I love this work and it is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me.  That's unfortunate that we weren't able to get all three things connected but it still worked out just fine.  That's super sad to hear about Elder Scott and Elder Perry.  I love Elder Scott he is my absolute favorite Apostle.  Such a great man that truly has changed my life and the way that I look at things.  It sounds like you are doing a lot with school still which is really good.  Thank you so much for doing the stuff with UVU.  I know that I am a big boy now and should do that by myself, it's just nice to be able to not have to worry about it to much and just focus on the work.  I love you and hope that everything is going great.

This week was a great week.  We had Zone Conferences which took up a lot of time but they were really good.  I was able to give a training on 1 Nephi 8.  I love that chapter in the Book of Mormon.  It literally has everything that you need to know about the gospel of Jesus Christ found in that chapter.  This weeks miracle happened on the campus of VCU this week.  We were on the campus and trying to talk to everyone but no one wanted to talk because of finals week.  We say this guy sitting at a table and decided to go and talk with him.  He's Liberian and is super interested in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  He's always had a problem with other Christian denominations and hasn't really felt like they are teaching the write things.  As we explained our doctrine and helped him see the need for a Restoration he was just soaking it up.  He loved every second of it.  We then presented the Book of Mormon to him and asked him to read it.  He was so excited and couldn't wait to be able to start on his path to become a disciple of Christ and becoming like Him.  It was such a blessing to see that God has prepared people everywhere for this message.  That he wants all of his children to know of the joy that is found in the gospel.  I know that our Heavenly Father lives and that he loves each and everyone of us.  I know that this church is the true church and that as we follow our Savior Jesus Christ we truly see a change in us.  I love my Savior and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.  I love you so much and hope that you have a great week.  Thank you for all that you do as my mother.  You are the greatest mom in the whole world.  I love you with all my heart.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

well I better be going.  Know that I love you and hope that you have a great week.  With all my love!!! Have a great week.

Party

Hey I'm on didn't get an e-mail from you.
Sweet!  Thanks!!!
wow sounds like a week.....
Of course because idle hands are the devils work shop...

Well this week was a great week!  We were able to see a lot of miracles.  It sounds like everything has been super busy with all the kids leaving for summer sales and then Josh going off to school.  That's exciting though.  It sounds like you are really keeping yourself super busy.  Especially so busy that you don't even think about me calling hahaha.  Good for you!  We will be skyping and not really sure when we will be calling you..... probably around 5 or 6 o'clock my time.

This week has been super busy.  Elder Olsen and I have been doing these things called zone work shops for the past two weeks.  It's where we go and give a training to every zone in the mission on the same topic.  We both did a team training on the Book of Mormon and how to effectively present it to our investigators.  It's been really fun and I've really been able to learn a lot about managing time.  We have been working with a lot of great people.  We are actually teaching a Muslim guy that is super interested in joining the church.  It's been really cool.  We were also able to  see a really cool miracle with the Book of Mormon this week.  It's so amazing to see how this one book applies to everyone and really helps them see how the gospel can and will effect them in their life.  The miracle was these two guys that we met this past week. We were on the compass talking to everyone and we started talking to these two guys. At first both of them weren't interested. We started talking about the Book of Mormon and presenting it the new way. Helping them see how the first 12 verses really apply to them. The one guy was loving it. Then we started reading the first chapter. As we read the first verse at first he didn't understand it. Then he began to learn by faith. He started to just talk and try to voice what he thought it might be saying. He pulled out a perfect principle that applied to him perfectly. Then we jumped to the 5th verse. As he read he loved it and say that he really should start praying. We then kept doing this through out the chapter. Then we came to verse 20 of first Nephi. He read it and said, "If I change my life people won't like me.... but if I believe in God he will help me and deliver me from all the hard stuff." The spirit was so strong in that lesson he was right on! I love the Book of Mormon with all my heart. I know that it is the only way to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that we can truly come to know that Jesus is the Christ as we read it. I know with all my heart that he lives and loves each and everyone of us. I love my Savior. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

I love you so much and hope that you have a great week.  I will talk to you on Sunday.  I just want to let you know how grateful I am for you all.  How blessed I feel to be able to have a supportive family.  I am not excited to end my mission but I am excited about the one dream that I do have, that is to be able to go to the temple with all of the Family.  I know that this gospel does bless families and that He is always there for us.  I love my Savior.  I love you!  Have a great week.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

so true that's why you have to read the talk by elder Bednar about your spiritual load and make sure that it is not killing you but making you better.

hahaha ok sounds good!

hahaha DONE!!!

I don't care.  Maybe it will have to be a thing that we do when we are all closer together.  I don't want it to be a financial burden.

I got to go.  I love you and hope you have a great week!  MWAH!! LOVE YOU!!! WIth all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams