Merry Christmas

That's awesome. I'm on.
how are you?
ooo fun that sounds like fun.
I had to wait for some other elders to get done writing.
exactly... So I was thinking that I would take the money that I got from both grandma's and buy a suit today.  They are having a huge sale of them.  Would that be ok?
that will be fine.  It will probably on be like 150
perry ellece.  and not sure....
it has but it didn't say anything on there.
ok and no.   I don't need snow boots I will be fine.


So I won't be calling this Christmas....  Just kidding I will calling you at 3 my time and 1 your time.  I will try to skype you.  Those pictures of me at the Christmas party must be burned I have no idea what I was thinking... haha That was a lot of fun.  Awesome thank you so much for getting all the Christmas things together.  Hope everything is going well.  I have a confession, I have not sent you a gift yet hopefully I will be able to get it in the mail sometime soon... Yeah not sure about that but we will try to get it to you before I get home.  Just got a little to busy.  Lots of really cool miracles have been happening here in Q-town.  We had a really cool one as we were at our ward party.  My companion and I were going to get our scriptures to go and teach one of the investigators that came to the party and as we were walking outside this guy walks up to us and says, "Yes the lord has led me you to."  We were a little confused so we started to talk to him.  He is from Sierra Leone and has learned about the church.  We sat down with him taught him a lesson and he is now getting baptized this weekend.  This was the coolest miracle!  There are so many great things happening.  It is such a blessing to be able to see the Kingdom of God roll forward at such an alarming rate.  Well this e-mail will be short because I will talk to you on Christmas.  Thank you so much for all that you do and all your love and support.  I know that this gospel is true and that my Savior loves me.  I know with all my heart that the spirit is real and that there is no way that any work could be done with out it.  I know with all my heart that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet today.  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

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha  That's funny!

ok sounds good.  I will talk to you then.  But I got to run.  With all my love from Virginia.  Talk to you soon

Elder Adams

Cold!

hey i'm on
awesome.  How is everything going?
sweet.  are you at work right now or are you off?
O hahah fun.....  Help those kids

This week was another great week in Quantico. It is the best nothing is greater than serving the Lord during this time of year.  So many great miracles and so many great people that are willing to learn about the gospel it is the best.  It sounds like the New house is having a few problems... Sorry about that it's not good.  It was really good to know about your childhood though.  I think it's kind of interesting to be able to understand all about the history of the family.  It's all good don't worry you can always just talk about anything and I will listen.  I'm not sure what you can send me really anything works.  It's all good. 

This week we had an amazing miracle. It was with a little girl, Nadia Sheets that was baptized on Sunday. Now last Sunday we weren't sure if she was going to make her date but we did everything in faith. We prepared a baptism programm to help her see what the service would be like. We talked with her parents and tried to think of anyway that we could help her. Then finally we said we are just going to do the interview. On the drive over to the interview we got a text from her father that said, "Nadia has decided to be baptized on Sunday!" That was the greatest text that I have ever recieved in my life. That was absolutley amazing. The greatest thing that has ever happened. It was the best. Then the spirit was so strong at her baptism. There is nothing better than to be able to see a young girl make a covenant with her Heavenly Father. I know that this church is true and I know that my Savior lives. I know with all my heart that faith is what it's all about in this work. If we show the faith we can have all the hope in the world that our Father in Heaven will be there for us. I love this work and I love my Savior and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.  This week should be great we are hoping to be able to see another person baptized this week.  It's so amazing to see the work of the Lord move forward.  Well Sorry this one was short I hope that everything is going great.  I love you and pray for you thank you so much for all that you do for me.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

no I think I'm good.  I got to go though.  Got to go do some shopping for the groceries.  I love you and hope that you have a great week.  If there is anything that I can do for please let me know.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

Holiday Season!

Hey I'm on!
No I have not!
That is awesome!!!!
That is way awesome!!!  Holly cow crazy things.
just everything all things are great!! So I'm in Quantico up in Woodbridge VA.  It's home of the Marine Base.  My companions Elder Holloway He's a black guy from LA
Louisianna
Yes I did.  My address is 2807 Woodmark dr. appt.204 Woodbridge VA 22192
yes I did it is great!  contacts yes garments I'm good.
you don't need to send them yet.  Wait tell you have other things!

Well that is way fun to be able to hear all about the amazing things that are happening.  It's so crazy to think that Courtney is coming home already.  Time flies while you are on the mission that is for sure.  We have had some awesome miracles up here in the Quantico area.  It is so great to be able to be serving up here. I love this ward so much.   They are sweet.  It sounds like Devin is pretty set on all Virginia schools.  Let him know that all the NOVA, (Northern Virginia) schools, housing will be super expensive because he's so close to DC.  University of Virginia is the sweetest thing but there is a lot of drinking on that campus.  You will have to let me know what he decides.  It sounds like you are all having a lot of fun.  I love you all so much you are so sweet.  We might be going pretty soon to the Marine Museum here.  So I think that I might need some money for that.  I'm not really sure about that though.   We have seen so many great miracles this past week, Quantico is the best! One of the greatest days was yesterday. We had just had church which was amazing we had a lot of investigators show up. Then we set out for the rest of the day to go and find someone great new people. We were going around talking to everyone and Elder Holloway recieved a prompting to turn around and knock on a door. He does and right when he knocks he then hears, "talk about family history." He does and this guy is golden. He wants to be baptized but just hasn't been able to attend a church long enough. It's amazing then later that night we were going to the Christmas Devotional and we get there and no one showed up... We weren't sure what to do so we thought about it and we both thought to go to an appartment complex and finish the night working. We went there and knocked all the doors we could. There was no answer except for one and they weren't interested. We then hear a car door open and we go down to see who it is. It's this guy named Nixon he is awesome!!!! He is from Ghana and knows about the church. He is awesome and is praying about baptism on Dec. 27. He is so ready it is so amazing!!! I love this gospel and I love the works of the spirit. The spirit is the most effective way to do this work! I know that that is obvious but it is the most amazing thing to be able to see the spirit work on someone else and in your own life. I know that this work is true and I know that Jesus Christ lives and loves each and everyone of us. I love this work and I know that Joseph Smith is the prophet of God that restored this truth to this earth. I know with all my heart that this work is real and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.  I love this work.  This week my studies have been really awesome.  I have been studying, What makes us different from the Pharisees?  You can not be extreme in any sense of the word!  You must be flexible and willing to change in order to fulfill the will of the Father.  I know with all my heart that this gospel is true and that the church of Jesus Christ is living.  I love this gospel and I love you.  Thank you for all that you do and I love you with all my heart.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

Love you I have got to go.  Have a great week.  I love you so much!! MWAH from Virginia.

Elder Adams

John Lytle

Hello Mucho love I'm on
ok sounds good!  Guess who's getting transferred tomorrow?
Yes me and I don't know I will find out tuesday at transfer meeting.... Dang...
Yeah I'm sad I love this area but it happens it's not as hard to transfer now that you've done it a couple of times.  The baptism was awesome!!!
Yeah,  that's fun.  Any fun plans this week?
ok sounds good.  Hey I might be able to find something for KC i'm not sure though.  What does she want?
Ok sounds good thank you!!!  Well I got to go Bye I love you and thank you so much for all that you do.  I hope you have a great week.  With all my love from Virginia. 

Elder Adams

hmmm probably going to be super hard with me across the country and no time.....

That is awesome!  It sounds like Thanksgiving really good.  That is really interesting about the family history stuff crazy crazy right there.  All I know is that families can be together forever and that's all that matters to me.  That is crazy with the ward Christmas party.  It sounds like you are having a lot of fun though and that it's keeping you busy which that is always good.  It's fun to be in other families homes for the holidays and to see their traditions.  It sounds like you were all up and down the valley this week with all kinds of things.  I don't really care what is in the Christmas package.  You have done great at surprising me so far so I think you will do just fine.  You will have to send me a picture of the new house all decorated.  I think I only saw one picture and it was on the outside and it still looked like we lived in the middle of no where with no grass... Just kidding haha.  

This week was a great week.  Holiday weeks are always interesting in a YSA ward.  We were able to go to a bishopric members house for lunch and then our ward mission leader took us out to afghan kabobs for dinner.  It was amazing.  Very interesting experience but such good food.  So many people leave but it's all good we were able to see John Lytle get baptized.  Elder Denning and I were lead to John's door when we first came here.  It took us forever to meet back up with him but after a while we were able to meet with him and be able to see him completely change.  It was absolutely amazing.  We were able to see a man that didn't have any belief in God or a faith in Jesus Christ come to the knowledge of his Savior and that he had a loving Heavenly Father.  This was the most amazing thing in the whole world.  John as now read the Book of Mormon about 25 times he said that he has lost count.  He just can't stop reading it.  We gave him the Doctrine and Covenants and hopefully the church will be able to print enough material for him to be able to read it.  He is such an amazing guy.  At his baptism we gave him the opportunity to be able to stand and bare his testimony.  He stood up and read the poem by Robert Frost, "The Road Less Traveled."  At the end of his testimony he said, "Today I took the road less traveled and it made all the difference."  That was so poetic and such a blessing to be able to see how this gospel has effected his life in such a profound way.  This week has been a week were I have really thought about personal goals and making sure that I fulfill the things that my Savior Jesus Christ wants me to do.  As I have thought about these things it has been interesting to think how our Heavenly Father loves us so much that he has given us complete agency to choose what we want to do.  He force us to do anything but he does guide us to the things that he needs us to do.  It's always interesting to think that he trusts us to listen to his spirit and to be lead by it though out life.  If we choose to follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost and be obedient to our Heavenly Fathers command then we do not need to fear at all.  We will always fulfill his will.  I love my Savior Jesus Christ so much he lives!  I know that he lives and that he loves us.  I know that the Atonement is such a real power and that it is constantly changing us and sanctifying us.  I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that it is the word of God.  I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.  I love you so much and I hope that you have a great holiday season.  There is a great message that I highly encourage you to watch and to share with all your friends.  It's called "He is the Gift."  It can be found onchristmas.mormon.org  It is so powerful.  I love this work so much you constantly see the the Saviors hand in your life.  I love you and hope you have a great week.  If there is anything that I can do for you please let me know.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

Haven't sent you a picture in a long time... Sorry about that.  This is John Lytle.  He's way sweet!

Another Great Week!

Hello I'm on!!!!

I didn't receive an e-mail...

ok sounds good.

yes I got it.  That's pretty crazy that you ralfed.  Sorry I didn't tell you about Jeffersons house.  It was sweet!!! That dude was way smart.  It was way cool to be able to see some virginia history.

I already sent my e-mail.  It was really cool though.  A lot of people think of Thomas Jefferson as an inventor but he actually a designer.  Which is kind of interesting.  

We actually have Elders zone p-day.  So we are going to play sports and get some excursive.  It will be great!

sorry exercise 

What a great week in the mission.  So many great blessings came to us this week.  The greatest blessing this week was to be able to see Scarlett Bradley being baptized.  It's so amazing to be able to see someone that is curious about the church and begins to ask questions move to being able to stand and declare that they know that this church is true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God.  There is no way that this work would move forward with out the Spirit and the hand of the Lord in every step of the work.  I love this Gospel so much.  Being on my mission has really helped me to see that nothing is done by me alone but it is all done by Him.  There are so many times were He enables me to be more than I am, strengthens me to be stronger then I will every be and have a greater capacity to love then is humanly possible.  This gospel is absolutely amazing.  His plan is life changing and marvelous.  Another fantastic miracle that happened this week is of a young lady that we are teaching.  I'm not sure if I've told you about her.  She is very Catholic and very involved in the Catholic church.  She was actually thinking about becoming a nun right out of High School.  We had a great lesson with her about being able to act upon the promptings that she receives.  As we were able to talk with her the spirit was so strong and helped us understand how to best help her grow in her own testimony.  The spirit is such an amazing thing in the work.  We were not able to set her on date to be baptized but she is definitely praying about it and beginning to obtain a testimony.  The last miracle that occurred this week was of a guy that we have been teaching forever.  I've told you about him.  We should be able to see him baptized by the end of the week.  He has slowly grown his testimony and began to find is faith in Christ.  He is now trying to find if he should be baptized this weekend.  We are really hoping that it will.  It has been amazing to be able to see the atonement in his life.  I love this work.  There is nothing greater than this work and all the miracles that occur on a regular bases.  I know with all my heart that this is the true church of God and that Jesus Christ guides and directs this work here on earth.  I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that he as Thomas S. Monson is the mouth piece for God here on this earth.  I love my Savior with all my heart.  I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that if we read it with the intent to better our lives we will constantly find it as the greatest help to get closer to our Father in Heaven.  I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.  I hope that you all have a great week and a great holiday.  You will have to let me know how it goes.  Thank you for all that you do and for helping me be the person that I am today.  I love you with all my heart.  If there is anything that I can do for you please let me know.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

P.S-If you want some great doctrine talks go listen to the talk by Bruce R. McConkie- Joseph Smith. It's way good.

Well I better get going.  Love you.  Have a great week.  Mwah!!! with all my love from Virginia!!!

Pre-Thanksgiving

Hi I'm on!
no just on time for once:) How are you?
ok sounds good.  Hey I know that I spent a lot of money this week... Sorry but we wanted to go to monticello today.   It's thomas Jeffersons house.  it is going to cost $25 is that ok?
paypal was the driving school and Chesapeake foods? how much?
hmmm I'm not sure...
The Charge.  I'm still driving.
Yes I am driving.  And that thing is way to big to be in your bed.
When does it say it got charged?
It might be Chilies....  Not sure
yes sorry.  Well I got to go but know I love you see you later.  Have a great week.  If there is anything that I can do for you just let me know! Love!!!!

That is so fun!  That is some great advice from the stake high council men.  I really like that.  That is so funny that Brother Butler is the new bishop.  That guy is so funny probably the coolest guy there is. That is so much fun though.  It sound like everything is going really good out there.  How cold is it?  It's been pretty cold here.  Hasn't dropped below freezing though so that's always nice!  I should be good with the weather change though.  I have all my winter stuff from last year so as far as I know I'm good.  Arista is doing great it sounds like that is so awesome.  That is also way crazy about Josh.  That is insane though...

This week has been a great week.  The greatest thing that happened this week is that Scarlette Bradley, an investigator that we have been working with for like 2 months now.  Not because she didn't want to be baptized but because she wanted to wait for her mother to be able to see it.  She is getting baptized this week!!!  YA!  Sweet miracle nothing like receiving that text from her that says, "Could I get baptized this week?"  The best thing in the whole world!!!  We are really excited to see her be baptized.  Another really cool miracle that happened this week is that we have been teaching this guy that hadn't had any faith in Jesus Christ when we first met him.  We slowly were able to help him progress and be able to understand how he can improve his relationship with God and come to know Jesus Christ.  He is committed to be baptized on Nov. 30.  He is really working towards it we taught him the word of wisdom this week and he had no problem with it and was ready to try it out.  It is amazing how our Heavenly Father softens peoples hearts and prepares people to accept the gospel.  We are also teaching this other guy his name is Kwame he is from Ghana.  You can see how he is changing his life from his old life style to now a life style that follows Christ.  It is so amazing to see how people are effected by the Atonement of Jesus Christ every day and to see them come closer to him.  I know that this is the work of the Lord and that he is constantly watching over his children.  I love missionary work!!! These last couple of weeks have been very interesting and I have been able to learn more about how our Heavenly Fathers plan works. This is a simply doctrine but this is a doctrine that I feel is most important. It's that of spiritual creation and faith. Together these two doctrines help us follow Gods plan and fulfill his will hear on this earth. The thing that has always stuck out to me as I have been serving my mission is the amount of planning that must take place in order for a great spiritual moment to occur. I feel that constantly we are preparing working toward the next great spiritual moment and when it comes we simply learn it love it and take that spiritual truth and progress to the next spiritual truth. I love this gospel and how it works but none of these spiritual truths would be worth anything if we don't have faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is He who makes all things possible by his power and his word are all things fulfilled. I simply know that spiritual preparation, spiritual creation, is the most important thing that we must learn along with faith.  I hope that you all have a great week and that you continue to hasten the work of Salvation one step at a time.  It is a great blessing that the Lord has blessed us with to be able to so close to a temple in Utah.  It is our imperative duty to hasten the work of Salvation and bring all souls to Christ.  We MUST do all that we can to help others come unto Christ.  Find the way that you can do the work of the Lord and be fabulous.  I love my Savior with all my heart and I know that this is the Lords church here on this earth.  I know that is church was restored by a prophet of God, Joseph Smith and that the work that he did for us is far beyond any other humans work beside Jesus Christ.  I know that this is the Hastening of the work of Salvation this is the last time that our Lord will gather his people.  I know that he will bless us as we move forward and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.  I love you and have a great week.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams

Love You

hey love you don't know when I will be able to e-mail have to take a driving course...
I only got the first e-mail.... Sorry I'm on now

Hello, Sorry that this e-mail is going to be so short.  I have been taking this online driving course all day.  Yeah never get a ticket for sure... It's definitely not fun at all.  I love you.  Thank you so much for sending me an e-maill this week.  It was great to be able to hear about all the great things that are occurring.  It sound like you had a great week and the stress finally gone.  I love you so much.   Don't worry about me your last sentences seem like you are very worried.  I am doing great.  I love the work of God and there is nothing better than serving the Lord.  I love this work with all my heart.  I have been able to learn so much about myself and about the gospel of Jesus Christ. We had a really great miracle this week with a guy that we have been teaching for a while now. He has had a very hard life as he has served in the military and seen so many things that have destroyed his faith in God and in Jesus Christ. We have been teaching him trying to help him gain the faith to pray and he has begun praying and reading the Book of Mormon. The greatest thing happened this week. While we were teaching him we simply helped him understand that he's not going to get closer to God unless he begins preparing for baptism. We helped him see that this was a step to strengthen his faith in Jesus Christ and re-build the relationship he once had. Now we've had this conversation with him many of times but this time just felt different. As we invited him to prepare for baptism by coming to church he said, "For sure this week it is set in stone." We didn't stop there! We then invited him to be baptized on Nov. 30. He said, "I'm not sure if I can make that but if I know that it's true for myself then yes I will." YES! Ask in faith and everything is possible. I know with all my heart that faith is a power and miracles do occur as we go forth in faith. I know that He lives and that he loves each and everyone of us. I know that this gospel is true and that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. I know that this is the work of God and that he is hastening it. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.   I love you so much. If there is anything that I can do for you please let me know.  By the way I just might go to montecello next week, Thomas Jeffersons house.  Not sure though we might just play some sports.  I love you and have a great week.  With all my love from Virginia.

Elder Adams