August 28, 2018 - Big Cottonwood Stake

This week was a blast! My new companion is Elder Adolpho! He has moved a lot over his lifetime, due to his being in the air force. Most recently, he is from Italy. He has been out about 20ish months, and will go home right before Christmas. He is a great missionary, with a great desire to teach and help people repent and be baptized so they can receive eternal life. We are doing great together, and are enjoying the learning process, as transfers changed the demographics of our zone and we are relearning the areas and missionaries entirely.

Transfer week is when the zone leader has the most administrative stuff. Between carting missionaries and bikes around, and making sure that everyone is with their companion, in their new area, and working hard, we keep pretty busy when you add our own area on top of that. Luckily, we are able to keep ourselves teaching a lot of very amazing people, many who are looking to be baptized soon! We also continually seek for more people to teach and help be baptized. One interesting idea we got from experiences this week goes with fin ding prepared persons. Lots of times, we spend our time in apartment complexes, due to them being more humble and transient than a home. Occasionally, as we knock on homes, the person answering will be opposed to the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the church which bears His name. So we move on, and sometimes just stop going into those neighborhoods. We realized that if the adversary wanted this work to slow and wanted to hide humble people from us, he would stick them next to those more anti-LDS people. So we started knocking the 5 doors around each of those homes, and we have seen miracles already! The Lord works in mysterious ways, yet He knows all our doings.

This week has been full of miracles big and small. Some are still in the process of happening, and may lead to an even bigger group of people we are teaching. While the big picture is still forming for us, it suffices me to say that the Lord is ever present in the small details of our lives. Sure, as missionaries, we are constantly looking for and seeking His will. But as an observer in the lives of many, I see His great hand manifest many times in their lives. I know that He is our loving Heavenly Father. Because He loves us so much, He sent His Son, even Jesus Christ, to take upon Himself all of our pains, sorrows, sadness, and sin. Because Christ descended below all things, and then triumphed over all, even death, we can overcome all in our lives. We need only Faith in Him, and turn to Him and repent, and he will lift us up. Of this I have a firm witness. 

Elder Adams

Anyways I love you so much! Here are some fun pics of elder Adolpho and I, plus my desk (and shake) and window through which I have seen Brother Mitt Romney 4 times this week, and where I do my sprints.