August 1, 2018 (Wed. P-day) Big Cottonwood Stake/Holladay Zone

Yes, things have been amazing here! So many people to teach and help get baptized! The couple that just got baptized are from Bosnia. They have been a joy to teach because of their simple faith and desire to do what God wants them to do. For example, when the Word of Wisdom was taught they immediately took the coffee maker outside, and were done with coffee. It was an absolute  spiritual experience, and they are so happy and excited to continue on this covenant path to live with God again.

The Petersons are awesome, we are blessed with some stalwart members of the church. The work is hastning and it is a blast.

Being a zone leader is great, it really just equals more meetings and less sleep. So I am in a zone of 22 missionaries. 6 are sisters, and each area covers either  1, 2, or 3 stakes. We just have one stake, which we bike, and then we also have a car for transporting bikes, people, stuff, and ourselves to meetings. We are on an exchange weekly, with mini splits throughout. The new bike is a blast, I bought it new, got a nice discount and it is hastening our work! We are headed to the Jordan River Temple now, which is going to be awesome!

A fun story for the week, and then some spiritual experiences: So we were teaching some kids who are preparing to be baptized in a couple of weeks, and the youngest guy, who is only 8, is super funny. We asked him what he had learned from reading a pamphlet, and he said, "That Jesus has super powers!" It was super cute, and he loves His Savior so very much.

A spiritual experience came when the Spirit led Elder Johnson to the side of an apartment building. He told a lady who was sitting down that someone on this side of the building needed to be baptized, and that the Spirit had told him that. She went through all her neighbors, nobody seemed right, she was already baptized, and then finally she was like “oh yeah, my 14 year old son isn't baptized yet. Do you want to talk to him?” Well, he is now also growing his faith in Jesus Christ, and hopefully will be baptized in August as well. Another experience was last night. We have been trying to find people to teach every day. Everyone kept pushing us off until last night. Then, last night we taught the message of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ three times in a row, and each time, the person we were teaching was touched by the Spirit, the first guy will take more time, the second guy desires to know the truth and then be baptized, and the third guy is a professional basketball player for the Jazz video gaming team (yes it is real, and he is super famous I guess) wants to get baptized. 

I know that this is Christ's church, and that we can now this through reading and asking God if the Book of Mormon is true! 

It is so great to be serving others! This is the greatest thing I have ever done in my life!

I love you all!
Elder Adams