City Park clean up

So sounds like your birthday was a hit. I love hearing all the great things Preston and Liz say, and I guess before I’m back you´ll be quoting Alaina. Life´s crazy!


So we started of our p-day off with a service project with the ward. Cleaned up this rough park by our house. Bucaramanga is loaded with parks all over the place. They are known as Cuidad Bonita, or Cuidad de Parques. (BTW, ask Bro. Clayson where he served in Bucaramanga. I could talk with some of the missionaries there and find out if ´his fruits remained´ ha don´t say that, i´m sure they´re the poderosos in the barrio)


Anyways this park we pass through is known for its population of ´Mujers de la Vida´ or as we like to call him in the states, prostitutes, and pigeons. Is that the best combination or what! Anyways, while we were cleaning we´re able to talk with the passer byers (I think that is a word in English), and loungers. We talked with some pretty sweet people, got some appointment set. Life rocks. Love productive p-days.
So I had a great week. And what was great, and what we can all do, is try my best to make it that way. I finished the other week feeling like we just weren´t doing all we could. For the past three weeks I´ve been working with trunkie central here in, central. And I felt like I wasn´t doing everything I could to stop ´the trunk´. I knew I was trying hard and doing good things, but I just wasn´t sure I had been doing my absolute best. So I really just tried to work my guts out this week. The thing is that there wasn´t really any change in our week. Not a huge spike in our numbers, they didn´t really even increase much. But I knew that I was trying my hardest and that made all the difference. So many times we don´t see the fruits of our efforts, but we know we did our best, and that’s all that matters. It was though my fastest week, and one of my happiest. It actually is the principle on how salvation is reached. “For we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.” (2 Ne. 25:23.) How simple is that. It doesn´t matter who we were, what great things we did, the positions we held, but that we gave our Father that is in Heaven our best effort, our very best effort.


There was one great fruit from this week: basically an already converted investigator. So sweet. Her name is Clarasofia, and she has a good share of friends in the Church, but because of her busy Schedule, she never had the time to talk with the missionaries. We met with her for 45 minutes and were just in awe of how great her and her mom were. Then we had to leave for my English clases. Returned, and taught her for two hours. Ha. She started by asking if we could ¨please¨ teach her more about the book of mormon. Brilliant. We taught about the Restoration of the Gospel, and when we asked if she would read and pray about the book of mormon, to know if it was true, she said that she had already read it and knew that it was true, nuts, and preceded to flip to her `favorite` verse, read it, and stated ´how can this not be true, it´s beautiful´. I left being awestruck, not only by her faith, but by the process in which she obtained that faith. Oh, the power of members, and how much they can bless missionary work.

I love that that I have no idea how much time I have left here in Bucaramanga--gives me more motivation to absolutely pour out my soul.

I love you all. Les están siempre en mi corazón.

Cheers,

Elder Adams

Moms and pops-

So there are 6 elders in my district, 2 live with me. Your package to me is already a package to 6 missionaries already so whatever you see fit.

Happy 28 years and many more¡¡ (haha I can only find the upside down quotation mark). If in the end all that I learned from you guys was the love that should be shared in a marriage, that would be enough (of course there are countless other things I´ve learned). Thanks for being the best parents ever.