Tuesday, February 23, 2010
4 baptisms! That was the goal.
Estaba pensando a solo escribir ustedes en español esta semana... pero claro que no.
Mike Curry is in Vancouver right now keep in it real, I got a letter from him saying that his mission president lets them watch the Olympics as long as there with a investigator or new member, haha and that for the US v. Canada hockey game, the bishop is putting it on the projector in the chapel. Sweeeet. I don’t think they know here in Colombia that there is a winter Olympics. But there actually is snow here on one solitary hill, in the middle of no where. So mr. white wins gold, and yes mom, he does ´´get so much air and his tricks are incredible´´. I bet you´ll be pretty surprised to know that I was pretty close to being able to land Double McTwist 12 last year
Mike Curry is in Vancouver right now keep in it real, I got a letter from him saying that his mission president lets them watch the Olympics as long as there with a investigator or new member, haha and that for the US v. Canada hockey game, the bishop is putting it on the projector in the chapel. Sweeeet. I don’t think they know here in Colombia that there is a winter Olympics. But there actually is snow here on one solitary hill, in the middle of no where. So mr. white wins gold, and yes mom, he does ´´get so much air and his tricks are incredible´´. I bet you´ll be pretty surprised to know that I was pretty close to being able to land Double McTwist 12 last year
before the mish. Ha not.
Ha loved the solitary announcement of Josh as president of the Deacons quorum, I like to think that that josh is sooo good that he doesn´t need councelers. Send me a picture of the new house, and the room that i´m sure you have designated for me, ha that’s if your still in the same house when I get back.
I´m glad that your mac’ing it strong dad. Keeping it real. Honoured to have started the reign. Are you still rockin my design?
So everything to countinues to be great here in campiña. The picture, mom, was from an activity we did in stake conference to get referrals from the members. It worked pretty good, we got about 9 here in campiña, we´ll see how it goes.
We had the baptism of Camila this Friday, it went great. The young women sang a song for her. This on Sunday I was pumped when I saw her singing in the choral. Had know idea. Twas sweet. We´re going to keep teaching her family so they can enjoy the blessing of the gospel together.
We found the best family ever this week. They´ve had so many challenges in the past but they just keep pushing forward with great faith. It consist of a grandma and two of her grandchildren. The dad/son is a drug addict who will occasionally pass by and cause problems. But actually this weekend he came to church and I believe with the help of the friends of them who are members, entered into rehab yesterday. The Leanor, the grandma knows the bible better than anyone I´ve ever met, and wakes up at 5 in the morning to study and pray. Duan, the 12 year old grandson, Loves the Book of Mormon. He brings it to school, and wants to give one to his teacher. They always do the reading, and after they talk about it together and pray more to know that its true. When we taught about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Leonor told us that we were angels of Jehovah, and she had asked God if this was the church and way he wanted her to follow and was sure it was. We set a baptismal date for this Saturday. There all super pumped. So am I.
We set another baptismal date this week, a friend of Goiovani Silva, that called us 10 times Saturday night to know where and when the church was cause our phone was turned off. He came to the chapel a half hour early and after told us that this was the church he´d been searching for and that he wanted to be baptized, we set a date for him in March. He is the first person that i´ve known that doesn´t know how to read, but he has so much faith, and is so humble that I know that God can make great things out of him.
When we started this month we had no one. not one investigator, but we set a goal for 4 and fasted for that number. We had now idea how we were going to prepare and baptize 4 people in the shortest month of the year but by the power of God those four people were lead to us and were going to reach our goal. Strengthened my testimony so much in the power of fasting.
Love you all so much, and i´m learning more and more how complete overgenerous God is with us, he gives us so much more then we think we deserve, or in fact, than is possible for us to earn.
Les quiero,
e. adams
Ha loved the solitary announcement of Josh as president of the Deacons quorum, I like to think that that josh is sooo good that he doesn´t need councelers. Send me a picture of the new house, and the room that i´m sure you have designated for me, ha that’s if your still in the same house when I get back.
I´m glad that your mac’ing it strong dad. Keeping it real. Honoured to have started the reign. Are you still rockin my design?
So everything to countinues to be great here in campiña. The picture, mom, was from an activity we did in stake conference to get referrals from the members. It worked pretty good, we got about 9 here in campiña, we´ll see how it goes.
We had the baptism of Camila this Friday, it went great. The young women sang a song for her. This on Sunday I was pumped when I saw her singing in the choral. Had know idea. Twas sweet. We´re going to keep teaching her family so they can enjoy the blessing of the gospel together.
We found the best family ever this week. They´ve had so many challenges in the past but they just keep pushing forward with great faith. It consist of a grandma and two of her grandchildren. The dad/son is a drug addict who will occasionally pass by and cause problems. But actually this weekend he came to church and I believe with the help of the friends of them who are members, entered into rehab yesterday. The Leanor, the grandma knows the bible better than anyone I´ve ever met, and wakes up at 5 in the morning to study and pray. Duan, the 12 year old grandson, Loves the Book of Mormon. He brings it to school, and wants to give one to his teacher. They always do the reading, and after they talk about it together and pray more to know that its true. When we taught about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Leonor told us that we were angels of Jehovah, and she had asked God if this was the church and way he wanted her to follow and was sure it was. We set a baptismal date for this Saturday. There all super pumped. So am I.
We set another baptismal date this week, a friend of Goiovani Silva, that called us 10 times Saturday night to know where and when the church was cause our phone was turned off. He came to the chapel a half hour early and after told us that this was the church he´d been searching for and that he wanted to be baptized, we set a date for him in March. He is the first person that i´ve known that doesn´t know how to read, but he has so much faith, and is so humble that I know that God can make great things out of him.
When we started this month we had no one. not one investigator, but we set a goal for 4 and fasted for that number. We had now idea how we were going to prepare and baptize 4 people in the shortest month of the year but by the power of God those four people were lead to us and were going to reach our goal. Strengthened my testimony so much in the power of fasting.
Love you all so much, and i´m learning more and more how complete overgenerous God is with us, he gives us so much more then we think we deserve, or in fact, than is possible for us to earn.
Les quiero,
e. adams
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Teaching in english Rough!!!
We played soccer today. We are blessed here in Campiña to have the only soccer field (soccer sounds weird to say. Sould be fùtbol) that’s grass. Fun fact : the majority of soccer played here is on mini fields cement with mini goals. It’s pretty much the only sport we play. But I love it.
So Family Beroy are having there baby boy today. I`m pumped. They named it Christopher Daniel, which are the first names of Elder Fernandez and Sorensen, that taught them the change before me. Super sweet! Love this family. Such great people, they’ll have 5 kids under the age of 12. It’s always a party over there. Loveit.
We had zone conference, major dicho, half of the mission conference. Due to changes, it was the first one i´ve had in 4 months, ha. It was here in Campiña. Everyone from my district in the MTC was there except E. Furmanski. It was sweet to see them all again. Its great to listen to the president and his great advice he receives through revelation. I was walking to the conference in the morning and was thinking in what I would like to hear taught, and what I would like to receive help from the president with. Welp, that was the topic, how to better work with member to receive referrals. The church is true, si o que?! I have been struggling with that for a while and feel like his words will help me very much so.
I find my self thinking in Spanish now. There is a new family in the ward that had been living in Utah for the past years and the little boy knows English better than Spanish, so the mom asked if I would give it in English. Oh what a disaster. I was translating the whole time what I would say in Spanish into English. It was rough.
This Friday is the baptism of Camilia, the teenager that came up to us and told us that she wanted to get baptized. I’ve never seen someone sooo pumped to get baptized. Ha it rocks.
Ha and we also had a baptism this Saturday. We didn’t find out until Friday that we had it, but turns out some Elders from another area had taught him, knowing he lived in our area, then when he was ready to get baptized he decided he wants to be baptized in our ward. Ha so that was an easy one. He`s a great future missionary of 19 years, and were pumped to help him progress in the ward.
Were half way done with the change. Its nuts. Things are actually going pretty sweet with elder huaman. He’s a really funny kid. We talk a lot more and and he keep on opening up. My only wish is that he was more concerned about the work. But things are going great. We're going to probably set 4 new baptismal dates this week. Its crazy to think that I might just have 3 more weeks here in campiña.
sorry for this ADD letter.
Welp love you all and thanks for being such a great blessing in my life.
Les quiero,
e. adams
So Family Beroy are having there baby boy today. I`m pumped. They named it Christopher Daniel, which are the first names of Elder Fernandez and Sorensen, that taught them the change before me. Super sweet! Love this family. Such great people, they’ll have 5 kids under the age of 12. It’s always a party over there. Loveit.
We had zone conference, major dicho, half of the mission conference. Due to changes, it was the first one i´ve had in 4 months, ha. It was here in Campiña. Everyone from my district in the MTC was there except E. Furmanski. It was sweet to see them all again. Its great to listen to the president and his great advice he receives through revelation. I was walking to the conference in the morning and was thinking in what I would like to hear taught, and what I would like to receive help from the president with. Welp, that was the topic, how to better work with member to receive referrals. The church is true, si o que?! I have been struggling with that for a while and feel like his words will help me very much so.
I find my self thinking in Spanish now. There is a new family in the ward that had been living in Utah for the past years and the little boy knows English better than Spanish, so the mom asked if I would give it in English. Oh what a disaster. I was translating the whole time what I would say in Spanish into English. It was rough.
This Friday is the baptism of Camilia, the teenager that came up to us and told us that she wanted to get baptized. I’ve never seen someone sooo pumped to get baptized. Ha it rocks.
Ha and we also had a baptism this Saturday. We didn’t find out until Friday that we had it, but turns out some Elders from another area had taught him, knowing he lived in our area, then when he was ready to get baptized he decided he wants to be baptized in our ward. Ha so that was an easy one. He`s a great future missionary of 19 years, and were pumped to help him progress in the ward.
Were half way done with the change. Its nuts. Things are actually going pretty sweet with elder huaman. He’s a really funny kid. We talk a lot more and and he keep on opening up. My only wish is that he was more concerned about the work. But things are going great. We're going to probably set 4 new baptismal dates this week. Its crazy to think that I might just have 3 more weeks here in campiña.
sorry for this ADD letter.
Welp love you all and thanks for being such a great blessing in my life.
Les quiero,
e. adams
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
mi hogar es un rio en mi alma
¡q’hubo familia!
Soo i rocked a footlong from subway today. Only 7.000---translation 3.500.. What´s up! Felt real good, felt like I was in the cougar eat again. But I’m back eatin platano and rice and still lovin’ it. No worries.
We were working all day so I’m writing a little late. Forgive me.
This week we were finding people left and right, it was an adventure. When found this girl that’s 13, she greated us by saying ‘I’ve been coming to this church for a while, and I really like it. I want to be baptized.’ Rough one huh? Ha we visited her this week and her mom totally supports her, we’re going to work on her and the little brother, and Camilia, the girl, is getting baptized this 20th. We have three new family’s were working with right now. We have a goal to baptize 3 this month. I think we can do it! Ha we have a zone goal of 30 and if we reach it, we’re going to salitre magico (haha again). Ha we swore to the president we would never tell anyone we went, ha so I’m trying to act pump to go to that lame amusement park again! But the goal has Elder Huaman pumped to work to reach the goal haha. He’s a really good kid don’t get me wrong, he’s got a lot of potential, really smart, im just trying to get him to want to be a missionary all the time. For example, we went to help a family move today in the morning, but he was pissed the whole time because we were working on ‘his’ p-day. Ha tried to let him know that it’s not important that the family didn’t give us juice in the morning, or that he had to help people on a day that really isn’t his (a lot of missionaries think that pday is their day to take a break from the mission, and that we can’t do service this day. Pish, im not sure where it says that you’re expected to serve with all your heart everyday except Monday from 10 to 6 in the afternoon. But we are getting along great, he’s a really funny kid and he’s opened up a ton. He’s started to actually tell me about his complication. He told me today he had visited the mission pyscatrist and he was going to tell me more about it.
I had the chance to go see the Bogota temple this week, we went to get some triple combinations this Saturday at the distribution center but it was closed, bummer. But I at least got to see the House of the Lord. I’m a little bummed that the president felt like missionaries we’re spending to much time in the temple trips every month, so he changed it so that every zone goes two times every year ( I bet missionaries were taking advantage of the trips, but still a bummer.) I miss that House, I miss that Spirit that only abides there, But at least I got to see it!
There is a little town outside of bogota that consides with our area, its called Cota. I want to live there some day. It’s beautiful, it reminds me of Heber a little bit, but in Colombia. There is a huge mountain there that I want to conquer (btw there is a beautiful beautiful golf course close, that one day mike and dad we will golf at.) Anyways, there is a kid in our ward that is the only member, he went on a mission in Bolivia. His family gives us lunch every week, they're the best. The mom knows everyone in the church but for her husband she hasn’t got baptized. But what I feel like was a message from the Lord, he had his appendix rupture, he almost almost died. We gave him two blessings during this time and he told us that he felt the power from it, and knows that it helped him. Theyre both really Catholic but, I think this could be the push from the Lord they need. We taught them this week and I know the spirit was there.
Love you all sooo much. You give me strength.
Btw I’m so proud to have the first woman Ward Mission Leader as my sister! We could us some Jess’s around here!
Nuts Rich is leaving! Find out his email so I can write him!
e. adams
Soo i rocked a footlong from subway today. Only 7.000---translation 3.500.. What´s up! Felt real good, felt like I was in the cougar eat again. But I’m back eatin platano and rice and still lovin’ it. No worries.
We were working all day so I’m writing a little late. Forgive me.
This week we were finding people left and right, it was an adventure. When found this girl that’s 13, she greated us by saying ‘I’ve been coming to this church for a while, and I really like it. I want to be baptized.’ Rough one huh? Ha we visited her this week and her mom totally supports her, we’re going to work on her and the little brother, and Camilia, the girl, is getting baptized this 20th. We have three new family’s were working with right now. We have a goal to baptize 3 this month. I think we can do it! Ha we have a zone goal of 30 and if we reach it, we’re going to salitre magico (haha again). Ha we swore to the president we would never tell anyone we went, ha so I’m trying to act pump to go to that lame amusement park again! But the goal has Elder Huaman pumped to work to reach the goal haha. He’s a really good kid don’t get me wrong, he’s got a lot of potential, really smart, im just trying to get him to want to be a missionary all the time. For example, we went to help a family move today in the morning, but he was pissed the whole time because we were working on ‘his’ p-day. Ha tried to let him know that it’s not important that the family didn’t give us juice in the morning, or that he had to help people on a day that really isn’t his (a lot of missionaries think that pday is their day to take a break from the mission, and that we can’t do service this day. Pish, im not sure where it says that you’re expected to serve with all your heart everyday except Monday from 10 to 6 in the afternoon. But we are getting along great, he’s a really funny kid and he’s opened up a ton. He’s started to actually tell me about his complication. He told me today he had visited the mission pyscatrist and he was going to tell me more about it.
I had the chance to go see the Bogota temple this week, we went to get some triple combinations this Saturday at the distribution center but it was closed, bummer. But I at least got to see the House of the Lord. I’m a little bummed that the president felt like missionaries we’re spending to much time in the temple trips every month, so he changed it so that every zone goes two times every year ( I bet missionaries were taking advantage of the trips, but still a bummer.) I miss that House, I miss that Spirit that only abides there, But at least I got to see it!
There is a little town outside of bogota that consides with our area, its called Cota. I want to live there some day. It’s beautiful, it reminds me of Heber a little bit, but in Colombia. There is a huge mountain there that I want to conquer (btw there is a beautiful beautiful golf course close, that one day mike and dad we will golf at.) Anyways, there is a kid in our ward that is the only member, he went on a mission in Bolivia. His family gives us lunch every week, they're the best. The mom knows everyone in the church but for her husband she hasn’t got baptized. But what I feel like was a message from the Lord, he had his appendix rupture, he almost almost died. We gave him two blessings during this time and he told us that he felt the power from it, and knows that it helped him. Theyre both really Catholic but, I think this could be the push from the Lord they need. We taught them this week and I know the spirit was there.
Love you all sooo much. You give me strength.
Btw I’m so proud to have the first woman Ward Mission Leader as my sister! We could us some Jess’s around here!
Nuts Rich is leaving! Find out his email so I can write him!
e. adams
Monday, February 1, 2010
querido familia,
Welp, ( i need to find a new transition Word) so so glad grandpa is ok! Send him my love, and I’m sure grandma is taking great great care of him, I bet he has unlimited of those peanut butter cornflake wonders!
All is well here in Campiña. The week was a little rough teaching wise, probably a good 7 teaching appointments fell through, and we had a lot of lame business to do with elder Fernandez leaving. We had a baptism this Saturday for Daniela Rios, she’s 9 years old, her dad is a completely inactive return missionary, and her mom is less active, leaving with another guy. But she’s great! Ha this Saturday was super stressful dealing with the baptism. The mom first called me Friday night telling me that she wanted to cancel the baptism, and postpone it tell the next week, but then I went with my zone leader to talk with her and we promised her we’d bring a cake and then she was fine. HA loca. Daniela cried when she told her that she wasn’t getting baptized that day, but it all turned out great. We were in the chapel from 11-830 that day. This ward a little jacked in the fact that they think that the missionaries need to do everything for member baptisms (8 year old kids). Ha I called the mom to make sure everything was going fine an hour before the baptism, turned out she hadn’t that to find someone to baptize her daughter, left that up to me, sweet. But that one turned out good too.
Welp, ( i need to find a new transition Word) so so glad grandpa is ok! Send him my love, and I’m sure grandma is taking great great care of him, I bet he has unlimited of those peanut butter cornflake wonders!
All is well here in Campiña. The week was a little rough teaching wise, probably a good 7 teaching appointments fell through, and we had a lot of lame business to do with elder Fernandez leaving. We had a baptism this Saturday for Daniela Rios, she’s 9 years old, her dad is a completely inactive return missionary, and her mom is less active, leaving with another guy. But she’s great! Ha this Saturday was super stressful dealing with the baptism. The mom first called me Friday night telling me that she wanted to cancel the baptism, and postpone it tell the next week, but then I went with my zone leader to talk with her and we promised her we’d bring a cake and then she was fine. HA loca. Daniela cried when she told her that she wasn’t getting baptized that day, but it all turned out great. We were in the chapel from 11-830 that day. This ward a little jacked in the fact that they think that the missionaries need to do everything for member baptisms (8 year old kids). Ha I called the mom to make sure everything was going fine an hour before the baptism, turned out she hadn’t that to find someone to baptize her daughter, left that up to me, sweet. But that one turned out good too.
Things are going pretty good with elder Huaman Don’t get me wrong he’s a funny kid, just a little difficult to work with. But I understand he doesn’t really have complete control of it.
That’s sweet that you guys found a house with a sweet ward. I’m sure josh and everyone will love it.
I love you all sooooo much.
les quiero,
e. adams
That’s sweet that you guys found a house with a sweet ward. I’m sure josh and everyone will love it.
I love you all sooooo much.
les quiero,
e. adams
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