May 11, 2015

First i want to say that it was so awesome that i got to see you all again and it was great to hear how good the family is doing and that you lucky punks got to see Avengers 2 in theatres. haha nah but my comp is pretty jealous and wants to buy a suit from Hayden of iron man. Also shout out to sterling and Jessica for there return from there honeymoon and that i love you guys so much.

As for my week it was super fun we got to have quite a few activity's during the week because it was stake conference they had a brilliant idea they had an activity every day to get everybody excited about the work and so they would come to church to stake conference and not think about it like ugh stake conference. With more excitement and happiness. Also like I mentioned we have a baptism this week that i am pretty excited for and they are so cool so this next week i will be sending out photos of that to you guys. Also on Thursday we had a counsel of all the zone leaders of the mission come and took the day to think and talk about what we could do to be better it was super awesome and made me super happy to see a lot of my buddy's from the mission. Although the rest of the week was normal.

I love you all so much and especially i want to give a special shout out to all those moms out there, that not only yesterday should be yours it should be everyday. Lots of love and prayers.

elder adams

the first one is an area that actually has green its really sad that that's the green here.

 the second is one of the games we did for our activity was shoot down the cups with elastics we thought they would do it super fast but it turns out Chileans have a problem shooting elastics haha

 the third is another but this time they had to play soccer tied to another person

May 4, 2015

First of all to start of i have to give a big shout out to my brother sterling and send him congrats on his marriage this last friday. Congrats man i hope the best for you and your wife.

Well for this week it was super fun as usual we started the week of with some preety crazy crap. Well this last monday we got emailed from our president to prepare for the counsel that we are going to have for zone leaders and he always sends us some scriptures to read and study before we go so it was super awesome to read and study what they are going to talk about this thursday and it will be the first one i will get to go too so i am pumped. Also this week was super cool because well friday was a day where everybody in chile have a day off its called "el día del trabajador" basically labor day so it was super cool and the tradicion is that people always have barbecues so you can just bet we got invited to ¡¡¡¡¡¡3!!!!!! Barbecues. I felt so fat after i really was going to have a fatty attack. Although the next day we had the oppurtunity as a zone to have a fast so we could have some more baptisms for the zone and that our goals get completed so it went really good and i am excited to see the blessings from that.

Although the rest of the week was pretty normal and we got to have exchanges on Thursday and i got to be in a sector called centenario it is super cool its also one of the sectors elder Scott served in like when he started his mission so i let him tag along so we had a trio that day and elder Scott was super happy so we got to see some of his good friends from that sector.

All in all it was a great week and i am really excited for all the things great that are happening for you guys right now.

con mucho amor

elder adams

 

the first is of a tower of coke cola bottles like the size of a building

the second is on Friday while all my family was having the wedding eating cake i was great meat

 this is a photo of my shampoo and hair gel that just go perfect with the gospel (i got to live it up every day)

April 27, 2015

Before I started this email i wanted to give a special shout out to my brother who will be getting married this next week for time and all eternity. I love you bro and hope the best for you and the family you are now starting. Also another to my brother and sister in law Chris and Rachel for there new house it is gorgeous and I know it will be a good place where my nieces and nephew are going to grow up well in so it makes me so happy.

Well as for this week things were super fun. As you all know i am know back in antofagasta but this time I am in a trio with elder Jara and elder scott. Elder jara is chilean from santiago he is super cool and he is like the classic chilean gangster (flite in chilean) he was such a baller before the mission and gave it all up for the mission he is super powerful with his testimony. elder scott reminds me so much of the classic nerd at blackfire playing magic, pokemon, or league of legends and we get along great they are both so cool and we are really excited about everything thats going down right now. Also the ward is super cool the sector is Antofogasta Centro so its like all of the main part of the city its ginormous and super fun. The ward as tons of potenial and i am pumped to get some serious saving of souls here haha.

As for everything else this week went great we had a ton of new investigators in church and a family that has a date for the 16th of may and they are both going to be baptized without a doubt. Also we have a colombian family who came and loved it and they are a for sure too we just need to get there parents to get married but they want it so it will be awesome. Also another family who loves the church and wants to hear more but they have a lot of problems so we are just waiting to be sure that they are ready to take that next step. Although i am so excited for it all they are so cool and ready.

With everything that is happening right now i am happy as could be and am so excited about everything here. So as of course when things are good help others and when there bad give a little more. So i will be sure to do everything I can to pray and send blessings all your ways.

Con mucho Cariño

elder Adams

 

 

this is a photo of a family that I left in arica who are super cool that said goodbye to me in the bus terminal

this is a photo of the child of the family that will be baptized in this next month (sorry but he wont be baptized yet he has to wait a little while)

April 20, 2015

this week is crazy i got some cool and sad news. I got cambios and i am going to ..............................

............ANTOFAGASTA AGAIN BUT THIS TIME AS A ZONE LEADER! I am a little scared and really excited because i know the lord will prepare me and is preparing me right now. Although the other thing is that i am not any better than any other elder i really did learn a lot about TITLES in conference these past weeks. I really now the lord prepares us in many forms.

As for everything we are super good i am really sad because we just started getting things really going here like last week we had 30 news i was really excited for those baptisms but i just needed to prepare them for the new elder here they are prepared for him. Also it was really hard because i have to leave a ward that is amazing and i will never be able to forget and will be people i will come back and see again.

Sorry this is kind of short but I leave tonight in two hours down to Antofagasta for a 10 hour bus ride so its a blessing that i got to write you guys before but i love you all so much and wish the best for you guys. Remember that you all need to PRAY, AND STUDY what the lord wants for you and that includes Reading, watching videos, and more than anything think about the cliche phrase "what would Jesus do" I love you all so much. I hope you have a good week.

elder adams

 

 

this is a photo of a crazy fire that went down close to our apartment thank goodness it wasn't ours.

 this is hna Ingrid my convert she and is so awesome and will miss her and her family a lot

this is a photo of an asado (barbeque) that a family gave to us because i was leaving it was so awesome this ward for the last week I ate like king faruk because they all knew i was leaving but today topped it all off.

April 13, 2015

First i am sorry i am rushing to write this email. Although this week was incredible and we found a ton of news this week through members, contacts, and actividades it was so cool. I am so happy with what is going on with our district and ward we are starting the success right back up. 

Also i had a really cool experience this week. We found a lady who has been sent through references through like 3 city's and 4 bishops and nobody has helped her yet because she has not had any food for her kids for like quite some time so we asked some members to bring some food on Sunday and they did and after we brought her to the church and she was balling her eyes out and said that because of the night before her husband finally got a job and this will last until he gets paid thank you so much. It made me really happy.

 Also this Monday was super cool we went to lago chungarà it is a lake right next to a volcano close to the border of pure and Bolivia it was super cool i have a lot of photos and will send more next week but just like 1 this week.

Love you all so much have a great week

Elder Adams

April 6, 2015

I just want to start of by truly saying im sorry that i didn't get a chance to write you guys last week and my email was really pathetic but i had minutes to write and it was between being disobedient or writing you guys and i am sorry but I have repented and accepted the lord as my Savior so has for my weeks they were great. We had some craziness go down this last week and this week have happened some pretty end of the world crap! We in arica and Iquique are the only citys in our mission that have not been washed almost away! What happened is that in this time of the year especially February Bolivia gets A LOT A LOT A LOT of rain and when we get some of those clouds on the interior of the desert it turns the dessert into a mountain slide of sand and dirt that destroys citys and villages and with that the cites Copiapò, chañaral, vallenar, and antofogasta, are pretty much destroyed with mud and dirt.

Although so everybody feels good, i am safe in Arica we have not had any problems except a strange little earthquake (6.4) at night me and my comp we woke up and watched people start to leave there apartments because we are right by the beach so if we get something big we have 10 minutes to get out of the apartment but we didn't hear the alarms and realized that it wasn't big enough to have a tsunami so we went back to sleep. All in all we are good.

Also this week we had a really cool opportunity to help out the people in the south who don't have running water so we spent Thursday filling up a giant semi truck with water jugs i have not felt so worked out since i was going to Golds gym a year and a half ago haha. Although i love the opportunities that i get to do service it makes me feel so lifted up. 

Also another thing amazing that happened this week was CONFERENCE it was so great this time i had the luck to watch all the sessions in English (except the two speakers in Spanish i went and listen to them in Spanish it sounds way better than hearing the translator) As for the talks i really cannot decide what was my favourite talk i liked almost all of them they all caught my eye in so many different forms and ways for you guys and my investigators and for me. what can I say I love general conference. Although the ones that come to my mind first are the sister that was the second to speak in the first session Saturday she finally gave the credit the father deserves not coming from another father. It really impressed me that a woman went up there and talked about that just because i have never heard it before.Also the talk of the difference between being a latter day saint and latter day quitter i liked that one a lot  Also the talk right before elder Holland spoke Sunday I started of a little mad because i wanted to hear the talk from elder Holland but then its funny how the lord slaps me in the face and says "It doesn't matter who speaks it matters what you get out of it" and a seventy spoke about the prodigal son i was truly crying hearing that talk i will never forget how i felt after that talk.

As for the work everything is good we are working really hard with a new initiative that i didn't get to announce last week that's called "He lives" we have had so many oppurtunitys to share the gospel in the street it is so awesome. I love having a little thing like this that opens peoples hearts so fast.

Well i hope you all feel a little bit better that i am not dead and am here and kickin ready to bring the gospel to everyone. I love you all and really love your PRAYERS and can feel them each and every day so keep it up. 

 

 

con mucho cariño

elder adams

 

this is a photo of a sweet dog that one of my less actives has from far away he attacks the fence but when you get close he just loves you. his name is 6 i have no idea why.

 i finally got around to making dianne lohners oatmeal cookies my comp absolutely adored them and i did too thanks mom also sorry i didn't get a photo of my traditional cinnamon rolls that i make for conference they came out and i completely forgot and everybody just started eating right away.

 gringo room during general conference it was so awesome

March 24, 2015

This week was pretty awesome and really strange things crazy went down. First of all in our apartment were living 4 elders and on Friday morning the other two elders got a call from president and told them they had to move to another sector and that in my district there would be coming in two other hermanas so that makes it 6 hermanas in my district and me and my comp are the only elders  also so now with only me and my comp in our apartment its a lot more peaceful and we can actually feel the spirit and keep it clean faster. So it was good but it just seems like we have a ton of room now haha.

That's the crazy now the good thing we had stake conference this week and we were prepping our investigator Brandon so that he could come with us but Sunday morning some crazy stuff went down with his mom and couldn't come so we ended up praying so that we could have somebody in church and i felt that we needed to call Felipe who was and old investigator who was sick last week and we gave him a blessing and he felt way better so I gave him a call and invited him thinking he was just going to deny me like normal but he said he would come and me being really prideful i thought yeah he isn't coming but i tried but when we got to the stake Oh boy the lord slapped me right in the face he was there with his kid and his mom i really almost cried it made me so happy. 

As for the funny moments well we were on our way to a house and we walked by an old investigator Pablo and he was cementing and couldn't here us say hi to him so we got close and then a splash got all over the shirt and pants of my companion it was really funny. Also we got to go to the Morro this week for P-day it was super cool it is where Chile took the north from Peru it was really interesting and pretty.

Also we had a really cool zone conference with our mission president who made taught us a lot and challenged us on a few things which makes me really determined to get out and work harder than before it was really cool. 

Anyway to end I just want to all let you know how much i truly appreciate the lord in my life and want you all to see that in your lives because things are passing that i don't think you guys realize that the lord has just prepared and done but we have not recognized. I invite you guys to REALLY PUT YOU ATTENTION in the LORD. I know he will guide you all this week and for the rest of your lives. 

Con mucho cariño y amor

elder adams

my comp loves cars and wanted to take a pic next to this challenger

you cant really see it that well but this is when my comp got the cement all over him haha

this is just a giant photo atop of the morro of all of arica it was super hot

me and my comp on top

 I DID IT

 There is a super cool Jesus statue on top

 this is the sign that is on the jesus statue

It says "love one another as i have loved you"

 Alright this should have been first but this was the sign coming in with the sweet cannon and sign and the GIANT flag.