Elder Jeffery R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has said: “Don’t give up. … Don’t you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead. … You keep your chin up. It will be all right in the end. Trust in God and believe in good things to come.
So alot of you know that I have been going through a lot right now. So this quote has really helped me. I love having this gospel in my life. Preaching God's word has been a huge miracle to me. The reason is well it took me almost two years to get out here. I had almost thought I wouldn't serve. Things changed for me when I decided to Call my bishop one last time. At that point my whole desire to serve was gone. I had started applying to schools and looking into apartments down in Provo. However I got a prompting to text my bishop and ask him about the mission papers. He told me to call and I did. In that moment all of my desire to serve came back. I was excited to serve and couldn't wait to start the papers. I finished the papers really quick and sacrificed some sleep. I was that excited. Granted I didn't submit them in one day, but I had all but the medical stuff done in one night. Now here I am serving a mission in California. Somewhere i never imagined I would be go. I love it so very much and would never change the decision to serve. I have seen so many miracles out here. I have seen so many come closer to God because they decided to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. I know without a doubt that this is Christ's church on the Earth today!
If at any point you are struggling or doubting in God I would tell you to pray to God. I promise you he is there. He is real and I know because I am here on a mission. What I have been through in my 20 years of life has shown me that God is there. He saved me from death at times. He helped me when things were tough. He will answer your prayers. Trust in him and all will work out.
One last thing. Also we did a days for girls service and sewed bags for girls in Africa. I got to use a serger I was so happy about that!!! Ha mainly because I love sewing. We are going to the temple on Thursday and I am so excited about it. Time is running out for me to email. Time is short that is for sure. We picked up 4 new investigators last week. And ha are kind of being Poachers of the YSA only because she isn't ready to be passed off to the YSA elders yet. She needs to feel more comfortable and let us know which ward she wants to go to.
I hope you all have an awesome week!!!
Also huge news! My MTC teacher got engaged!!! I'm super excited and happy for her!!!!
Love,
Sister Adams
Hi family and friends!
This week has been an awesome start to the new transfer. I forgot to mention that Sister Wilde and I are staying together for this transfer. Which means I get to kill her off! Not a literal kill but mission lingo for her going home on March 13th. Which is when the transfer ends. Well it ends on March 11th, aka my birthday!!! But she goes home on Wednesday of that week. Time here flies by way too quickly!! It's already February 5th!!
Well the good news about the pain is that Pelvic ultra sounds came back normal!! As for the pain well I'm not sure yet. Things will be okay. I try to have a positive attitude about it all. I have another doctors appointment on Wednesday to discuss the Ultra sound and also about the rapid weight gain. They think it might be my thyroid so I will find out tomorrow or Wednesday about it all. I have been eating healthier than I did on the SLSW mission. I had to cut out sugar and junk food. So yay for that plus right?! Also we got to clean up litter around riverside on Saturday morning. So that was fun!
Miracle of the Week:
We picked up 3 new investigators and possibly a whole family. One is a member of the Sandals Church. She is awesome though and open about learning more. We plan to meet with her again sometime this week. We also picked up a family on Friday. We taught them the Restoration. They are both Catholic, but are still pretty open about learning. They told us they felt the spirit during the lesson, and that what we taught them wasn't anything new to them. They said they would pray and read the Book of Mormon. Their only concern is baptism, since they have both been baptized through their church already. However, they weren't fully immersed or had it done by proper authority. Through time I know they will commit to baptism.
Well I hope you all have a wonderful week!
Love,
Sister Adams
Another Pday has come!!
Again I'm majorly sorry at my time management! I really should email some of you back.... I feel bad.
First off I experienced my first Earthquake. It was a 4.1. Also it happened at 2am so yes it scared me. I didn't know what to expect out of an earthquake and especially in the middle of the night. Not cool. I don't scare easily, but interrupt my sleep then yes you will have scared me. It made a cool rumbling noise though.
Transfers happened which means a new AP and we are staying together. Not a big surprise about staying together. Almost done with training!!! Only 6 more weeks to go. I will forever not be a big fan of 12 weeks. Especially doing it twice, but that is okay.
Hmm well we dropped literally almost all of our investigators.... No one seems to be progressing, but we have high hopes for this next transfer. I would love to have a baptism on my birthday. That would be the best birthday present ever! Only 6 weeks until I turn 21! Crazy right!!!!
To be short I won't explain too much about it. So the pain is still there even after the switch of medication. I plan to go back to the doctors on the 13th to figure more things out. I also went and met with my mission president and told him what was going on. He offered so much peace and advice. He also gave me a blessing which was a really neat experience. It left me in tears because it was everything that I needed. I wrote it all down so that I will never forget. I'm so grateful to have an awesome mission president. He has helped me a lot.
I hope you all have a wonderful week!! God loves you all!!!!
Funny story My mission president was once upon a time the UVU president before he became mission president this last July.
Love,
Sister Adams
I'm sorry I just had to write about the fact that there is no snow here. Only because you all got dumped with so much snow. Plus I so don't miss the snow. It has been in the 80s a lot lately. Sometimes a bit too hot. Also I will be cutting this email short because I'm limited on time. So I apologize. I will be better at responding to people next week. Also I hit my 5 month mark next week. Crazy!!
Highlight of the week:
We had a special ward fast on Thursday. Sister Wilde and I fasted to be able to find a family to teach and baptize before the end of next transfer. Let me tell ya fasting is not an easy thing for me. I get super dizzy and feel sick from it. This time around add on pain. It was hard, but I did it anyways. I knew Heavenly Father would give me the strength to carry through. He did. When we got to Testimony meeting that evening the spirit came over me so strongly. It was so cool to be able to see so many members there. All of them fasting for missionary work for their ward. I'm so blessed to be in this area and to have so many members willing to help the Lord's work progress. It amazes me everyday!!! I love being a missionary. Also some of the members got up and bore their testimonies about how Sister Wilde and I share such powerful messages to them. It's great to see that even members get something out of what we share.
Also We met with Fabby finally!!!!! She is seriously the best! She is so strong and has gone through so much. She told us about how her son isn't making good decisions and it saddens her. We told her that it will be alright and asked her if she wanted a priesthood blessing. She said yes she would. We also taught her about Christ's Atonement. It was cool because her son had been listening to this really loud video. Then he turned it to christian music and turned it down. The spirit touched him as well!!! Also we asked her to be baptized and she said YES!!! So we committed her to Feb. 18th.
I hope you all have wonderful week.
Love,
Sister Adams
Well it has been a wonderful week I may have to cut this email short this week due to running out of time. I'll be brief.
I went on exchanges this week. They do things differently as far as STLs go. Only one of the sisters in a companionship is an STL(Sister Training Leader) which means we do exchanges twice. We have Hermana Grover as the STL. She went to our area while I went with Hermana Hernandez Sanchez. Cool experience going to the Spanish area again!!! The Spanish area holds a special place in my heart. I love the people there which is why I got called to Cali. Anyways I got to have a wonderful opportunity to be in Moreno Valley
Sister Hernandez Sanchez is awesome. She taught me how to pray and testify in Spanish. I had the opportunity during one of the lessons to bear my testimony in Spanish. That was pretty cool. We are going on exchanges again tomorrow night. I will be staying in the Area with Hermana Grover. I'm excited to see what I will be able to learn from her. I learned a lot from Sister Hernandez Sanchez. During on of the lessons things started to take a downwards turn. We were teaching Maria about the restoration. She had a friend over who participated in the lesson. The friend was a born again Christian and didn't want anything to do with the Book of Mormon. She almost convinced her friend Maria not to read the Book of Mormon. Sister Hernandez Sanchez bore a powerful testimony and was able to keep Maria as an investigator. It was cool how even though I know very few words in Spanish that I still knew what was going on. Also we ate Shrimp Soup that a member made for us and La Rosca. If I messed up the spelling my bad. It was all super yummy.
Anyways my doctors appointment is tomorrow so hopefully all goes well with that. I got a nasty cold as well. The one time I let my guard down. Anywho I'm taking stuff for that so I feel loads better. Thankfully it's not the Flu because that is spreading like wildfire down here in Cali. Oh also its been raining for the past 2 days which is awesome!!! I love rain. Have a wonderful week my friends and family.
Your friend,
Sister Adams ( secretly hoping to be Hermana Adams in the near future. kidding)
