Well! Christmas was a blast! Thanks for all the stuff y'all sent me! How was all of your's? I had about 4 meals that day. I didn't eat as much food, even during rugby season, as I have on my mission, I just never seem to be full! More meals the merrier! How has your week been? What have y'all got planned for the rest of the year?

 

Here's a nice question: What is your gift to the Savior going to be this coming year? 

My adventures this week consisted of tracting.

  A few days ago, around 430, mind you it gets dark by 445 most days, we were walking up a driveway and I looked up to see a black and white pit bull standing on the door step. My companion, Elder Harper, didn't see the dog, and kept walking. I told Elder Harper, "Hold on! Stop!" He looked at me confused and then turned around and kept walking forward, until he saw the dog. Then he was like, "Oh!" We started backing away, and then the dog started barking and sprinting at us! We kept backing up and it got real close to getting to Elder Harper. So naturally Elder Harper started yelling at it. It slipped on some ice and looked very confused/surprised that someone had said something back to him. We walked off down the street and every time we turned around he was still standing at the end of the driveway just looking confused. We've gotten a pretty good laugh out of that!

Anyways, hope y'all have a good week! 

Love ya and thanks for the Support!

Elder Adams

 

  Merry Christmas everyone! What do y'all have going on? What's your plans? Plenty of gifts and such?

 

  How's everyone been? Have you had a good week? I really don't have much to say, this week started out kinda rough, but it's flown by. Holy cow. My new companion is Elder Harper, he's pretty cool. We get along really well. Always great when that happens.

  What are y'all hoping for this coming Christmas? Specific toys? Possibly new electronics? Who knows? 

Have yourselves a merry little Christmas! 

Love y'all!
Elder Adams

Elder Harper

 

  Well. Last week was very rough. We got snowed in. I was on exchange for 3 days. Roads were more slippery than a greased fish. Power was out for several days. (Now if they power is out up here, nothing works. No heat, no water, nothing). Feels like this transfer is going to be interesting.

  Now, I can tell you one thing for certain, Jesus Christ knows you. Heavenly Father knows you. He knows what you are going through and understands how you feel. I felt like I was very near the breaking point earlier this week. Going through things that I had never experienced. I prayed fervently for help, and understanding. I felt like Heavenly Father really, and truly, listened to that prayer. He has indeed helped me. He has blessed my life so much. I can't express how thankful I am to my Heavenly Father for all that He has done for me.

  We are in a continuous process of Heavenly Father's design. Only if we are being Obedient as he asked do things happen as he has said. Our Agency leads to other experiences that we go through. Heavenly Father in each of those helps us to learn why we should or should not make that choice. Which will help and which will hinder.

  I testify to you, that we having a Loving Heavenly Father. He is more concerned for you than anyone could ever be. He cares for you so much. Yet, He also knows that you need to learn and experience for yourself.

I love you all and I am so thankful for the support and the emails.

Elder Adams

  Who can believe that it has almost been 3 months since I stepped foot in the New England area. That is crazy.

  This week has been a blast. How has your weeks been? Not many adventure stories, but plenty of things happened this week. Way, way, way cold! Like in the teens cold. Like, this morning at 4:00 am, it was 4 degrees! At 10:00 it was barely 15! And it's only going to get colder! Wow. People live in this guys! They live here their whole lives! 

  Anyways, how has everything been? Anything awesome happen? How's the weather? Any interesting stories? Any questions? I really don't have much to talk about, I just go off of what I'm asked, so if you want to know something specific, ask it! 

Love y'all! 

Elder Adams

Always the artist...

Alright! Holy Cow, 10 weeks already! That is ridiculous. How's everybody doing? Anything fun and exciting? Did I miss anything amazingly important? 

 Honestly, not much to tell y'all. We had three Thanksgiving dinners so that was crazy. Saw some really big dogs this week. One was a Rottweiler the size of a small bear then there was a Newfoundland dog which was also the size of a small bear. Both were crazy nice though so that was awesome. Rottweiler was just licking and licking and licking my church pants, and the Newfoundland dog just kinda rubbed up against me then went back inside. 

 Sorry, for the Short email, but we didn't have much to talk about this week! 

Here is a picture of the memorial that is all lit up for Christmas now! Hope you have a good week!

Love ya!

Elder Adams

Now, I bring a very important question to the table here as I type this address. So please everyone, be honest in your response and tell me, 

Do you know the muffin man? 

Because, I mean, really, the muffin man has got to be able to make good pies as well, I mean he's a baker. Come on!

 Anyways, sorry for the random side track! How is everyone? I'm doing swell! Biggest thing about this week is probably that we're out of miles on our car. (For those that didn't know, Missionaries have mile limitations per month; can only drive a certain amount during that month.) So we walked about 13 miles towards the nearest town from where we are living, and tracted along the way. Guess how many doors we got to knock.

36. In 13 miles, we knocked 36 doors. If that ain't the boons, I don't know what is! 

Nothing much else. Sorry about the awkward day. We had Zone Interviews, got interviewed by the Mission President, so P-day got moved to today! Hope everything is going awesome with y'all. Hit me up if you have any questions or anything! Love to hear from you guys! 

Elder Adams

 

A note about the cows...

I MILKED A COW!!!! And I have a bunch of calf friends! I was feeding one milk out of a bucket, and once it was all gone, they start head butting! They have magnificent aim, and seem to know where it'll hurt you! Jumped like 5 feet in the air to avoid a head butt to my groin region. Oh and they enjoy eating shirts. That was strange.

I don't have a name for the one on the left; she is pretty calm and sleeps most of the time. The big one is a little pushy, I call it Ironhide. Not sure if it is a girl or guy. Then the one on the right I call Half. She is half Guernsey and half red-white Holstein.



This week, as usual, flew by. Sheesh. Like wow. Coulda sworn I was emailing y'all yesterday. So weird. Haven't gotten a lot of work done here. We moved to another apartment so that threw all our plans into the air and it came down like a deck of cards. 52 card pick-up anyone? Anyways, the week goes as it does. Nothing much really happened, oh wait. That's right. Everything up here is white. Kinda gray. It’s been raining all day and snowed last night so we have a lot of slush. 

How's everybody doing? Hope y'all are having fun and staying out of trouble. How's the weather? Cold? Or still blasting hot? I miss Mexican food. They have a Hispanic food section in the stores, as well as a Mexican food section. Hmmmmm. Oh well!

Have a good week! 

Elder Adams