written Dec 4, 2017
Good wonderful merry happy Christmas season, everyone! It's gonna' be a good 'un. First of all, we're all super happy that the Church decided to do #LIGHTtheWORLD again this year, since it was such a great idea last year. I'll briefly recount what happened this last, eventful, week:
Mon: We had P-day and played sports. It was chill. Not much happened after that, except we found a nice lady named Maria who is the mom of a young man named Edgar. You'll hear more about him later. We also found a young woman named Selena. She's nice, and interested, but seems to be going through a "so what? I don't care." phase. We went by during the week, and will be going by again tonight to try to teach the rest of her family.
Tue: We went by Maria Ramirez, who left a nice note telling us that she'd like to reschedule. That's kind of unusual, and made us hopeful. We also did service, more missionary work. We then had a lesson with Jay. He's interested, but told us following God, while important to him, is not quite his 1st priority right now. We've since referred him to the YSA Elders (Zone Leaders here).
Wed: We went by Selena and talked a little bit, setting up the lesson for today. We finished off with a #LIGHTtheWORLD activity with the youth.
Thu: We had my very first District Meeting! I panicked a little that morning with some final prep, but it went well. Nothing else happened much.
Fri: We planned. Nothing much interesting happened besides that. I mean, we worked, but nothing really came of it.
Sat: We caroled at the Moses Lake community nativity in the morning, doing service. We then went by Jay that evening, but he wasn't there. He's now in the territory of YSA. We did have a bomb lesson with Edgar, though! He got a lot more interested as the conversation went along. I lost one of my gloves, which made me sad.
Sun: I prayed to find my glove, and I miraculously found it! It was on the ground a little ways away from Edgar's apartment. We then had church, gave people a blessing, studied, had dinner, and knocked some doors. We found an amazing young couple. She's a member, he's not. She wants to be able to go to the temple with her family. She's English, so we gave her to the Elders who live with us.
Overall, a great week! Love you all, Merry Christmas, and don't forget to #LIGHTtheWORLD at mormon.org.
Love,
Elder Adams
Questions from Editor Mom
How's missionary life in The Prophet's Puddle? - It is fantastic! We're trying to work hard and do everything we can to find new, amazing people. All of the missionaries are pretty close together, and so, compared to any of the other zones, it's comparatively pretty social. We're close enough we can sometimes have zone exercise 1-2 times a week. We also live with 2 English missionaries that cover about our same area (we cover their area and also a little bit more, but we rarely, if ever, go to the part that is not in their area.)
Have you ever visited the fitness center at your apartment complex? Is it worthwhile? - We have not gone there, no. I'm pretty sure we're not supposed to go to gyms to exercise. Maybe we could use the fitness center, I'm not sure. Either way, we have enough equipment in our apartment that our exercises are usually decent anyway. I've even begun losing weight again! (I have no idea why; in Toppenish I exercised really well and also ate the healthiest... here I lost weight over Thanksgiving. I have now determined it's simply the hand of God.)
Any fun plans for P-Days this month? - Not really, no. Next week, I might play Risk with Elder Shoemaker; he's been wanting to, but I have been fasting from anything like that for the last 40 days. That ends tomorrow, though, so maybe next week. Normally, people here just play sports. It's fun enough, just doesn't particularly catch my interest.
What are you most looking forward to in the next few weeks? - Well, I'm looking forward to Christmas! I'm also really excited to keep doing #LIGHTtheWORLD again this year; it is such a great concept! I hope all of you are doing it over there in the wonderful land of Massachusetts.
Have you found a cello in Moses Lake yet? - Working on it, but not yet. I've run into a music teacher in our branch, though, so that might lead somewhere!
Tell us about the interesting people you are meeting! - I'll work on it! I'll save it for later, though, so I have time.
I love you to the moon and back! - I love you to the moon, landing on the moon in a lander, performing tests and planting a flag, completing a successful orbital rendezvous, and returning to successfully slow down in the atmosphere and deploy the parachute to land in the ocean to cheers everywhere! In other words, I love you to the moon and back, too! :-)
Elder Adams
Elder Reusch, in our district
Elder Buchanan, also in our district. He goes home in 2 weeks, mid-transfer, and is Elder Reusch's companion.
Our district!
This is an apartment complex in our area, really late at night. We're about to go home when I take this picture:
Elder Hamblin, front, and Elder Larkin, rear. Elder Larkin just arrived, and is being trained by Elder Hamblin. They live with us. This is also our kitchen.
A youth activity on Wednesday, November 29th about #LIGHTtheWORLD where they made cookies to give to people who might need a little holiday cheer. It was great!
Pictures
Elder Shoemaker and I
Elder Reusch, in our district
Elder Buchanan, also in our district. He goes home in 2 weeks, mid-transfer, and is Elder Reusch's companion.
Our district!
This is an apartment complex in our area, really late at night. We're about to go home when I take this picture:
Elder Hamblin, front, and Elder Larkin, rear. Elder Larkin just arrived, and is being trained by Elder Hamblin. They live with us. This is also our kitchen.
A youth activity on Wednesday, November 29th about #LIGHTtheWORLD where they made cookies to give to people who might need a little holiday cheer. It was great!
Same activity, where some of our missionaries are setting up for it.
The cookie wrapping table. We were in charge of the photo booth.
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