Adam Serving in Portland

  Hey everyone! SURPRISE!  Monday is my p-day this week (thanks to Halloween)!  I hope y'all are doing well!! We've actually had a very eventful week this week The rough overview of our week: we had a day with 7 lessons (more in one day than we've had so far), meat candle, zone conference, fall festival, an amazing sacrament meeting, and now a day early p-day for Halloween! Also today is my sister Emma's birthday, so if you know her you should tell her happy birthday. On Wednesday we had 7 lessons throughout the day! It made for a very busy and tiring day, but it was absolutely amazing to just be spending that much time discussing with and learning from all the people we taught. In our lesson with Stacie that day she also wanted us to give her sister-in-law a blessing while we were there. That was a super cool experience, and it is amazing how present the Spirit always is, regardless of the setting of the blessing. We didn't get back to our apartment until around 9:...

Hi everyone!! I hope y'all are doing well! This week in Boring has been pretty boring ;) but there were definitely some fun parts (and some beautiful parts). So first off, last Wednesday we were going about our day like usual. just after lunch an inactive member that we hadn't been able to get in contact with at all since I have arrived gave us a call! He wanted help moving a double glass patio door from the front of his house to the patio. It was a pretty heavy door. Thankfully Elder Jensen and I successfully carried it around their house and through the blackberries without the door breaking. After we finished carrying the door around to the back, he invited us in to share a message with him! The lesson went pretty well! At the end of it he handed me and Elder Jensen both a large chunk of pumice to take home with us. I'm still not entirely sure why, but now I have a pretty big rock that floats. On Thursday not much happened during the day. That night we had mutual! It wa...

Hi everyone! I hope y'all are doing well! This has been a pretty crazy week with a lot of stuff going on. But it's been really good! So the first thing that happened this week was transfers! We weren't expecting anyone to be transferred, seeing as we had both only been there for about a month, but Elder Stone got switched out to a new area! So I was left in Boring to lead out the area while still being trained. It's been pretty good so far. Honestly not that different than before, I'm just the one that knows the people better. A few things that are different: my new companion is Elder Jensen, he's taller than me; I am the designated driver.   I honestly really like it; we now have someone from Utah in our companionship so nobody is making the comment on how weird it is that neither of us are from Utah. All in all though, it's been really good. I'm going to go through the title of this email in reverse order. First up, Beer Bottles . We took on Elder Part...

Okay y'all so this week was pretty good! Nothing too crazy has happened, but things are good here in Boring and it's still not raining.   So this past Wednesday we had interviews and training with President Haymond. It was seriously so cool! The training was focused on t echnology and how we can use it to find people to teach. Let me tell you, it is amazing the work that is starting to happen over technology. The Portland mission is one of the piloting missions for some new online tools that the church is using and it's amazing to see the work that is happening because of them. The interviews with president were really good! Its amazing how much he knows about missionary work and just life in general. Thursday was a pretty average day. Just lots of trying to get in contact with inactive members, and formerly taught people. Friday is where the second part of the subject line cones from. So one of the people in my apartment, Elder Partridge, was making a smoothie that needed...

 Hey y'all! So this week's email is probably gonna a be pretty short because I'm running low on time. But it was a pretty good week. A miracle we saw in missionary work this week happened last Thursday. We had just gotten out of a lesson with a less active member of our ward and we parked just down the street to figure out where we were going next. We were just kinda sitting there when someone knocked on our window and said that we were parked in front of their house. Once he figured out who we were he actually invited us in to share a message with him and his family. So we taught a lesson to Shawn, his wife Ellie, and their daughter Ryan! We are going to try to stop by tomorrow to have another lesson with them. So we'll see where that goes.   This p-day we were able to go on a hike to Mirror Lake which has an amazing view of Mount Hood. It also started raining a little bit this week and was loving the clouds while they lasted. I also made a cow friend. Conference obvio...