Adam Serving in Portland

Well everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving! I'll start today by listing t a few things that I am especially grateful for this week, in no particular order. Firstly, my family and the technology to call them.  Second, amazing ward members who helped us celebrate Thanksgiving while we are far away from our families. Third, the love and strength of our Savior, Jesus Christ. And finally, all my amazing friends that I have made before and on my mission! I'd love to hear some things that you all are grateful for this time of year as well! Now that I've shared some of the things I'm grateful for, onto a recap of the week:   On Wednesday was just straight contacting until around 8pm--so overall super long. At 8 though we had a lesson with the Allens! They are an awesome couple in the ward and just have a lot of cool insights to the gospel! On Thanksgiving we had 2 service projects in the morning. First we went to the Cassalery's and helped them clean up the ...

Hey everyone! This week has been good but I am running a little bit low on time, so this won't be too long.   A few highlights from this week: On Friday we had exchanges again! I went with Elder Strand to Powell Valley. It was fun to be on bike again, but it was in the 30's the entire time with winds ranging from 30-50mph the entire day. It is surprisingly difficult, but also a fun challenge, to bike in high winds.We taught a French guy named Jean-Marc. He has a huge mustache and a pretty thick accent, but it was fun to teach him and made me think of my sister Cami's mission to France a few years ago. On Saturday the Powell Valley Elders had a baptism. It was a young boy named Joey. At convert baptisms the mission does something they call an intermission that the missionaries do after the actual baptism. In the intermission we just teach the entirety of the restoration or doctrine of Christ. My companion and I were the ones who gave the intermission. It was actually a real...

Okay y'all. This was a very fun and busy week.  On Wednesday we helped Sheila finishing packing some things up. She collects and cuts rocks, so we spent most of that time packing rocks.  I used to collect rocks too, so I enjoyed seeing some of hers. Once we finished there we had another lesson with Peggy! We brought the Hiatts with us again, and Elder Jensen and I barely had to do any teaching. We just kinda helped direct the lesson and the Hiatts taught Peggy and answered all her questions very well. Then we were supposed to have a dinner with Susie, the Hills, and Sister Whitney that night, but Susie backed out last minute. We still went and had dinner with the Hills and Sister Whitney though. They also had an apple taste test as the dessert. I would definitely recommend doing that, especially if you like apples like I do. On Thursday we had a couple lessons, a lot of going around to people's houses, and some baptism prep for Bubba! There were actually a few miracles we saw ...

Hello friends and family! I don't have a ton of time to write my email this week, so I'll just talk about a few of the highlights. So this past week there was a weather pattern that locals were calling an atmospheric river.  As I'm sure you've heard, Oregon is known for being rainy, but this was rain on steroids.   Basically it poured for 4 days straight and I got to test the limits of all my waterproof gear. Thankfully I am not on a bike or I might have permanently pruned skin,  but my condolences to those that are-including the other Elders in my apartment. It also snowed for about 45 minutes on Sunday morning, so that was cool. Last Tuesday was a pretty low-key  day, but on Wednesday we were able to do a service project for a nonmember, named Sheila, who was getting ready for a move this upcoming weekend.   We  helped her pack up her house and get things organized.    We also went on exchanges on Wednesday, so I took Elder Partridge a...