Adam Serving in Portland

Hey y'all! I hope all of you had a very merry Christmas! This week was actually quite uneventful, despite it being Christmas and Christmas Eve! The quick overview of what happened: I got sick, it sleeted, we got stuck inside, there was a Christmas Eve devotional, and it was Christmas! On Wednesday it was about 20⁰ and windy the entire day. It also happened to be the day that I woke up with a mild fever. So I was just very cold and tired the entire day. We did a bunch of phone calls  and definitely tried to keep it pretty low key.  Thursday the weather got COLD with  a high of about 15⁰. I was feeling a lot better though, so we were able to go out for most of the day. At around 6pm, it started sleeting, so the mission president asked us to go back to our apartments and stay there unless it was absolutely necessary to leave.  This picture was taken just after the sleet started.   We finished the day up with a bit of facebook work. When we woke up on Friday ne...

Alrighty everyone! Another week in the books here! Unfortunately I am running out of time so this will be a pretty short email. It was a pretty busy week, so a quick summary of what happened: our ward Christmas party, Exchanges... again, and today a zone Christmas party! All in all it was a very good week! Our ward Christmas party was on Saturday, We went to the church Saturday morning to help set up chairs, tables and other decorations. I didn't take a picture unfortunately, but they decked out the gym with decorations. It was really cool! They set up chairs for about 200 people at the Christmas party and they actually filled it all almost exactly! It was a really good time, an a lot of people brought their friends and family, so it was a great opportunity to meet new people. On Monday we had exchanges again! I stayed in Damascus and took Elder Jensen along with me!  It was a fun time, we were able to find a few people who were interested in meeting with us and learning more! we a...

 Hello friends and family!   So we had a very busy week--the good type of busy.  On Wednesday the zone leaders went on exchanges with us, so I took Elder Boss to Damascus with me! It was a very fun time and we got to talk a lot about how when we set ambitious and faithful goals that we will be blessed in our efforts to achieve them. It was fun leading out the area with another new missionary, and just all around had a good time. On Thursday we had a very long lesson with Marty. He talked a whole bunch about the gift of tongues and how there should be physical manifestations of the Spirit. He then proceeded to say tell some stories about how he had healed people and spoken in tongues. So that was an interesting lesson to say the least. We will see how that goes in the future. He's definitely an entertaining guy to talk to. On Friday we had Zone Conference!  That was really good! The theme of the Zone Conference was "Eyes to See". The first counselor in our missio...

Hey everyone! I hope that y'all are doing well! This week marked the end of training for me, which also meant that it was transfers! I am staying in Damascus/Boring for another transfer, but I once again got a new companion!  It was sad to say bye to Elder Jensen, but Elder Feltner is a super cool guy! Exchanges took up most of Wednesday, but right after we got back we went to a youth, Mt. Hood Stake, Light the World activity. We basically just helped the youth make Christmas ornaments to give out to people. It was actually a really fun activity! On Thursday we didn't have a whole ton going on, just introducing Elder Feltner to some of the ward members. Friday wasn't too exciting either. My companion had MLC though, so I got to go on bike with the Powell Valley Elders for the morning! That was fun and we got to teach a guy named Tom. Tom is a really cool guy, he said he was going to read the Book of Mormon and come to church.  Other than that, we had zone council. We were ...