Adam Serving in Portland

Hi Everyone! I hope you all are doing great! I'm quite short on time this week, but here's a summary of what happened this week: Michael & Kira's wedding, exchanges, and the airplane home! First off, Michael & Kira's wedding! It was amazing! They had it at their home, only had about 20 people there. The ceremony was performed by the bishop of our local congregation out here. It was a very happy time and all around pretty good experience. Michael & Kira said that they both felt the Spirit. The exchanges this time around were really good! I was in my area with Elder Francom. We talked a lot about faith and humility and how these things will help us to see God's hand more in our life. We also talked about a quote from chapter 1 of Preach My Gospel regarding our own conversion. It teaches: "Remain focused on your commitment to Christ... not the outward results. These results often are not evident immediately. At the same time, keep your expectations hi...

  Hello everyone! I hope all of you have had a great week! Things have gone pretty well here, lots and lots to keep us busy. A few things that have happened: interviews, cleanup, and Patrick! First off, last Wednesday we had interviews with President Botchway! These were awesome! It was President's very first time doing interviews with a zone, so it was a pretty new experience for him. It was honestly just him trying to get to know us a bit better. It was cool. He follows the Spirit very well. We also had a training going on at the same time that went pretty well! We talked a lot about treating everyone with the love that Christ would. It was very powerful. We have so many examples in the scriptures, and around us today, that we can look to and follow as we try to develop this love. One that stood out to me from recent studies was in the account of Lehi's vision of the tree of life ( https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/8?lang=eng ). He saw many people...

Hi Everyone! I hope all of you had a fantastic week! This felt like a bit of a slower week here, but it was still very good! Here's some of the events of note: zone conference, painting, ward barbecue, and a great lesson with our friend Alma!!   We also went to the temple today! It is an amazing place of learning and peace! If you haven't been, or haven't been recently, you should go! You will learn something new if you go with a desire to learn! Next, zone conference! It was amazing! We no longer have themes, but I still learned a lot from it. It was President and Sister Botchway's first zone conference in the mission! We got together with half of our mission and got to hear from them, and also some trainings from the new Preach My Gospel. One of the things that stuck out to me was Sister Botchway talking about Christlike attributes demonstrated in the scriptures! It was really cool to see how every prophet in the scriptures testifies and emulates Jess Christ! And now ...

 Hi everyone! I hope y'all are doing great and having a great Independence Day! This has been a pretty good week. A lot has happened. here's a quick rundown: President and Sister Botchway's incoming devotional, transfers, MLC (again) and a few interesting lessons. I'll start with the lessons. We had a couple "lessons" with people that they just talked about politics for a long time. That definitely wasn't ideal, we had to try to direct the conversation away from that. One of these lessons was in a cottage/workshop that an older guy built himself. He had cut the trees and chopped the wood and built it on top of a big hill. It was a very cool house. It also had a fantastic view that we could see Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, Mt. St. Helen's, Mt. Rainier, and the Sister's Mountains. It was very pretty and I should've taken a picture. On Thursday we had the incoming devotional with the Botchways! That was fantastic! They truly are people that have been call...