Adam Serving in Portland

Hi everyone! It's been another week! I hope it's been a good one for you all! I'd love to hear why or why not-- let me know! It's been a pretty good week here! We have had a few really awesome things,  specifically: interviews with President Botchway, Theresa, moving, and more exchanges. First off, interviews were this Friday! Those were awesome! It's always good to talk with President Botchway about how things are going as missionaries and just with life. He is awesome. Something he invited me to do was to listen to " A Master Class in Leadership: One Day with the Savior " (BYU devotional by Elder Mark Bragg). It just got me thinking what I would do if I had one full day with Jesus Christ. It's a very interesting exercise. I encourage you to do it as well! We have had a couple lessons with our new friend Theresa. She is seriously amazing! She loves everything about what we have shared so far. She has jumped into reading the Book of Mormon and praying ...

Hi everyone! This week has been pretty great! Honestly a pretty typical week of missionary work. We had some exchanges, good lessons, and some good connections made! First off, exchanges! I love exchanges! I got to go with Elder Kennelly and Elder Britt (on two separate exchanges). Both were very good! We got to talk a lot about what makes a successful missionary for both. In essence, just love the people! Love the people and do your best to serve them! They are awesome Elders! We had a couple really solid lessons with some new friends. We met a lady named Pili. We were able to pray with her a give her a copy of the Book of Mormon in the first interaction. When we came back she was telling us how much all of these things came at the right time of her life. She had been going through a lot, but she said that us coming across her was a witness to her that God was aware of her. It was really cool! Lastly we had our friend Jim at church again! He was able to meet a lot of local members her...

Hi everyone! This week has been pretty good! Lots of meetings. Like that's legit most of what happened! But it's fun! I always learn a lot from them! Here's a couple of the things that happened: temple, zone conference, exchanges, mission prep, and a fun little mission stake coordination meeting! We went to the temple today! If you haven't been or haven't been recently, go! It will be a blessing to your life! We got to lead out mission prep for the Tualatin and Tigard area this week and will continue to do so for the next few weeks for all the youth preparing to serve missions! It will be fun! Zone conference was amazing this time around! One of the big topics was about the power of The Book of Mormon. Sister Botchway invited us all to read it 2 times in the next 3-4 months! That is a lot of reading! 1062 pages to be exact. And we're trying to truly study it and learn about Christ! I decided to accept the challenge. I'm about 100 pages in right now! I have a...

  Hi everyone! This week was super good--lots of fun things happening, including Mission Leadership Council (MLC), Stake President's Council (SPC), Just Serve meeting, zone council, and baptism. First off,  Hunter, who I talked about last week, got baptized this weekend! I wasn't able to go because he lives pretty far away, but he said it was really great! Hunter is very very prepared to come closer to Christ and continue to do so now that he has been baptized. Between MLC, SPC, zone council and the JustServe meeting, we had a lot of meetings this week.   Most of them were planned, except for the JustServe one which we got pulled into right as it started. Here are a couple of the big takeaways from these meetings: -this is the Lord's work, not ours -as such, we should be anxious to account to the Lord for what He has trusted us with -we are partners in this work with all people who have made covenants with God (i.e. people who have been baptized or been through ...