Adam Serving in Portland

 Hi everyone! I hope you all have had a great week! What have you done this summer? What have you learned recently? This has been a fun week here! We had several exchanges and I got to go to downtown Portland, got to give a last minute talk in sacrament meeting (again), and some awesome things with our friends! Elder Cherry and I On my first exchange I went with Elder Crum to downtown Portland again. Old area with my old companion and my MTC companion too! It was lots of fun! The day wasn't too exciting, but it was just a solid day of missionary work. Downtown Portland My second exchange was with Elder Gilleland. I've lived with him for the last 4 months now, he's awesome! He usually works in the other half of Canby and does a great job. We had a good full day, most of our lessons fell through, but it's alright! Still worked hard! Elder Gilleland and I On Saturday night we got a call from President Botchway, our mission president. That's pretty unusual w...

Hi everyone! I hope you've had a great week! I'd love to hear how you are doing and anything that you are looking forward to! This has been a good week here in Canby, Oregon! Here's a few things that happened: zone conference, exchanges, ward parties, and of course some fun lessons! Zone conference was awesome! We talked about having courage in the ways we behave ourselves and being true to God and the commitments we make. I got to go on exchanges with Elder Partridge again. This is transfer # 9 serving close to him! It's a lot of fun to work with someone for over a year of my mission. We had a good day and we're able to find a few people to teach! On Saturday we had a ward party in both wards we serve in! Both were great missionary opportunities and we got to meet a lot of new people that the members had invited! It was pretty awesome! We have started to get fed by the members a little bit more! People are finally realizing that we were getting an average of less t...

 Hi everyone! How has your week been? Anything fun happen? Anything you're looking forward to?  How have you felt God's love in your life this week? This week has been busy. Very very busy. We've had a lot of meetings, some good lessons, and some service. Busy is good. In this area we usually have anywhere from 1-6 hours of just meetings every day. One of the longest days of meetings is Sundays (since we attend 2 wards + meetings). Church is awesome! In a meeting with the Stake President here in Oregon City we talked a lot about the sacrament and why it is so important in our personal conversion. It is the only time that we have to renew all our covenants that we have made with God! Now what does that really mean? It means re-committing to keep our end of the covenants with our current experience that we have gained each week. And in addition to that, God re-commits His promises to us. The best way that we can continually feel close to God is regularly partaking of the sacr...

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great week! It has been busy busy here! We had transfers, interviews (3 days after transfers!), exchanges, and lots of fun lessons! First off, transfers! Elder Cherry and I are both staying here in Canby! This is the first transfer of my whole mission that I haven't attended for some reason. It was nice not to have to worry about going to Beaverton! We just got to keep working in Canby! Just yesterday we had interviews with President Botchway! That was far earlier in the transfer than normal. We got to talk a bit about what's happening with zone conference in a couple weeks. We also talked a lot about continuing to point others to Christ to change their nature. It was a cool topic of discussion! In one of our lessons this week our friend Bailie decided on a date to be baptized! She has such an amazing testimony of the gospel already and is so prepared! She bore her testimony at church of how the gospel has changed her in the past year since she...