Family and Friends,
Hello Y'all! There's lots
to write about this week! Lots of good and bad things happened.
To start off we had
to drop one of our investigators which was really hard, but necessary as well.
Sometimes it's a hard and scary thing to do, but if we follow the Spirit's
direction it will all work out. God has a play for each and every one of us. A
few days later we also had to drive some Elders to the airport and say goodbye
to them. That was also a little hard and sad.
However, even though
this week had some hard things, it was chalked full of amazing things as well! We
had lots of success finding new investigators and have found some really good
potential in several of them.
One of the biggest
highlights of the week however happened on Saturday. A while back Elder Cook
had planned to visit our mission but due to an ice-storm he wasn't able to
come. So he rescheduled and came back this past Saturday! We met in Portsmouth
Virginia which was about a three hour drive from Greenville. Our mission
president wanted us to drive up over night so we did that and stayed with some
other Spanish Elders. Then Saturday morning we had a meeting, as a whole
mission, with Elder Cook. It was so good and so amazing! We talked mostly about
Easter and developing Christlike attributes. It was very inspiring and
instructive. The Spirit that Elder Cook brought with him as well was
incredible.
After the conference,
we had some lunch and then had to drive all the way down to Kinston (4 hours
away) for stake conference. We were running a little late but somehow made it
just on time. We sang in the choir, and then got to hear from Elder Keetch and
President Walker. It was really good. They talked about strengthening your
marriage which of course doesn't apply to me right now, but I have some good
ideas for the future now!
The next day, Sunday,
we had the second session of stake conference in New Bern. About an hour and a
half away from Greenville. Elder Keetch spoke to us again about the importance
of service. He talked about a man that wanted to double his spirituality. He
shared his plan with Elder Keetch, saying he was going to double the times he
went to the temple, double his scripture study, and even go to church twice on
Sunday. His hope was to double his spirituality by doubling those aspects of
his worship. However, Elder Keetch told him what he thought would be the best
way to double his spirituality. He said, "Instead of the time you would
take to do all of those extra things, even though those are fantastic, use that
time instead to perform simple acts of service." He went on to explain
that of course we need the basic building blocks of scripture reading, church
attendance, and temple worship. However, it's also important to remember to
give service to others. That's my favorite thing about being a missionary. We
have so many opportunities to serve. And I know that as we serve not only will
we increase our spirituality, but we will draw closer to God and be the type of
people that he would want us to be.
Well after all of
those amazing events, we had one more! Since stakes out here are pretty large,
Morehead City is included in our stake. So at stake conference I was able to
see lots of the families from Morehead City. In specific, the Willis and
Clifton family! After conference, people always bring food and have a picnic
outside, and they invited us to eat with them. It sure made me miss them and
Morehead City!
Alright, that's about
all for this week! Y'all take care!
Love,
Elder Adams
Seeing good friends from Morehead City.
Elder Adams and Elder Mickelson.
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