Coldest I've Ever Been




He Finally Got Baptized!  He likes to Fist Bump us, So This was Perfect!

 

Dear family,

What an exhausting week! It's been a very challenging week for me. But at the end it was very rewarding!

 

Frozen Water Bottle



This week I've really started to wonder what else I have to offer Colfax. It just finally sunk in how long I have been here! In the middle of the week I was feeling pretty discouraged and sad. I had to keep reminding myself of the great people we are working with and the great area we really do have. I know I really am blessed to be here, and I am also SO blessed to have Sister Rendon as my companion. I have had the best time and been the most happy getting to be with her! And it SNOWED and we were on our bicycles and it was the coldest I have ever been in my life!! Haha.

Speaking of the snow. It snowed and it stuck, but it was like hardly anything and they cancelled school! Sister Rendon and I just laughed.  But it was freezing cold. Like 8 degrees one morning. It was like our ice showers all over again!!

The best part of the week of course was that (Sam)  finally FINALLY got baptized. I have known him for 6 months now and have had so many lessons and so many phone calls with him and so many times that he has come to sacrament and he finally got baptized!! Of course, everyday leading up to his baptism was absolute chaos and stress! He was supposed to get interviewed on Wednesday and it didn't happen, then Friday and didn't happen, then Saturday and didn't happen. Just because of circumstances with having a way to travel to the church and with work. Sister Rendon and I were trying so hard to have faith but we kept feeling like the baptism might not even happen. Finally Saturday night we texted him and said "Please text us your address, there will be a ride for you at 7:30 tomorrow morning so you can be interviewed" and we were going to go with a member to pick him up. So we woke up at 5:15 so we could get everything ready and so we could get ready and then he texted us and told us he would be able to drive himself to the church. Haha! But anyway, once everything was finally in place, the baptism went great!! We had so many people show up they kept having to set up more chairs. Elder Peterson baptized him, which was great. Sam just LOVES Elder Peterson. After he came up out of the water, he just gave Elder Peterson the biggest hug. And Sam bore his testimony at the end and didn't say much but with tears in his eyes he said "I know Heavenly Father loves me and I know He loves you.  Thank you all for all of your help." So in the end everything worked out great!! Things always work out the way they need to :)

Something else that was really great this week was President Funk, who is in the stake presidency and is in our ward, texted us and said that Friday his family would be out of town and he would like to get together with Sam for dinner. So we gave him his phone number and they set something up. Friday night Sam left us a voicemail and told us how it went and he said "I was so nervous because I thought he was going to be 'investigating' me while we were together, but it was so great! I ended up having to stay at the school to help with basketball stuff and he just came and watched the game with me and went out to dinner and he just wanted to to talk to me and be my friend! That's all he wanted! Just to be my friend! I could just cry right now I am so appreciative. You all mean the world to me!" I was just SO happy.



We volunteer every Tuesday at the Bishop's Storehouse.



All day we can inform people of the gospel, but it really means the most when they SHOW the gospel! He really felt loved and appreciated and that's what he needed so badly. It was perfect.

Sorry this is so all over the place! For some reason I can't remember things chronologically right now.

  


She Just Loves it There.  Filling orders for Needy Families.



Humor moment of the week:

Sister Rendon and I were tracting Saturday in an area where there are lots of little townhomes, where they are all squished together, but they are separate homes? I can't explain it. Anyway, we went to a row that we hadn't done before. We knocked on the first door and the guy was not interested. So then we knock on the rest in the row. I didn't notice, but Sister Rendon wondered why none of them had blind on the windows, so she looked inside a window and got scared someone saw her.



At First, They would randomly Match, then they
Started Complenting Each Other on Purpose.



Then she looked in the next window and was like "...There is fake sushi on that table. The furniture is perfectly set up. There is no clutter." And then I was like "Real homes don't have fake sushi!!" And then we realized we were tracting a row of model homes. We about died of laughter!

Also, Sister Rendon was leaving Jack a voicemail and was talking and all of the sudden we heard something on the other line and we thought he had picked up so in the middle of her message she said "Uh, hello?" And there really wasn't anyone on the line, so we started laughing and she hurried and trying to hold it together she was just like "ok! call us back!" We just died thinking about him listening to that voicemail.

The Ward Mission Leader asked-
Why Don't The Elders Have Fun Like That!

Miracle from this week- we were tracting in the freezing cold with no success. As we were leaving Sister Rendon said we should try this last house at the end of the street. So we did and met a girl named Karen who is a senior and said she has been looking for different religions and that she is trying to figure out what is right for her! So we got to friend her on Facebook and get her phone number and last minute Saturday night we texted her and invited her to church and she said yes! And she brought her mom! I don't think her mom loved it. But Karen did!! She had to leave after sacrament, but she said "Sister Adams! I had so much fun! I loved it!" So that was really exciting!! We'll hopefully meet with her this week.

Kylie: "I Told Sister Rendon, Even When
We Don't Match, We Still Look Good Together".

I love reading the Book of Mormon! Hope you all do too! The last few days have been a lot better than earlier this week. I realized this morning that throughout my work I need to remember how much Heavenly Father loves me! When I remember that, it gives me a lot more confidence and motivation in my missionary work. Everything will be ok:)  I really do love being a missionary. We started our forty day fast as a mission yesterday. No desserts for me for 40 days! Wow I didn't realize how hard it would be. Yesterday at our dinner I was already thinking maybe I should change my mind. Haha. But I am going to stick to it! What 40 day fast is where we have made a list of everything that keeps us from being like Christ or from being the best missionary and we pick a few things that we will work on and pray about everyday for 40 days, and we can also fast from something physical so that we can work on our self-discipline. I was really nervous about it at first, but I am already loving it!! I am super excited to be better at things I have always struggled with. Like being stressed and anxious over plans working out ;) Bet you didn't know I struggle with that! ;)

Anyway, I love you all! And don't forget, transfers are next Tuesday! Crazy!

Also, yesterday was my 7 month mark! 10 months left..... Crazy.

Love,

Sister Adams