Meat and Potatoes

Hey everyone!

Has this been the best week ever or what?? 14 months so far, and it' still getting better.

Weird thing, about half of our dinners the last two weeks have been varieties of meat and potatoes. Also multiple of them included the same old lady who also got invited to dinner. Every other day "Hey Sister Palmer, long time no see!"

We got to go ice skating last Monday for our zone activity, which was pretty cool. Even if the rink was owned by the Edmonton Oilers. There are much better hockey teams than them!

Tuesday we spent much of the day trying to contact part-member families that we don't have any notes about, or that ward members don't really know. We also had our coordination meeting in the evening, where we tossed around a lot of good ideas and got some good reports from members going on visits.

Thursday night we went out to visit some people with our ward mission leader. Mostly people had just moved or their address didn't exist, but we had a good visit with a couple that's been investigating almost longer than I've been alive.

Friday we had district meeting, then drove up to Frazier Park. We had two appointments up there, and the second canceled, but the first was awesome! We didn't think we were going to have that one either, Suzie wasn't there at first, but then she showed up! It was an awesome lesson, too. She'd started out by telling us that she didn't want to join a church, just learn more about God, but now she's asking questions like "Okay, so hypothetically, if I were to get baptized..." "So if I want to be with me family together forever..." She's really warming up to the idea of joining the church!

Saturday morning we were driving to check something, and we saw Mina just sitting out on her lawn! We hadn't seen her in over a month, so of course we had to stop and talk. She's still interested too! Just had a really rough month. Now that we're back in contact things will hopefully go better. I'm really glad :)

President Layton showed up at Oaks ward's sacrament meeting, so we got to say hi to him there. It's always kinda awkward though- like sorry, our investigators decided not to come today :S I mean, Kathy probably came to church, just in Tehachapi, not here.

The guidance of the Spirit is so so important in life. We were talking to someone and she said "I just wish God would tell me 'do this' or 'hey don't do that'" and the Spirit is really the way that God does that. The gift of the Holy Ghost is incredible really, it's hard for me to imagine life without it. Even if sometimes we just get little nudges in the right direction, those can have a big impact. So many things that happen on the mission are one in a million chances (not that there are even a million people in mission boundaries, I don't think there are) without the hand of God in this work we'd never get anything done.

Thanks for all your support!
Elder Adams