Heavenly Father Wants You To Be Sane

Hey everyone! Finally, a weekly email off at the normal time. A p-day where we don't get stuck and don't have to run halfway up and down the mission.

This week has been a pretty good week. On further reflection, I think it's actually been the best week of my mission.

We went on exchanges out in Rosamond and Mojave this week, which was cool. I always enjoy exchanges because you get to see a slice of the work going on somewhere else. Like this is happening in our area, and their area, and in more than 75 other areas just in this mission. Wow. There's a lot of good work getting done! And then with all the missions worldwide... dang. It helps me feel like we're a part of something bigger than just "make people join the Church in Muroc ward" (which is still a good cause that we should all support.)

We also drove down to Lancaster for interviews with the mission president. That's always a good experience. Even when President Layton has to leave the interview for a minute to shoo away a homeless guy trying to get into the building... East Lancaster is a fun place. Anyway, good interview, good day.

Also had District Meeting in Mojave, where the Zone Leaders came and told us about More Rules. Which happens sometimes. Missions have rules and we follow them to get blessings. New situations arise and we have more chances to get blessings. Not a problem thing.

With all this driving we hardly had any time to spend in our own area! Agh! But we still got some work done, especially with Nicole. We ironed out some concerns about the interview for baptism, and were making sure she understood the commandments when we stumbled across a couple of gaps in her knowledge of what the commandments are... so we've got to spend a little time reteaching and getting her solid on that. We're still shooting for her baptism in the beginning of January, send us your prayers for her!

We also got to meet with a cool part-member family who moved up here from Palmdale a little while ago. The wife knew some missionaries and members that I know, like Elder Puyogao from earlier (MUCH earlier) in my mission. Time sure flies! We're going to be working with them now, too.

So the title of this email. A member of the bishopric here said it in a talk, and besides making me laugh it really rang true. God doesn't want to drive us crazy this Christmas season by overextending us with our service to others and making things and giving gifts and family and all the other million things we already do. He just wants us to be happy and to help others to be happy. As a missionary, I might not have to worry about a lot of those things, but I do feel like pulling my hair out sometimes! There's a lot to do and it's not always easy! But I can trust that God'll make all things possible without anyone freaking out. So things will always turn out alright. Do all things in wisdom and order, right?

Merry Christmas everyone!
Elder Adams