The Crazy Thing Is, It's All True

Hey everyone!

It might be one of my last weeks here in Cal City, (that autocompleted to Calgary, oops) so we've been working hard and have made the best of it. It's been the best week yet!

This week we had exchanges again with the North Edwards elders. We didn't end up having very much time, but one of the people we got to visit was a potential investigator who we got to teach about the restoration. It was awesome! It helped her feel like God really cared about her, because she'd been struggling recently. It's always nice to be able to do that for someone.

The next day we did some service out there in North Edwards. That's what the picture was- Elder Bird and I digging up a flower bed to put down some deer fence to keep gophers out. What the picture didn't show was the other half that we also had to dig up after we filled the first part in! That's alright though, we don't get to do too much service in our area, so it was a nice change of pace.

I also got to do the baptism interviews for a couple the Rosamond elders have been teaching. Wow was that cool.  It was so spiritual and so neat to hear them talk about the changes in their lives made possible by Christ's Atonement. The baptism on Saturday was really a special experience. Ordinances bring the power of God into our lives, and help us become more like Christ. It's so cool to be able to see that happen.

Because of what we've learned about teaching from the Book of Mormon and having more spiritual lessons, we made sure to plan really well for a lesson we had with an investigator on base on Saturday. She's read a lot of the book of Mormon, but always found it kinda dry, and while she's softened to it a lot, she still has a lot of doubts. We felt inspired to teach her about how we come closer to Christ through faith and repentance, and what the Book of Mormon teaches about that. It was so so cool. I wasn't sure how we were going to get to the invitation, but the Spirit was so strong and it gave us the words to say. She definitely felt the Spirit too, so when we invited her to read the Book of Mormon to come closer to God, she realized that might help her really find her answer- if it draws you closer to God, it has to be inspired of Him. I was so grateful we'd prepared and were able to help her understand why we are here.

As for the title of this email, the general over the air force test center talked in our ward, and used Star Wars as an analogy for several gospel subjects! It was a really great talk, bug it's hard not to laugh a little about it. I liked how he compared skeptical Han Solo to people now- they too can be brought around to realizing that "the crazy thing is, it's all true. All of it." I've really come to understand the gospel better on my mission, and I'm proud to say that I know it is true as well. The Atonement of Christ, the Book of Mormon, eternal families- they're all real. I'm so grateful to know all this, and hope that I'll be able to use what time I have left to share it with more people!

Thank you for all your support!
Elder Adams