35 - Thanksgiving!

 

First off, yes, we did have a grill out for Thanksgiving, with garlic bread, mashed potatoes and grilled pineapple! (thanks Mom for teaching me how to grill pineapple) And it turned out awesome! Probably best meal I’ve had in the mission that night! I have heard little stories about this awesome little party that was had at the Adams family Thanksgiving! But that’s cool, I’ve never been to Mesa Verde! So I bet that was kinda fun! And that’s kinda funny that you had Bryan and Bryan had the fam bam. But it sounds like fun! I miss going to Monticello, it’s so much fun! Especially all the food. That’s the good stuff. And 450 shells does sound like a pretty good time! Brooke told me that she got the first one with one shot, which I was pretty impressed with! I’m glad everything is going good, and it sounds like it was a pretty dang good week over there for you guys! And make sure to help BYU win at the bowl game!

Yes I can get batteries out here. But you are great about being vague with the things you send. I can’t think of something I get every year. I remember like iTunes cards and movies, but that’s about it! But yes, I’m going to be here on the island for the holidays. We are all going to the mainland (into Panama City) this weekend to go to the Christmas thing for the mission. And then me and my comp get to stay in the city a few extra days to buy some stuff for the islands, as food and such. So that’s gonna be fun! We wanted to go in and buy some extra stuff for Christmas and stuff so it works perfectly! I’m gonna send some pics from there because the internet on the island is way too slow to do it. But that’s awesome that you put something extra in there for my comp. He said last year he didn’t get anything from his family so it was kinda sad! But this year he most likely will.

But I’m like 95 percent sure I’m staying here at least till February. I really hope I’ll stay longer but I guess we will just see when the time comes. I’m stocking up on mola just in case! I’m getting one made for Austin, just so you know mom. It’s gonna be pretty cool! And I will try and get some good ones for you!

Yes, there is a rule on the island, no kids can be in the street after 8 o´clock so that is one thing, but it doesn’t affect us that much. We still teach English every Saturday. We have a few show up pretty consistently. And yes I do fall asleep to the sound of faint waves every night. No there hasn’t been storms. Well not enough rain storms to sustain water levels! It’s gonna be so hard after being here on the island. I’ll want to trap water and collect it and horde it! It could be a serious problem for me.

We had a good zone conference. It was my first one since I’ve been back in the country, 12 people total, and we just had fun! Yes mother, that is pure joy in that picture! Or completely losing your mind on an island, not sure which.

Now to my week, so this week was a little hectic. It was kinda weird, we had some lessons, nothing super special or memorable, just days of working hard. We had a good few days of work, but then we ran out of clothes. We had to spend a few hours washing clothes one day. So we couldn’t leave until the afternoon. So that kinda put a dent in the work time. But then Wednesday we had a good day, a ton of contacts. And then Thursday was a good day. We kind of just tried to find new investigators all day. Then Friday I got super sick, I felt like throwing up all morning. But then by about 4 I started to feel better so we left and got a little bit of work done. We only ended up with like 30 lessons, which is still really good but we could have done a lot better. The funny thing is as a companionship we don’t put many goals. With us it’s just more of go out, work our hardest and try to teach as many people as we can, we don’t worry so much about number of lessons. And it seems to work! So we are happy. But the workers are still here working on the church building. They are trying to finish everything today. We will see how that turns out. But we don’t have water, which kinda sucks. But we are gonna pay someone to go get it for us. So hopefully we will get some soon. But on Sunday we were doing the Sacrament, and the guys were here working. When the guy turned on the light, it popped and started smoking, so I turned it off. But the guy was just sitting in the back on his phone and didn't even notice! I was like dude your freaking light just blew up! It’s just different some times. I have learned in the mission that you are in control of yourself, not others. And you can’t blame others for the things that happen. 

But this was a pretty good week! Keep up the good work mommy! Love you!

Elder Adams