Elder Adams

Friday, July 9, 2010

From Flo

Hi Sis. Adams,

This is Elder Flores, I'm in the mission with your son "Bo" he is a really good kid he is always telling me about you and your family and the funny things that you do , and don't worry he hasn't told me anything to embarrassing. I just wanted to send you a quick E-mail and let you know that i truly love your son, I feel like he is my little brother so its my responsibility to make sure he is safe and most importantly know that he is loved.He is a great kid and he has such a love of being around other people, he is a great missionary and will continue to grow. Well i hope that some day we will be able to met. take care.S
Sincerely,
Elder Flores

Saturday, July 3, 2010

June 28

I love when you send pics. I seriously love it. Thank you :). The mish is wonderful. I love it out here. I don't wanna leave. We're teaching a guy named Arturo with a baptismal date for the 11th of July. He's legit man. He asked me yesterday when he could give a talk in chuch because the speaker was boring haha. I've seen a few baptisms since I've been out here. I didn't baptize any of em, but I did speak at one and did a musical number at 2 of em. I played I Need Thee Every Hour on my harmonica and Elder Smith played the guitar and we both sang it in spanish at one baptism. At the second one I did Placentero Nos Es Trabajar. It's only in the spanish hymn book. It's my favorite hymn (check it out here). It was written by two missionaries thrown in jail in some third world spanish country for preaching the gospel. They weren't killed but got close to it. It's a very powerful hymn. Ask dad about it. I love it. At this last one I gave a talk on the holy ghost in spanish. It was deese. Told her what the Holy Ghost is and bore my testimony. Day in the life boys and girls.

Mobile, Alabama

Bo sent these pictures to us last week, but we have no explanation for any of them! I'll just upload them so everybody can see and maybe when he gets back he can share the stories...in 16 months.

June 28

Que tal...guey,

So I was like "Borba, it's you and me tomorrow, we're gonna have a great trade off. We got a run around cottage hill, studies, lunch at Taco Loco, the game will be on, we got Wanda's after that where we will be cooking for them, then we got Lupe, then we got Laura; it's gonna be a legit day. Oh and by the way...I love trade offs on P-Day because we're not gonna do any of that...it's Taco Loco and Soccer ALL FRICKIN DAY LONG BORBA." He said "Nyuh. Adio Pelado." We did trade offs on a P-day lol. It was freaking hilarious all day. Well last P-Day couldn't have gone to crap more. So Borba and I are playing soccer with teh Delgado family like we do every monday. All 6 of us are their. The 4 mobile guys and the two from Foley (Borba and Flo). Well I'm jukin' dudes out of their socks, talkin trash the whole time, lightin' em up. It was the 6 of us (who are all good are soccer, Flo's high school team won state for 4-A in Texas soccer) against like 17 of these mexicans. So we're schoolin' em yadda yadda and I get to this one kid and did a juke move where it looks like I'm gonna go to the side and then I hit it in between his legs and run around to get the ball. Well after I do that and said "Yeahh Carlos eat that guey! You left your jock strap back there along with your game!" and then SCHOOL my Tocallo (Tocallo is a mexican word for someone who has the same name as you) and right as I'm passing it to Flo, this dude from Costa Rica tried take the ball from me. I tripped over him and my foot completely bent inward and back when it landed. I felt and heard this huge POP and it immediately got swollen and bruised. I'm like okay okay I'm done for the night. Well it got huge and black so Borba and I drive to the hospital. I drove the Fusion and it sucked because the roads are horrible in the south and it was hurting my ankle big time. Oh it was my ankle that got huge by the way. Well we get to the ER and I go in I'm checking in and they take me back. Don't worry, missionary medical always comes through. Well unbeknownst to me, this entire time Borba is on the phone with Sister Summerhays. Borba tells her I shattered my foot...why...I don't know. But he was like "Sister Summerhays you have to be here it's huge, I think there's internal bleeding." Of course this whole time the doctor is just like yeah you're fine it's just a sprain nothing more. I'm like alright cool I can walk on it, it's not that bad, I'll be fine. He's like we'll give you some stuff and ice it for a bit and then we'll send you on your way. Great. No problem. Well I laid there for a sec and I fell asleep after like 10 minutes. Well dad gum Borba comes in and immediately leaves and calls sister summerhays and is like "sister summerhays he's passed out because of the pain!!!!" Well summerhays freaks out and sends like the bishop to give me a blessing, all the missionaries and calls the spanish group leader. Everyone thinks I'm going into convlusions because of a shattered annkle when in reality I got a sprained ankle and I'm taking a nap haha. I'm like guys I'm fine I'm fine. The doctor (this really sarcastic white guy) comes in with some ibproufen or something and stops and looks around is like...how did you all get back here. Borba goes "I told them it was an emergency doctor." HAHAHAHAAA!!!!!! You gotta be kiddin me Borba!!! The guy was like "It's not like he shattered his ankle or anything" and everyone is feraking out. So dumb. It hurt like crazy the next day and was the size of a tennis ball but now it's fine haha. Freaking Borba. The doctor was like skip out on running and soccer for like two weeks and you'll be fine. I'm like sweet thanks. Borba FLIPPED out haha. I love that kid.

So that's my funny story for the week. However it's a grim week boys and girls...my US team got knocked out by Ghana. The same team that knocked us out last year. Freaking Prince slammed into Donovan too and knocked him down. Ugh. So dumb.

Another thing about the south. They all have retarded messages on their churches. This week's winner, "God sent the first text message; the Bible!"
Last week's winner, "You don't need facebook to be God's friend."
Winner of Tallahassee, "The bible. What N' Hell Do You Want."
I kid you not...a church had that on the front of it.
My personal favorite? "Don't pray about the book of mormon, that's how they get you!" Oh my gosh.

So I ate squirrel the other day. It was actually really good. KC Masterpiece makes ANYTHING good but this stuff was nice n grilled the way I like it.

Well...see ya later. I love you guys. Peace.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Letters

Nov. 25, 2009 (excerpts from his email to mom)

The MTC is pretty cool. There's some legit dudes here. My companion is Elder Shirley! He's from Vancouver washington. I need support for my companion he's awesome but he hasn't gotten one letter in the time that he has been here. I love that kid. We get along great and are learning so much together. He is the only other missionary in my district going to the same mission as I am. There's two other sisters in the MTC but they're english speaking and are not in my zone. My entire zone is all spanish. The elders I'm rooming with are Elder Dayton and Elder Knowlton. They are awesome! They have been out 5 weeks longer than me and my companion have been and they are going to Equador on their missions. My teachers are Hermano Swiss who went on his Mission to Argentina and Hermano Nava who went on his mission to Chile. Nava got back in July and Swiss got back two years ago. I've picked up SO MUCH spanish in the time that I have been here. You would be proud!!!

Dallin H. Oaks came and spoke last night and gave a SWEET talk. Both him and his wife did. He talked to us about our purpose as mishes and what not and what the defenition of remember who you are is.

Jeffrey R. Holland is rumored to be speaking tomorrow on thanksgiving. We basically have two P-days in a row. And I have also heard that the prophet speaks to us on Christmas!!!! I'm excited!!! YEAH! *upward fist pump*

There's a rule in the MTC of no music :( because some idiots can't handle it and put music from home on their ipods and listen to them in their rooms.

I am having a blast! I love it here. Please send me letters through Dear Elder, it is better than snail mail.