Sister Adams Stories: Mother's Day is C-O-M-I-N-G!!! Happy Mother's Day Mama! :)

What's up my family! Yes, I will be Skyping you on Sunday! Not 'til late though. Well late for me not for you since you're three hours behind. I will be done working a shift at the Whitmer Farm Sunday hopefully around 7 (unless we get a late tour-we never turn people away) So that means we will get to the Breinholts at the Seneca Lake Girls' Camp around7:30 pm here. There are four of us sisters that need to Skype home so I will call you tomorrow to let you know what time exactly to be ready for my Skype call. I am so excited to see you guys! Can you believe it is my last call home? Crazyyy.

Spring time in New York makes my eyes go all big like the ugly creatures in the old Quizno Sub commercials. IT IS GORGEOUS!!! Especially in Fayette. The trees are all in bloom. Pink, purple, yellow, orange, white, light blue, green! I love it. I wish AZ changed color sometimes too. It just goes from brown to browner. But here it is unreal how pretty it gets. It has been raining a lot so it is extra green right now. We got a new sister living with us, Sister Rosemore from Tucson, AZ and when she got here we were in the car and she goes, "OH MY GOSH. IT IS SO GREEN!" Haha yes, yes it is. I think I am almost used to it now. Don't worry I have been really good at taking pictures so y'all call see it.

Here's the funny story for the week. So Sister Tipton and I had so many appointments with people that we had no time to eat dinner before we went to Palmyra for a meeting. So we stopped by McDonalds real quick to get a smoothie because we had a coupon to try one. (Buy one get one free! Perfect for missionaries!) We pulled up and I was looking at the kinds you could choose from and I turned to Sister Tipton and asked, "What kind of mango do you want?" She just looked at me funny and laughed and then I corrected myself and said, "I mean, I want mango.... what kind of smoothie do you want?" Haha we laughed for a while about that. Then I asked her if she wanted something to eat to and she told me to order her a chicken snack wrap. So I turned to the speaker you order into and said, "Okay and we need a chicken 'snap wrack'. Oh... I mean... a chicken snack wrap!" That made us burst into loud laughing and even the lady taking our order laughed with us. Oh the effects of talking and teaching people non-stop for hours... you lose your ability to speak. Sister Tipton and I have too much fun together :) I am glad the McDonalds people got a kick out of it too.

This week fun! Sister Tipton and I have had some big miracles with the less-active members we are helping. This week we went to Sister Andrew's apartment to watch the Restoration DVD with Pamela (because Pamela's DVD player is broken). I can't even describe in words how full the room was with the Spirit as we watched. At the end of the movie we discussed it and then bore testimony and ended with a prayer. Pamela was really quiet and I got worried at first; but then I felt the Holy Ghost comforted me with the thought that it was okay and that she was just thinking and pondering on what she just saw and felt. Usually Pamela stays after the lesson to chat with Sister Andrew but as we left and I hugged Pamela goodbye she whispered to me, "Do you have a minute?" I whispered back that we did and she told us to come a few doors down to her apartment. She quickly said goodbye to Sister Andrew and we went and sat down with her alone. She got teary-eyed and explained that she had to tell us what she thought but she wanted just us to know about it. She told us of a spiritual experience she had as a youth that the movie reminded her of and she said, "I could sit and talk with Sister Andrew for hours but I needed to hurry and come back here to pray and start reading the Book of Mormon some more." That movie sparked something in her. She has such a desire to receive direction from God and she is definitely letting that desire work in her. She is the epitome of the scripture in Alma 32 that says, "But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experimentupon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than ^adesire tobelieve, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give placefor a portion of my words. Now, we will compare the word unto a ^aseed. Now, if ye giveplace, that a ^bseed may be planted in your ^cheart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a goodseed, if ye do not cast it out by your ^dunbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord,behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions,ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or thatthe word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to ^eenlighten my^funderstanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me. " (verses 27-28)

The sites are starting to pick up! Sister Tipton and I took tour after tour yesterday at the Hill Cumorah Visitors' Center. It was so fun! I love talking to people and just getting to know them. I am so social that God knew I would need to serve at a visitors' center/historic site so I could chat with people haha. Yesterday someone asked me what it was like to serve in the place where the Church of Jesus Christ was restored and I just broke down in tears as I expressed my feelings of the last 13 months I've been here in this wonderful place. It truly is an honor to serve here in the Cradle of the Restoration.

I love you all so much! Talk to you in a few days!
Love, Sister Adams

Fayette Ward Chapel