Happy New Year!!!! 1 Enero--January 2016

Hello to my family and friends!

Exciting news, on the 20th of January we are going to have a worldwide conference with all the missionaries.  On January 29th, we are getting together with Elder Quentin L. Cook the Apostle in a Multi Mission Conference with everyone---WHOO HOO!!!
Beginning of February Elder Adrian Ochoa of he Seventy is coming and we will do some Multi Zone Conferences.
Life is good. We are really excited for the new year. We are about to change our Sunday schedules to 10 am Sacrament. So we are pretty happy and we are going to have buses to help us bring less actives and investigators.  We have been able to work with the transportation department to make this possible.

We have some great members. But please keep the mission and our ward in your prayers that we can see more success in the coming year!

Well I love you all!!!

Elder  Caleb Adams

Pictures below---

Our mission's senior couple---Sister Burt (secretary to the mission president).  She is amazing!

The Country side of Dulce Nombre a part of our area. It has the GPS tag on the Picture so look up the Location if you want to!

We sang "O Holy Night" and other Christmas songs as a group of missionaries for a ward party on the 23nd of December.

Here is our Book of Mormon map and "wall of study"---

Christmas gifts 2015----
Elder Macias and Elder Adams

  The Burts gave me a towel from Monte Verde Puntarenas! They are the senior couple in the office!  It is beautiful---

chequeo de mes Diciembre‏
Monthly checks at the Presidents home and then a barbecue to follow.  We also celebrated President Hayes birthday--we surprised him  :o)

When we get together we always have good visits and the best food ever.  President always doses a barbeque and he makes great burgers ----YUM!!!!

We got President and his family a gift for his birthday and Christmas as an office

The girl holding the cake is the Hayes daughter Lizzy that is her with them while they are in Costa Rica.

FELIZ NAVIDAD 25 Diciembre 2015

HELLO FAMILY----

FELIZ NAVIDAD FROM COSTA RICA!!!!

So here is my message to my family via the computer prior to my call skype call---

Whoo Hoo---Hello FAMILY--------

 The gang was all there-----

 Here I am with on of the mission secretarty--Elder Nelson
He is an excellent missionary

 SAY CHEESE----
This year's family Christmas photo--

 All right how do I look?

We had a wonderful talk for right around 1 hour on Christmas Day.  My companion, Elder Macias and I were treated to the Varela's home on Christmas Eve (24th) where they treated us to good food, company, and gifts of matching ties and socks.  Ohh and lots and lots of CHOCOLATE!  YUM!

Thanks family for the gifts, talks, laughs and all the wonderful support and prayers.  I love you all!  See you next Christmas-----

Love--

Elder Caleb M. Adams

Here is a letter that President and Sister Randy Hayes sent out to each of our families in regards to Christmas and the important work we are doing with the people here in Costa Rica----

Dear families of our wonderful missionaries in the Costa Rica, San Jose East Mission:

At this very special time of year as we celebrate the birth and life of our Savior Jesus Christ, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

How blessed we are to be surrounded by your strong and faithful young men and women, who carry a light in their eyes and a testimony in their hearts of Christ and his restored gospel. Your missionaries are hard workers and see clearly the vision of the importance of spreading Christ's light and truth to all. They are blessing the lives of many special people here in Costa Rica. 

May we keep the Spirit of Christ with us always, striving more fully each day to think on Christ, learn of Him, walk in His steps, and do what He would have us do and by so doing blessing the lives of others as we invite them to "Come Unto Him."

We thank you so much for sharing your precious "children" with us for a time. We love them as our own.

With love and warmest wishes,

President and Sister Randy Hayes

P.S. We would also like to remind you of our facebook page where we post pictures of our mission events and most importantly your missionaries!!


It is “Los Hayes en Costa Rica.” See you there!!

22 Diciembre 2015 Feliz Navidad!

 My week was good! Busy, Busy, Busy! I love it! :D Oh yeah, Those packages showed up right on time! hahaha
So this past week was dedicated to the Christmas party on the 21st (Monday). My Companion and I made a cool PowerPoint and with the Hayes and the Secretaries. We got the whole room decorated and sound set up and all the works. We got tables and chairs from different stake centers.

So--WOW!!  Monday, What a great experience. We had the whole mission here and the spirit was great! My Companion and I conducted the meeting and it was awesome to be able to see some many great missionaries in one place. We had some great food, and the PowerPoint went very well. A while back we assigned all the Zones in the mission to organize a service project and take pictures. So we made a slide show from those pictures and added some music and it helped bring the spirit. 

We definitely did not go hungry---lots of great American and Costa Rican food to enjoy!

And the Stockings were hung on the wall with care-----







President spoke and shared with us a story that the Mayor of Bethlehem told him. He has been all over the place.---He lived in Israel for a while when he was teaching students at BYU-Jerusalem. Anyway,  it was really awesome I loved it. We have been able to learn show much from him and his example.
So this is the story---(true story)

He talked about a story of how there was an Arabic boy and a Jewish boy. Well, back in the day around 1940´s-ish They Jews and Arabics didn´t get along at all. But anyways it turns out that this little Jewish boy of about 7 or 8 years old was playing and got hit by a car and was pretty badly wounded and was going to die, but the Arabic boy took this Jew to the Hospital and ended up saving his life. Well, shortly after this happened the government made a giant border and separated the Jews from the Arabics. So about 20-30 years or so down the road things have worsened between these two nations and a war had begun. This young Arabic was now the mayor of a little town of a small city called Bethlehem. The city was suffering and didn´t have much of anything. Then the day came when the Jews started coming to destroy the city. Well the people freaked out and started running away and packing up. The mayor felt different and tried telling people to stay and  that everything would be okay. Well, then on the horizon they could see a group of tanks coming to destroy the city and this mayor felt that he should just start walking towards them. He didn´t know why, but he did it and as the tanks approached, he walked closer. He had know idea what would happen and then when the tanks were close, he saw the general´s tank hesitate and stop. The mayor got a little scared and wondered what might happen,  and then the hatch popped open and a man got out and started running towards the mayor. By now the mayor was really worried, but he held his ground and then the man from the tank reached him and gave him a good look and gave him a giant hug! The mayor, surprised and alarmed, suddenly realized that this man was that same little Jewish boy whose life he had saved years earlier. The Jew was now one of the head generals and did not know that the Arabic was the mayor of the city. The Jew eagerly said to him( the Arabic) and the other soldiers, we are not going to destroy this city! What do you need for your city! Tell me and it´s yours! Thus the city received many provisions and in the long run of things, it was the only city that survived the war.
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So, moral of the story, President went on to talk to us about how we have no idea how what we do now can and will affect our future. One small act of charity years earlier saved a city. We as members of the church sometimes get this notion in our heads that to be good missionaries we have to do something great and be like Peter and baptize thousands. We don´t know the outcome of our simple obedience. By small and simple things--Alma 37:6.  Now, I speak to you my family and friends and say the same thing. Talking to that one person that is struggling about the message of the gospel may seem very small, but it has the potential to become something very big.

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We also had a baptism on Saturday. Yuliana was baptized. She is awesome and has been to church a bunch with her mom. her mom wants to be baptized as well but they need to get married first so we are working with that and the dad.



Tomorrow we have a ward Christmas party and me and my companion are going to sing o holy night.

Then on Friday I will skype you guys from the mission office computer. I will let you meet the Secretaries and my comp. Have some questions ready.
Anyways! Have a great Christmas!!!


Elder Caleb M. Adams

Happy Diciembre! -- 14 Diciembre 2015

Anyways life is good. The mission is getting there. I have a lot of hope and faith in the mission that here in a few months we are going to see some big changes! My companion was going to go leave and train his last change, but due to the license situation he will be staying with me and finishing his mission here in the office until February.

President is the best! Today our office meeting went way longer than normal like about 3 and a half hours long, haha But I love him I learned a lot! We had a great Leadership meeting with the Zone Leaders but the power went out just before we started... and then we were trying to figure out what to do. How to somehow get the power back on. Our mission President said don´t worry about it. It will come back on. You need to know that the thing is, here in Costa Rica, sometimes the power can go out for a full day and they won´t get it back on. So anywho.... My Companion and I talked with all the Zone Leaders and then just when we needed the Projector for all the hours of Preparation that we had down to show this cool power-point and teach the mission. The Power kicked back on!!! Perfect Timing....The Lord's timing! .....

One Day we got to the area at like 5 because of the leadership meeting and then had some things we had to do. We had some incredible lessons planned! We got there and they said, oh man its just I haven´t arrived home yet. and we said that's fine we have a Back up plan and then those peopel couldn´t either and so then we followed these great plans and no one would open the door. We talked with everyone with power and testifying with the Spirit but no one. Well 8:20 pm came around and still not one lesson that whole day. Not even a new investigator. We were praying in our hearts to know where to go or what to do. We knew we needed to act fast, becasue here in Costa Rica at 8 everyone goes to bed because at 5:30 it gets dark. So its a terrible time to find new people. Anyways long story short. We walked down a street on our way to another house and then I felt the strong impression to talk with some people and we started teaching them of the Lord Jesus Christ there in their door step and then a few more people came to listen and then a few more and then we ended up finding 8 new people there and they all asked for a Book of Mormon and wanted to learn more. The Lord helps those who are obedient to his work.\

Well I love you all! I hope you have some great Holidays! I will take some Pics and get them sent next week! :)

Elder Caleb Adams

Here are some pictures:

This is my familia!
My Trainer, Elder Gomez, with Elder Jones who is now being trained by Elder Gomez. So that makes me and Elder Jones brothers haha. This is in the office when we announced who the companionship's would be with President.

7 Diciembre 2015

This week was crazy... I went to the Airport 3 times and we did a lot of work bringing in new missionaries and sending out out the old missionaries. Wednesday was changes day. So we had to make a cool Power Point presentation. Then on Wednesday, about half of the mission showed up. I gave the welcome and we sang and then we heard from President a bit. and Then I explained how things were going to work. and then I announced the new areas and companions as each companionship came up on the Power Point. It was awesome. A lot different from the last time but, the energy that was in the room was awesome and the missionaries really loved it. I would announce it first, and then I would show the next slide.
I also got to be there with my Trainer Elder Gomez., from my first area--Esparza.   He got assigned to train again and so I got to be there to announce it and now as we say in the mission "I have a brother!"--full circle!   haha

So this week being so busy things were kind of ruff in the Area. Friday night came around and we had hardly any lesson and no news. For the amount of running around and opening new areas. On Saturday we went and did some House inspections to make sure the missionaries houses are doing good and are clean. So Sunday, we really needed to do divisions and we were able to plan them with some members and we saw a lot of miracles and in the end we reached all of our goals and found 10 news and baptismal dates on Sunday. The Lord provides the way when we work all we can and do are very best.  He is ever aware of our needs ans is there to help us meet out goals when we put Him first.

Funny Story:
 So We have had this investigator named Rafael. He is awesome. He has a shell that someone gave to him years ago. A Conch Shell and he calls it his ¨Trumpeta¨ haha anyways 2 weeks ago we had to wait for him in the park to meet up with him to show him the Chapel. It can be kind of hard to find in Tres Rios. So I was in Divisions and I went and we were waiting and we hear... ¨Bu-Dum Bu-Dum!!!!¨haha and we said to each other what is that. It must be a bus.... and then we see good old Rafael walking on down blowing that Conch shell with all of his might. He is 74 years old by the way. He did the same thing yesterday. He´s awesome. We just had to remind him that in the Chapel we don´t do that.

The below picture is of  me and Elder Sepulveda teaching about 22 niños. We climbed up this mountain area and were talking to some less actives when one of the less actives said, The Missionaries! ¨Hey I am going to go get all the kids from the street together and you guys can share something! So we finished talking to this Less Active and then we come around the corner and here we find the other less active that gathered the kids together and had two seats in front of the group haha so it was pretty fun and a good little lesson :)

The Group of Niños that we taught!

I love my calling and love being here in this beautiful blessed land with the most amazing people and children of God.  Have a great week.
Love--
Elder Caleb M. Adams

More photos:

                                                Planning in a great location :) haha



So we arrived at the airport really really early one of these P days that we had to pick up the new missionaries coming in and it just so happens that we printed off the Lyrics to the songs we had in the car so we spent some time singing haha!
 Here is my comp singing---

Oh me and my companion were on our way to the office in the car and then my comp pulls over and says, `Man! I have something that is really bothering my foot! Like a rock or something in my shoe! and this little/giant guy fell out. Yep--that big!  haha.

                                        Me at the airport with  the wheels we get to drive!


At the airport with some awesome missionaries!----these missionaries are on their way home!  Audios and best wishes to all!


So me and my companion were on our way to the office in the car and then my comp pulls over and says, "Man! I have something that is really bothering my foot! Like a rock or something in my shoe!" and this little/giant guy fell out.   Yeah he is that big!  haha.

Service project!  

We did a Zone Service project. In a Nursing home today. A lot of fun. There are some familiar faces in there because we had changes and some were changed to my same zone.

We dropped off the old missionaries last change. They have been home for about 2 months now


At the Airport. This was taken a while ago. Dropping off the old Missionaries! On their way home!


                             The package arrived!!!--- mucho gracias mi familia!

The first 7days that I opened up! Thanks again! Love you all!

30 Noviembre 2015 Feliz Navidad--early!!!!

Feliz Navidad,---early!   yeah so haha we are still in November, but we have been saying that to everyone since October!  haha.
 I have been pretty busy. Luckily Sister Hayes has been snapping a few pictures, so many of them are from her.

My favorite parts of this week are:  

Well there were a quite a few miracles. Crazy story, a few weeks ago we were contacting in a newer area and we ended up talking with a lady that works in an orphanage--- well long story short--- She is in charge of like 15 young men from ages 15 to 18. So we said bye and then like a week later we passed by and found her in the orphanage and talked with her.  I mentioned to her that we could do an activity and play soccer. She said that would be great and gave us her number.  We didn't  have anything set. So we left and were super busy with the new missionaries and changes. I tried calling her, but it just didn't work out. Anyways on Thursday, I was on my home with Elder Sepulveda,--- he has only one week so far in his mission,but  great missionary.  Anyway, we started talking to this guy while waiting for a bus and the conversation turned into well,  the gospel of Jesus Christ and he told us of how he doesn't really believe in those things because of all his trials. Anyways the spirit was there on that street  and soo strong.  We invited him to church.  So now jumping to Saturday, I called this boy and he said he was going to visit the church. Now that first off doesn't happen real often in our area. It is very rare that someone says they will even go and then come. Then I got a message from the same lady that worked at the orphanage that we had been trying to get in contact with and she said that one of the 18 boys she had there was going to visit our church this coming Sunday.  She went on to say how he had told her good things about us.  Anyway, out of that we were finally able to plan the activity. We are going to play soccer and basketball with them Saturday at 10 am. The thing is, is that the Tres Rios ward doesn't have a priest quorum. So that was a bummer!  My companion and I talked and we said well we will have to do something about that. Anyways it´s incredible how the Lord works. I know he lives and that this is His work, not ours.

I encourage each of you to share the message of Christ and his birth with others.  It is soo easy now with modern media.  Don't be afraid to tell others about the Savior and how much he means to you.

I wish you all a great week.
Love ya all!

Elder  Caleb Adams

Here are a few pictures:

Welcome to Costa Rica! We have good missionaries new! They are happy and excited and ready to begin their missions.


Stop at the Costa Rica Sn Jose Temple with the new missionaries---


New arrivals---fresh form the MTC and ready to work! :o) Four new missionaries arrived today!Welcome to Costa Rica!



  This is us having way to much fun as missionaries.  Sister Soe from New Zealand shared a fun game with us.  :o) The new game we learned is called Pukana. It´s pretty fun.