Promise Ring!

  This group on facebook has helped me out a lot! It's called Waiting for a Missionary! It's a bunch of girls and some guys that are waiting for there missionary! They post about there lives and what it is like for them to wait for there missionary! Well lately people have been posting pictures of there promise rings and it gave me the idea to make a post in my blog about mine! 


  I actually have three promises rings! The First one he gave to me our second christmas we were together! It was just a promise that I would marry him someday!  At the time he wasn't planning on going on a mission. Well It was just a cheap one, after a few months it made my finger turn green! Haha!  For my Valentines day present a few months later, He got me my second ring. I Loved this one so much! It wasn't real either of course, but it didn't turn my finger green! A year later on my birthday day, Feb. 1, we went snowboarding and he proposed! It was the first ring I saw, and tried on when we went ring shopping. We looked at other rings, but nothing compared to the first one! Funny thing my wedding dress was the same way! Got the very first one i tried on! Anyways, three months later he broke it off with me.  He was feeling like we weren't suppose to be get married now, but he didn't know why. He told me we didn't belong together.  He knew if he just said we needed a break we wouldn't actually have had a break. When he told me that, I gave him back my engagement ring. If things were to work out, he could give it back to me when the time was right for the both of us. He decided to go on a mission three days later. After a while he hated seeing my finger empty. He knew he had taken away my ring and he hated the thought of that. One day we were at his house he yelled at me to come down to his room. I walk in the door and a ring box was sitting on the bed! I was confused. I went and opened it up and there was my promise ring!  He popped out from behind his door. He put it on my finger! It was kind of like a second proposal! It was cute! I cherish and love every single one of my rings! :) 

My First Ring!

My Second Ring!

My Ring now!

My Engagement ring! (can't wait to wear again someday!)

First Email: MTC

Hello my lovely family! How is everything back home going? I love it out here! The mtc is such an amazing exprience! the spirit is so strong here! I love all the letters that everyone wrote me. i will do my best to write you all very soon! the food here is really good! It's not so good in the sence that it cloggs you up lol I havent't gained any weight, so thats good! ha ha My companion Elder McMurry is such a cool guy. He reminds me of me! we are the same pretty much! He's from almerta canada and he say A!! Alot it makes me laugh everytime! My companion and I have been the Zone leaders since the second day we were here. It was soo flippin crazy. i thought i had enough on my plate! ha ha but the lord knows best and I wilil trust in him because he knows best! It seems like all we do is wake up, eat , be taught and sleep. My teachers are the coolest teachers in the world!  you can tell they know what they are doing and that they care for you! I'm learning so much here! I'm greatful thta i came out on a mission! It's such an amazing exprience and i wouldn't trade it for the world, because i know that the lord is with me all the time. Mom I love you so much! I miss you and i miss your hugs and I laugh everytime when i think about you screaming in the haunted house! Dad I love you so much and think about the time we were out on the mountian like it was yesterday, i miss you! Hailey, You could never be replaced as my sister! I love you so much and i think about you all the time and think about all the times we'd be jammin out to different songs driving down the road, i miss you and be good mind mom and dad! Mckelle! oh i love you soo! Be strong and of good courage the lord thy god is with thee whereever thou goeth! I am with you! I love you so much and I never want you to forget that! we Very strong people and we will make it through this and have an amazing family in zion! I love you all and i will write again soon! till next time!!!       Elder Tobler aka Adam Richard Tobler!!!      Brian , phillip and there wifes i havent forgot about you ill get a letter to you soon !!!!       I LOVE YOU ALLLLLLL!!!!!!! :]

Saying Goodbye...

Tuesday was my very last day with him. I had been dreading this for the past seven months.

I didn't know how I was going to be able to let him go.

I walked down to his room right before he was going to leave.

I found him tying his tie and crying. Of course that made me cry.

We held each other for awhile and embraced the moment.

It was time to leave.  He walked me out to my car and gave me are finale 

hug and kiss.  I was balling my eyes out and I didn't want to watch him leave.

He got in his car to go to his setting apart.  I just sat in mine just frozen holding the steering wheel.

This was it.  See you in two years.

I started to drive.  The hardest drive home I have ever made. 

Getting out of the car to go inside seemed impossible.  I could barely walk.  I went to my bed and just cried.

My whole family went to his setting apart. I just couldn't do it. 

 I wanted my last moment to be a kiss goodbye.

It will always break my heart thinking about that last moment with him.

Im so excited for the moment I get to see him again!

The Stake Presidency and his Bishop 

His Parents

My sisters

My parents

His siblings minus his older brother

His family

Adam and he daddy

Adam and his little sis!

His Farewell!

Adam's talk was amazing! Everyone was saying it was the best farewell talk 

they have ever heard. I couldn't be more proud of him!  He is an amazing man & missionary!

If you didn't get the chance to make it to the farewell, or just want to 

read it again, ENJOY! :D

            Before I start I want to thank all of you for showing up so early in the morning to hear me speak and for supporting me. When  I got my mission call my mom and one of her friends had this theory , that if the postage stamp on the envelope was over a dollar that I would be going  out of the country because they send more in the packet and if its under a dollar then its in the states. My envelope was $1.29 I thought for sure I was out of the country… I was wrong! When I read “Elder Tobler you have been called to Labor in the Roseville California mission… I said “what the?! Where is that?” Well for all those who don’t know where that is... Its right above Sacramento and the mission covers most of northern California.

          There’s a scripture that you may all know, and its one my favorites. It’s in           (1 Nephi 3:7)… I love this scripture because it shows how much faith Nephi really had to trust in the lord. Nephi had been commanded to go unto the house of laban and retrieve the brass plates.

          Knowing the dangers of doing what he had been commanded to do, what thoughts do you think was going through his mind at this time?? He had a desire to honor his parents and to follow the lord in righteousness. But he never thought that he’d half to take a life of another, in (1 Nephi 4:13) it states ……  And with pure faith and trust in the lord he was able to overtake Laben, Retrieve the plates, and therefore preserved the history of his forefathers.

          Now without faith, we have nothing to hope for in this life, Faith and trust in the lord is really everything that we have!  In (Alma 32: 21) it states…   If we have as much faith in the lord as Nephi had, we can accomplish all things. But we need to rely on him and trust that he will always be there in times of need!  When lamen and lemual smote Nephi, and an angle of the lord stood before them and said “Why do ye smite your younger brother with a rod? Know ye not that the lord had hath chosen him to be ruler over you?  Lamen and lemual weren’t humble enough to allow the spirit of the lord to guide them!

           I can relate to Nephi in many ways! I never knew that I had that much faith in my life until recently. In the past year there have been many events that have humbled me and have helped my faith to grow.  As you may know I was engaged to an amazingly beautiful girl, but as time went on something just didn’t feel right, like we weren’t doing something in the right order. I had to make some life changing decisions. So I decided to break off our engagement and postpone our wedding so that I could go and serve the lord. Thanks to a good friend and neighbor, she was inspired to submit my name as a primary teacher. This is when the spirit started to humble me and to soften my heart. I had no intention of going on a mission. I thought I knew all that needed to know to start my life and get married. I remember sitting on my bed thinking about everything.., which path would make me and my future family truly be happy in? If that meant by me going on a mission, and obtaining  the knowledge that comes from it or to start my life with Mckelle and begin a family. But which path would be the right one for the two of us?? I thought that I could survive the life, I was about to start without going on a mission. I probably could but I know that by me serving the lord I know it will bring me closer to my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, and I know that by always putting the lord first that he will provide for me and my future family.  I had always known that I needed to go on a mission, because that’s something that my parents have always taught me to do from the time I was a kid. The more I tried to push the thought of me going on a mission aside, the more and more he pushed the thought into my heart. I had never really wanted or had the desire to receive my patriarichal blessing, because I knew what it was going to tell me and I didn’t want to hear it from someone higher, And boy was I right that was one of the first things mentioned in my blessing was that “ I will be serving a mission!”  I’m so glad that I had waited until my heart had been softened enough to hear those words! I know by me going and serving the lord I’m going to touch the lives of others and I will affect generations to come and bring them closer unto Christ. This past year has been tough but it has been a year of teaching, learning, and growing in the gospel. I not only loved teaching the boys in my primary class but I also enjoyed being taught and being able to learn with them. I’ve really felt my testimony grow! A scripture that has given me courage is (D&C 90:24). I know that heavenly father wouldn’t command young men to dedicate two years of their lives and not give them something back in return.  I know this will bless me and the people around me for the rest of my life.  I am so great full for my mom and dad for  never giving up on me.  Even though I gave them such a hard time for pushing me so hard, I’m eternally grateful because I know that they were doing it out of love. I hated the words “You really need to consider going on a mission and to never cancel that option out” I can’t thank them enough for leading me in the right direction, and always believing that I would eventually do the right thing and make the right choice. I would also like to thank all my friends and family for always supporting me with whatever choice I had made. And especially thanks to bishop and to Brother Allen for always speaking what’s on their mind and prompting me to serve the lord.   

          In (Joshua 1:9) …. I know that I’ll always have someone with me and someone that I can rely on to be my constant companion! Even when time get tough and I hit a few to many bumps in the road I can always look to my heavenly father for love and guidance.    

Hug Train!

Work buddies.

My family

My Grandparents

My cousin & family

Just my baby & me!