22 October 2015

This is our teacher Siostra Blake. Yesterday was our last day with her, because she didn't think she could handle all the stress of working at the MTC. She made a big deal of the fact that it wasn't us, just the schedule. But yeah, she's awesome, and if you, Max, or Caity see her, tell her that she's one of the best people in the world. Because she is.

The mission home address, where you can send packages or letters until we know how well the mail system works is:

Elder Sam Liechty

Kościół Jezusa Chrystusa

ul. Wiertnicza 135, I piętro

02-952 Warszawa

Poland

Four days.

When we talked with the Polish people (which we did again yesterday), the first time it was pretty easy to understand her, she spoke slowly and clearly for us, and it was pretty easy to rozmawiać (converse) with them. But the second time, it was really bad connection, and his voice was really quiet, but we were still able to teach some stuff with him, also he had an accent that was tough to understand, and he spoke pretty quickly. But it was still amazing. I get butterflies in my stomach everytime I think about going there, and it's just going to be great!

Hopefully I'll be able to find some long lost family members in Poland and show them the gospel. What an amazing story that would be! But who knows, it might not. Whatever the Lord's will is. And I bought a calling card from here, which gives me about seven hours of calling time, so I think I'm pretty set. Will everyone be home? I'll be able to call sometime around 4-5:30 Chicago time. I can call Zach and Katie, too, if they can. Hopefully you'll see this and we can figure something out real quick. And I already have the set of books from Max,  so I'm set on the 14 hour plane ride. O jej... (Oh, dear). And snacks I'm fine with, too. Everyone's giving away everything so their suit cases aren't heavy.

AND MICE!? Ew. Destroy them all. Sometimes we have spiders, but they don't stand a chance against 20 intuitive missionaries.

I'm just so excited to be in Poland and actually start teaching real people!! It's gonna be crazy scary, but who cares. It's gonna be awesome! And I've already received proof that Polish people can at least understand me, so that's going to be fine. I just want to be there right now and not wait these days. Monday can't come soon enough. I'm going to take so many pictures there, you don't even know! There's so little to take here because every building is the same drab color of off yellow. But Poland is better than that.

I'm going to be sending letters to y'all today, but I don't know where everyone lives, so I'll just send them to you, mom, and you can figure it out from there. :D

Things are going to get rough, but we have God on our side. The most powerful being in existence, who can do literally everything, is at our side pushing us along. I don't think that we can fail.

Next time I send an email, I'll be in Poland.

Starszy Liechty