HELLO!
My English, Polish is ruining. That's how we'd say it.
WE'RE GOING TO BE IN POLAND IN 19 DAYS!!!
POLAND
That's just crazy.
It certainly has gone fast. They have a saying that's been going around the MTC forever and it goes "Days are weeks and weeks are days". And that's very, very accurate. And I'm so excited. I don't even care if I can't understand a word of the language, but I just want to get out there! And I did get dad's package; we had a fiesta in our room. Anyway, in that other package, my other shoes would be really nice, because I just found out that the shoes I brought are much more worn out that I thought. The ones I'm thinking of are a darker blue, and are adidas, so they've got those three white stripes down the side. Max had a pair that were the exact same style, just a lighter blue. And as many scarves as you can spare. Because scarves are my favorite thing. I also might need another tube of that cortozone cream. However you spell it. No snacks, really, we have our fair share of food in our room. I don't think I need any other clothes.
OH! I just remembered. That whole US draft signing up deal. I didn't do it, I think. Also signing up to vote. All patriotic things that I neglected to do. Maybe. What do we do about that? And it's spelled "starszy" there's no "k" in it. Everyone needs to learn this because no one can do it yet. Please. (Obviously he is not making the Starsky and Hutch connection:)
I just really want to leave at this point. We saw some video that one of our teachers took while she was in Poland, talking to some converts, and I just fell in love with them as soon as I saw them. So basically Heavenly Father is helping me love the people I need to serve already, and It's great. I want to go to Poland. We're all going a little crazy, but we got some new people in our zone this last Wednesday, so now we can release some of that energy on them. It'll be fun.
All of us just watched all the sessions in the big building on campus where we watch all of our devotionals. No one actually said that we would've been singing during conference, so it was just a hope. A hope dashed by the cruel realities of this world. But the choir actually sounds really good, so all of us have stayed in it to sing and experience it. Also, after conference was over, the choir dropped about four hundred people, so I think they were also thinking they would sing in conference. It was a good conference, and the first one where I actually took notes, so it was probably the best conference for me so far.
And I hope you had a really good time at the reunion. How many people were there? Were most of your friends there, or did you not recognize a lot of them? Also, what were they're responses if/when they found out you were Mormon? Because I imagine people would be a little weirded out by it.
This week wasn't too exciting, but I did decide that I want to read the whole Księga Mormona (po angelsku) before I leave, so basically I need to read about 25 pages a day, and I need to use pretty much all of my free time to do it. But it feels really good, and what I once considered a chore is not even kind of a chore. It's awesome!
Adrian and Ola are just our teachers pretending to be real investigators from Poland. But they're hard on us. Ola, actually is pretty easy, but I imagine that she'll have trouble when we start teaching about the law of chastity or word of wisdom, but we've already commited her to baptism, which is always an amazing feeling, whereas Adrian is crazy tough to get through, but finally our companionship was able to have a lesson that was pretty much 100% inspired by the spirit, and he said he would be baptized. It was probably one of the most intense experiences ever, that lesson. But now he's asking us about harder, more realistic questions like "what do I need to do if I have problems in my family" or other things that adults have a hard time answering. But I guess he's just preparing us for everything that will come.
We do have to pay at the temple (for breakfast), but it's all really cheap. I get huge breakfasts usually for less that 3 or 4 dollars.
And the thing I'm most nervous about Poland probably is how will I be able to work as hard as I can always? Like, what if I slack off one day, and that would have been the day where we meet a person that would eventually become converted? Then that would be on my head, and that is not something that I want. So I guess I'll just always work hard, doesn't seem too difficult.
And what I really loved about Pres. Monson's testimony, wasn't so much the idea of millions of people on the edge of their seats, praying for a miracle (which, of course, is amazing), but more so the fact that President Monson was going to bear his testimony to the world no matter what. No matter what problems he had, or thing he had to push through, he would sacrifice anything and everything he had at that podium to tell the world what he knew was true, and what he knew everyone needed to hear. And that that should be an example to us all to bear testimony of Christ no matter what the circumstances should be, and that there is nothing more important than this gospel.
(This next part is from Kent's letter) "Conference was great! We all watched it in a big building where the gym usually is, and it probably was the most spiritual conference I've ever had. Probably because I was paying attention the whole time. And it's so impressive to me that you watched it when you were alone! I'm not sure if I would've had the willpower to watch it all. But at least everyone who could be was together on Sunday. I really liked one of the talks in the first session on Saturday, the one who's main message was the "What lack I yet?" thing we need to ask all the time. And to myself I also realized that when we ask that question, we need to realize that- since it's something that we're not already doing- we won't really want to do that thing. So when we want to figure out what it is that will make us better, we need to ask in total faith and humility and willingness to do what is asked. I liked it. And the one about moms was Elder Holland, and the one about women was President Neilson, I think. And those were fantastic ones, too. I love mom, and I hope you love her like nothing else, dad!"
(This next part is from Kent's letter) "Conference was great! We all watched it in a big building where the gym usually is, and it probably was the most spiritual conference I've ever had. Probably because I was paying attention the whole time. And it's so impressive to me that you watched it when you were alone! I'm not sure if I would've had the willpower to watch it all. But at least everyone who could be was together on Sunday. I really liked one of the talks in the first session on Saturday, the one who's main message was the "What lack I yet?" thing we need to ask all the time. And to myself I also realized that when we ask that question, we need to realize that- since it's something that we're not already doing- we won't really want to do that thing. So when we want to figure out what it is that will make us better, we need to ask in total faith and humility and willingness to do what is asked. I liked it. And the one about moms was Elder Holland, and the one about women was President Neilson, I think. And those were fantastic ones, too. I love mom, and I hope you love her like nothing else, dad!"
I love you all SO MUCH
Especially you, mom. Can't wait for you to watch that talk. A good one for sure. Very good. Watch it. Holland. Now. Go. It's good.
-Starszy Liechty.
And you know that Polish is tough when the official translation of the missionary purpose has some words misspelled. (But really, most people born in Poland aren't fluent until they're 18 years old.)
Also, Sweater day Saturday is now a thing, and it's awesome. But I forgot that we were going to take a picture, so...
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