Me trying to understand my first call on the phone

Good polish food

you were right, mom. I should have listend. I should have practiced.

I'm the branch piano player now.

That scripture was really what I needed. Right then. Thank you. Because just earlier this week it hit me just quite how long two years is. And how difficult it is to work all day straight. For two years. Just thinking about two years ago and how much stuff has happened since then! It's a little frightening... But yeah, I've been reading a lot of those "Be of good cheer" scriptures lately, but I didn't see that one yet.

And fun Polish fact! Word order means literally nothing! you could have a sentence that would read "dar psmu dał Kot" And it would translate to "gift dog gave cat" But because of how Polish works, it would mean "The cat gave a gift to the dog". I was trying to figure out how word order worked here for so long. Now I know why I could never find it.

My address is

 Ul. Piotra Skargi 5A/4

71-422 Szczecin

Polska

PLEASE WRITE TO HIM:)

At least, that's whats written on Elder Berlin's letters. So it should work.

And Elder Berlin's a really good example. Like, probably a perfect person, and has been since he was born. No sins come from this guy. And he's been out a year and two months, so he;s got ten months.And the Cuttings are fantastic! Elder Cutting is a very silly man, but also knows what he's doing. And can get very spiritual.  Sister Cutting, too, is super sweet, and last week, she bore her testimony with some Polish lines that she memorized, and it was just amazing!

The apartment actually is a lot bigger than I thought it would have been. There's more closet space than in the MTC, and the beds are comfier. And I usually get to bed before he does, so I haven't had to deal with snoring quite yet. Excpet for the man sitting across from me at this library. He's snoring. And yeah, it's just us two. BUT Poland is a very dusty place. We swept up this week, and there was just a ton of dust on the ground. No one knows where it comes from.

Elder Berlin likes to cook, so he'll do most of it. But he's not a super fancy cook. Or one who knows specific recipies, or how spices are supposed to work together. And, granted, niether am I, so basically, we'll make some sort of meat thing, and throw spices in and try it with different veggies or other things. There's actually quite a bit of produce here in Poland, and I know how to say pasta (makaron), so don't worry about me! We haven't eaten at a members home yet, but we do have something planned on wednesday, and Christmas. We did eat at the Cuttings for fast sunday, though, and are planning on it again for thanksgiving. No wierd polish food, but good Polish food, yes! I'm glad that these people don't make as much gros food as I thought.

Yeah, counting the six missionaries, only 13 poeple. And yesterday, we had nine right up until sacrament, when three more came in. We have two youth, so we meet with them once a week for "mutual" and churhc is only two hours long. We have a lot of inactives, too, but no one really seems to want to work with them. I don't konw what's up, but there are few days where we have set up meetings with investigators or members, so most of the day is spent tracting, or contacting on the streets. Also, I'm not sure if I said this in the last email, but we went tracting on Halloween, and it was great! But yeah. Szczecin is a little, little branch... We're gonna fix that, though!

We have one member, who's name is Jan Trukszen (maybe) and he has more faith than anyone I've ever seen in my life. It's incredible! Elder Berlin was sick, so he gave him a blessing, and Elder Berlin was healed right there. Straight up. Also, sometimes in the scriptures it talkes about how people quake when they feel the Spirit. I always thought that that was talking about shivers down the spine or something, but during that blessing, I quaked. And then, on Sunday, he was sick, pretty badly sick, too, and Elder Berlin gave him a blessing, and right after it, Jan was totally fine. Miracles IRL.

And we got our first real investigator! His name is Piotr. He's a diadist, but was really interested as to why we were so converted as to go on missions for two years for our church. We set up a lesson with him in a coffee shop, and talked more, and really felt the spirit during it. I really like him, too. He's about 23. Also, there's another Piotr, but he's very old, and also an investigator, and also a professor at a university. But he also thinks that Poland is doomed. He talks with Elder Cutting a ton about how "blood will run in the streets of Szczecin within the year", and that there's no chance for Poland's future. He's very scared. BUT THE GOSPEL. Families, and loving one another, that's whats it's all about. If only we were able to get that message out to the people, then everything would be fine! With time. Poland is just about to break into acceptance. I can feel it.

And for Christmas, Little games I could play in my free time, OH! Also, my rubix cubes! Whichever ones you're wiling to send, but not too many, because I'll need to taqke them home. But yeah.

LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!

Elder Liechty