21 Dec 2015

Hello!

Ok, for Christmas, my time for Skype is 16.00/4.00 PM to znaczy że it will be 8.00 AM for you guys, right? Should be. The Cuttings will be there to notify you of any changes to that.

And I guess this one'll be short also because 1. Not much happened, and 2. We'll be TALKING WITH EACH OTHER ON FRIDAY!!

The German tower thing didn't happen, because for obiad (lunch) we decided to get a nice 50 cm pizza to eat all by ourselves. But language made it so we got two 50 cm pizzas all for ourselves. THAT was a good lunch. We had to call in one of the members to help us finish it, but we showed that cashier up. She was all "whatever, you boys can't eat this much" and the look on her face when she brought the second pizza over was so smug. Ugh. I'm an American. Of course I can eat that much.

And there were complications with getting a place to perform the baptism (because we usually do it in a pool, because only Warsaw has a font, and the pool we usually use is undergoing renovations), and it got pushed back to Wednesday! But everything is planned out, it should all work, and we'll be able to talk about that on Friday!

In Poland, they pretty much celebrate Christmas Eve to New Years straight, and Christmas Eve, "Wigilia" in Polish, is celebrated way harder than any of the other days, like, everyone in the country has this 12 course meal, or the less well off people only have 6 or 8 courses, and then there's midnight mass, normal stuff, but the Christmas day is just Drink Alcohol day. The streets are totally empty. Not only do we have permission to pretty much take the day off, but there's really nothing to do in the first place. So for Wigilia, we're actually going to Grzegorz and Maliwina's, and then most of Christmas we're spending at the Cuttings. Then after we skype, we're going to spend the rest of the day with a less-active named Lech.

Our Christmas program was great! I actually played some songs in Sacrament meeting with BOTH HANDS!!! WOO!! I'M LEARNING! But the song I sang was with the member Alex Pakora, and we sang a carol called "przyjbieżeli do betlehem pasterze". It wasn't anything special, just singing a few of the verses. But there's this one guy, another Grzegorz, who comes every Sunday, but refuses to take the lessons. We think he's just lonely. But while we were singing, he joined in, and then other people joined in with him, and it was a little weird. BUT THEN later in the program, the sister missionaries did a Silent Night thing, which WOULD have been beautiful, had Grzegorz not have started singing along with them. And then try to harmonize. Oh boy... But otherwise it was pretty good! The whole thing was people reading excerpts from the Christmas story, and other parts of talks and a script that Sister Cutting wrote up. I liked it

Ok, that's all for now! Talk to you later! Love you

Also, our Advent wreath was much prettier this time 'round