Is that still a thing?
Or am I going to come home telling two year old jokes?
Transferrs are every nine weeks/two months, so we won't be having them until right after Christmas! But I know how to say Pasta in Polish, so even if Elder Berlin leaves, I'll be able to survive. There's one missionary who's moved around every transfer, and I think I would like that the most, except for the having to pack all the time. That would stink. Speaking of stink, our bathroom. Polish plumbing. Ugh. Also, Amr, the Egyptian guy I talked about once, hates swear words, so instead of saying the S-word, he'll say "Man, that's stink!" He's cool.
Ohhh raking leaves. We'd probably be doing that if Polish people weren't so self-reliant. Seriously, though, they HATE getting helped. But they love helping.
We've been trying to figure out ways to do contacing in more fun/effective ways, but it's tough. So now I'm sending a formal request to everyone in the world to help us think of things. Or maybe just the ward. But I think Elder Berlin is going a little crazy, because everything that he's tried has failed, and now I think he's a little scared of doing new things. But just this last Saturday we visited this Targi (market thing) and were able to share some Amerykańskie Jedzenie (american food) And meet people in a not-threatening way! WOO! Turns out Polish people are acutally REALLY NICE!
Also, while Elder Berlin was talking with someone, I was manning the sample table, because of my Costco skills, and was actually able to keep up on conversations with other people! One old man even thought I had Polish parents or something because I spoke Polish "Bardzo piękny" (Very pretty) Pretty good confidence builder, that was. And we do have an english class, but only Małgorzata goes to it. And we kind of privately teach this other guy named Patrick. No one wants to learn English here for some reason! All the other cities are doing really well, too! Ideas there, too?
I did get both packages, nie martwcie się. The first thing Elder Cutting said when he saw the postage price was "WHAT!?" And then "You're not worth it". He's a funny guy. They're taunting me, though. Christmas is too far away for these things, and I'm not even sure if I should wait until Christmas. Were you expecting me to wait? And speaking of Christmas... SKYPE!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! We're probably all going to be at the Cuttings for skype, and do it around 15.00, here, so I think that's 7.00 for you. Should be. Be prepared- because for some reason I think I look different. I've become tough and manly. Probably because I work out every morning. Well, most mornings. Sometimes it's better to clean the dust. But I think being on a mission is also making me grow muscles faster. Nice side-effect blessing. Also Elder Berlin loves to run- he was on cross country- and the fact that I can run makes him very happy.
The best part of the day question is a tough one. Because it's probably in the morning when I'm able to to personal studies, which is great because I'm learning a ton more about everything than ever before, but the fact that it's not talking to people is an issue. It's just not quite fun yet. The three points that one of our teachers had for us before we left were these- Be diligent/work hard, have a goal, and have fun. In that order. I feel like I have the first two down, but that last one is a tricky one. The world does a lot of work to make that not happen.
We have an advent calendar, but I totally forgot about the song! Also, I forgot all the German words! So having those would be nice, and also could translate it into Polish but probably not because that's SUPER hard. But we'll make one.
Oh. So there's this couple who's actually being baptized next week. Sorry, I forgot to ever say anything about them to you, but I did none of the work with them, so It doesn't really feel different than hearing of a stranger being baptized. Which is still great! Don't get me wrong. But they live like 50 minutes away, so we can only talk with them by phone, and only Elder Berlin does that. But their testimonies are super powerful! Like, the man, Grzegorz, sometimes teaches us when we talk with him. He and his wife, Malwina, have two kids. So basically we got ourselves a family! And also, theres this Ukranian couple, who just showed up one day in church. They speak Polish pretty well, but can't read it, so we finally got our hands on some Ukranian copies, and got them to them. But seriously, these people are so prepared themselves. We did literally nothing with them, and they're super interested and wanting to know!
Every other investigator is a tooth and nail type of battle though, so we've got that to bring us back to earth.
Kocham was!!
Starszy Liechty
Also, this is what our chapel looks like! It's literally just an apartment that we rent out of a nice building on that street with the accordian player.
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