1 February 2016

Pies!

Polish people have these little houses out in the boonies for their gardens that are also out in the boonies, because they can't have gardens in the city. It's super cute and what all of Poland should look like...

This week was a pretty dull one, as well... But FINALLY our investigators are getting back in town this next week, so things should be picking up. But that also means I have like nothing to talk about this week, so... sorry.

I haven't been injured at all in any way, but Elder Platter got pretty sick, and we stayed in one day (which was crazy boring, but I got pretty good at yo-yo, so that's nice) But that's about the biggest health issue I've had out here.

When I give talks I usually write them out all in English and then translate as much as I can and give it. Usually it takes up enough time because I talk slow enough and it makes it good. But the members all complain about missionary Polish, and say they can't understand us... So that was a blow to my ego, but it's only because Polish people don't understand accents because no one in the world ever bothers to learn Polish. But at least now I have this super-secret language that only about 4 million people in the world understand! WOO! But giving talks is kind of a deuce, because it consumes like, four days of studies because there's no other time to write it.

I'm starting to understand people really well now! I can understand missionaries no problem, and as long as people speak clearly, I can get it. But when they slur their speach and mumble, or don't have enough teeth to say words, it gets hard...

I'll usually play the prelude music as people walk in, but a lot of the time people walk in like, five minutes late... There's a lot of cleaning up (in the most positive sense) that needs to be done here, but it's actually happening! Elder Cutting, as the Branch President is doing a fantastic job at making our little branch something that works by itself. He instituted the Home and Visiting Teaching programs, which at first was like "dude, there's no one TO home or visit teach" but it's building relationships with members, and one less active member has come back basically to full activity!

The streets are streets... But last night, (sunday) we were by our home at 19:00, with an hour left of missionary work, because we took dinner at 20:00 because everyone is asleep after 8:00 here... But we could have rightfully taken an hour of study during that hour, because Sunday messes up the usual schedule, but instead, we decided to go and talk to people! And we were able to get one guys number, and give out a Book of Mormon to a couple that passed us! I realize that we didn't set up with anyone, but we had more success than an hour straight of "nie mam czasu"s or "nie dziękuję"s. It was good.

Ok, that's all for now!

Love yooouuuuuuu!!!!

Starszy Liechty