Hiiiiooooo!!
Spring here is kind of just like Winter! We've had one really warm day, where I could go out without my coat, but now it's back down to the ones and twos of the degrees.
AND YES! Marriage! ŚLUB! It's so good to see that those things are happening! Because one of the problems that the church struggles with here is that there's members, but few of them are around the same age, and even fewer are looking at them for potential spouses. So a lot of the young adults have a hard time because now they feel like they can't date, or even get close to someone of the opposite gender, because they aren't mormon. So a lot of people go on trips to Germany to find husbands or wives. It works, apparently, though!
And I didn't know that the Provo City Center Temple is open now! That's so cool! I want to go. I miss the temple so much... It really is the House of the Lord, don't you forget that
Yeah, Elder Ashworth is so British. His accent is pretty heavy, too, so sometimes Elder Jeffs, his companion, will translate for others because he served with another guy from Wales, and knows the language. And I can give a scripture every week! I like the scriptures!
Sundays usually start with an hour of personal study, then we go to church for DAR meeting, which is where the missionaries get together and report on what went down in the last week, and then we have church, and then we go out and contact people for an hour or two, then we have district dinner, where we take our lunch and dinner hour and have a big meal together, then we do some more contacting, then go home and take the rest of our studies. I'd rather go tracting or something than take the studies at night, but Elder Vance likes 'em.
But speaking of tracting- we got let in again! WOO! And it was probably the smoothest experience I've ever had in my life. Mission life. We rang the domofon (house phone), said we had a short message to share, they asked how long, we said 20 minutes, they said ok, and we went in, shared the message, invited the spirit, got their contact information, and set up with them for another meeting, because they decided they were interested to hear more. That is what tracting should be like. LISTEN ALL YE WHO ARE NOT MORMONS- That's all we want when we knock on the door. Fifteen minutes of your time, which I KNOW you have, and a simple "yes" or "no" as to whether or not you want to hear more on another day. End. Koniec zabawy.
We eat at the member's (Bożena's) house every thursday. I cook a bit, but Elder Vance has the buying and eating food system set up so that sharing meals is incredibly complicated, and not very common. So we don't eat together very often... And I don't eat noodles as much. I also try to make rice every once in a while, but I keep burning it. What is wrong with me? I didn't even know you could burn rice. There's this one polish soup called żurek, and it's SUPER tasty. Don't really know what's in it, but there's keiłbasa, and eggs and sour rice. It's delicious!
YAY FAMILY HISTORY WORK! I'm so glad that we're starting that up on your side! I'm just waiting for the day that I meet my 6th cousin out here and we totally get along because our great great great great great grandfather was the same man. WOO!
Last english class, one of our students- Sławek, left for England, and we wrote him a song and sang it for him before he left, and there's a video, and I'll try and get that to you, but the song was supposed to be a total joke, and just some funny thing that we'd all have a good laugh at, but as we got to the slow part, Sławek actually started to cry, and we seriously touched him... There is a light about us, about anyone who is a disciple of Christ. And people notice that, and whether they know it or not, they like it, and want to be around it. We affect a lot more people that we think we do, and often it's not even through our words, just our actions, or just being there. It's like Alma asks in Alma 5- "... Have ye received His image in your countenances?" Because people notice when you have.
And for the scripture of the week-
:Alma30:35-44
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE
Elder Liechty
Also, I don't know what this structure is, but it had something to do with a huge production of some Easter thing.
And it happened- We were the only people in church.
Granted, there was district conference in a different city, but Elder Vance and I stayed behind for the people who couldn't make it out to Bydgoszcz.
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