So yesterday was Śmigus Dyngus. I have no idea what that holiday is, but the second word sounds just like Dingus, and I think that's hilarious! And that's also why I'm emailing a day late
We had Zone conference on Wednesday, and it turns out that I'm also the best one at playing hymns in the whole Bydgoszcz District... Why did I not practice?
And on that Sunday we watched the broadcast by ourselves, and Elder Vance decided to bless and pass the sacrament to himself, but I don't know enough about administering the sacrament on occasions like that to be comforable with it, so I decided not to. But speaking of Elder Vance- I'm not companions with him anymore! SURPRISE! The mission president surprised called us, and said that he was changing up Poznań, and now I'm companions with Elder Ashworth! CRAZY! In addition to that, we're changing apartements to a brand new one in a much better part of town pretty soon (don't know exactly when) So we don't have to live in the mold infested horrible one that we live in now! YES!!! I haven't spent very much time with him yet, but I think that things are going to start looking up!
For Easter we went to Bożena's home, and she cooked up some Polish food. It wasn't anything too special or more than what she normally makes for us on the normal Thursday meetings, but it was really tasty! We had żurek, some meat (don't know what kind), Some other meat, but it was white, so it was special, some ham, and some chicken, and meat. Polish people like meat. But other than that, we just did pretty normal stuff. BUT you know how missionaries who have iPads can go around and show people videos and things like that? Elder Jeffs managed to get the Easter video on our puny 1" screen phones, and we went around and showed people the video on that! It was pretty great!
Easter in Poland doesn't seem that huge, but the streets are totally dry on Easter. No one is out. And the day after is a holiday, too, called świgus dyngus, where people throw water on each other for no reason at all, as far as I know. I wasn't outside very much on that day, though, so I didn't get hit. But Elder Ashworth and I stepped into a huge chapel on Saturday, just to see what was going on, because there was a huge Exodous of people leaving the houses we were tracting. We got there, and then after a while of nothing, the priest walked up, and then layed down, and then everyone else started to lay down and we got scared and ran away. :D I do now understand, though, the fear that other people have when we ask them to come to our church services.
Easter in Poland doesn't seem that huge, but the streets are totally dry on Easter. No one is out. And the day after is a holiday, too, called świgus dyngus, where people throw water on each other for no reason at all, as far as I know. I wasn't outside very much on that day, though, so I didn't get hit. But Elder Ashworth and I stepped into a huge chapel on Saturday, just to see what was going on, because there was a huge Exodous of people leaving the houses we were tracting. We got there, and then after a while of nothing, the priest walked up, and then layed down, and then everyone else started to lay down and we got scared and ran away. :D I do now understand, though, the fear that other people have when we ask them to come to our church services.
No new investigators or any luck with tracting, but Marcin, our only progressing investigator is going pretty great! He keeps going up and down and wanting to give up and stuff, but somehow Elder Vance or I had said just the right thing for him to keep on trying. Elder Vance said that he's never put so much effort into keeping an investigator. However, with the companion switch, Elder Vance is probably going to be the one keeping Marcin, unless he wants to switch... So I'm kind of bummed about that. But oh well, whatever works best for him!
Poland's security is getting pretty tight with the news of the terrorist attacks, and the President Edgren is trying to keep us a lot more in line and safer so things don't go wrong. I wonder if anything will happen in the year and a half I have left?
Joshua 24:15- saying "I'll fix [whatever I'm doing wrong] later" never ever NEVER works. Take it from a master of procrastination. It never works. The option to choose the lord this day is open to everyone every day. And it must be chosen every day. Every day we need to choose the Lord, or else we'll forget, or we'll want to do it some other time. But that doesn't work. Some say "Why do something I can do tomorrow, today?" But what is today, but yesterday's tomorrow?
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