Hey, everyone! Turns out- Fasting actually DOES work!
I mean, I never really had any doubts about fasting, but I never really put much effort into it in the first place. I never really knew what to fast about, either. But this last week, our mission president called for a mission-wide fast in order to find people, because, as I've said, our mission is nearing an all-time low on investigators and baptismal dates. So we all fasted, and lo and behold, the next week we found like, five really good potential investigators, and have lessons set up for almost every day this week! I realize that that might not seem impressive to some, but I've only had this many lessons in a week one other time in my mission, so it's pretty great!
Grzegorz is doing very well! We've only been able to teach him a couple of times, but he accepts the fact that an apostasy happened, and is reading the Book of Mormon. We're meeting with him again this week, and it's great! We're also teaching this girl named Weronika, (we teach the girls, too, because there aren't any sisters here) but it's a little different there. Because with our english class (which is killing it here, there's like 20 people each week) We also do these individual lessons, where we tell them that we'd love to meet with them for some time, but as our main purpose is to teach the Gospel, we would like to take some of that time and teach them about our church. And surpisingly, it's having great success! The other companionship takes most of those lessons, but we have a couple, and they're going well.
So basically next week is going to be pretty good, but this week was kinda boring. But it flew by unreasonably fast. Like, probably the fastest week of my mission so far. And solo contacting is just when we're on the streets and we're talking to people separately. Sometimes Elder Vance likes to go tracting separately as well. I haven't done it yet, but he said he did it in the past.
And three hour church was pretty good. The last hour wasn't like a real thing, though. It was more like a discussion on various things in the branch with the members. One of the topics was a temple trip out to the Freiberg Temple when it re-opens in September. Also, in church we have two new members who moved in from other places, on is a Polish lady from Canada, and the other is a man named Markus from Austria. He's awesome- super funny, and pretty solid as a member.
Also, a couple of funny stories from this week-
We were out tracting with the other elders, and we took this time to slit up, so I was with Elder Ashworth, who got in the country last transfer, so technically still a trainee, so that was fun, and also he's from Manchester, England, and there was a time while we were waiting for a bus and I asked him to explain cricket, and he got all up and started going off on everything and was moving around a lot, and all that, and it was probably the most british thing I have ever experienced.
And also, we were playing that game "heads up" with the branch for FHE, and the card I had was "floor" and the Polish word for that is "podługa". However. The Polish word for Childbirth is "poług". And when it was my turn (I had figured out what I was) and I shouted "Czy jestem poługiem?!" (am I childbirth!?) and everyone just stared at me, and I looked through the dictionary, and realized, and died.
And this is a big ol' poem about clouds on the wall. Don't really know what it says.
LOVE SAM
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