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Sorry again for being a day late, but I finally got my residence card! After almost 5 months, I am legal again!!!

So, the daily schedule starts out with studies until 11:00. Then we'll usually go outside to contact people for a couple of hours, usually in a park that is near our home called park citadela. Then we'll go in for Lunch, after lunch, we'll usually go near the middle of the city, and either english contact, which is just going around and passing out english fliers, or street contact. Then we'll go tracting after a couple hours of that, and then go home for dinner at night. Normally we don't do that, but the last hour of the day is REALLY dead, and everyone gets super angry if we knock on their doors, so until it gets light at night, we take dinner at the end of the day. If we have a lesson with someone, it's usually around 3:00 or 4:00, and throughout the week there are planned activites that break up the work. What I said is a normal friday.

Poles usually just say they don't have time and keep on walking, they'll often ingore us, and things, but no one is mean. Or outwardly mean, at least. I kind of wish there was more persecution, though... it'd make for a better time. More easily identified trials. And I meet crazy people all the time! Mostly old women. They got hit by the crazy bomb the hardest, but every once in a while (at least twice a week) there'll be some guy who comes up, or gets stopped by us and just starts talking about all this stuff and about God and aliens or something and then just walk off after he's given his opinion. It's always fun!

I do very much miss the Cuttings' meals, but there is one member- Bożena, who feeds us every week, so that's pretty nice! Haven't discovered any new foods yet... And most P-days are spent relaxing at the chapel. Today, however, we're doing this thing called an escape room! Tell Max about it, he'll probably understand this next reference- it's like those computer games, where you're in a room or building, and you have to find certain items and keys and different combinations to locks and stuff to get out and it's just one huge puzzle. It's like that, but in real life! We did one a few weeks ago, and it was really fun!

DAD! You'd be scolding me so hard for getting sunburnt! HA. Just kidding. Also, I wish it was spring here... Poznań is still being really cold. Just yesterday it was still 0 degrees C when we went outside!

And in answer to all your questions,

1. Weronika moved her appointment to this Thursday, so we haven't been able to meet with her, and Grzegorz said he wasn't able to meet at all this week until Tuesday (in a week). We did meet with this one girl named Alexandria, but she said she didn't want to meet with us again until she read the whole BoM, so that was a little stinky, but this last week we somehow stole an investigator from the other Elders, and are teaching him later today. Elder Vance feels really awkward about it because he feels bad for the other companionship, but hey, if the guy (Marcin) will have a good experience with us, then that should be okay. And he might switch back to the other elders if we don't suit his needs. His sister is a member, so he was in church before any of us knew him, so it's not like we're stealing the hard finding efforts of the other companionship. He's kind of like a district investigator. Also, he's bringing a friend to our lesson tonight. We'll see.

2. On the flyer that we pass out, there's the main English class, which happens twice a week, and there's another option for individual appointments, and they'll call, and we'll tell them the deal. The other elder's number is on there first, so they get most of the calls, and most of the appointments. Tak jest. And in our main classes, we start out with a prayer and a spiritual thought, and then go into english. And we also have a religious discussion after every english class, which everyone is invited to. About five or six people usually stay for that. And we advertise for the class a TON so we're able to start out with prayer and a spiritual thought and not suffer any number damages.

3.Well, I was at the mission office yesterday, but that was just bad timing, unfortunately. The next time I'll get anything from the office is at zone conference, which is in about two weeks. Can't think of anything specifically, WAIT socks. Mine are getting holes in them, and it's pretty lame. But that's all I can think of.

4. I can watch Mormon messages, but while I'm emailing isn't the best time, because I only have a limited time to do so, but we usually hang out at the chapel during P-day, and there I can watch all the mormon messages I want. I haven't seen the easter one yet, but I've heard of it and I'm really excited!

5. We'll stay here for General Conference, I don't know the schedule with all the time change dealios, but it'll be at our chapel. And probably in Polish. :D

6. Sorry, I've been really stinky at taking pictures... I'll get pictures of the apartment and stuff, and more with me in them. so I don't have any with me in front of Polish things, but I do have one of me riding a Whinnie the Pooh ride. And yeah, the poem was boring, I know, it was just the only new picture I had.

7. And I do like it when you send the spiritual stuff! I probably won't reply about it, and give my commentaries, for lack of time, but I do really appreciate it! It always gives me a boost for the day!

This week wasn't any more exciting than any other week, but I feel like just generally I'm making my way out of a depressive slump that I've been in for like the last month. Which is good. I really can't think of any specific thing that I did, either. I think it's just the general spiritual uplift after enduring a hard time. Just keep doing those good things- praying, reading your scriptures, going to church. The primary answers. And you know, while they may be primary answers, they are the primary answers. The basic fundamentals of spiritualness. And as missionaries, we have a few points that lead to activity in the church, and those are among the first. And conversely, they are among the first- especially prayer and scripture study- that people stop doing that leads to inactivity. SO DO THOSE THINGS! :D

I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!

Starszy Liechty

Also, these are some goats that Poznań is unreasonably famous for. Every day at noon they come out, and bump their heads together twelve times, and then come back in unbelievably slow. But the entire country knows Poznań for it, and everyone loves it. It is, however, the most dissapointing thing I've experienced on my mission. I can't describe to you how lame it was. And, like, there's this huge throng of people there, and they cheer and clap every time they bonk heads, and it's just a little bit ridiculous! :)