Classic train tracks picture.
(don't worry, it was on inactive tracks)
Hey!
This week's been a pretty normal week, nothing very special... But... it happened- a girl kissed me. On my mission. She just got up and kissed me.
I mean, it was only on the forehead. And it took her like, 5 minutes to get up. And she was 92 years old. But hey- it happened!
She's the mom of one of the members here named Iza, and we go to her house every week to teach Iza and sing to her mom, but it's always the most hilarious experience! Her mom can't hear anything, and Iza's a little crazy already, but Iza will just be talking to her mom in a normal voice thinking that she can hear her, and her mom's just screaming "WHAT?!" "I CANT HEAR ANYTHING" or things like that, and when we're talking with Iza, and her mom wants to say something, she'll scream "SŁUCHAJ!" (which means "listen!") Or just scream Iza's name "IZAAAAA... IZAAAAAAA!" It's great!
And we have a new investigator! His name is Dawid, we've only taught him a couple of lessons, but he's been to church, and he seems interested, so that's good! Otherwise we just have a lot of people who aren't answering their phones.
And Marcin was going to be baptized last Friday, but when the baptismal interview came around, it turned out that he was not ready yet, and some crazy stuff happened, and his relationship with the missionaries is not nearly as good as it was before. I don't know the whole story, because the other Elders obviously don't like talking about it, so we don't bring it up. So that's sad. I'm just worried for how it will affect Elder Vance, because he said many times while I was with him, that if something happened, and Marcin would just drop off, or give up right at the end, that he'd just lose all trust in anyone ever again. And that happened... But he seems alright, so maybe he's been able to overcome it.
You keep asking what we do all day, but really 7/10 days, we're doing just that- walking up and down the streets talking to people or tracting. About twice a week we'll do things with the other elders, where we write something on the ground with chalk, like a scripture from the Book of Mormon or something, and talk to people with that, or Elder Jeffs will play the guitar and sing while we talk to people, but that is what I'm doing all day if I don't have a lesson or something else planned. We do also hand out flyers for our English class, but usually only like half an hour every day.
We've gone to the park to play frisbee a lot lately! Sometimes the schedule works out that we have both meal hours together, so we'll go to the park and play sports in our church clothes and it's awesome. Some people will come up and just ask "what are you doing?", then we get to talk to them about the church! Sneak attack. And we've tried to find some cool places to visit, but we keep getting lost... :), but next week, we're taking a trip out to this other city, which is arguably the most beautiful city in Poland, so good things will be happening then. Also, we might be visitng Hitler's Castle today! I don't know what it is, but I'm excited!
The only clothing items I've bought here are scarves. Because I like scarves. But everything else is REALLY expensive. Or it seems, because one American dollar is worth four Polish zlots, so everything looks really expensive, and I'm scared to buy anything. But if you encourage me... I guess I'll have too..
Things are pretty good here! I'm probably learning new phrases from Elder A, but I can't remember any right now. He likes making fun of the American accent, though, and always tries (but it's not very good), and it's pretty great! He's a funny guy, and he's fun to be with. And we buy groceries at a store called Biedronka, which is like just a Walmart, except WAY smaller. I usually spend about 40 zlots, or 10 dollars for the food each week.
I couldn't really name any time that I've felt super guided by the Spirit, but every time we're walking around contacting people, I try to say a little prayer to know which way to turn to be able to help the most people, and usually it works out nicely, but I can't think of any times that I've felt a need to go a certain way, or go down a certain other street while tracting. But that's a trend I've been noticing this transfer, and it's something that I want to fix, so I can rely on the Spirit a lot more in my missionary work.
Also, we were able to watch conference in English this last week, and something in one of President Monson's talks really made me thing. He said something like "choose the harder right, over the easier wrong". But if you take the first phrase there, "Choose the harder right", it becomes something that I've been trying to do lately. Because there are a lot of good things, and there are the bettter things, and there are the best things, and the best things are harder to do than the good, or better things, and basically, we need to go above and beyond the basic rules and the bare minimum. Because does God only do the bare minimum? NO! He most certainly does not! And if the scriptures have any value to them, we should take their advice and example our lives after the perfect man! So choose the harder right, over the easier right.
Love,
Elder Liechty
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