Turoń from the bridge
All the museums were closed on Monday
Gingerbread!
Turoń is famous for its gingerbread, and we went to the factory, and took a tour, and made our own gingerbread! It was not very tasty, but the professional stuff was, so that's good!
The closest we could get to a normal picture
Elder Ashworth relaxing in Austria
New companion Elder Garrison holding his 3-D self
Here's a 3-D printed version of Elder Garrison.
If I ever serve in Bydgoszcz, I'm getting one of these!
Talks given in Sacrament Meeting through 18 years of regular church attendance : 4
Talks given in Sacrament Meeting through 8 months of missionary service : 6
And that'll be 7 in two weeks!
AAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
POWRÓCIŁEM DO SZCZECINA!!!
I'm back.
The day transfer calls came, one of the members here, Alex Pakora, had heard that I was coming back, and just texted me "YOURE COMING BACK!!!" And then a few minutes later, I got a text from Elder Cutting that just said "We know." And then about half an hour later, President called me and I already knew everything! Elder Ashworth is staying in Poznań, and is now the district leader and senior comp to another Brit who came in one transfer after him! and I'm here in Szczecin with Elder Garrison as a half district leader. Which means that we switch off district meetings and that's about it. Sister Demordaunt left to Gdańsk, so it looks like I'll have to post some real pictures this time around. but the other Sister missionaries are Sister Sloan (with whom I served with my first transfer here) (Did you see that grammar?!), and her trainee! No one knows who the trainee is yet, but It'll be fun serving with a new missionary again!
I got sunburnt, too! But then it started snowing again, so we won't be having that problem for a bit...
This last week we finally got to do some service, and all I did was pull weeds for three hours straight. It was my favorite thing in the world! I hadn't done any sort of manual labor like that for over half a year! I was able to teach Elder Ashworth how to pull weeds the right way, so they don't come back and we started getting super hype and excited every time we pulled out a root! It was good.
I'm back to being FHE coordinator.
Also, I'm super happy to be going back to Szczecin! I've already met some of the members and they were really supprised to see me again, and they're really impressed with the way I speak Polish now! There's been a couple of incidences since I've been gone, so things are about the same as they were when I first got here, but I'm excited. I feel like I'm needed here. And we already have a couple of investigators! One has a baptismal date for sometime in the month, so that's nice, and the other one is brand new, so I don't know about him yet. BUT IM REALLY EXCITED TO BE BACK. I love it here.
And Turoń is the home town of Mikołaj Kopernik, or Nicolaus Copernicus, so that was neat, but his museum was closed, so that was less neat...
The last week was a pretty normal one all around. We weren't able to meet with Dawid again, but we did get a new investigator named Kuba, who seems pretty neat. He's in Ashworth's hands now! Marcin has a new baptismal date for the 28th of May, I think, and he seems a lot more serious about this one. He was also really sad to see me leave, which made me feel really good inside, but also sad. But I'm pretty sure I'm going to return to Poznań eventually. Also, we had an incredibly intense lesson with a member who is now on the verge on inactivity, and his other inactive member friend. We'd been trying to meet with him through the entire transfer, and he kept telling us that his life was falling apart and that everything was bad and that we need to pray for him, but finally we sent him the faith without works is dead scripture and told him that we need to meet to figure something out, because so far, prayer wasn't enough. So we did, and his friend was there, and he started out pretty angrily, and just talked about how hard it is to live in Poland, and how hard it is for Polish members and how hard it is to have a family in Poland and how hard literally everything is.
Let me tell you all a secret- Life is supposed to be hard. We live in a fallen world and that's just the way it is. And if it's not hard to you, then you've either figured it out already, or you're not pushing yourself hard enough. We keep telling people that life is a test, that life is a trial and we're here to prove ourselves to God, and earn our reward. Well if you expect to prove yourself to God, you better expect some pretty tough trials! It's going to be hard, but just imagine if God didn't have the will to let others kill his son. Imagine if he had broken, and saved his Son at that most crucial of moments. What would happen then? we'd all be in an unsavable state, and the entire human family would be doomed. There would be no Savior.
It's tough, but it's worth it.
Alma 5:26
I <3 U
Elder Liechty
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