I wish Poland had a neat nickname, cuz like, John and Jacob in Japan always get to start their emails with like "Hello from the land of the Rising Sun!" And things like that. I just get to say "Hello from the land of Pierogi!" But hey- Pierógs are pretty tasty.
Yeah, Elder Vance just went with the other elder, Elder Jeffs. But they cherry picked all the good potentials and investigators from us, but that's okay, whatever helps the investigators... ALSO you know our investigator Marcin? Two things- one, he has a baptismal date set for the 8th! Which is super close, and crazy, so pray for him, and two- He found and read my blog! In fact, he's probably reading this right now! In which case... Cześć, Marcin! Jak tam u ciebie? Mam nadzieję, że dzisiaj napisałem coś dobrego o tobie! Do zobaczenia! Haha... He's cool.
No one here has iPads, but there's been rumors circulating the whole mission that they're going to be here soon, but those rumors have been going on for years, so I don't have a ton of hope. We got to watch All the sessions except Sunday afternoon session. And they were all in Polish, so I didn't really get the super spiritual high that I got six months ago. But throughout this next week we will be watching them, because the mission president allows us, and it will be good, and I will be able to understand it all. :D I mean, I could get the gist of what they were saying, and sometimes I even got a couple minutes at a time, but it just doesn't have the same power if you just realize that they're talking about something, rather than hearing what they have to say about that topic. We get the Liahona in Polish and in English.
I got a haircut, don't worry :)
Those packages are super expensive... Don't worry, I won't be sad if they don't come often. And I'll probably give you my address at the end of this transfer, to make it easier to get things here, but with the apartment change (on the 15th) and the transfer, it'll just make things confusing.
Otherwise, we have no investigators right now so we're not out doing as much work as I'd like, and things have gotten better since the first few days. And my Polish is definitely getting better now that it has to! The gift of tounges, and the gift of interpretation of tounges (which are two different things, I found out) are real! I realized, also, that God could really just give me the language if he wanted to, and it wouldn't make life any more difficult for him, so clearly there's a reason that it takes time to learn a language, and that the people that He sends to me or any other missionary are going to be content with the level of language that you're at. It'll all work out.
My British accent is getting pretty good, too. Elder Ashworth's American accent it pretty good, but his accent sounds like that of a huge nerd, so it's really funny when he does it. Hopfully some English terminology will slip its way into my emails :)
Also, I discovered the pattern to doing everything right! WOO
2 Peter 1:5-7 and Moroni 7:38-48 AND D&C 4:5-6 . Peter gives us a progression of things that begin with Faith, and you build virtue off of the faith, and then another trait off of the virtue and so on, until you reach Charity, the pure love of Christ.
D&C is the chapter that missionaries love, but verse 6 give us those exact same traits, (with two switched in order) plus two more- Humility and Diligence. So why is humility added into the mix here? Let's turn to the scriptures for an answer- Moroni 7 is a letter from his father, where he beautifully describes what it takes to gain faith. We start with Faith, but to have faith, we need hope, but to have hope, we need to be meek and humble, but be that, we need Charity. What's that? That's exactly what D&C 7:5 says? Yes. Yes it is.
So basically, You start with Faith, work through the progression that Peter gives us until we have Charity, at which point we can be humble, and work towards... FAITH! and then to charity again, and back to faith and so on until you become perfect. End. Koniec zabawy
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LUV
Elder Liechty
p.s.
I'll try and take more attractive pictures of myself in the future
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