Hi!
We went to the Baltic today!! And I walked into Germany! German is such a funny language, how do they talk to each other without laughing? How did Zach serve a mission there for two years!? I couldn't contact anyone without busting up when I heard words come out of their mouths! Crazy people.
And that bread didn't taste very good, so we ate a big chunk of the inside, and planned on throwing the crust out to the pigeons, but we haven't done that yet, and it's still sittting on our kitchen table... But one day we'll do it! Maybe.
WOO! Yup, we've been teaching a man named Jan, (I don't know if I've told you about him) and he was very Catholic, in fact, he was studying in seminary to become a priest, but for some reason, he decided that he didn't like all the teachings of the catholic church, and is now learning about our church. I've learned a lot about the Catholic Church over the last month, and I've learned a lot about our own church as well, but if it's done anything, it's just boosted my testimony that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is God's true and living church on the earth today. But was I was getting at earlier is this, that there's a holiday here called "Boze cialo" here, or "godly body" and it's real neat, but I didn't understand anything that was going on, but it's also a Catholic holiday, and we were invited to go by Jan, and we went, and we marched through the city, said some prayers, and sang our "amens". It was awesome.
We did have Zone Conference! It was President and Sister Edgren's last Zone Conference ever, so it was a little sad, but it was also pretty cool. We learned the Polish national anthem, because we should have more national pride for Poland, and it's pretty cool. The first line is "Polish has not yet perished" And the rest is pretty powerful, but I don't have it memorized. Geez, give me a break. These people's history is just wack. Absoluticznie szalona.
Walking around shorts, not exercise, size 32 still, and old if you can find them. Order up!
And yeah, I'm having a great time with Elder Garrison! Coming here to friends I had already made, a city I was already comfortable with, and a companion I got along with was very nice. Very nice indeed.
So we went to the Baltyk today,... oops, Baltic, and we didn't have much time to do stuff on the beach, wich was ok, anyway, because the wind was SUPER hard, but we did drive for two hours, get on a ferry, and then go through this neat forest check out a lighthouse that looked like a windmill, walk across the beach into Germany, and eat a bunch of seafood! I ate an oyster! A REAL LIFE OYSTER! And, a salad with a bunch of tomatoes in it. And do you know what? I LIKED IT. Now, which of those two things are you more surprised I ate? Because I was more surprised of the tomato one.
Also, I've been reading the book of Job in the Bible, and it turns out that its 42 chapters long, but the part that everyone talks about is only the first three chapters. Wild. The rest of it is his friends trying to council him, but totally missing the point, and they all end up calling him a sinner, and condeming him for thigns he didn't do. Good job, guys. But really it stresses the importance of two things- Be honest with yourself, and if you know you're right, there's nothing anyone else can do about it, even if you're wrong. But even Job said that if they show him where his fault lies, he will listen. They didn't though, and that's the second point- if you're going to council others, 1. study out the problem and the possible causes beforehand, and 2. Listen to the Spirit and don't rely entirely on your own wisdom. God knows more than you, accept it.
Just like he knows how much I LOVE YOU!!!
From,
Elder Liecht
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