Ok, everyone say it with me, now, Byd-gosz-cz (Bid-goash-ch') Easy. Now say Odziedziczyć 

We do play frisbee because I love it, but I have never heard of Igor, nor has Elder Rowley. And yeah, the package still hasn't made it here, so that's a little unfortunate, but it wouldn't be a real mission experience if one of the packages sent from home got lost who knows where and then shows up one day opened and half the candy eaten!

And we figure out what our fate is this Saturday! Stay tuned!

The only mention of the Olympics is from the American members who are here for NATO, but it still makes me miss them. That's cool that there was a group of refugees, though! Lots of people here are very against the refugee movement, and it's sad to see the feelings of people towards them, but it's pretty understandable. This country has been invaded one too many times.

In Szczecin and Poznań, where we had about three people there, fast sundays were usually pretty quiet, and here it's a bit better, but still a lot of silence. I think a lot of the members think it's silly- everyone getting up and saying really similar things a bunch of times, but it really is powerful to see that people can have the same strength in testimony here as back home. The missionaries usually take a big chunk of time.

This last week was one of those weeks where you've built everything up real nice, and then it comes crashing down on you. We had the potential of having 9 progressing investigators by the end of the week, but instead we have one, and the rest of them have stopped answering our phone calls. I've gotten pretty used to this sort of thing over the months, but I can see that it's taken a bit of a toll on Elder Rowley. He's still pushing through, though, and still has a ton of faith. He loves the Gospel, and just wants people to know it, but they won't let him... We walked into one guy, who stopped us and said "do you speak english!?" and we said yes, and he said that he was a little drunk, but we talked with him, and he just cried and complained about his life, and that God had left him. We were not able to help him in the end. He would not believe in Jesus Christ and would not accept that he would have to change his life and start to follow him if he wants to see a change in his life. He wanted us right then and there to speak the words that would change his life or make him not addicted to smoking or alcohol, which was impossible, and he blamed us for it. I don't know how his life has turned out, but we bore witness of the Savior, and of his Atonement, and he decided to reject that testimony. I hope I can see him again.

On another day, we visited a less active member, who's living conditions are probably among the worst that I've experienced while out here. His house has no light, it smells very very bad, and there's always his drunkard friends there making it disgusting. He lives in very poor conditions. But we visited with him for a bit, and he was drunk, and afterwards, we asked if there was anything we could do for him, and he was just like "are you far?" Which of course makes no sense, but now I realize he was saying something like "take a look around. Of course there's something you can help with, dummy." Then he walked out of the room we were in, and he showed us a pot of rice, and said "look at this. This is all I've had to eat today" And at this point I was expecting a long, angry rant about how rich the church and Americans are and how hypocritical we all are and all that fun stuff, but instead he just said "can you get me some sauce?" We agreed and got some sauce (not red sauce, because that's communistic) and that was that. I'm just really tired of alcohol. I've seen so many people who's lives have been ruined by it. The Word of Wisdom is truly here for our benefit, and we ought to stick to it. Remember- really really wanting something is not justification to do it.

Talk to you all next week!

Love

Elder Liechty