16 Jan 2017

Family,

hello.

It was a good week! And what's more, next week is going to be just as busy! Mark is doing really well, and he actually has a baptismal date for the 11 of February! His plans on where he's going to live in the next few months are really shaky, though, so we're not positive if he'll be in the country, but he just recently told us that he's going to try to make that date! 

Darek has been in Warsaw for the last week, and I think he had a meeting with one of the elders there who actually used to serve in Kraków, and was the one who found Darek in the first place. He said that he'd call me when he got back to Kraków, but we haven't heard from him yet, so we shall see.

Oh yeah, we're still getting along! We work hard and we're having a ton of meeting together! With us  and the other companionship here in Kraków, this place is having more success than it has in such a long time! The force is strong! :) Michał alone has probably more faith concerning missionary work than any of us. Elder White is really good at doing Family History contacting, and that's what we do about half the time, and I really like it! Hopfully that'll turn out some good results! 

Of course you're not going to go get stiches right away, though ;) I think that attitude has carried on to me. While doing service one day, we were sweeping snow off the sidewalk (that's right, sweeping, Poland still has a few areas of improvement), and one of the elders got a huge cut in his hand and it started bleeding pretty bad, and everyone was telling him to go to the doctor and get some stiches, but I was just like "what? he's fine, just go put a bandaid on!" Classic.

Yes, I want to do the reading challenge, keep sending me the schedule! 

I can't really think of much else that happened this week... It was filled with things that happened, but I can't think of any outstanding things. I did do a really intense study of James 1:5, though! I was reading it, and realized that we all know that verse, but no one knows the ones around it! So I studied James 1:2-8, and spend a week just finding out all I could. One thing that I realized that I really liked, is that he says "wisdom" and not "knowledge". Because wisdom is the application of our knowledge, and God is not only going to give us the knowledge, but the wisdom to go along with it. But that's under the condition that we're actually going to do the things he says to do. So Joseph Smith went to the grove not asking for knowledge, he could have done that and maybe nothing would happen or maybe he would have realized that none of the churches were true, but he would have no idea what to do with that. Instead, he went to the grove seeking wisdom, and what did he get? The wisdom. The how-to. He went in planning on acting on the answer he received, and was expecting to do whatever it was that he was told to do. And we can, and should do the same

Ok, love you all!

Elder Liecht