10 April 2017

HELLO

It's ok, the mission is near it's end, anyway, I can be put on the back of everyones' mind. Babies are way more important! He's all I can think about anyway, too, so it's not like you're the only ones!

That's just such a huge thing. A new Liechty has entered the world. Like, our family just keeps getting bigger! Also, I'm going to say the words, and I know I might regret it, but here goes... You're a grandma now! How in the world does that feel?! The emotions going through your head are probably more complicated and mixed up than anything else that you've ever felt (at least recently). That's pretty wild. I found out in the middle of the week (I had to send an email to a service place), and I was just so happy! Lots of prayers of thanks have gone up in the last week, that's for sure.

It's true, if we're ever playing with him, and he starts to poop his pants or something, we can just hand him off to someone else. It's realy just all the cool and fun parts of having a child around without any of the behind the scenes diaper changing and crying baby parts!

The week was pretty good, we had Zone Conference in the week, and it was very long and during the last hour, it was hot, my belly was full of food, I had a crazy headache, I needed to use the bathroom and everyone was speaking Polish, and it was probably the most difficult hour to sit through in my life. I remember maybe one or two mintues of the whole thing... Then Sisters Demordaunt and Barney bore their testimonies because it was their last Zone Conference on the mission, and when they go home I will have officially seen that group of sister missionaries both come into the mission, and leave it. That's really weird, and I don't like it. I'm getting so old. All my friends have left or will soon leave and I don't know what to do about it. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

We still don't know when my release date is, but I'm pretty sure it will be the 21st like you suggested. I should be finding out pretty soon, though. 

As far as what the city does, there's not much concerning Palm Sunday or the whole Passion week for that matter as far as I can tell. There is a day when you can go to a church and get a basket of things blessed by the priest, I think that's Saturday. The center square in town has also set up a bunch of little market houses like they did at christmas time, but it's not as exciting as the Christmas market.

The church in Poland is actually strange in Easter, because rather than being a reason to be in church, most members use it as a reason to be with their family away from church. So church will only be one hour long on Sunday. The Dalton's are hosting dinner, though, and it will be their last day before they leave, and that will be really sad.

And yesterday for FHE, we painted Easter Eggs!!!! (Notice how I said painted, and not dyed. Apparently they don't dye eggs anywhere else in the world. But Sister Dalton was able to find some egg dye and I got to dye some in the end). This year was probably my best year in the egg dying departement, so get ready for some cool pictures!

Love,

Elder Liechty