22 May 2017

Siemanko!

That's cool that you got to hang around Austrailians! Did you talk in a ridiculous Austrailian accent the whole time? If not you definitely need to do it next time. There's an Austrailian in our mission right now, and he's pretty cool. He hiked the mountain with us when I went last winter and he was only wearing shorts on. What a guy.

Also, I wish we had made a counter of how many times we've been to Arches. We might as well buy a cabin at the base of Delicate Arch we've been there so often!

Ok, just so I get the schedule, I get home, I unpack, I pack, I go to school. Not to hard. There's going to be a lot less videogames and laying on the floor doing nothing than I thought there would be, but that's ok. I've been exhausted for about the last two years, what's another couple of weeks going to do? Also, I realized- with the date being moved forward, I'll be able to hit a full two years! Also, speaking of things that are trying to make me as trunky as possible, and just another congratulations from Katowice itself, there's a big countdown timer right next to the main square that ends three days before my mission ends.

Also, we learned this the other day (and again, please don't think I hate it here! I really do like it a lot, but the coincidences are just incredible and funny ). Katowice is the name of our city, and 'Katować' is a verb which means "to torture"! Heheheh. What a city, I love it!

We had a big meeting about the meeting that's going to happen with Elder Andersen, and President Turek is just so stressed right now, and everything needs to be perfect. No one's brought up food yet, and I think it's just going to slide under and everyone's going to forget about it. But let me tell you, getting 60 missionaries from across the country to Warsaw and back in one day is quite the undertaking. The office Elders maxed out their credit card buying tickets for everyone! We thought those cards were infinite! We're all really excited and there's even going to be a musical number! We'll be singing Joseph Smith's First Prayer, and we had to get it memorized. I'm pretty excited about it all! also, if anyone wants to know what Polish songs sound like, here's the translation of one of the lines:

Somewhere in the mountains a lark was singing;  music filled the grove

beautiful.

This last week we also had exchanges with the APs! Elders Haskett and Kriser are the APs now, and it was really good. Unfortunately there was a lot of business and stuff that had to happen, and that interupted a few things, but for the most part it was good. We also got to play at their sports day, which has like, 30 people coming! It was amazing. I also got really sunburnt. Summer has finally come, and with it- sunburns and stinky feet. Rock on.

I think it's worth it to recommit ourselves to the Gospel every once in a while. And by that I mean really really often. If a fire only keeps burning if we add fuel to it, then we need to work on it every single day, so the fire of our conversion stays with us.

I love you all so much!

Elder Liechty