Luuuuuuuuuukies. I want to go to Iceland. Do something dangerous for me.
Also, my companion and I are now officially hippies, and aren't sleeping in our beds anymore. Just straight on the ground because in our English class one of the students was saying how he just sleeps on the ground, and we were like "whaaaaaat? Nah, man, that aint cool" but then all the other students were saying how good it was for your back and that it's way cool, and so Elder Sommerfeldt and I decided to try it out because both of our backs are pretty destroyed from walking around all the time and also our beds are really springy and saggy so by this point I'm really willing to try anything to make not hurt as much. So far it's just been really uncomfortable, but my back has stopped popping as much, which is a bonus, and I don't want to sleep in anymore, and that's also nice! I'll tell you how it's going next week!
We saw the Kamps, and that's so sad the temple was closed! That's where they were headed after they visited us. And the Barneys came as well, but we just saw them passing through, and the Garrisons are here, but I'm not sure if they're going to make it down to Kato because Nathan (Elder Garrison) never served here and again- there's just nothing to do in Kato. (There is a ton of cool stuff outside of Kato, though, we found out). The DeMordaunts are coming and in three weeks a really old missionary from two years ago will be visiting Kato and having a family reunion with a bunch of Polish people! We have to be there to translate. (It's really weird pluralizing all these missionaries' last names because we call them that all the time that it's practically become their first name. It's like saying "The Beths are coming over tonight", or "The Sams want to talk to you". Weird.)
We haven't done any presentations, but we've set up two. One will be this wednesday, but we found out that we're going to be in Warsaw on Wednesday, so the other Elders will take that one over, and the other will be the 20th. Which is already so close. I can't believe that we're already 12 days into June. It feels like it literally just started, and I'm FREAKIN' OUT.
Our English class here is actually pretty weak... We don't really know what we need to do. We do the same things we've done in all my other cities and there's always people, but here it's just not working the same. We just teach the advanced course which only has one guy in it, and he's pretty cool. He's our polish tutor as well, (we meet with him twice a week to learn Polish from a Pole). He'll be baptized one day, just you wait.
There's two English speakers in our branch and they're from South Africa! I don't know what they're doing in Katowice. No senior missionaries... Sunday dinners are especially hard, because I'm used to buying food for every day except Sunday, so now I'm usually left with a few pieces of bread for dinner on Sundays. Maybe a carrot or two. :D I'm going to enjoy coming home for Sunday dinner again!
Most of us are leaving the 28th (including the sisters, whos missions are over the same times as ours), but three are leaving on the 14th, because they're going to different schools that start earlier. Two elders from our original squad are going home on the early date, so we'll probably not even be able to say goodbye 😢
Was it fun to be in shcool again, if just for a little bit? Is writing papers even that bad? I feel like I've gotten a lot better at doing things like that on my mission. Like, I'm a lot better at expressing myself than I used to be, and writing one of those 40 page theses that I'll probably have to do one day still seems like an incredibly daunting task, but not quite as daunting at it used to seem. There's a ray of light now, at least!
Well... While I may have lost some things in the past, we have learned a very valuable lesson, that no price could buy; I can't be entrusted with valuable things. I will lose them. Now we will know for ever and ever, that if someone thinks I need something that's worth more than $15, I don't, because it'll be gone within 30 days ;D
I found out why I freak out whenever I think about going home! And it's really cheasy and cliché! I mean- lets be real, getting blessed by priests and yelled at by crazy old people and just being ignored for days at a time certainly weighs on a person, and it'd be very reasonable to want that to stop. But while I've been on my mission I HAVE been able to help a soul or two, and the scripture where it says "how great is the joy when you bring one soul to Christ" is actually true! On the mission I'm just actually able to help more people, and the help is a lot more visible. Back home I don't think that I'll have that opportunity, or at the very least not as often, and I LIKE being able to help people! It's simple, and I'm sure every missionary feels the same way, but that's how it is, and being home's gonna be rough for a bit.
I've got just under three months to do what I can here. I'm not going to waste it!
Love you all!
Elder Liechty
(It's good that sister Kamp's mom took pictures, because I didn't take anything this week :|
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