Mommy!
Well I love you, too! And I'd like to say that I think about you and the fam all the time, but that actually makes me really trunky, so I kind of avoid that.
Nuts, everyone's still getting married. It never ends!
I KNOW. JOHN IS JUST STRAIGHT HOME RIGHT NOW. I can't believe it. I remember thinking about how before I left, I went to visit John's parents, and I was like "dang, the time between now and when John left is so small. When he goes I'm practically there!"... And here we are... There's just going to be a constant stream of missionaries coming home for like, three months, and it's going to be awesome! Also, I saw the class schedule and I'm so excited! I've made plans on how I'm going to get all my work done and stay on top of everything, so basically this whole college thing is going to be a piece of cake!
Alright, I've been saving up and not buying too many clothes because I figured that they'd all get ruined before I get back (and they have) but now is the time. I was talking with Michał from Kraków and I asked if I should get a suit before I go home, and he just looked at me like that was the dumbest question I could have asked and said "have you seen those american suits? Why would you even think of not getting one here!?" Hahaha... fashon. And no, I've kept myself back from opening that card, and I put it inside of a version of a bible that we have that's translated into modern Polish, and sounds a little bit like a child wrote it so I'm not even tempted to get near it!
The new apartment is really good! It's more like quantity over quality, but I'm fine with that! The beds are good, the appliances work, and all those good things. We have a ton of fruit flies, though, so we're declaring war on them and we're going to figure out how to get them away. We've also got a lot of june bugs that fly in, but they're really slow and easy to karate kick out of the air.
Elder Rasmussen is awesome! We're having a great time together! We're both working super hard, and willing to give our all for the work! He's from Sandy (I think) and we already get along so well. It's like another Elder Rowley transfer! We're both painfully aware that I only have 7 weeks left (AHH!) and so we're just going to sprint together to the finish! And I actually really like not being Zone Leader anymore! Sometimes it's hard because I don't always know what's going on, or I don't have that much more of an influence on people, but I think it's a good step down so when I get home I'm not going to by trying to take control of literally everything that's going on ;)
We don't really have any progressing investigators yet. We have had a few lessons in the past week, but nothing huge yet. Do you remember the guy from Ukraine that I talked about a month and a half ago who just suddenly disappeared? He's back! Elders Sommerfeldt and Huffman are going to start teaching him again! Hopfully he doesn't disappear this time! We spent a lot of time visiting with less active members this week, and had a couple of lessons with them! One seems really willing to come back to church, but seems a little ashamed that they've been gone for so long. And we WERE going to have a lesson with a member but there was a bit of a mix up in planning. This member is known for hating the missionaries. We set up with them, and whatever day we actually set up on, they thought Wednesday, and I thought Thursday, so basically this member came all the way to the chapel and no one was there and when we found out on Thursday that that had happened, my heart just dropped! I was preparing for the next few days to face the wrath of this member and preparing myself to just be the most apologetic I could be. When I saw them on Sunday, they looked at me with a glare that could pierce souls, but I just started out by saying how sorry I was and how dumb I was for getting the day wrong, and what do ya know!? They accepted my apology! Look at that! It turns out that actually doing the things the Prophets and scriptures say to do help you out in life and make your situations less terrible! Who woulda thunk!?
I'm just gonna keep going, and keep pushing, and we'll see what miracles come our way!
Love
Elder Liechty
Celebrating the 4th of july with handdrawn fireworks - looks fun:)
It was nice meeting you today. Thanks for the help with the indexing software.
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