7 August 2017

guess who I saw on Sunday! He and Lukas from Kraków came to do a training on how to run a sacrament meeting and seeing Michał again was so great! He is one of my best friends

It was really hot this week

Giant Jenga

a ginormous dog that we found while tracting

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Sorry about last week, we went to the zoo, and when we went to go email, it turned out that the library we normally go to was closed, and then we went to another library, and that one was closed, too, so all of us (seven missionaries) had to use the single computer in the chapel in the last 2 hours of P-day, and that only gave us about 20 minutes each to do emails.

Today for P-day we had to stay inside a lot, because a member from Warsaw is going around to all the apartments to find out everything that's wrong with them and fix them, and he's really difficult to coordinate times with, so he was about three hours late.

100 MILES!? I barely did 6 miles on a bike one day and I felt pretty proud of myself! Good luck! I have absolutely no idea where I want to go for my first week... either our home ward or the YSA ward. I don't know anyone at BYU. I totally still play piano here. You're going to be so impressed that I've actually learned how to play hymns now! I don't know how to play anything else, so don't get to impressed ;) And yeah, Jacob's been home now for a week or two, so you'll be able to talk to him.

I think one of the greatest things that I've learned about myself here is that I'm actually capapable of building real relationships with people. Before I left, I had friends and some of them were really close, and I considered them real friends, but for the most part, I couldn't get over the barrier of actually connecting with people on a level deeper than small talk during school classes. That was actually one of the biggest worries that I had coming out here that I wouldn't be able to open my heart to the people here, but as time has gone by and as I've made relationships with even the most unlikely of people, I've found out that it's possible! Sometimes the expression of love is returned back with snotty comments and broken promises, and obviously that stings, but we all need a broken heart and contrite spirit somehow. 

We've been working really hard this last week, and making sure that we don't waste any time, and I think that's from earlier this week when I was reading in the Book of Jacob, right after he quotes the olive tree parable, he says this "And the day that he shall set his hand again the second time to recover his people, is the day, yea, even the last time, that the servants of the Lord shall go forth in his power, to nourish and prune his vineyard; and after that the end soon cometh. And how blessed are they who have labored diligently in his vineyard." (Jacob 6:2-3). I just realized that this is the time before the Second Coming of Christ, and that we have a part in gathering the saints and that it's the most important work that exists! And I don't have much more time in it! I'm going to be sad to leave it.

One of the people we talked with on the streets went onto Mormon.org and referred himself to the missionaries, and we're going to start teaching him. He seems like he has a lot of potential, and I'm very excited to teach him! He's certainly a blessing for all the hard work we put in in this last week!

Love you!

Elder Liechty