22 October 2015

This is our teacher Siostra Blake. Yesterday was our last day with her, because she didn't think she could handle all the stress of working at the MTC. She made a big deal of the fact that it wasn't us, just the schedule. But yeah, she's awesome, and if you, Max, or Caity see her, tell her that she's one of the best people in the world. Because she is.

The mission home address, where you can send packages or letters until we know how well the mail system works is:

Elder Sam Liechty

Kościół Jezusa Chrystusa

ul. Wiertnicza 135, I piętro

02-952 Warszawa

Poland

Four days.

When we talked with the Polish people (which we did again yesterday), the first time it was pretty easy to understand her, she spoke slowly and clearly for us, and it was pretty easy to rozmawiać (converse) with them. But the second time, it was really bad connection, and his voice was really quiet, but we were still able to teach some stuff with him, also he had an accent that was tough to understand, and he spoke pretty quickly. But it was still amazing. I get butterflies in my stomach everytime I think about going there, and it's just going to be great!

Hopefully I'll be able to find some long lost family members in Poland and show them the gospel. What an amazing story that would be! But who knows, it might not. Whatever the Lord's will is. And I bought a calling card from here, which gives me about seven hours of calling time, so I think I'm pretty set. Will everyone be home? I'll be able to call sometime around 4-5:30 Chicago time. I can call Zach and Katie, too, if they can. Hopefully you'll see this and we can figure something out real quick. And I already have the set of books from Max,  so I'm set on the 14 hour plane ride. O jej... (Oh, dear). And snacks I'm fine with, too. Everyone's giving away everything so their suit cases aren't heavy.

AND MICE!? Ew. Destroy them all. Sometimes we have spiders, but they don't stand a chance against 20 intuitive missionaries.

I'm just so excited to be in Poland and actually start teaching real people!! It's gonna be crazy scary, but who cares. It's gonna be awesome! And I've already received proof that Polish people can at least understand me, so that's going to be fine. I just want to be there right now and not wait these days. Monday can't come soon enough. I'm going to take so many pictures there, you don't even know! There's so little to take here because every building is the same drab color of off yellow. But Poland is better than that.

I'm going to be sending letters to y'all today, but I don't know where everyone lives, so I'll just send them to you, mom, and you can figure it out from there. :D

Things are going to get rough, but we have God on our side. The most powerful being in existence, who can do literally everything, is at our side pushing us along. I don't think that we can fail.

Next time I send an email, I'll be in Poland.

Starszy Liechty

15 October 2015 - (Current address) OCT27 POL-WAR, 2005 N. 900 E. Unit 17, Provo, UT 84602

What the heck is Brother Iverson doing is trees! Adults get mad when I'm in trees! And I'm bendy
and not breakable! But of course, I'll pray for him.

And what's more than just seeing videos of people from Poland, yesterday, instead of doing the
usual TRC thing, which is just teaching people who know how to speak Polish here (usually RMs) 
we got to skype someone who lived in WARSAW!! Right before the skype call started, I got this 
feeling like "wait. This isreal. This person is like the people that I'll be teaching in two weeks" And 
I became CRAZY nervous and excited. And then she answered and it was like explosions and the most"WHOWOAHOWHAHAHHAUGHG
UGHGAHAH!" Kind of feeling that you can get. It was awesome. I need to
 be there right now Real fast- sometimes in class, when our teachers are doing something like 
teaching us how to plan our day or week, they'll do role plays, and bring up different people and 
they'll be like "Oh, I think that Susie's doing really good right now" and Susie is a pretty normal 
name, right? But then they say "Oh yeah, but Agnieszka is having some problems" And it's great 
because Polish names range from susie to agnieszka. AND DURING TRC WE TAUGHT AN 
AGNIESZKA!! It was perfect. What a good name.

And I do want the Harry Potter scarf . The coat is fantastic. Everyone in my zone is jealous
of how attractive I can now be. I can't wait for it to get really cold!! 

I'm actually only reading the BoM in english, Polish, too, but I'm not trying to finish it at the
MTC, that would be incredibly difficult. Where I am, I can only get through about one chapter 
a day. It turns out that our zone president lives in like, the fourth ward! So he was able to tell 
me about the presidency. His name is Wiseman,so, I don't know... do what you want with 
that information. And Brother Clark met the second councilor in my zone, President Redding. 
So neat.

And we're able to hear the BYU games from the MTC, and are usually able to tell how the
score is coming based on the cheers, which is nice.

We've had Elder Oaks come to speak with us, and he's been the only member of the 12. We
get a lot of the Seventy, and we've gotten the Presiding Bishop, and General Primary President, 
I think. But sometimes it's just someone like the general director of the MTC. The week has been 
a pretty normal one, we did get new people in our zone, but not many. I did realize, however, 
today while in the temple, just how many people are praying for the missionaries. My family, 
my friends, general authorities, my friends families (if I was close with them) and the thousands 
or millions of others that include missionaries in they're prayers. Like, everything I succeed at is 
because of those prayers. It's so hard to believe just how much help I'm getting right now.
So much.

No epiphanies yet, but I'll be praying for some. And we always do our service in the same
building, but we get to switch up what we do each time, but it's all pretty easy and boring.

11 days!!!!

LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!

Starszy Liechty

WAIT

One more thing- because Polish is an inflected language (meaning that the endings of words
change according to their relationship with other words in the sentence) You can write my name 
seven different ways. Usually. But because "Liechty" ends with a "Y" our last name is techniaclly 
and adjective, meaning that I can choose if I want to decline it like a noun or an adjective, so I can 
write my name 13 or so different ways in Polish!

Liechty

Liechtego

Liechte

Liechtemu

Liechtowi

Liechtem

Liechtym

Liechce

and a couple others that use accents that I can't write on this computer. But it's great!

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8 OCT 2015 - (Current Address) OCT27 POL-WAR, 2005 N. 900 E. Unit 17, Provo, UT 84602

HELLO!

My English, Polish is ruining. That's how we'd say it.

WE'RE GOING TO BE IN POLAND IN 19 DAYS!!!

POLAND

That's just crazy.

It certainly has gone fast. They have a saying that's been going around the MTC forever and it goes "Days are weeks and weeks are days". And that's very, very accurate. And I'm so excited. I don't even care if I can't understand a word of the language, but I just want to get out there! And I did get dad's package; we had a fiesta in our room. Anyway, in that other package, my other shoes would be really nice, because I just found out that the shoes I brought are much more worn out that I thought. The ones I'm thinking of are a darker blue, and are adidas, so they've got those three white stripes down the side. Max had a pair that were the exact same style, just a lighter blue. And as many scarves as you can spare. Because scarves are my favorite thing. I also might need another tube of that cortozone cream. However you spell it. No snacks, really, we have our fair share of food in our room. I don't think I need any other clothes.

OH! I just remembered. That whole US draft signing up deal. I didn't do it, I think. Also signing up to vote. All patriotic things that I neglected to do. Maybe. What do we do about that? And it's spelled "starszy" there's no "k" in it. Everyone needs to learn this because no one can do it yet. Please. (Obviously he is not making the Starsky and Hutch connection:)

I just really want to leave at this point. We saw some video that one of our teachers took while she was in Poland, talking to some converts, and I just fell in love with them as soon as I saw them. So basically Heavenly Father is helping me love the people I need to serve already, and It's great. I want to go to Poland. We're all going a little crazy, but we got some new people in our zone this last Wednesday, so now we can release some of that energy on them. It'll be fun.

All of us just watched all the sessions in the big building on campus where we watch all of our devotionals. No one actually said that we would've been singing during conference, so it was just a hope. A hope dashed by the cruel realities of this world. But the choir actually sounds really good, so all of us have stayed in it to sing and experience it. Also, after conference was over, the choir dropped about four hundred people, so I think they were also thinking they would sing in conference. It was a good conference, and the first one where I actually took notes, so it was probably the best conference for me so far. 

And I hope you had a really good time at the reunion. How many people were there? Were most of your friends there, or did you not recognize a lot of them? Also, what were they're responses if/when they found out you were Mormon? Because I imagine people would be a little weirded out by it. 

This week wasn't too exciting, but I did decide that I want to read the whole Księga Mormona (po angelsku) before I leave, so basically I need to read about 25 pages a day, and I need to use pretty much all of my free time to do it. But it feels really good, and what I once considered a chore is not even kind of a chore. It's awesome!

Adrian and Ola are just our teachers pretending to be real investigators from Poland. But they're hard on us. Ola, actually is pretty easy, but I imagine that she'll have trouble when we start teaching about the law of chastity or word of wisdom, but we've already commited her to baptism, which is always an amazing feeling, whereas Adrian is crazy tough to get through, but finally our companionship was able to have a lesson that was pretty much 100% inspired by the spirit, and he said he would be baptized. It was probably one of the most intense experiences ever, that lesson. But now he's asking us about harder, more realistic questions like "what do I need to do if I have problems in my family" or other things that adults have a hard time answering. But I guess he's just preparing us for everything that will come. 

We do have to pay at the temple (for breakfast), but it's all really cheap. I get huge breakfasts usually for less that 3 or 4 dollars. 

And the thing I'm most nervous about Poland probably is how will I be able to work as hard as I can always? Like, what if I slack off one day, and that would have been the day where we meet a person that would eventually become converted? Then that would be on my head, and that is not something that I want. So I guess I'll just always work hard, doesn't seem too difficult.

And what I really loved about Pres. Monson's testimony, wasn't so much the idea of millions of people on the edge of their seats, praying for a miracle (which, of course, is amazing), but more so the fact that President Monson was going to bear his testimony to the world no matter what. No matter what problems he had, or thing he had to push through, he would sacrifice anything and everything he had at that podium to tell the world what he knew was true, and what he knew everyone needed to hear. And that that should be an example to us all to bear testimony of Christ no matter what the circumstances should be, and that there is nothing more important than this gospel.

(This next part is from Kent's letter) "Conference was great! We all watched it in a big building where the gym usually is, and it probably was the most spiritual conference I've ever had. Probably because I was paying attention the whole time. And it's so impressive to me that you watched it when you were alone! I'm not sure if I would've had the willpower to watch it all. But at least everyone who could be was together on Sunday. I really liked one of the talks in the first session on Saturday, the one who's main message was the "What lack I yet?" thing we need to ask all the time. And to myself I also realized that when we ask that question, we need to realize that- since it's something that we're not already doing- we won't really want to do that thing. So when we want to figure out what it is that will make us better, we need to ask in total faith and humility and willingness to do what is asked. I liked it. And the one about moms was Elder Holland, and the one about women was President Neilson, I think. And those were fantastic ones, too. I love mom, and I hope you love her like nothing else, dad!"

I love you all SO MUCH

Especially you, mom. Can't wait for you to watch that talk. A good one for sure. Very good. Watch it. Holland. Now. Go. It's good.

-Starszy Liechty.

And you know that Polish is tough when the official translation of the missionary purpose has some words misspelled. (But really, most people born in Poland aren't fluent until they're 18 years old.)

Also, Sweater day Saturday is now a thing, and it's awesome. But I forgot that we were going to take a picture, so...

30 Sept 2015 - (Current address) OCT27 POL-WAR, 2005 N. 900 E. Unit 17, Provo, UT 84602

Hi family,

I really like Mr. Fox. He's cute.

And it turns out that if missionaries are singing in conference, It won't be any of us. Or they'll suprise us tomorrow, but that probs won't happen.

A typical day for me would start with screaming some sounds while the alarm wakes us all up, and then showering and wondering why it takes forever for everyone else to get ready. Then we go to breakfast which is usually pretty disappointing, so I just usually get a bagel or something, and then we go to class. Class in the morning will usually start with learning polish or teaching our "investigators" which are just our teachers. Currently we have two zainteserowanie (investigators) whose names are Adrian and Ola. Ola is crazy nice and really receptive to everything we teach, so we don't worry too much about her. But Adrian is tough. He doesn't really accept what we say, and he'll ask "why?" to literally everything we say. Which I suppose is good so we'll know how to answer questions in the field, but It's pretty frustrating now. 

And after we have classroom instruction, we go to eat lunch, check the mail, and go back to class for personal study. After personal study, we have companionship study, and after that, we have language study. That's when everyone messes around the most, but it's callmed down since the beginning. After all those studies, we go to the gym for an hour, then dinner, then check mail again because everyone doesn't know how to control their desires, and then go back for some more classroom instruction. And we study more language, and do CMS, which stands for Coaching Missionary Study. And that's where the teachers will meet with us individually, as companionships, or everyone at once to discuss whatever it is we need discussing on. Then we head back to our residencies and mess around, do awesome things like drink from the water fountain upside down, or have nerf battles, or dress up as star wars characters and have lightsaber fights, and then go to bed after fifteen minutes of quiet time, which are rarely actually quiet, which kind of bothers me. Then it starts over! for nine weeks.

P-days start with us going to temple, then we eat breakfast in the temple because it's a million times better than in the MTC, and after that we go to do laundry and emailing which is happening right now. after that we'll go to the gym for a good amount of time. Our whole district usually plays volleyball with some of the other people in our zone, and we're getting pretty good at it! Then if we have time, we'll take a nap, and then eat dinner, and then P-day ends, and we go back to class. Usually during this class on P-day, we'll do this thing called TRC, where returned missionaries or other people who know the language will come and we give them a lesson, but since no one knows polish, we only sometimes get people to teach. And after that, we go to bed.

I get along well with everyone in my district now, which is nice, but Starszy Haskett is pretty great. He's really funny, and we share the same sense of humor, and he's actually got a good spirit with him, which is nice. Starszy Mcmaster is also really awesome, and a very spiritual person, and those two are companions, so It's like the power companionship.

AND

you know how the guy at the bank was saying the the word for "to be" was pronounced like the B word? it is. completely. No accents to it or anything. Straight up saying the B word is how we say "to be" or just "be" it's wild. AND there's seven cases in polish which change the endings of words depending on how they're used, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is that one of them is used when you rename somehting with a noun, and you can tell it's being used when a form of "to be" is being used, so the way we are told to remember is shown in the picture. Just remember what "to be" sounds like in polish-

I can't think of any really crazy experiences, but what I did come to realize, is that we always worry about feeling the Spirit in our decisions, which is a good goal, but sometimes we think that a huge, obvious prompting from the spirit is the only voice we can trust, which isn't true. If we all keep the commandments, and remember and keep our covenants we've made with God, then the Spirit will be with us always, even when we don't notice it, and to trust ourselves really is actually trusting the Spirit. And that has definitely helped me here when doing all the things I need to do.

LOVE Y'ALL SO SO MUCH!!!!

Starszy Liechty

Look at this. The Polish flag is reflected in the tag. That's what I call art. (also, starszy McMaster took this one, so props to him)

24 Sept 2015 - (Current address) OCT27 POL-WAR, 2005 N. 900 E. Unit 17, Provo, UT 84602

FAMILY

I did get your stationary and it is very beautiful. Keep it up! And modlitwa means prayer. And if you like the Polish words, check out this sentence- "czy czesisz się że czesię się że cię czesisz" pronounced like " chuh cheshish shuh zhuh cheshish shuh zhuh chuh sheshish" it means "are you glad that I'm glad that you're glad?" I also hope that those accents came through.

ONE MONTH!!!! It's pretty crazy, I mean, we joke about it being like "wow, guys! one month down!!" But actually, one month is a real quantifiable number when it comes to how long I've been here. Tak jak (like), time is actually passing... it's weird. Only 23 more...

What grade are those cousins of mine in? And is Benjamin like the star of the football team? If not, make him do like, a million push ups. Then he will be. And that's stinky that you won't be able to see John and Terry, but you could break into their house and leave a nice message for them, that's something I would prawdopodobnie (probably) enjoy. \

I didn't know that Elder Scott had died until someone brought it up in the devotional! But it is really sad, and how likely is it that we will have three new apostles called by the time conference starts? Lots of people are saying that it takes a long time before the perfect person is found. But I don't think it will be that huge of a deal if one hasn't been chosen by October. And I prawdopodobnie will be watching the conference FROM THE CHOIR SEATS, because our whole district has been going to the choir practices every time since we've got here. Sorry I never said anything, I kept forgetting. And one time I wasn't able to listen to some of conference because it was during a marching band competition and we were driving down and couldn't listen to the radio. It felt weird. I didn't like it.

I really like how you've just been sending the regular haps, so keep on doing that, but if there were cool experience that you've had, I'd love to hear them. Also, I do like getting pytanie (questions) because then it gives me something to write about. I've never been good at being able to just say things. And it's wild that everyone is giving their farewells... Are they the last set of people from our ward, or are there more? And speaking of Caleb, he loves saying "awko taco" whenever something is awkward, so tell him that there's a phrase in Polish which means "so-so" but is pronounced "yako taco" (spelled "jako tako") he'd love it. I haven't been able to talk to Elder Stott since I first saw him, but I've seen him walking around and stuff, he looks like he's having a good time! And that's really exciting for the Taylors! Tell Sean that I'm still a burping master and tell Lee that he should email me, it'd be awesome to hear from him!

Ok, I'm going to end with a great experience I had- 

We were in class just doing a regular roleplay, and it was going just kinda normal, like nothing really special was going on about it, (it was my teacher "teaching" me in front of the class) but at the end of the lesson, she asked me to pray to God about the Book of Mormon, and whether or not it was true, and in my broken Polish, just trying to imitate an investigator, I asked that if the Book of Mormon was true, to please tell me, and apparently, Heavenly Father decided that that was a good time to reaffirm my belief in the Book of Mormon, and give me another witness of it's truth. And when it comes down to it, either Joseph Smith saw what he saw and experienced what he did, and God's church is restored on the earth again, or he didn't. And I know so SO very well, that beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he did. That The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the true church and that the Book of Mormon is true, meaning that it contains God's word and message of love for us all, and through the atoning power of Jesus Christ, we can be saved.

Kocham cię bardzo!!

Starszy Liechty

When there's somethin' strange

In ya neighborhood

Who ya gonna call

Me!

17 Sept 2015 - (Current address) OCT27 POL-WAR, 2005 N. 900 E. Unit 17, Provo, UT 84602

HEY!

I did see Elder Stott today, and it was CRAZY! He's so big. Not the little boy that I used to hang out with. But I'm still the little boy he hung out with. 

It's so crazy that Zach and Katie don't live in this state anymore, like, what. Things aren;t supposed to change, they remain the same forever. duh. 

Also, english is hard to type nowadays, Polish is very phonetic, and English, not so much. And speaking of which, Polish is AWESOME! It's the best language. And I'm learning so much, like, the grammar makes sense, and it's pretty easy aside from the whole "most words have two or less vowels in them" I love it. 

And when we teach investigators, it's so easy to say things! I want to say something, and I might not know the words i wanted, but when start talking, I figure out a way to say it with what i know, even if I barely studied the words before. It's like a neat experience I had last time we taught, Starszy Einfeldt seemed like he wanted to say something, but couldn't, until he mumbled to himself that scripture that says somehting like "open your mouth and I will fill it" and then he just started talking and was able to say exactly what should have been said. 

Our companionship has been getting a lot better, I think that the sickness of Starszy xxxxx humbled him a little bit, and also both me and Starszy Einfeldt have voiced our concerns with him during Comp inventory, so yeah, things are coming along better. And we feel the Spirit in our lessons much more because of it! I love it so much.

My favorite experience prawdopodobnie was in our last lesson with our investigator, Adrian, who is actually our teacher, and while we were speaking, we had the Spirit with us very strong, and at the end, our teacher broke character and just told us "That is what teaching is supposed to be like" And it was great.

Prawdopodobnie my favorite person in my district is Starszy Haskett. He's just really funny, and I feel like we'd actually be friends in real life, and he's actually got a good spirit with him, which is nice to have. But pretty much everyone is really fun to be around, and I could be tight with any of them. Like Starszy Mcmaster. He plays the piano really well, and we'll just go into a room with a piano and play with each other and try to one up each other even though he's way better than me.

I've got three teachers- Brat Jensen, Siostra Blake, and Siostra Barth. Brat Jensen was the first teacher, so he's the one that we all try to impress the most, he's like the aloof father figure that you would do anything to impress. Siostra Blake was our second one, and the first one we ever heard english from, so she's like a really good friend and really peppy and happy all the time. And Siostra Barth was the teacher who was our first "investigator" and she hasn't taught us for long enough to really figure out what I think of her, so I'll get back to you about that.

I think the hardest thing is teaching. I mean, the language is tough, but it's actually not that tough. It comes along. The gift of tongues. Darem Jenzikow. But teaching is where the real stuff happens, ya know? It's where it really matters. And it's the scariest, even though it's where we learn a ton. But that's a quote around here- "There's no growth in the comfort zone, and there's no comfort in the growth zone." Nice.

We did hear the roars of the game (BYU winning the football game in the last seconds, the stadium is really close to the MTC), and a bunch of elders started running outside just to hear the sounds of the game. MAX. YOU FOOL. You watch to the end of games ALWAYS. Homework can wait, the night is essentially and endless resource of time to do things. 

It was really cool to meet the guy who was your missionary (at BYU 30 yrs ago!)! I never really thought about it, but then someone in gym was like "are you elder Leeeiicty?" And I said probably, and he took me to him and it was awesome! You should meet with him, he wants to. And it would be awesome for you, too.

Getting up in the morning is absolutely dreadful every time, but you get used to it. Our room tries to get ready within 30 minutes each day, and I always win. Because I'm used to running late for school. And it's five of us in our room, the other two are in a room of other people speaking slavic languages, but going to Leeds, England. 

Every Tuesday, we clean the building that has the gym in it, and the big Sunday night devotionals, and we have to keep our room clean every day, which we're stellar at. 

And I got to go to the temple today, which is always an amazing experience. And I'm still a little sick, but probably where I had the best experience was prawdopodobnie (probably) was in the temple today, where I started to get a wracking cough, and it would have been really distracting, so I said a quick little prayer to help me maintain it, and as soon as I ended, the pain in my throat was almost all the way gone. Prayer. Modlitwa.

We all started to decide that the food here is pretty unacceptable, so the complaining every mealtime is getting a little out of hand. I just started to eat the salads, because they're the most real thing that's actually served. The food is really good for anyone who stays for a week and a half like the english speakers, but for us nine weekers... ugh. Chicken sandwiches are life.

I love you all SO MUCH!

-Starszy Liechty

10 Sept 2015 - OCT27 POL-WAR, 2005 N. 900 E. Unit 17, Provo, UT 84602

Everyone was right- the days are like weeks, but the weeks are like days...

 But I mean, it's cool, but also scary that there's already two weeks of nine down and then I'll need to be in Poland teaching real people. REAL PEOPLE, MOM. It'll be awesome though. 

Max is right, when it's the three of us, its easy to just stay more alone, or not bond with the two others, and it's not a relationship you build with one person. And also, I didn't think it would happen to me, but one of my companions is a more difficult companion. I mean, he just doesn't respect many things, and he talks innapropriately and swears sometimes, and since there's the three of us, I can just stay more with the other one, and it's much easier to ignore him I guess. Which sounds AWFUL, but it's what has happened. I've been praying for help so I can love him, and I have seen it get better as the days go on, but it's still really tough. A lot more tough than I would have though it would be. 

I did get my suit, and I don't really think I need anything right now, but packages and dear elder notes are really nice. REALLY NICE. Everyone said so. I never believed them. But now I understand.

And this last week I was BARDZO BARDZO chory. Bardzo.

I was very sick. As was our whole district. We were just slammed hard with it and a few of us had to stay in from class one day. I didn't, but I would have if it got any worse, and one of my companions was really sick this morning so I had to stay in and wait while everyone got to go to the temple. But I got to go last week, so at least there's that. AND I got to make this awesome fort with the furniture in the living room area of the dorm until one of the MTC workers told me to take it down. He was just jealous.

Probably when I felt the spirit most was one night when I couldn't sleep, someone in my my room was writing in his journal, so the window was open, and I just started looking out of it. There wasn't anything interesting to look at, like, there was a tree blocking the way. But for some reason, as I was looking out, I felt the spirit in a way that I never had before. Instead of a peircing blow to the chest like it usually feels like, I felt it more like a warm blanket covering me and I really felt God's love for me in a way I never had before. And that is what I want to bring to the people of Poland. That is what I want them to feel, becuase it was honestly the best I have ever felt.

Yeah, I bet Sammy will enjoy actual attention. And you went to a dog show!? Thats so awesome! I've wanted to see one of those forever! Monty would have just layed down in the middle of it.

And on Sundays, there's one big building with a ton of chapels in it where all the zones will go to their seperate Sacrament meetings, and it works out. There's like fifty of us in our zone. Pictures of our family would be awesome! Everyone has them and our family is just an enigma. An abstract idea that not even I am sure if still actually exists. Like, am I really writing an email to my mom right now, or just a huge data base that acts as all missionary's moms? Nobody knows...

Anyway, I would be writing a lot more Polish words in these emails, but there's accents on everything, so I don't know what to do. Cry, I guess. But rest assured- I am actually learning things. And I'm also learning a lot of how English works because of it! Man, languages are tough. Freaking tower of Babel. But yeah, I guess it's necessary.

Love you lotsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sambiel.