Last monday we went out to Tłuszcz(translation: Fat. lol) so we spend the pday in a city an hour outside of warsaw named Fat with Kac... one of our investigators, and the district. We hung out and met his family, and we went to the forest. Everybody slacklined while I sat down against a pine tree and enjoyed the weather and the clouds. It was awesome, and a fantastic break.
Tuesday, we met with our investigator Mac... he has a PhD in Chemistry. He's super super inteligent, and it gets me so excited every time I think about it. his english is pretty good, and I have a lot of respect for him because he's one of the only polish people I've met who actually know what their church believes in(it's a huge problem, here, unfortunately.) So that's been super interesting! Then we had culture night with the district. We went to the Copernicus museum for culture night with the district, and had a ball. It was so fun with the district(they are like family at this point). Then on wednesday, we met with president and got ready for this upcoming week, and then I had a meting with the psychologist, and it went really really well. Thursday, we went out to eat with bar to break his fast... and he got an answer on how to proceed... so it's goint to take some time, but it'll all be good. Then I went on an exchange again on Thursday with elder connelly. It was a blast. Friday, we met as a district, and got ready for our special musical number on sunday. Then we had free friday, and went out to visit a deaf referral... and left a book of mormon. saturday was insane. We had an english blitz, and had sports saturday. So many people came that we had to do two games across the whole park. I played soccer, and went for it this time. It was awesome, and I didn't get hurt... and I remembered just how much I miss being sore. Good things. Elder cowley and I also helped Prezydent make transfer calls. It was fun to get to talk to the missionaries and tell them were they are going to be serving! Pretty neat.
This most recent monday, we got some studies done, then we went and picked up elder jones for his last day as a missionary. As tradition holds, we went and got one last Mcdonalds breakfast run, and then we met at the train station, and picked up all the departing elders. It was sad, and pretty tough, but they're gone, so that's good! We had dinner with them that night, and did their final testimony meeting with them that night. We slept the night at presidents because.....
Tuesday: we got up at 2:30 am and took the departing group to the airport with president. We got all of their stuff done, and got them on their planes. We came home and got a quick nap, before elder jones' family picked him up. I sure miss that guy. then we went ot the airport again to pick up the new group., 12 missionaries came in, and they're all studs. We took their bags to the mission home, and then took one of the groups to Sadyba to get legal pictures taken, and get some food. Then we switched and picked up the other group to do the same. We then went out contacting with the trainees. I got to go with elder blackwell for like a solid hour/hour and a half. He's a stud, and he's going to be a really good missionary. Then I went on an ap adventure with elder curtis to find Sister Turek the last things that she needed to make dinner. Elder Curtis is awesome, and he hunts, so we had a ton to talk about. He's a great guy, and super chill. then I spent the night helping sister turek make food for a million people, then I was up cleaning up after it all with elder cowley until just before 10:30.
Then we got up the next morning and helped with breakfast, got them all together, and got them to the Wiktorska chapel for the trainer/trainee meeting. The meetings went well, and we got them all off (in a rush) to their trains, just on time. Elder Blunt came up for his trainee, and it was such a good time to get to hang out with him for a little bit. He's a bro. I love that guy.
Thursday, we had MLC. All of the sister training leaders and the zone leaders came into warsaw, and we met with prezydent and sister turek for a few hours and discussed what the mission needs, and how they can teach zone training this upcoming week. Everybody in that room is super special, and I love all of 'em! We had the craziest adventure. So elder cowley and I had a meeting with Kac like right after the meeting... but one fo the sisters didn't have a ticket and needed to buy one and all this stuff... and we didn't want to cancel the meeting. So we got out there, and ahd the office elders drive by, I jumped in the car, and elder mcmaster jumped out. They went ot the meeting, and elder connelly and I raced to our apartment to pick up a bag(that had to make it to one of the cities with one of the sisters). So we had her miss her train and got the bag, all the while sprinting to get to the train station. we rolled out of the car and ran to the lines. We got the one set of sisters on their platform with the bag(their train was leaving in 5 minutes), and elder connelly got the ticket, adn i ran it down to them on the platform, while he was buying the other sisters' tickets. We got them to their platform just minutes before their train left. So in the space of an hour, we did an exchange, went back to the apartment, got a bag, got to the train station, delivered a bag, sprinted around warsaw, and got 4 sisters onto their trains. everything that happened was a miracle, and looking back I still don't understand how the Lord did it... but it was one of those crazy mission experiences I'll probably never forget. Good times.
Today is pday. All we're doing is emailing and going to sleep. I'm so dead tired it's ridiculous. We're trying to have transfer goals done by sunday night so that next week, we can just hit the road running. We only have 2 transfers left, 19 weeks... and miracles are going to happen. The Lord is too good to me.
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| Adventures in a city named Fat!! |
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| Our Japanese friend. He just showed up at church on Sunday. He goes on vacation twice a year and visits a different county. I got to translate for him during church. He said I was a great translator. |
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| Zoo Trip with Agnieszka Good times! |
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