This week we taught a couple of lessons on family history and
temples, so you would be proud of me mum! So on Tuesday we visited a
less-active member and encouraged her to prepare for the temple and work
on her family history, and she was willing and happy so we're hopefully
going to help her with that (particularly with creating an account on
FamilySearch because it's not really translated fully into Polish). It
was really awesome to get to know this member better (I hadn't known her
very well before this) and help her with something that I'm now a lot
more passionate about. We also did a "musical whiteboard" where I played
songs on my guitar and we sang while other missionaries spoke to people
to see if they're interested in learning about the gospel. It was
really fun and it felt good to share my talents in such a way. It was
also one of the elders' last day in the country so it was a bit of a
solemn occasion with the music and everything- a lot of emotions of
happiness for this beautiful gospel, and sadness for saying goodbye to
this amazing missionary. Later that day we also got to meet with two
recent convert women in our branch- we spoke about teaching and learning
in the church and watched a mormon message- it was really nice to be
with them and share and listen to each other's testimonies.
The
next day my companion and I got to help out with an American family who
are preparing to move back to the States not long from now. We were
helping with moving boxes and food etc, and we got fed lunch so it was a
pretty awesome day :D Later that day we had planned to teach a
potential investigator, but he didn't show up, so instead we were able
to do a Book of Mormon reading after our English class, and we ended up
having a really good lesson with the people that came to that! We read
from 3 Nephi 27 in English and spoke to discuss the verses while
reading. I truly felt the Spirit testifying, and afterwards one of the
people there mentioned how he felt such a good atmosphere with us and
during that reading/discussion. It was so nice to hear that, and
reminded me how grateful I am to have the gospel in my life, and to
always have the Holy Ghost with me:)
On
Thursday we went to Somchit's house (Thai member), discussed the
visiting teaching message for this month (about the Christlike attribute
of being without guile) and then made some sushi! I wasn't too excited
for the sushi haha (but I thought of you two mum and dad), but it was
cool to read from the message, because Somchit was able to read it in
Thai (we found it for her on her ipad). It was probably the most
understanding we've ever had in our lessons, and we were also really
happy because she mentioned how she has spiritually grown since the last
week we met with her. It's so fulfilling to know that the commitments
we extend to people really do help them make changes for good in their
lives.
On Friday we were able to have a few good street lessons- at one point 4 young students actually came up to us and
so we spoke with them for a while. I don't know how interested they are
in learning more about the message, but they happily took pass-along
cards and we encouraged them to look at the website for our church. We
also got to visit with Kaja at her house- she made us dinner and we
helped clean her turtle tank haha so that was fun (my 'best friends' are
her turtles- Barbara and Jerzy). We were able to speak about the
importance of not procrastinating, but making decisions now
(particularly moral ones) so that we are strong for whatever happens in
the future. We also got to see Kaja yesterday in the town- she was
volunteering for an awareness cause about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising so
we went and said hello to her :) She is seriously the best- we love her
so much and I'm really gonna miss her when I leave :(. Thank goodness we
have phones and the internet and mail, right? :D
Well
we actually did a lot more this week but I've got to go, so I'll just
keep those memories in my journal haha. Love you so much, have a
beautiful week :)
From Siostra Grgich
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