Fun week so far! We started it off with a really good
exchange with the Wrocław Elders, Elder Blunt and Elder Park. They came in on
Monday and we got some good work done with them while they were here.
Tuesday we had district meeting, it was really fun because I
felt like I had barely prepared at all, and the night before I got a text from
President saying that he was coming. It was really good though, we talked about
the role of the Book of Mormon in conversion. Totally nailed it, we also talked
about boosting our English class and Elder Mulder and I took the responsibility
of going to the local universities and trying to talk to some of the English
professors. That was fun. We went to Politechnika University which is right by
the chapel later in the week and we totally got kicked out. They called
security and were kinda freaking out, it was a much bigger deal than it should
have been. But we will try again at a different university.
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| Elder Mulder, Elder Park, Elder Blunt and me |
After district meeting on tuesday we had a couple of
meetings, because we had 2 Elder companionships in Kraków we had 2 at the same
time. It was fun, Elder Blunt and I taught English to this lady named Basia,
one of our English students. It was really good, we had a good discussion about
the gospel afterwards and invited her to meet with the Sister missionaries to
learn about the church, but she said she is too busy right now :( While we were
doing that the other Elders met with a man named Jerzy. I had set up with him
over the phone because he was an old former investigators, not realizing who he
was. When he got there we realized that he is a guy who comes to church almost
every week, but we don't usually meet with because he just spends the whole
lesson making word connections whenever we meet. He will say things like,
Woda(water)--Water--Wat--Wait--Weight--eight-osiem (means eight in
polish)--ocean. Then he will draw deep spiritual meanings out of these word
connections. So we usually don't meet. But the Elders had a really fun time.
Other than that we had some good tracting later that day, we
met some cool people, but so far nothing has really come out of that.
We had a really good English Class on Wednesday, we had a
bunch of people in all the classes and then a lot of them stayed after for Book
of Mormon reading, hopefully some of those people will turn into investigators
at some point.
On Thursday we had a pretty cool experience. The previous
night during planning we had planned on doing a whiteboard with the sisters,
and we had the random thought to do it at this place called Salwator, where we
have never done a whiteboard before. So we got to the chapel and we were
planning on going and doing that, but it started snowing super hardcore. We
were thinking about canceling and doing something else until it stopped
snowing, but we decided to go anyways. It was super good that we went because
we met this super cool guy who was really interested named Pacyfik (Pacific, as
in the ocean).
Also Thursday was a polish holiday. It's called Tłusty
Czwartek - Fat Thursday. Basically the holiday is just that people eat a ton of
Pączki which are pretty much donuts. Stores have tons of them and they are on
sale usually. I only ate 8 because I was lame, but the record for the most any
missionary in recent history has eaten is 38.
Other than that, we are still meeting with Sassan - our
Iranian investigator. he is super cool and has been reading the Book of Mormon
a ton. We gave him a children's Book of Mormon story book in English because he
doesn't speak good enough English to read the Book of Mormon in English and the
Persian only has selected chapters so he is reading the children's book so he
can understand the story line.
I think that's about it for this week, Do Widzenia!
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