I forgot my planner from last transfer so it's going to be a
little bit spotty trying to remember everything that happened. I guess first
off I can talk a little about transfers, which started yesterday but not for me
and Elder Schwanke. We are both training, but he is going to Warsaw. The
trainees don't get in until Thursday so we are in a state of limbo until then,
also I might not even be able to come back to Krakow until Friday because there
is something weird going on with their legal work so we might not be able to
leave Warsaw for a while. So it should be a fun week. I am going to be District
leader, at least for the first couple of weeks. President said it might be a
good idea to put that job onto Elder Vance or Lanterman at some point so they
can take more responsibility and I can focus on training.
This past week was a little bit slow to be honest, we had
some stuff fall through so we spent a lot of time doing finding. We found some
solid people, but nobody has turned into new investigators from that quite yet.
On Wednesday we had English class and afterwards we set up a meeting with this
girl who had expressed interest in the church the previous week. The meeting
was for sunday, and we confirmed it Saturday night, but on Sunday we got a text
a couple hours before the meeting that went something like this "Hey, I'm
not going to be there at 16 today. I left your book at the reception. I'm not
coming to English anymore. I don't like your religion. I don't want to get to
know it. Goodbye." Totally random, that was a bummer. Unfortunately if you
Google Mormons in polish the first couple of links are very anti (one of them
was read to us by an investigator a couple weeks ago). So I assume so ran
across that. It's really unfortunate because we haven't been able to make
contact since then.
But instead of that meeting we got to go do some tracting
then went to the Strobel's house for dinner and gave a spiritual thought. Which
was really nice.
I didn't mention this last week, but we had a really cool
experience. We were contacting on Wednesday a week ago after English class and
we contacted a guy who basically said "Look guys, I don't have time. I'm
actually on my way to a bible study class, do you want to come?" And I
looked at Elder Schwanke, he looked at me, and we went with him. The guy's name
is Grzegorz. We went into this big old Church called Saint Anna's and listened
to the priest explain why Catholics don't believe the 2nd commandment
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any
thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in
the water under the earth." It was actually really funny, because he
totally acknowledged that if you take that commandment literally they would be
in trouble. He looked around the chapel and was like "I sure hope that God
didn't mean this literally". Anyways, we were sitting there and I was
feeling a little bit anxious because I felt like we were kinda wasting time, so
I said a little prayer to see whether we were supposed to be there, and I got a
really good confirmation that we were supposed to be there. So we stayed, and
talked to Grzegorz a little bit afterwards, and he was totally interested in
hearing our message. Unfortunately it's been hard to set up a meeting because
he is out of town from Thursday-Sunday every week, and busy with school on the
other days. But we will meet eventually.
Yesterday we had a really good lesson with a guy name
Gabriel. He was a self referral out in Mydlniki which is like 40 minutes away
by bus (or 10 minutes by train as he informed us). We went out there to deliver
his book of Mormon and he let us in to teach him a lesson, I should preface
this by saying that self referrals are 9 times out of 10 bad experiences, they
are either bad numbers and bad addresses, or the person denies ever ordering a
book. But this guy was super prepared, we shared our message and he took it
really seriously, he told us he is definitely searching and is super excited to
read the book. He wants us to let him read it first before we meet again... we
will see about that. Hopefully we can meet sooner.
I love you guys and can't wait to skype in a couple weeks!
-Elder Everett
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