November
is almost OVER!? Crazy... and I see that we have a new Christmas
Tree? Awesome, but there wasn't much snow up there this year, eh? Gid has glasses!? Since when? And Enos came down for Thanksgiving?! Aaah!!! Oh man I love you guys! I need an address for them, I want to send them a letter. And grandma and grandpa back in the picture, yay! Katherine, nice baby bump – you always look so cute! Rachel…what is it with you and your tongue? Girl, keep your tongue in your mouth! Haha… : ) Nice moose! OH I LOVE THESE PICTURES!!! YAY! Oh my gosh, Tasha doesn’t even look pregnant yet… Aaah! LIFE! I also need Tavia's address... need to send that girl a postcard.
Well...that was a bit of gibberish...I don’t really know where to start… Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you had a great one! We didn’t eat any turkey here, didn’t really celebrate Thanksgiving at all, but I’m still so grateful! We did end up having a really fun meeting with a family just outside of Poznań on Thanksgiving night along with Elder and Sister Reed. The father of the family is an older man from America and his wife is Polish. They have two young kids, a girl and boy. I really think that Ola, the wife, feels the Spirit really easily and loves the gospel, I’m excited to teach them more! We got to help clean up their house for like an hour before our meeting and it was just SO MUCH FUN! I love SERVICE! And Ola was so grateful for it. That
was a good feeling. Like yesterday morning, there was a father and his
daughter Maria and they looked really poor, we told them we wanted to
share the gospel with them and he told us about their destitute
situation and that they really were poor. Well I asked the little girl
what her favorite food was, her dad said 'candy' or maybe 'chocolate' -
can't remember which one, anyways I remembered I had some chocolate in
my bag that I really didn't want, so I bent down and un-zipped my
back-pack and gave her a bag of chocolate covered nut things, she was
pretty happy. And I was maybe even more happy!!! Another time this
week we saw an older woman carrying groceries and she had a limp, we
asked if we could help. We were supposed to be at the chapel for a
meeting but helped her anyways and she was also so grateful -
you could just see it in her eyes. The meeting at the chapel didn't end
up happening, so it was alright that we were a little later than we
were supposed to be. Man...God just takes care of you! Like with
Daniel in the Old Testament - we read about him in Young Women's
yesterday and how he stood up for what he believed in even though he
could have been killed! But he didn't get eaten by the lions, and he
got promotions and all sorts of cool stuff... - Matthew 10 talks about
fearing not those that can take your life, but fear Satan instead,
because he can take your Spiritual life. We need to be more BRAVE in
our lives, like that, and just do what God asks of us, because it will
all work out - Trust god, and he'll make it all work out.
O.k. got 25 more
minutes, I really want to read your stuff and then write back, but I
guess I will just type and see where it takes me. So this week we had
some crazy fun things happen, we didn't reach our goals quite all the
way this week, but it was still really fun and awesome! We had a lesson
with a woman named Irena who I personally think will end up getting
baptized. She's super spunky and has bright red lipstick and is way
nice. She's got two grown up kids and is divorced but is a fun
business type woman with a super full, bright living room where we sat
and taught a lesson with Sister Reed. I loved how Irena described the
Holy Ghost - that it's like a wind at her back, kind of softly telling
her where to go, what to do. She recently had a business trip and had
some difficulties with a train being late or something and she was in
charge of this thing and got really worried at first but then just felt
like she should take a certain bus or something and that she wouldn't be
more than 10 minutes late. Sure enough, she walked in only 10 minutes
late. So cool. I like her a lot.
We have three women with
baptismal dates right now, Danka, Izabela, and Bogusia. Thing is, none
of them are really progressing right now, and I think we're going to
have to push back their dates. Danka was the one we met in a restaurant
- she contacted us really - and she is kind of a cute old drama queen.
She calls my companion Sister Bet, and it's really funny. She also
diminutizes Grzegorz's name so she calls him 'Grzeszu' and it's
hillarious. It's like calling dad 'Benny' or something - oh man, gotta
love Danka. I think Sister Bezdjian wrote more about her, you should
check out her blog too, it's sistersarabez.blogspot.com. She probably has some fun stories on there that I haven't told... Yeah, so we're really praying for these women.
I may have also told you
about our friend Kamila - she's so cute! and awesome! She came to
church on Sunday for the first time! AND Marcin gave a talk in church
Sunday - he's the Elder's investegator who will be getting baptized on
December 8th if all goes well and he stops smoking - I'm praying hard
for him, I think he's the coolest thing since sliced cheese - seriously,
he's the BOMB! These young people in Poznań really get me excited, if
we could just get a group of young college kids to join the church in
Poznań, things would really have a solid basis. Another young girl we
met with is named Iwona - she's musical and studying languages, she's
way awesome, and I want her to date one of the elder's investigators,
Maciej, they'd be soooo cool together... um then just get them baptized
and married in the temple and...and... !!! O.k. I get carried away
sometimes, but it's worth dreaming about!
A fun thing, a crazy
thing, and then a spiritual thing, and then I got to attatch some
pictures! and maybe a sound recording from sister B.'s recorder :)
Fun thing: We went ICE
SKATING LAST WEEK ON MONDAY - and I had LEGS! I haven't worn jeans in a
good five months and so that was crazy, and so much fun, I actually felt
like I learned a bit this time I went skating, one foot in front of the
other as you turn - I'm still really clumsy but I got better at it! It
was cool cuz we had the rink all to ourselves for like the first half
an hour, and it was just five Mormon missionaries hanging out on an ice
skating rink in POLAND and it just felt so GOOD. I felt a little guilty
for singing a long with Adele a couple of times, aaah! Music!
Weird...
Crazy thing: We were
coming out of an appointment with our investigator and we walked down
the street, I contacted this lady and she started talking to me like she
knew me from birth...Uh... I didn't really know how to handle the
situation because sometimes I DO meet people a second time that
I just don't remember, but I didn't know this woman from Adam
and...well... haha so I just played along and said can we get your
number and set up sometime and I think by the end of the conversation
she realized she didn't know me but we just awkwardly parted cuz she
said she had something she had to go do... so here comes the crazy part -
this guy comes up to us, he's probably like 60 years old - and he says
something like, 'what are you handing out little angels?' and Sister B.
goes, 'well we have a message about Christ.' and he's like, 'what's this
you have?' 'A flier with more knowledge about Christ's gospel,' and she
hands it to him, well once he has it in his hand he goes 'WE HAVE OUR OWN
RELIGION!' and he rips up the flier, crumples it up and throws it at
the ground and sort of yells some other things at us as he walks away.
Sister B. said 'have a good day' and I picked up the ulotka to throw it
away and... well...it was funny...but sort of shocking - that people are
so...closed minded...so hard...
Spiritual thing: As I read in 2nd Nephi this week, I've been reading a lot of Isaiah - I love how Nephi says that he loves the words of Isaiah
- I think I'm loving them too. They have so much imagery! But I want
you to look at 2 Nephi chapter 20 vs. 3 - there are three questions
there that I want you to answer, expecially the last one - 'Where will
ye leave your glory?' - When something good happens in life, who are you
giving the credit to? When you accomplish something great, where are
you leaving your glory? Let's work on giving it back to God - he's the
giver of every good gift and we ought to remember that with a sincere
heart!
I know the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the ONLY true church on the earth
today - it's a pretty bold statement we have to declare to the world,
but it's TRUE, and we stand by it, whether there be lions...scary old
men... or anything else. Stay strong, I love you all!
- Lots of Love from Poznań
- Siostra Amber Allen
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