Dear Family,
I
am sort of blowing up inside. Trying really hard not to be "trunky" -
it's harder than I thought, actually... But it's all about controlling
your mind, right? Always was and always will be. So I'm going to keep
controlling my mind and work out my little soul this week, and next...
and next and so on and so forth... It's really super unreal for me that
time has flown by. And I'm so used to Poland! Jee wiz... Well, it made
me cry that you were all hooping and hollering thinking about me coming
h... so I will probably cry when I see you again. But for right now
I'm going to tell you about some fun miracles this week:
Łukasz
got BAPTIZED! :) YEAH! It was so smooth and awesome. My favorite
part was when Sister Anna Mucha gave a talk on Baptism! WHAT! And she
spoke from the heart and it was so GREAT! She did SUCH a great job. She
spoke and didn't even look nervous, even though she said she was. My
favorite part of her talk was when she looked at Łukasz and said, I
think if Christ were here he'd say, 'Hi Łukasz, I've been waiting for
you...' And it brought tears to my eyes, and the Spirit was SO strong.
I'm so proud of her. She's amazing. We made cookies again for the
baptism and they were delicious. Oh another favorite part, when Elder
Żelezniak forgot his shirt and Sister King and I had to run back
upstairs to get it. We had already taken off our shoes to be at the
pool and so we got to run upstairs barefoot...oh how I miss being
barefoot. That was fun. And then right before our musical number,
President Kucia was filling in some time saying some nice words and
Sister King was playing with her hymn book, the hymn books here are
messed up, I can't wait till they have real ones... but anyways, she was
playing with it because it's spiral ring bound but the pages are stuck
together and she like accidentally ripped it too hard nad ripped it
right in half, really loudly! haha, everyone in the room had a good
laugh, President Kucia made some funny remark about how he must be
pretty boring if the Sister was playing with hymn books and destroying
them... oh boy. What a wonderful weekend.
Saturday
night after the baptism, we still didn't have anyone to go with us to
the District Conference. I knew Sister King really wanted to go. I
didn't mind going but I really wasn't sure if I wanted to... it meant
saying good-bye to a lot of people that I love. So I just had mixed
feelings. But we looked through the phone and called
Diana. We'd just met her
once and I'd talked to her for maybe 15 minutes or less on the street.
Well, she was like all down for going to the Conference with us! So
cool! So she came with us, and turns out she's really awesome. She's
so cute and open and funny! Haha, I hope that she will get baptized
some day. It was quite the adventure for her to come all the way to
Katowice with us and meet a ton of Mormons! :) Yaya.
I
got a PACKAGE from my lovely family! And that was fun. I just forgot
to give some really important papers to President yesterday, pook
pook... lame! I guess it's a good thing I'll be in Warsaw next week to
give it to the Office. WHAT! I want to just deny that I will be in
Warsaw next week, I don't want to admit it. I've just got to focus on
the people and on the język. I would love to just speak polish non-stop
for the next 12 days. That'd be awesome. I think it'd just drive my
companion off the walls though.
Another awesome thing happened when we got to meet with Piotrek. He's a super funny guy. I love funny people.
I also learned more about our members
this week - like the fact that Sasza was going to be a PRIEST and then
changed his mind after two years thinking that he couldn't live in
celibacy. He's still single, poor guy. I love him though, I wish I
could just find all these single good mormon men in Kraków WIVES, they'd
do so much GOOD as FATHERS! Aaah!
Today
we are going to the Salt Mines and taking our Culture Night as well,
it's going to be super fun! But I also just worry that it will be too
much fun, this morning I felt really lazy. NOOooooooooOOOOOoooo!!! No
laziness allowed. I think I'm going to try to work out harder this
week, and study harder than ever, and just... be cooler than ever...
yikes.
Anyways,
I know God lives and answers prayers! I know He wants us to return to
him! Teaching a lesson about how Christ is our Savior to Dagna and
Grzegorz this week, I just realized again how MERCIFUL God is, whoa.
What an amazing plan he has for us. Dagna said that it's unfair that
Christ paid the penalty for our sins. She says she thinks we ought to
pay for them ourselves and that is JUSTICE and that is FAIR. She said
that she wants to pay for her sins herself. I have never looked at it
quite that way, or something clicked aobut that, but really it ISN'T
fair. That's why it's so AMAZING, the plan that God has for us is
AWESOME. God loves us SO much. And Christ loves us SO much. He
already paid for Dagna's sins, and he already paid for yours. Don't
make Him sad by insisting that you want to pay for your sins too. Then
the punishment will be suffered twice. He already suffered for you.
Give it to him, let him love you!
I
know the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is true. I LOVE
wearing this Black name tag. I love the craziness and adventures that a
mission brings, but mostly I love the SPIRIT and the PEOPLE and the
SAVIOR. Wow. This is the life. I love it.
And I love you guys!
dozobaczenie,
-Siostra Amber Allen
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