The Widow
She
told us that if she didn't have God in her life, she doesn't know how
she'd be here now. When her baby was only three months old (i think),
her husband died suddenly, and she was left to raise her son by
herself. She had to depend on God. And later, her son got really sick,
he was in the hospital for days, then months, and those months turned
into years. She had to depend on God. Then he got
better, she knew it was a miracle. Now he's healthy, off with friends
doing fun summer things. She got re-married, and she's still smiling.
Her son is about 26. She met with us! She is such a great example!
Aaah! I love her, and I pray that she will accept the gospel.
The Wizard
Well,
he's actually a Father from the Catholic Church, but they dress in
those cool long black or brown dress-looking-things, ok it's like a
cloak, and they look like wizards. We were at a place where the tramwaj
goes by and the light was red, I thought for sure he would stop...but
he didn't :) I thought about it just for a minute, then later a couple
days later, I was trying to hand someone an ulotka and I'm pretty sure I
started crossing the street on a green, but when I looked up it had
turned red. I felt guilty, for judging the catholic priest, and for
being a hypocrite... However, we can learn from this that people are
always watching you. So don't break rules, especially when someone
thinks that FOR SURE you aren't going to! Be the bigger man/woman and
let's be obedient!
A Father's Prayer
Well,
we weren't sure where to go last night, well that means that Saturday
night planning we weren't sure where to plan to go Sunday night. We
decided that it felt good to go and visit a couple, well we go there last night and no one had been listening for a
while... then BAM! We saw this guy in a park między the buildings and
we stopped to talk to him. The light was getting dimmer and dimmer as
we talked to him but he was so nice and so open. He was about dad's age
and writing something on a peice of white printer paper. As we told
him the story of Joseph Smith and quoted scriptures to him and talked
about the Bible, I saw that he knew his bible well, he wrote down the
James 1:5 reference! And he was just intrigued by the fact that we
could speak polish too, he asked probably like 5 times where we learned
polish. We get that a lot - people wondering if we have Polish parents
or grandparents or what not... NOPE od zero uczyłyśmy się! It's so
cool! Anyways, in the end he told us he would chętnie read the book of
mormon and pray about it! He said he's SEARCHING! AND he said that he
was writing a letter to his daughter because he was trying to figure
out how to have a better relationship with her. I really felt like we
were an answer to a father's prayer last night. And he's so cool. I
hope that his relationship with his teenage daughter gets better, that
she's nicer to him, because he really does love her. I hope that he
reads - we gave him Alma 41 where Alma speaks to his son who isn't
exactly in line either. The father told us that we were like three
angels - an adventure he hadn't expected. We ended the
conversation with a prayer and left the conversation on a high! I LOVE
BEING A MISSIONARY!
The Mountain Man
We
also had a lesson with one of the coolest people I've ever met this
week. I met him at a stop light close to the
Rynek a couple days back. He has longish strawberry blonde hair, fairly
sunburned skin, and bright blue eyes that kind of bore into your soul.
He was on his bike, looked like a rock-climber, and I don't even know
what I said to him, but we talked about God and that I was a missionary
and that we wanted to meet sometime. He agreed. We also talked about
rock-climbing. Oh man. He's so cool! So he wanted to meet in a park,
so we set up to meet back where we'd met the first time. The morning of
our meeting I looked up some scriptures that had to do with Mountains
in them, and I kept coming across scriptures about the Holy Ghost that
morning as well - AAAAHHH I love the SPIRIT!!!! - - Well we were on our
way to this meeting and we're talking to this lady on her bike (yes
contact people on bikes, it works) and she was just wrapping up our
conversation when Maciej comes whizzing by on his bike. He slams on the
brakes and says hi and was about to keep going to meet us there but I
just said 'hey let's just go up to AWF if you want, wait for a sec.' So
we finished our conversation with Barbara and went on with Marcin to
walk to the AWF park. We shared a first with him and he seemed to like
it, he had really good comments. He told us about how he prays up in
the mountains and how his life has been really hard and that he's a
black sheep and bunktował przeciw Bogu, but I don't see much of the
rebel in him. He seems really humble. We talked about how reading the
scriptures is important. He believes he doesn't need the scriptures as
much as just fervent prayer and listening to what God says to him - but
that God doesn't say things as much as he helps us feel things. He
said he thinks he can get an answer from god if the book of mormon is
true with out reading it - i've never thought of that... maybe with
faith like that, you can! It was such an interesting conversation.
And the things I studied seemed to really fit with his personality. He
says he likes to spend time with people who are calm because they don't
suck his energy. He says he's a vampire when it comes to energy -
cool... He really is super SUPER chill, Jenny Williams would get a long
with him well too... anyways, so I look up this verse in the Bible,
where God comes to Elisha not in the wind and not in the fire but
through a still small voice, and I can't FIND it! Haha, I didn't really
think i was worried about it that much, but he was all like, 'calm
down, it's fine' - so I guess I was giving off nervous vibes. I know I
was giving off nervous vibes. Anyways, just being around this guy made
all three of us just realize that life could be so much more chill. We
can just be calm. The Scriptures say, 'be still and know that i am god'
- and man, we learned that from him. At the end we asked if we
could pray with him and he said we could pray but he wasn't sure if he
wanted to. We always try to encourage them to because we know there is
so much power in prayer, so I asked again and told him that he could do
it. He agreed and waited for some people to pass us on their bikes....
then he takes off his bike-riding gloves, and comes in front of us and
crouches down and asks if we could hold hands... okay not sure what to
do here... but we said okay, so the four of us hold hands and he says
the most amazing prayer I've ever heard. It was so heart-felt and he
prayed for us a lot - that we'd have strength, that God would put good
and kind people in our path, and then he paused and told God that he
could also put hardened people in our path that have the capacity to
change! Ah, man, it was so cool. And the energy was like EVERYWHERE. I
KNOW that God exists, can I get a Halleluljiah! :) Can't spell
hallelujah, but that's okay... Anyways, such a cool experience, and we
were all so calm afterwards, so nice. Then he texted us later that day
with the SCRIPTURE I couldn't find. We got him to look up a scripture!
Yay!!!! :) anyways, he's getting baptized.... we hope!
Moroni the Hell Shaker
I was reading about Moroni this week, what a driven individual! I love him! I want to be more like him, so dedicated!
THREE OF US ON MISSIONS!!!
I am feeling some of this
weird pain that nathan is gone. It's so weird! I can't even wrap my
mind around it. But this week when I have the usual conversation of how
many brothers and sisters do you have are they all in the states no one
is in brazil... and then I've got one in MEXICO! YEAH! It's so fun. I
love telling people that three of us are on missions. The church is SO
true! I'm so excited to hear from Nate. And Scott! :) Tonja wrote
me, she's so cute. And Laura Williams wrote me this week, that brought
me joy! And Brother Roberts wrote, tell him thanks!
Well, anyways, I have so much more to say! But I already wrote a
ton, so just know that I love you all! The work is moving forward.
Lives are being changed!
Kocham was!
-Siostra Amber Allen
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