This week was
AMAZING!!!!!! Like for real, one of the best weeks I have had here!!
Tuesday we
had our devotional and it was really good! I forgot my notes back in the room
but it was a super great talk like usual! Guess who I saw! My friend TRENT!
Well Elder Rasmussen, it was so cool! It threw me back home hanging out in the
young single adult ward in Calgary; it was so fun to see him!! We got some
great awkward boy girl missionary pictures that I will send you!
Wednesday was
super great!! First off my companion and me decided we were going to be super
positive and just love everything about everything this week and I think that’s
why it was the most amazing week ever! The weather was so beautiful plus we had
service in the morning. I don’t know why but its one of the best parts of my
week AND Wednesday is baby missionary day (when new missionaries arrive at
the Missionary Training Centre)! We usually stand out in the sun shouting
welcomes to the new baby missionaries in Polish they have no idea what we are
saying and it is so much fun! This Wednesday was even more special because all
the new people from our zone came! We now have 29 Elders AND 29 Sisters in our
whole zone! Its completely split I love them all :)
I started my
new assignment as an online trainer. It was pretty important and it was so fun
because I got to know them all. They all thought my awkward comments were
hilarious and whenever someone would tell me something about their life and I
had a type of connection too I would get so excited and be so happy, they would
all just laugh. It was grand. We are the old ones now and they are the babies it
makes us all feel like proud parents. It keeps things interesting!!
And then we
had night gym! I went on splits with a another Sister because the Elders
invited us to play 4 square at gym and I’ve only played 4 square like once and
we usually go to a small gym and do a real for real boring work out so we went
and played 4 square with the elders and it was the MOST FUN thing I think I have
done this far!!!!! It was the most amazing thing to do! Who knew gym time could
be so fun! So now that’s what we've been doing every gym time! Elder Allen
calls me the blue cobra because my work out shirt was blue and I’m getting
pretty good!
Thursday was
also awesome. My teaching skills are improving! We taught Lidia and its so
amazing because we prepare for our lesson but then we go in there with no notes
or anything just us and the scriptures. The fact that I can teach a lesson to
her in POLISH about the PRIESTHOOD is pretty dang cool!!! Tomorrow were
teaching her about repentance and I am very excited :) We also taught TRC which
went well!! It’s getting easier to teach and have a conversation in Polish. I
can just see all the blessings around me so much! I could not be learning this
language without the Lord. I just love seeing how much I am being helped right
now in everything that I do! :)
Friday my
companion and me taught two of the Elders in my district as progressing
investigators! For one of them we knew his back-story and taught him for 30
minutes and then we switched and we "street contacted" Elder Blom or
should I say Pavel! We taught him for 30 minutes, it was so scary but so much
fun!! Later that night my teacher Brat Trible taught me as the investigator and
he taught me in polish in front of the whole class!!!! It was so cool to be put
in an investigator’s shoes and to feel what they are feeling! Brat Trible did
an amazing job and I was very proud of myself for how much I could say and understand
since I couldn’t speak English! It was quite the excelling moment for
myself!
Saturday
Elder Allen and Elder Blom taught Sister Lidka and me as investigators for 30
minutes. It is so fun teaching another missionary!!! There is less pressure and
I just loved it!! At the end of the lesson we taught Elder Blom after the
closing prayer we said chrzest?! taraz!? Which means baptism?! now!? and then
shouted CHRZEST!!!! WAHOOOO!! We were able to learn so much and have so much
fun at the same time!!! It was great!
Yesterday was
EASTER!!! It was sad not waking up to an Easter egg hunt like we usually do but
it was still great!! Me, my companion and some of the Bulgarian Elders got to
be ushers for the special sacrament meeting!! It was so cool I felt so
important. We all had the sacrament!!!! All at once!! There were over 3000
MISSIONARIES who had the sacrament all at once!!! Isn’t that amazing!!!! We had
Bishop Causse speak to us, he is the first counselor in the Presiding Bishopric
for the Church, and he did a really amazing job!
And THEN!!!
We had our night devotional, SHERI DEW SPOKE!! She did such a good job she is
so inspirational! I admire her so much!! Over all it was a super fantastic
week!! I am so happy to be on my mission I have already grown so much and I
feel so much closer to my Savior! I know that there is nowhere better I could
be and nothing better I could be doing! I miss you all greatly but I know that
the Lord is taking care of you for me :) I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!
Dooonn’t Stop
Believin! The Church is true!!
xoxox
Love Siostra
Hailey :)
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