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Monday 7th - After Pday ended we had a
meeting with a young college lad. We met him at his place, He's been
investigating for a while but hadn't had a meeting with the missionaries for
about a month. We just spoke with him about the importance of reading and
praying daily, also church attendance and why we go to church, Moroni 6
explains that pretty well. We committed him to continue to read and pray and
invited him to church but he didn't show up to church.
Tuesday 8th - We had a really good
district meeting in the morning after studies, led by our DL Elder Vance. We've
been focusing on contacting and how we can make every contact a good one. Last
week we focused on the initial first impressions. This time we focused on getting them interested whether it be through a
question or being funny. After that I gave a Christ like attribute section, I
prepared something about diligence and the importance of being physically and
more importantly spiritually diligent in our missionary efforts. Later on that
day we had a meeting with a lad called Marcin. He's the brother of Carolina, a
girl that was baptised in Canada. We taught him in the mall in the food court,
and it went as well as you could imagine haha. Tuesday evening is Branch FHE.
Iza, our investigator Marcin and Carolina showed up. We don't get the best turn
out but we're working on improving it. We gave a short spiritual thought on the
sacrament, and then had a paper plane contest for the activity, although the
'contest' part didn't happen and it turned into kind of dodgeball but with
paper planes.
Wednesday 9th - We had a bomb
contacting session, Elder Liechty and I teamed up. We had 3 good contacts,
using the points that we'd learnt from District Meeting the previous day to get
people hooked. English class was fun as always. We sang with them, there were
some mixed reactions when they found out we were singing haha. Most of them got
involved though and asked if they could do it next time. Maybe we will.
Thursday 10th - Thursdays are the Wednesdays
in the week for missionaries I think. Bożena had us round for lunch as usual, we went contacting
for an hour before leaving for institute. We had a pretty stressful evening as
we had to organise how we were going to get the branch to district conference
in Bydgoszcz. We spent the night calling members and trying to buy bus tickets
and then we managed to get it all sorted. Get in! We saw that we had tracting
planned but it was late and we couldn't be bothered trekking to our area, so we
decided to English contact between the two busiest tram stops in Poznań. It turned out to be one of the best,
funniest yet most exhausting English contacting sessions yet, but a great way
to relieve stress.
Friday 11th - Planned for the week. All
the usual stuff. Went tracting in the evening again and swapped comps, so Elder
Liechty came with me. We had a mint night. Some strange situations though. We
had an old woman come out of her house having just woken up, she was so
confused as to what was going on. She went back in and then came out again,
this must have happened 2 or 3 times. Her neighbour then came out and she
started waffling on to him saying how she's called the police and that. I was
thinking 'what is happening', it was a funny yet weird 15 mins. Then from half
7 till the bus home at 8:15 we spoke with an old guy out walking his dog. One
of the nicest people I’ve ever met.
Saturday 12th - English class. We
taught them fruit and vegetables and just went through every single item you
could imagine. With the fruits it was funny because they would be like 'oh
raspberry, we have whiskey that flavour', I swear they said that with every
fruit haha.
Sunday 13th - The day of my talk. It
went okay apart from me saying 'Dobry Wieczór' (good evening) instead of
'Dzień
Dobry'. We had Marcin in church, it's always good to have an investigator in
church. After church Bozena had the Elders and Karol (Elder Jeffs 1st
councillor) round for one of her famous Bożena feasts.
Some of my favourites of the past
week:-
Favourite word of the week - Czołem, it's an older word that can be used to mean
cheers, or thanks. We heard an old man say it that we contacted and Elder Jeffs
got excited so we use it now.
Favourite scripture of the week - John
14:15. Simple scripture, you show God you love him by doing what he says
and keeping his commandments.
Favourite journey of the week - We took a trip up to a college campus just
north of the city. We contacted up there for a couple hours. It was freezing
but we want to teach young people.
Favourite shop of the week - Żabka...just a little newsagent’s kind of shop.
They're everywhere and this past week mars bars were on sale.
Favourite moment of the week - singing Hallelujah with the English class.
Best testimony builder of the
week - my testimony of obedience has increased this week as my sacrament talk was about the
commandments. Agency and the choice to be obedient plays a vital role in
whether or not we receive the promised blessings of heaven. In every situation
in the Book of Mormon, those that are obedient and keep the commandments are
blessed. Those that are not are usually punished, or destroyed as it was back
then. It's hard to be exactly obedient, but I know that we will see so much
added to our lives if we do everything we can and 'strive' to be obedient and
keep the commandments.
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