**First off, next week my p-day will be on Tuesday because of the holiday next Monday. So don't freak out!!**
On Tuesday, we met with Lenka at Polites to help her with her family history. She was really excited about it and way into it. She was really trying to research/find a lot of her relatives. She really likes the FamilySearch website as well. Also, while we were doing it with her, the 4 other people who were at work at Polites when we were there, they were asking a bunch of questions about what we were doing and some even took a brochure for it. And Batu decided to get on and make an account as well!! It was awesome.
So all the kids were out of school this week because "strajk." Yup. All the teachers in Poland are on Strike right now because of pay or pension or something. Not entirely sure. But it's super interesting! All the kids just get a ton of days off of school and there are homemade signs on schools everywhere that say, "STRAJK!!" We'll see how long it lasts... XD
Thursday, we HAD a lot of meetings set up, but Łucja got sick and Ania was in the hospital. It's super unfortunate because this always happens. Whenever we're going to talk to someone about baptism and try to set a date for that, something ALWAYS happens and we can't meet/have a normal meeting. Karina's friend died... Łucja got sick... Ania had to go to the hospital..... Yeah, super bad luck with that so far. But we're not quitting!!! We were still able to go and visit Ania at the hospital. She was really happy that we came to see her.
This week has been super cold!! The warm, lovely weather from last week just did not last, unfortunately. And on Friday, we actually had SNOW!! It was absolutely freezing! But hey, I firmly believe that missionaries are even better than the Postal Service because we are there in ALL weather. And we will stand out in it... cały czas!! The whole time!! XD But yeah, we still did a 2 hour Family History finding activity on Friday. And I was so surprised at how many people were still out and about in that weather. We talked to some old guy for a while who supposedly wasn't religious, but then told us we needed to study the scriptures. He would tell us all these things, but when we asked him where in the scriptures he found it, he couldn't tell us and he just kept saying "in the scriptures." Yeah... don't think he really knew. Oh and our conversation ended with him asking/saying that I was a heretic. So that was fun. But really? I'M a heretic?! I literally have Jesus Christ's name on my chest all day every day... maybe he didn't see?? Okay, sorry, rant over. BUT BESIDES THAT ADVENTURE we did get 5 phone numbers (potential investigators) from that finding activity! So it was a definite success!!
On Saturday, we stopped by to visit one of the potentials we got yesterday. It was this super cute older couple who live really close to Deptak Bogusława (where the chapel is). Their names are Józef and Irena and they are like our Polish grandparents now. They have a beautiful apartment! They invited us in, fed us a light lunch, and we had basically a tea party. We had such a nice conversation with them and they actually invited us over for Easter to have lunch or something with them. Don't know if we'll go, but it seems like we made a pretty good first impression on them! They are so great! We will definitely be visiting them again.
haha only thing about them... is that they're either super Catholic or just super Polish. Because they have a huge portrait of John Paul II above their bed haha. He was the only Polish pope and EVERYONE here just loves him. But yeah, we'll see what we can do about them. We were also able to pray with them and show them how we pray. They wanted to kneel, so we did. That was actually pretty cool! But yeah, pretty sure they still think we're Catholic even though we specifically told them that we aren't. XD
Later on Saturday, we went and visited Kesja in the hospital. We had a really fun time visiting her and talking with her for a while. It made me really sad though because the other kids in her hospital room were so mean to her!! I mean, I realize that Kesja isn't exactly the most normal, socially, but we still love her and want to be with her! But these other kids would just all sit in one corner, opposite from her and make fun of her or make jokes about her. Luckily, it didn't seem to be affecting Kesja, but I almost cried. It just hurt my heart to see that. We talked to the kids and told them to be nice, so hopefully they stop. Anyway, it was really good to visit Kesja!
Sunday, I gave a talk in church about Eternal Families and it went really well! After my talk, we sang the hymn, "Families Can Be Together Forever." It just made me so happy!! And I really do know that we can be together forever with our families! And I'm so grateful that we have this knowledge because it brings such comfort, peace, and joy to me!! After that, Elder Thornton gave his talk and I translated it into English for Elder and Sister Williams! It was my first time translating, but it went really well and I really enjoyed it! It was actually really fun! Later, we were able to visit Kesja again today! And the kids were actually a lot better today! They weren't making fun of her at all and were even talking to her and being nice. So that was really good to see that things got better.
Last thing, Sunday was my last day of training/as a trainee missionary!! So as of today, I am officially a "real missionary"!! WHOOOO!!!! Haha kidding, I know that I was always a real missionary, but now I don't have the excuse that I'm still in training. ;) XD
Love and miss you all!!
Siostra Shaylin Carroll
An awesome JW sticker we found.
In the Hospital with Kesja :)
Volunteering at Park Run.
Elder Boden, Sister Godfrey, Elder Thornton, Sister Carroll, and Monika Dyker-Woźniak.
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