Dearest Family. Hello. Things are good.
So. Let's begin. With ... Food! Yay for food! Thus far, my food experiences have been pretty normal. We don't eat actual Polish food, like, ever. That's kinda nice. I'm picky, so it's all good. But their juice - SO GOOD! My favorite is apple, raspberry, carrot. And it's like you can even taste the carrots a little, but it's so good! Strange, but awesome. They also have this stuff very similar to Nutella called Nuss Milk. It's less nutty, and has white chocolate swirled with the milk chocolate. Basically it's amazing, and I eat it with everything. Because I love it. Mmmm. So good. I wish I had some right now. We did have one sketch food experience. We decided, last P-Day after emails, that we wanted milk shakes. So we wanded the city of Kraków, looking for milk shakes. Which we eventually found. So we order two strawberry banana milkshakes. So we're watching the girl make them, and she goes, fills a blender with milk, puts in a third of a banana, two sad looking strawberries, and whips that baby up. And gives it to us. They take the term "milk shake" QUITE literally. Also, it was disgusting. We're going to be more careful in the future of that ... But they've got really good pastries and bakery type stuff. They sell pretzels from basically every street corner, and they're pretty good.
So. Give me some news. What's happening NBA-wise? What movies are out? And could someone PLEASE tell me how the final season of The Office ended. I sort of need to know that.
Also. Mother. Would you be a dear and send me a recipe for tortillas? Because those are good. I love them. And we wanted to try to make them ... And also, please ask Emily to find some of those 30 minute workouts on Pinterest and send them to me. We don't have much to do during our 30 minutes of exercise ...
So, when we came to Kraków, we inherited an investigator named Anna (coincidence? I think not ... But maybe. There are a lot of Anna's in this town ... Basically everyone has the same name. Michał, Magda, Anna, Kuba, Bogdan, Łukasz ... All the same.) with a baptismal date! How spoko is that?! She's super awesome. Her baptism was set for June 1, but we're going to have to push it back because she wasn't a church yesterday because she was sick and she needed to be a church three times before her baptism. But anyways. She's great!
You know, there are a LOT of people in Poland who aren't interested in our message. Which bites. Because it's awesome, and they have no idea how much good it can do in their lives! We hear A LOT of people just say, "Dziękuje," as they walk away (these crazy Poles - sometimes "Thank you" means "no"). It gets a little disheartening. But all that just makes it even more amazing when we find someone who's interested and stops to listen to our message. It's so cool! My absolute favorite is when we give them a Księga Mormona and they're like, "Wow, really? It's for me? Thank you so much!" It's so incredible! Yesterday we were talking to this fourteen year old boy and told him about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, and when we gave him a copy, he was so excited! It was so cool! And when we have good experiences like that, it makes the bad ones not matter as much. Today I was reading in 2 Nephi chapter 2 about oppostion in all things. And usually, that idea kinda depresses. Like, great, for everything good there's something equally bad. That's just swell, now isn't it. But as I was reading it today, I thought about it differently. For everything bad, there's something equally good. For every trial and heartache we experience, there will be blessings and joy. When we go through hard times, we know there will ALWAYS be good times to follow. Things always get better. I love that, and I'm so grateful for that.
I've been told twice I look Polish. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing or just a common observation, but I think it's pretty cool. Maybe someday I'll SOUND Polish too! Ha. That will be the day! This language - she is a killer. And I know I'll get it eventually, but in the meantime ... Dang. It is rough.
Music. The rule is it has to be MoTab or a hymn. So. Not much we can do there. However, our mission president is leaving in July, and the next one doesn't seem quite as strict. So I guess we'll see what happens there!
The box. Yes. I kept one Polish hymnal and sent the other two home for you people. Because it's so cool! And yeah, we have plenty of Polish stuff here in Poland. But I didn't want to just leave it at the MTC. That would have been sad. Hence, it was sent to you. Mother. Don't be upset about the Prelude Chains. I kept one of the books - I didn't have room for both of them in my luggage. Things were pretty sketch as it was, and I need to get rid of some more crap already. Ugh. There's just so much junk I need! And towels. Yes. I'll be buying another one today, but I still have the one that Sister Nielson gave me that's for missionaries and is super thing and microfibery or something. So I've gotten by okay.
I'm going to attempt to send some pictures now. Wish me luck.
Much love!
Siostra Young
Oh look! Me! I'm eating a delicious pastry (that was JUST before emailing today!)
and I'm squirting water into a bowl from my water bottle with a filter because the water here is a little sketch. Cute, right?
No comments:
Post a Comment