So, um, this week was beautiful. Yep. That's right. BEAUTIFUL. There were THREE BEAUTIFUL THINGS that happened. (Well. There were probably more than that. But three BIG beautiful things. Hence the all caps. All caps usually signifies bigness. Because bigness is a word. It's fine. Just roll with it.)
BEAUTIFUL THING NUMBER 1: Namra and the Fam
Oh my flip. I LOVE THAT FAMILY SO MUCH. They are adorable. For those of us who don't remember: Namra is a member from Mongolia who served a mission in Russia and married a Polish man named Mariusz who later got baptized and they have two beautiful children named Vanessa (7) and Jakub (4) and are less active because they live about an hour and a half outside of the city but if they were in actual Warszawa they would be ROCK SOLID. They are beautiful. And we love them. We went out to visit them again last week, and it was so good. We talked about prayer, and we made prayer rocks, and it was just awesome. Also, fun fact, Jakub is my favorite child on the planet. He is adorable. I need to take a picture of him so you can all admire his adorableness. He's got a round little head and huge brown eyes, and he's got some attitude. He's hilarious. I was talking to him, and I was asking him what he did that day, and he says, "Tylko spać i spać i oglandać," (to znaczy "sleep and sleep and watch [probably tv, but he didn't specify]) while rolling his eyes. Oh my flip. I want to hug him. And then possibly steal him. It's fine. But we were talking to Namra, and she was saying that she and her husband have been talking, and they want to get SEALED IN THE TEMPLE. Yes, my children. That family is going to the temple. GAH! FREAK OUT WITH ME! It was SO BEAUTIFUL. Are we all appreciating the gravity of that? That's the road to the CELESTIAL FREAKIN' KINGDOM! And they're on it! They're, like, ON THE RAOD! Oh my flip. So much beauty.
BEAUTIFUL THING NUMBER 2: Ola
There this lady we're teaching, and her name is Ola, and she's absolutely incredible. Brief back story. We met with her the first time two weeks ago. Sister Mik had called her out of the area book - she was a former and she was interested in English. So Sister Mik asked if she'd want to meet for English lessons, and she was like, "Heck to the yes!" So we met. We were in a bit of a hurry the first time we met, so we were like, "Okay. We're going to make this a quick lesson, because we've got things to do." So we're having the lesson. We're talking to gauge her level of English speaking. And Sister Mik asks her if she's planning on staying in Poland. And then, she starts crying. Like, pretty hard core. And Sister Mik and I are like, "Um ... What's happening. Okay." And then Ola - bless her - TOTALLY opens up to us. She tells us about how she doesn't know, because her ex and the father of her 15 month old twins is in Germany and she'd like to go there but he won't have anything to do with them and he's not paying child support and all this junk because he's a loser, and she's in a REALLY tough situation right now. And that her life has been really hard, as of late. She's been feeling really weighted down. And when Sister Mik called about English, it was a tender mercy for her. It was something to get her mind off her problems and better herself, and she told us she was SO GLAD that we called. BLESS HER. We love this woman. So the next meeting, we talked about prayer. And she cried again. And last week, we talked about building our lives on the foundation of the Gospel. And she cried again. She's a crier, bless her sweet little heart. And she told us she's been praying like we pray on our lessons, and that it's been helping her a lot. And do you know what she told us? She told us that when she leaves our meetings, she feels stronger. She said that our meetings give her strength throughout the week to do what she has to do. SHE IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN EVER. Oh my flip, we love her. She's incredible. And last week when we met, we spent so long talking about the Gospel that we didn't even have time to talk about English! THAT is how English lessons ought to work. Ola is the best.
BEAUTIFUL THING NUMBER 3: General Conference, Son!
Holy smakolee. I love Conference. I love it like there's no tomorrow. When I'm get home, I'm going to be weird about Conference. It's going to be beautiful. So. How did Conference go down, out here in the netherparts of the world? Well. We gather to the Warsaw chapel (those of us in Warsaw, at least) and then we watch it. We watch Saturday morning live (so it's actually Saturday night by the time we see it) and then Sunday morning they watch Priesthood recorded, and then we watch Saturday Afternoon recorded, and then we watch Sunday Morning live. And they broadcast Sunday Afternoon, but no one watches it because it runs from 10 to midnight our time. That's quite late. So they've got everything in Polish in the chapel, and then everything in English in the Relief Society room. We watched Saturday Morning in Polish, but after that we repented and just watched everything in English. Because sometimes it's more difficult to feel the Spirit when you're trying to translate everything in your head from Polish to English and do it quickly so as to not get behind, because everything get's 1000 times more confusing when you miss a couple sentences. English is easier. Anyways. It was beautiful. It was SUCH A GOOD CONFERENCE. I freaked out. (In a quiet sort of way, so as to not freak out the other missionaries with my freak out. That would have created quite a stir. Don't worry. I was subtle.) It was SO GOOD. That Sunday Morning session - BOOM SON. THAT is how we do conference. SPIRIT FEST! I can't wait to be able to read them all again and mark up the crap out of them and write a gazillion notes! Ah. I love Conference.
So. Those were the three things of beauty.
In other news:
Craisins are my new favorite food.
TGI Friday's DOES exist in Poland, and it's pretty good. And by pretty good, I mean SUPER DELICIOUS.
Spring is straight up happening in Warszawa, and it is BEAUTIFUL.
I found a scarf (my cream scarf from Disneyland that ROCKS) which I thought I lost. That was happy.
Sister Blake brought me my blue glove that I left in Łódź a couple transfers ago.
I got to talk to Elder Allen on the phone! I haven't talked to the boy since we got into the country! It was beautiful. He's a good egg.
We got to babysit Sister Stratton for a couple days while her comp was out of town. It was a delightful weekend. She's so much fun!
A Polish pani in our branch FREAKED OUT at me for not wearing nylons on Sunday in between sessions of Conference. She said I'm going to get sick, and that if she sees me without nylons again, she's going to kill me. It caused quite a scene. It was awkward. And the elders were all like "... Well." And I was like, "... Yep."
The end.
I LOVE YOU ALL!
I LOVE YOU ALL!
Siostra Young
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