Hi all,
Our library has been shut down for the month, and we are emailing
from another library. The computer here has a hard time reading my voice
recordings, and I can't figure out how to bring them up.
This past week has been rough here, we work 8 hours a
day, every day, we are ALWAYS on the streets, and this week we had 1 street lesson. I feel like we are still
grinding gears, but that is how most of my mission has been.
I am not sure what they originally did, but
the whole south of Poland used to be coal mining, so I assume it was
that. People are starting to compliment my Polish more and more.
We went to Auschwitz and got there at 2:00,
but to our surprise, they won't let you in without a tour guide until
3. We did not have time for the 3.5 hour tour (it is impossible on the
mission), but we waited patiently until 3. We went into Auschwitz I (the
one I saw last time) because there are 2 camps. The first has more
museum exibits, and an original standing gas chamber and the like. Last
time I did not get the pleasure of seeing the inside of the chamber or
many of the exhibits. This time we saw it all, and we made it to
Auschwitz II which is far larger (a.k.a. Birkineu) and has the gas
chambers that were destroyed by the Nazis during their escape as well as
the international monument "Forever let this place be a cry of despair
and a warning to humanity, where the nazis murdered about one and a half
milion men, women, and children, mainly Jews from various countries of
europe". "Niechaj na wieki będzie krzykiem rozpaczy i przestroga dla
ludzkości to miesce, w którym hitlerowcy wymordowali około półtora
miliona mężczyzn, kobiet, i dzieci, głównie żydów z różnych krajów
Europy". The most intense part for me for some reason was the room with
all of the shoes that the Nazis had taken from their prisoners. There
was a Huge room stuffed full of all types of shoes, many were nice
"sunday shoes" there were work shoes, street shoes, I think it made it
much more real, these were real people from all different walks of life.
That was rough.
The rest of the week was full of different things, we
got to play soccer on Saturday with our branch president and a friend
who will soon be investigating the gospel, and we played until I kicked
the ball on the roof... oops...
Our branch has really been trying to help us out lately
which is great. One member said we work very hard and she is glad we are there.
Love you all, hope you can get the house pulled
together and sold soon enough. Good for Kaj, I am glad to hear he got called to Sweden.
Love you all,
Starszy Godwin
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