This week has been kinda wacky. Firstly, we found out on
Thursday that Elder W was leaving Katowice early to become the next
AP with Elder N (third time companions). He found out on Tuesday
and they were being fishy, so we inquired and they coulddn't lie. Before
that, the week is kind of a fog. We met with some people that had set
up an appointment with us. That was our only
lesson of the week. But we kept going until it came time to start our 3-some
with Elder L in Katowice. I do remember that on Friday, we had a
culture night in Katowice and got to watch as Poles celebrated Day of
the Dead. They go throughout the week and clean the graves of their
loved ones and ancestors and on November 1st (and the days surrounding
it depending on how devout they are) they go and place candles and
flowers all over the graves and the graveyards. It is really quite
spectacular. I was in Lodz one year ago celebrating this same holiday in
the snow, this year there has been no snow yet, so we are blessed.
On Saturday we rode on a train early in the morning to see
Elder W off and get with Elder L. W was very excited and
then our adventures began. We had a lesson that day with the other
elders investigator who is preparing to be baptized this month. He is
really a special kid and has a lot of potential in the years to come. He
is 17 years old, but is really searching and really has a lot of faith.
We all have high hopes for him and we had a really spiritual meeting
where we watched the Restoration video and then testified about the
power of the Restoration and how amazing it is that God and Jesus Christ
have spoken to men in our day and that we can all have that personal
witness in this life. He was really receptive and has been taught
everything he needs to know before he gets baptized on the 23rd of this
month.
We also went out to do a service project in a place called
Mysłowice. It is a little town covered in graffiti, but on the outskirts, there is a little place covered in
plots of land called "działki" I don't know the english equivalent in
the states, because we have no such thing. It is a large "garden" with a
little (tiny) house on it where Poles go to get away from the cares of
life. The Sisters are teaching a woman with a Działka in Mysłowice and
she asked if we could help her paint it. When we got there, the paint
she had bought was very strange. It was thin and watery and more like elmers
glue, but if you got some on your hand and rubbed it between your
fingers, it would just disappear like magic. I spilt some on my hoody
and I wiped it right off.
Yesterday we had a good church meeting. That night, we got our transfer calls. I am going to
be training! I will also be DL in Wrocław which should be beautiful for
the winter. I am super excited, so on Wednesday I ride into Warsaw to
pick up my trainee and Thursday, I go to Wrocław with him. I am stoked,
and the sisters in my district are really cool as well. I have worked
with one of them before way back in Łódź. The Senior couple is going to
be the Lloyds as well (from my second Lodz transfer) so that should be
very exciting, everyone loves the Lloyds. I am excited to see what the
new transfer brings and I am looking for ways to grow as a missionary
and a person, I am probably going to do something that a few
missionaries around the mission have done called a "40 day fast" where
you start with a literal 1 day fast and then you make a list of a few
specific things you can eliminate from your life (or add) and for the
next 40 days you eliminate (or add) those things from your life. It is
an idea I had originally heard from Elder W, but Elder L
and W both did it this past transfer as well. I am probably going
to give it a shot. I am also excited for the oportunity to train. It
should be a lot of fun.
Love you all,
Starszy Godwin
Day of the Dead!
The Branch President.
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