hey momma!
so its spelled starszy, you got really close haha i dont blame
you, i love hearing you guys say polish words :). yeah that phone call was the
best, but your happy smiling faces made
everything better for me. im so relieved that you got my package, i really didn't think that it was going
to get there, just because i've heard stories of missionaries sending packages
and when they arrive, nothing is in them because someone stole it. but anyway
you got it, and you enjoyed the chocolate, so im happy. yeah on the subject of hope i have done some studying on it, because i wanted
to know the difference as well. and pretty much i learned that faith and hope
are connected, that faith is the first step, every little thing we do is on the
basis of faith, we have faith the sun will rise, we have faith that we will
have food, that we will be paid. we also have faith that we will be forgiven,
that heavenly father is proud of us for what we are doing here on earth, all
these things build upon our foundation of faith. but we cant just have a
foundation, we have to build on that foundation, and the building blocks are
hope. faith gets us going, but hope keeps us going. i am thankful for you too
mom, you are amazing, and thank you for complimenting my polish, i was a little
nervous to do it, but im glad i sounded good to you, thanks for everything
momma. So this week because of the Christmas season and traveling, we
worked a little bit less than normal, but nevertheless we had some really good
experiences which we learned a lot from. The first was with a man named Mirek,
as me and my companion were walking down the street we started talking to him,
and he asked us to follow him and talk to him. We introduced ourselves as the
Missionaries, and we began talking about religion with him, and why our church
is so different from other churches on Earth today. He was a bit
scatter-brained, and changed the subject frequently, but we were always able to
tie it back into a gospel topic we wanted to discuss. At the end of the meeting
we said that we wanted to meet with him again, and he agreed. The next day we
had a lesson with him, and unfortunately, after we talked about the entire
Restoration and why it was needed, he wasn't really interested in learning
more, it was really sad for us, but we did all that we could do, so I have no
reason to be upset. Another experience came while we were tracting, we were in
a building, knocking on doors trying to find someone that was ready for the
gospel. We knocked on one door and a man named Paweł came out and began to talk
with us. He said that he believed in God, but didn't like how his church was being ran, he felt that it wasn't in harmony with what God wanted.
So we bore testimony that our church was run differently, that we know our
church is the restored church of Jesus Christ. After we said this, he didn't
really react at all to it, but when we asked if we could come back later, he
warmly invited us back over to his house. It felt so good, and it was amazing,
I have for sure learned from this to just listen to what people say, because
when we listen, people tell us what they need to hear.
love,elder summers
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