Talent Shows, Castles and the Good Ol’ Red White & Blue :)

Cześć friends and family!!

Well, it’s been another GREAT couple of weeks in Poznań!! I’m so grateful to be here in this beautiful city!! Yesterday I was out of town doing legal work so my preparation day got moved to today!

Here’s a couple highlights:

TALENT SHOWS!!

One of the things I love about Poznań is that there’s always something crazy going on in the city! Siostra Godfrey and I were planning in the park the other day next to a fountain when we started hearing music from across the park.We looked over and auditions for Poland’s Got Talent were going on!!They had a full set of bleachers set up and dancers and singers in all kinds of costumes who took turns performing on the stage! 10/10 the best way to end a planning session haha!!

CULTURE NIGHT

For our culture night, we went with Marta and the Womack’s to the castle at Kórnik, about 30 minutes away from Poznań. It was so beautiful inside. Half the time I feel like I’m in a fairy tale land here—we’re literally surrounded by castles!!

FOURTH OF JULY PARTY!!

On the Fourth of July, we planned to have a big English class celebration and we worked really hard to prep for it–we invited everyone we could think of, prepped for a barbeque complete with burgers, chips, and all the toppings, and prepped some fun America trivia for class. We set a (somewhat high) goal of 15 people to come. And not only did we surpass our goal, we had 6 brand new people come!! It was such an awesome success and just the perfect way to celebrate 🙂

ZONE CONFERENCE

We had Zone Conference last week and we got to meet our new mission president, Prezydent Chandler! Both he and Sister Chandler are AMAZING and I am so excited for what is to come! They both served their first missions in Poland almost 30 years ago, and now they’re here again!

At Zone Conference we talked about our personal relationships with Christ!! Before we can help anyone else come closer to Christ, we first have to have a relationship with him. And the more we work on our relationship with him, the more we can share His light with the people around us! We also accepted a challenge: starting last Monday to read the Book of Mormon in 40 days! We are just over a week into the challenge now, and I can say truly have never been so happy and so at peace as when I study the Book of Mormon everyday. Scriptures that I have read and heard before jump out at me in new ways, and I am learning so much!!

This week we also had a leadership meeting in Warsaw where we talked a lot about teaching and finding people by the Spirit. It was amazing because halfway through the meeting we took half an hour to go out into the street and put what we were learning into practice! We didn’t have any amazing conversations during that time, but I felt so spiritually renewed after!! It was great!

BACK TO THE BEGINNING :’)

And this weekend, I took a 6-hour train ride back down to the city I started in—Katowice—to do legal work!! And the great news is everything went well so I’m good to stay in Poland!! 🙂

I say this over and over, but I am SO GRATEFUL to be here in Poland sharing this beautiful message. We have a Heavenly Father who loves us and knows us individually. He knows our hopes, our dream, our desires, and our weaknesses, and He wants us to succeed!! We have the ultimate older brother, Jesus Christ, who lived and died for us. Because of Jesus Christ, we don’t have to go through any part of life alone—He is always by our side! Naprawdę wiem, że On zawsze jest blisko❤️