Dearest friends and family, 

Hello! I can’t believe it’s already been a week! This week has been a total whirlwind and I can’t believe it’s already Monday. We are BUSY BUSY BUSY here!! 

This week:

Met with O and A. They are the nicest mother and son from Ukraine, and we’ve been meeting every week to help them work on English and then teach them the gospel. In the couple weeks that we’ve met, they have gone from knowing little about the Bible, to starting to have an understanding of why the Bible and the Book of Mormon are so important, and how prayer can change our lives. I am so excited for them! 

Met with M and talked about the importance of family and good friends. She’s absolutely wonderful and is still reading the Book of Mormon daily.  And this last Sunday she conducted one of the hymns at Church during Sacrament Meeting! 

So, we have a new service opportunity here in Poznań called Zupa Wolności, where the people in this organization get together and make soup and other foods at someone’s house.  Then everyone goes to the train station and gives the food to homeless people for an hour every Sunday. The last couple of Sunday afternoons we’ve been going to the train station to help serve the food and talk to the people there, and it has been one of my absolute favorite parts of Poznań yet. 

Yesterday, while we were at Zupa Wolności, we met a woman named Laura from Scotland who has been homeless for the last several months.  She shared her life story with us and as she shared some of the hardships she has had, I couldn’t help but feel overwhelming love for her. She has been literally physically, spiritually, and emotionally beaten up many times, and yet she keeps going.  And after everything she’s been through, at the end of her story she pulled out a little crumpled up picture of Jesus and said, “this.. This is what keeps me going.”

Our faith is Christ can literally carry us through anything life throws at us. I know that Jesus Christ knows us individually. He wants us to succeed. He wants us to be happy. And I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who has provided us with a plan to find true and lasting happiness. Life is not easy, and we will get knocked down over and over again, but every single time we get knocked down, the Savior is there to help us get back up and keep going. He loves us endlessly. In Jacob 4:7 we read:

“The Lord God showeth us our weakness that we may know by his grace that we have power to do these things”

We, by ourselves, are weak.  But the Lord has endless grace and mercy for us.  And I know and can testify personally that He will pick us up when we fall.  As we trust Him, He will help us see beyond what we ever thought was possible.  I love this gospel.  I love Poland.  I love the people here. I love my Savior. And I love you all!!

I hope you all have a wonderful week. ❤️

LOVE,

Siostra Baldwin