I wanted to first say thank you to all of you for the love and support I feel from back home.  The letters, e-mails, and thoughtfulness you regularly extend to me is now and will forever be greatly appreciated.  I have hit an important milestone on my mission – I have now been serving in the Poland Warsaw Mission for a year as of this past Thursday.  I expect to return home in the Spring and have been forever changed by this experience.  It is highly probable that this is my last week in Poznań as transfers are coming this weekend and I have been here for quite a while.  I am grateful for the many friends I have made here. 

Here are a few highlights from this week:

We were walking home from teaching English and it was already dark, and we saw our friend Pani Lidia walking up the street.  She’s the sweetest little 94-year old babcia who we always see walking up and down the street near the chapel. We always stop and say hi when we see her.  We were getting closer to her; and all of a sudden, we saw her stumble and fall!  We ran over to her and started checking her to make sure she was okay.  She fell on her wrist and it looked like it hurt.  She kept on insisting she was fine, but we recruited the help of a really nice guy who was also walking up the street and helped her get up a couple minutes later.  We walked her all the way to the apartment and she really wanted us to stay and have some tea, but we had to get home!  She invited us to come back soon though. Before we left, though she kept on telling us she just needed to eat more cabbage so her wrist would feel better haha!

-Met M, the coolest blogger mom who lives out in a beautiful little foresty Polish village an hour from Poznań! She is wonderful, and we’re going back this next week to meet her kids :)))

– Had zone conference! It was fantastic. I love learning how to do missionary work better!!!

– We had TEMPLE NIGHT (Noc Świątyń), the event we’ve been preparing for the last couple of weeks. Basically, churches of all denominations all over Poznań (and in several major Polish cities) had open houses where the public could come visit.  Ours was big success!  Lots of people came, and we shared our knowledge and testimony on the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Plan of Salvation, and the Book of Mormon. So many people took copies of the Book of Mormon!