Dearest friends and family,

Hej cześć!! This has been such a good week 🙂 I already love Gdańsk and I love my new companion, Siostra Emett! She’s so much fun!

This week:

– Met M!! She’s a student at one of the universities here and is absolutely the sweetest. We talked about the Creation of the world and about life before we came to this earth—when we lived with our Heavenly Father.  It’s one of my favorite lessons to teach and one that I feel so strongly about—God does know us, and he has specific, beautiful, and glorious plans for each one of us!!! 

-Two cute ladies stayed after our free English class to learn more about the Book of Mormon.  We were only going to read the first couple verses of 3rd Nephi 11, where Christ visits the Americas, but they were so excited and wanted to read the whole chapter!

-If you haven’t checked out the new Book of Mormon videos yet, you’re missing out!! They are SO GOOD!  They come out every Friday (there are 3 of them so far) and each one is between 15-25 minutes long.  Gorąco polecam!! You can find them at churchofjesuschrist.org!

-Got to help with ZUPA (making food and giving it out to homeless people) here!! SO MUCH FUN 

Also, a quick thought for this week: I’ve been thinking a ton about Nephi 1:1, a verse that I’ve read probably hundreds of times. 

“I Nephi, having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father; and having seen many afflictions in the course of my days, nevertheless, having been highly favored of the Lord in all my days; yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the mysteries of God, therefore I make a record of my proceedings in my days.” 

That nevertheless stood out to me so much this week!  Nephi understood better than anyone that sometimes the Lord asks you to do what seems like literally impossible.  Sometime life is hard.  And yet, Nephi recognizes that through it all, the Lord has been so present.  And I think that’s so important–to always remember the nevertheless in our own lives!!! 

Love you all! 

Siostra Baldwin