Week 59 - Lodz

Hey everyone!

     This week was a good one.  It's been quick, as they usually are.  We went to a castle fairly far away for p-day today, so I don't have a ton of time, but we'll see how this goes.  We were surprised by a visit from President Turek at district meeting this week, and that was pretty sweet. He brought some packages including one for me from home.  So we got the apartment all decorated up, so it looks pretty lit! We had a lesson with O. on Thursday, and that went pretty well.  We're starting to base our meetings off of the Book of Mormon and reading from it, and we're hoping that it will help him out.  We're planning on going over Jacob 4 with him next week, and we're excited to see how that goes.  

The other elders are currently working with someone from English class, and this guy is pretty awesome, we all think he's pretty sick.  Well in the middle of English last Monday, we're talking about Stevie Wonder for some reason, and this guy asks, "Have you ever seen Stevie Wonder's wife?"  And we all look at each other like, what the heck? And then after the slight pause, he says, "Well neither has he!"  And it was pretty darn hilarious, mostly because we didn't ever see it coming from this guy.

We've had to get up at like 5:00-5:30 each of the last three days, so I'm kinda pretty exhausted right now.  Hoping we can get a good rest tonight.  

We also had a baptism in our district this past weekend!  One of the sister's investigators, J., got baptized yesterday morning.  That was an awesome spiritual experience.  It's always awesome watching that act of someone entering that covenant with God.  I've been blessed on my mission witnessing people make that covenant. 

Sounds like the Christmas season is going well for you. But that's about all the time I have for this week.  Hope you all have a great week!

-Elder Hadfield

From Jake's companion, Elder Blau:
The other big news that I have is that Elder Hadfield and I did a Marathon on Piotrkowska. 26.2 miles. That ended up being 12 laps for the part that has most people. We went from 11 until like 8:30 at night. It was pretty intense. Elder Kapela was there for a bit over half of it. It hurt pretty bad by the end. The next day, we woke up and it was really fun trying to walk around for the rest of the day. I think that it was worth it for the story though. Not too many people can say that they did a marathon on their mission. hahaha

Sunset at 3 pm

Elder Hadfield

After the marathon

Oporow Castle Tour