Week 70 - Szczecin

How Elders entertain themselves while tracting!

Jake has started running in the community 5k every Saturday as a finding method. He's trying to improve his time each week. One of the organizers took this picture and sent it to him.

Hello everyone!

This week was another quick one.  I blinked, and it's Monday again.  Pretty crazy.  But yea, it was a good week.  We didn't have much going on in the way of meetings, just one with K. and his son, J.  They are our only investigators at the moment, and we haven't had a super high quality lesson yet, but we're hoping that turns around this week.  We have a meeting scheduled with them for Wednesday, and we're hoping to sit down and teach a super focused lesson on the Restoration.

A., our main potential at the moment, has been out of town for a week, so we weren't able to meet with him this past week, but we're hoping to do so at least once this week.  We have another potential, D., who we contacted from the area book, and we have a meeting scheduled for Thursday.  We'll see how that goes, we're hoping to get some consistent meetings with him.  But yea, excited for this week, and we'll see how it goes. 

We have an English speaking club that we go to as a finding idea called 'toastmasters', and basically they just discuss a bunch of topics in English.  Well it was time for us to go, so we went to excuse ourselves, and they wanted us to talk about one more subject each before we left.  The subjects were randomly chosen from face-down cards, and they were Valentine's Day themed.  Well, Elder Lange got 'marriage' and I got 'lovers'.  So you can probably imagine us up there as missionaries floundering trying to talk about these subjects.  It was kinda funny.  

Yesterday in sacrament meeting, I had the opportunity to speak about teaching with the Spirit, and I enjoyed preparing for that.  I learned some good things.  One blessing of having the Spirit with us that I studied and thought was good was that when we have the Spirit with us, though we may be weak, we can be strengthened by the power of God.  I think that's an incredible blessing, because I have many times where I feel weak, but through the Spirit, I can be strengthened to do what I need to in an effective way.  Hope you all have a great week!

-Elder Hadfield