Week 75 - Szczecin

Hey there everyone!

     Life is good over here in Szczecin.  The week was another quick one.  We did some tracting this week and found a couple of potentials.  We'll visit them again this week, hopefully all goes well.   We met with a less-active guy, J., and he's super cool.  He's in Szczecin until July, and then he's moving back to Warsaw for a bit.  So we'll see if we can do anything with him before then.  Our potential named Al. is going back to Belarus for a few weeks to be with family, so we'll have to wait a bit before we can formally meet with him again.  But yea.  This week will be good.  We have zone conference in Poznań tomorrow, and that should be good.  We are also going out to Barlinek to teach our investigator, Ad., and that should be good.  We'll see how it goes.  Also looking forward to conference and Easter this week.  Those will be awesome.  We've been working with the Easter campaign here in Europe this year, #AlwaysThere, and that's been going well.  This past week specifically, I've studied a lot about the last few days of Christ's mortal ministry, and it's been a really uplifting experience.  One of my favorite scriptures I have read during these studies has been in Isaiah chapter 53:

3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief[...]

4 ¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows[...]

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

How blessed are we that the Savior, the perfect Son of God, suffered for our imperfections so that we can overcome them.  I'm thankful to Him for His selflessness and His love for us.  Through Christ, we can overcome sin and death, and "with his stripes we are healed".  Have a great week everyone!

-Elder Hadfield