Week 77 - Szczecin

Hello everyone!

    This week was a good one.  It was another quick one, as I feel they all are.  We've been focusing lately on getting our potentials to transition into investigators, and we'll have to work on that this week.  It's been difficult getting in contact with them, but we'll keep trying. 

We'll also be working hard out on the streets this week looking for some fresh potentials, hopefully we can find some promising people this week.  This week we'll also be in Gdańsk on exchanges with the zone leaders, and those should be fun.  I always look forward to those, excited to work with the zone leaders and learn from them.  But yea. 

This past week, we had a cool experience.  There's a less-active, J., who lives in a city about 2.5 hours away from Szczecin called Gorzów, and the branch president asked us if we could visit him.  So we did that on Thursday, and it was a really good experience.  We talked with him and he shared with us his conversion story and his life in the church, and it was really cool.  He was baptized about 20 years ago when there were missionaries in that city, but there haven't been any missionaries there in a long time now.  He currently has some financial and medical challenges that make it pretty difficult for him to come to church, but he's still pretty faithful.  He said that the church has changed his life, and he raved about the missionaries he's been able to meet with over the past 20 years. It was cool to see the large impact those missionaries had on him, even though they probably don't realize it.  Even if we feel like we are nothing special or if we feel unsuccessful, we really do leave an impact on other people, and those people will remember us forever.  It's amazing being able to learn that on my mission and see that in the lives of people I meet. 

Well, we're looking forward to this week, hoping it's good.  We'll work hard and see if we can get some things going here in Szczecin.  I hope you all have a great week!

-Elder Hadfield