Week 81 - Warsaw

Dennis made us some delicious Congan food.  It's called fufu (or foo foo), and it was pretty dang good.  It's pretty much this mashed potato-like thing with some beef, zucchini, mushrooms, and fried caterpillars.  

Elder Dickson, Dennis (member) and Elder Hadfield

Hey there all y'all! 

Things are going well over here in Warsaw.  It was another busy week for us, and busy is a good thing.  We had our first recent-convert lesson with P., and that went well.  He's turning into a solid member, it's been good to see.  We also had meetings with Kr., P., and R., some of our other investigators.  Those went pretty well.  R. and P. are liking what they are reading from the Book of Mormon so far, so we're excited to see the progress they'll be making.  Kr. is having a hard time finding time for keeping commitments, but we're hoping to keep working with him and work on that.  That's pretty much all the lessons we had this week.  We're hoping that this next week, we'll be able to meet with M., our investigator who was making some good progress there, as well as L. and Kl., the investigators we had in church a week ago.  Hopefully we'll be able to make something good happen with that. 

Something cool that's going down is that Elder Erickson, from my MTC group, is coming up to Warsaw from Kraków this week!  We had a great time in the MTC, but haven't really seen each other much since then.  It's exciting that we'll be in the same city now, he's a great guy.  That'll be sweet.  But yea, things are also going great with Elder Dickson and I.  He's such a great dude, just humble as heck and a happy guy.  We're having a blast serving together.  We have transfers coming up in a week, but we're confident we'll stay together because we've only been together two weeks so far.  We'll make it a good week to finish off the transfer though. 

One thing I've been studying a bit about this week is the role of the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the missionary lessons.  In PMG, it's got a whole lesson dedicated to that, but it's also just mentioned throughout the lessons about the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation.  Just goes to show how important is that we follow Jesus Christ and increase our faith, repent, are baptized, receive the Holy Ghost, and endure to the end.  Even as members, I think that enduring to the end involves all of the first four steps in some capacity, so as we do that, we come closer to Christ and can rely on Him better.  So yea, it's been a good week.  We're looking forward to this next week, it should be great.  We've got zone conference here in Warsaw, and that will be good seeing some of the other missionaries.  Hope you all have a great week as well!

-Elder Hadfield