Monday, September 3, 2018

Week 98 - Bialystok



Hello everyone!  This week was another good one.  We had a transfer last Monday, and so I'm with a new comp named Elder Masłowski.  We had a good week and have been working hard.  We got some solid potentials, so we'll see if we can make some things happen with them.

Monday: We slept over in Warsaw at the APs' apartment because we were there on Sunday for church anyway, and we had to be there on Monday as well.  We played basketball in the morning with the other missionaries and President Turek.  That was honestly way fun, even thought I didn't play well.  We hung out with some of the missionaries that went home the next day, and that was way fun.  I got to see Elder Dickson before he went to the mission home, which was way sick, we had an amazing transfer together a few months ago.  Elder Masłowski eventually got in to Warsaw, and I said goodbye to Elder Dossett so he can go be an AP, and we came back to Białystok.

Tuesday: Didn't have too much happening on Tuesday, we did weekly planning in the morning, and did a lot of contacting and tracting throughout the rest of the day. 

Wednesday: We had another day full of finiding, which was good.  Also met with the K. family with the Murri's, and that went ok.

Thursday: We had a good number of meetings on Thursday.  We met with M. and read from the Bible together, as well as asked him what he thinks about the Book of Mormon.  He said he believes it's true, and so this week we'll review the Restoration with him and help him understand what that means.  We met with J., and that went alright, he's making some slow progress.  We had a meeting with B. in the evening, and we talked about revelation.  That went well, she committed to pray, so we'll see what happens.

Friday: We did our studies in the morning, and we met with H., a member here.  We were going to help her and mow her lawn, but it rained a bit and we were unable to.  We had a spiritual discussion about temples and preparing to go to the temple, since there is a Poland temple trip coming up.  We also had district council in the evening.

Saturday: We met with the K. family again, and it actually went pretty well.  They made a commitment to read Enos and pray about it.  We did some tracting in the afternoon, then in the evening we met with a new guy, S. He's from Ukraine, and he's way open to hearing about the restored gospel.  Our meeting went well, and he committed to read and pray, and we'll meet with him again this Saturday.

Sunday: We had church, which went well.  We had a really good temple prep class with the members, which helped me remeber how important and how amazing going to the temple is.  It feels like it really has been a while since I got to do that.  We had lunch with the senior couple, which was great, and we did a little contacting.  We had a lesson flake in the evening unfortunately, and we did studies in the evening.

So yea, it was a really solid week.  Solid things are happening here in Białystok, and we'll see what this week has in store.  Have a great week y'all!

-Elder Hadfield