Dear Fambliy,
Thank you all for your letters and emails and pictures! I love LOVE love hearing from you! Your words and smiling faces are so encouraging to me :)
Sister Ostler is teaching me so much by her example. Whenever we have personal study, she asks a question and it's so enlightening to see how she receives answers in her study. I've been trying to do that as well in my study and it's been very helpful. She's so inspiring in the way she expects miracles and revelation. Our Christ-like attribute for this week is: diligence combined with humility. We've both been studying diligence this week (both personally and as we've prepared to teach about enduring to the end) and it is steady consistent effort. As a companionship we are striving to both pace ourselves and expect steady miracles.
Something I learned from the Book of Mormon this week was from the war with Lehonti and Amalickiah. Amalickiah was so sneaky and got him to just lower his standards a little bit, and then poisoned him by DEGREES until he DIED. Such a cool, inspiring story to be true to what we know is right and be consisent in our standards.
The coolest part about reading this was that the same day, we met with Lidia's husband Wojtek. It was the most amazing experience. We had been fasting with Lidia that Wojtek's heart would soften and he would have a desire to meet with us and read the Book of Mormon. Well, when she invited us over for soup we just figured it would be normal meeting with Lidia. Turns out the whole family was there! Somehow by the way Wojtek was asking us questions about ourselves, families, etc. I felt like I should share what I learned that morning about the wars from the Book of Mormon. Marcelinka went down for a nap so Lidia went to put her to sleep. We had been talking about wars/games/etc so it was a good transition so we talked about that chapter and then invited him to read it. Lidia told us on Sunday that he read it the same day and they even talked about it! We can't wait to see what happens next. The principles I learned were: expect miracles. And always be prepared!
Our Book of Mormon English reading group is going well. Sister Harker came with us this week and their past homework was to read 1 Nephi 4. Most of them had, so we read a little bit together (went over some words too), and then we had a theater! We acted it out. Lukasz played Nephi, Ola was Laban, Aleksandra was Zeezrom, and Mili was the Holy Spirit. Oh and Sister Ostler and I were Laman and Lemuel. That was really fun. Sister Harker narrated and it was so much fun! We also had a really good discussion after and Sister Ostler was so powerful. Because they were asking, "Why would God/The Spirit command Nephi to kill someone?" and she just answered it so well and with the Spirit. It was so tangible. We are praying for our students and we hope that they will see how the Book of Mormon will bless their lives.
Other cool things from this week:
*We met a lady named Grazyna who was carrying these heavy bags the other day. We offered to help so we carried them with her and she agreed to hear our message. When we came by at the planned time, she invited us over to her neighbors and all 5 of us had a discussion about the Restoration. It was great! They can't wait to meet next week.
*The Book of Mormon reading this week was up until Alma 51. I hope you're all still enjoying it as much as I am!
*Our spunky 60-something year old Aleksandra loves the Book of Mormon---well everything from Alma on ("Alma writes beautifully" she says). But she doesn't really like "Nefri." or Joseph Smith --"Is he really that important in your religion?" (hint, answer was YES.)
*Agnieszka is doing great! She's so amazing, we just feel like she is already a member. We love her family so much!
Thank you for all you do and for who you are.
Sister Bezdjian
p.s. LOVE YOU!!!!!
Thank you all for your letters and emails and pictures! I love LOVE love hearing from you! Your words and smiling faces are so encouraging to me :)
Sister Ostler is teaching me so much by her example. Whenever we have personal study, she asks a question and it's so enlightening to see how she receives answers in her study. I've been trying to do that as well in my study and it's been very helpful. She's so inspiring in the way she expects miracles and revelation. Our Christ-like attribute for this week is: diligence combined with humility. We've both been studying diligence this week (both personally and as we've prepared to teach about enduring to the end) and it is steady consistent effort. As a companionship we are striving to both pace ourselves and expect steady miracles.
Something I learned from the Book of Mormon this week was from the war with Lehonti and Amalickiah. Amalickiah was so sneaky and got him to just lower his standards a little bit, and then poisoned him by DEGREES until he DIED. Such a cool, inspiring story to be true to what we know is right and be consisent in our standards.
The coolest part about reading this was that the same day, we met with Lidia's husband Wojtek. It was the most amazing experience. We had been fasting with Lidia that Wojtek's heart would soften and he would have a desire to meet with us and read the Book of Mormon. Well, when she invited us over for soup we just figured it would be normal meeting with Lidia. Turns out the whole family was there! Somehow by the way Wojtek was asking us questions about ourselves, families, etc. I felt like I should share what I learned that morning about the wars from the Book of Mormon. Marcelinka went down for a nap so Lidia went to put her to sleep. We had been talking about wars/games/etc so it was a good transition so we talked about that chapter and then invited him to read it. Lidia told us on Sunday that he read it the same day and they even talked about it! We can't wait to see what happens next. The principles I learned were: expect miracles. And always be prepared!
Our Book of Mormon English reading group is going well. Sister Harker came with us this week and their past homework was to read 1 Nephi 4. Most of them had, so we read a little bit together (went over some words too), and then we had a theater! We acted it out. Lukasz played Nephi, Ola was Laban, Aleksandra was Zeezrom, and Mili was the Holy Spirit. Oh and Sister Ostler and I were Laman and Lemuel. That was really fun. Sister Harker narrated and it was so much fun! We also had a really good discussion after and Sister Ostler was so powerful. Because they were asking, "Why would God/The Spirit command Nephi to kill someone?" and she just answered it so well and with the Spirit. It was so tangible. We are praying for our students and we hope that they will see how the Book of Mormon will bless their lives.
Other cool things from this week:
*We met a lady named Grazyna who was carrying these heavy bags the other day. We offered to help so we carried them with her and she agreed to hear our message. When we came by at the planned time, she invited us over to her neighbors and all 5 of us had a discussion about the Restoration. It was great! They can't wait to meet next week.
*The Book of Mormon reading this week was up until Alma 51. I hope you're all still enjoying it as much as I am!
*Our spunky 60-something year old Aleksandra loves the Book of Mormon---well everything from Alma on ("Alma writes beautifully" she says). But she doesn't really like "Nefri." or Joseph Smith --"Is he really that important in your religion?" (hint, answer was YES.)
*Agnieszka is doing great! She's so amazing, we just feel like she is already a member. We love her family so much!
Thank you for all you do and for who you are.
Sister Bezdjian
p.s. LOVE YOU!!!!!
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