Dear Mom, Dad, Hanner, and Broseph,
Thank you for your prayers. Seriously we can feel the power and see the results of the prayers from our family and friends on the other side of the world. Thank you all for thinking about us and caring about what's happening here in Gdansk!
Sister Ostler has such great faith. She's teaching me a lot about prayer lately. I love her example of diligent, faithful praying to achieve miracles. is teaching me so much by her example. We have already experienced so many miracles through praying with faith and then working hard, we are learning to do that more in our companionship. Our Christ-like attribute for this week is: Sisterly Kindness. Together we are striving to treat others like our sister/brother. We have found that testifing of God's love for an individual when we teach a first lesson is a powerful way to invite the Spirit.
Something I learned from Preach My Gospel this week was about preparing lessons for our investigators and how to study for them (chapter 2). As we've strived to think of different questions they might have and their perspectives, our teaching is better and stronger.
Our Book of Mormon English reading group in Manhattan library is going well. Sister Lewis came with us this week and we talked about 1 Nephi 5--how Sariah complains but then realizes that the Lord truly inspired Lehi and her faith is strengthened. We asked our students about a time when they felt like that and they shared some really cool personal experiences. Their homework this week is to draw/describe the vision of the tree of life! It will be really cool because Lukasz, one of our students, is a comic artist. (Btw mom if you want to check out his blog, you can at lukgod.blogspot.com)
But by far the coolest thing that happened this week was our miracle yesterday. We were so close to achieving our goals and we needed was one more lesson with a member present. We had a meeting set up for that day around 18:00.
But let me back up for a second. About two weeks ago we were waiting in Manhattan mall for district meeting to start. We had a few minutes of spare time so we started to make some phone calls. Then this young boy came up to us and just started talking. Well we talked to him, a few minutes later met his mom who told us, "I've been looking for you EVERYWHERE. I live in England but I'm here on vacation [she is Polish actually] and I want to be a part of this church." Well we sat down with her really quick, introduced the Book of Mormon and invited her to read it. Now she's in England but don't worry the missionaries will be in contact with her soon. Anyway! She mentioned she had a friend who is a member in Gdansk. Well considering we don't have too many members, we asked what his name was. "Jan."
Hmmm. Never met him. But she said she'd text us his number and we'd have contact with him. (didn't happen.)
Ok now back to the story. We just had a meeting, we're in a hot smelly bus rushing to the next meeting and trying to call any member who could come to our later meeting that night. (The person we planned couldn't come.) We called everyone to see who could come. No answer. Couldn't make it. Sleeping. Etc. [Oh and btw, I had to go to the bathroom SO bad. It was terrible and we literally had no time to stop anywhere. Stressful situation let me tell you.] We had just hung up on our last hope when all of the sudden we got a phone call from an unknown number. I picked it up, expecting it to be a call about free English class. Turns out it was JAN! The MEMBER! Who wanted to meet with us at 17:30/17:45 at Wrzeszcz PKP (RIGHT by our meeting). He agreed to meet us and then come to the meeting with us. Well what do you know? Well first of all, our other investigator let me use his bathroom so that was great. And THEN we had our lesson with Grazyna (who is reading and doing great!) and was with us and bore his testimony about being a member of the church. I cannot deny that the Lord works in mysterious ways but he knows everything. If we put our trust in him and then we show our faith/real intent by working hard, He makes the work happen.
Thank you for all you do and for who you are.
Sister Bezdjian
p.s. I LOVE YOU FAMILY!!!!!!
Thank you for your prayers. Seriously we can feel the power and see the results of the prayers from our family and friends on the other side of the world. Thank you all for thinking about us and caring about what's happening here in Gdansk!
Sister Ostler has such great faith. She's teaching me a lot about prayer lately. I love her example of diligent, faithful praying to achieve miracles. is teaching me so much by her example. We have already experienced so many miracles through praying with faith and then working hard, we are learning to do that more in our companionship. Our Christ-like attribute for this week is: Sisterly Kindness. Together we are striving to treat others like our sister/brother. We have found that testifing of God's love for an individual when we teach a first lesson is a powerful way to invite the Spirit.
Something I learned from Preach My Gospel this week was about preparing lessons for our investigators and how to study for them (chapter 2). As we've strived to think of different questions they might have and their perspectives, our teaching is better and stronger.
Our Book of Mormon English reading group in Manhattan library is going well. Sister Lewis came with us this week and we talked about 1 Nephi 5--how Sariah complains but then realizes that the Lord truly inspired Lehi and her faith is strengthened. We asked our students about a time when they felt like that and they shared some really cool personal experiences. Their homework this week is to draw/describe the vision of the tree of life! It will be really cool because Lukasz, one of our students, is a comic artist. (Btw mom if you want to check out his blog, you can at lukgod.blogspot.com)
But by far the coolest thing that happened this week was our miracle yesterday. We were so close to achieving our goals and we needed was one more lesson with a member present. We had a meeting set up for that day around 18:00.
But let me back up for a second. About two weeks ago we were waiting in Manhattan mall for district meeting to start. We had a few minutes of spare time so we started to make some phone calls. Then this young boy came up to us and just started talking. Well we talked to him, a few minutes later met his mom who told us, "I've been looking for you EVERYWHERE. I live in England but I'm here on vacation [she is Polish actually] and I want to be a part of this church." Well we sat down with her really quick, introduced the Book of Mormon and invited her to read it. Now she's in England but don't worry the missionaries will be in contact with her soon. Anyway! She mentioned she had a friend who is a member in Gdansk. Well considering we don't have too many members, we asked what his name was. "Jan."
Hmmm. Never met him. But she said she'd text us his number and we'd have contact with him. (didn't happen.)
Ok now back to the story. We just had a meeting, we're in a hot smelly bus rushing to the next meeting and trying to call any member who could come to our later meeting that night. (The person we planned couldn't come.) We called everyone to see who could come. No answer. Couldn't make it. Sleeping. Etc. [Oh and btw, I had to go to the bathroom SO bad. It was terrible and we literally had no time to stop anywhere. Stressful situation let me tell you.] We had just hung up on our last hope when all of the sudden we got a phone call from an unknown number. I picked it up, expecting it to be a call about free English class. Turns out it was JAN! The MEMBER! Who wanted to meet with us at 17:30/17:45 at Wrzeszcz PKP (RIGHT by our meeting). He agreed to meet us and then come to the meeting with us. Well what do you know? Well first of all, our other investigator let me use his bathroom so that was great. And THEN we had our lesson with Grazyna (who is reading and doing great!) and was with us and bore his testimony about being a member of the church. I cannot deny that the Lord works in mysterious ways but he knows everything. If we put our trust in him and then we show our faith/real intent by working hard, He makes the work happen.
Thank you for all you do and for who you are.
Sister Bezdjian
p.s. I LOVE YOU FAMILY!!!!!!
Oh my goodness, that miracle story is amazing. Missions are the best!
ReplyDelete