WALT DISNEY WOULD BE PROUD.......

Dear family,

Thank you for the package!!!! It was so nice to see hannah's handwriting and I love those carl bloch cards dad. Thanks for all the candy Mom too. Please tell Vicky Anderson thank you for the gloves! How did she know I needed new ones? Mine were getting kind of holey and I kept trying to sew them up haha. I am grateful that we're just one letter apart fam. I think most large missions don't get so many opportunitites to get packages or letters that mcuh so I'm really glad I get to see you (I love the pictures in the emails) and hear from you often. Thank you!!!

Sister Allen is doing great!  PIC OF SIS ALLEN FROM HER BLOG

She is a really observant person. I'm learning a lot by how she observes the atmosphere in lessons. She has really good feedback at the end of lessons and it's so cool to evaluate our teaching together. She is also REALLY good at singing so it is fun to listen and sing with her. I feel that it keeps our minds focused on the work but also in a cheerful way. I really like it. She also says "Go big or go home" a lot which is fun when we're planning and trying to do something. So we just do it all and somehow it all works out. 

Something I learned from the scriptures this week: Well this week was great studywise. Still studying Moroni and his attributes. This morning I studied part that says he "labored exceedingly for the welfare of his people" and was "firm in the faith of Christ." It was really cool to study those main words separately throughout the Book of Mormon and then see the connections. For example, Alma and the sons of Mosiah also "labored exceedingly" to bring the Lamanites to a knowledge of their truth. And once they were brought to the truth the Lamanites became so "firm in the faith of Christ" that they would rather die than sin and fight their enemies.

Our Christ-like attribute for this week is: remembering. So much wickedness and pride could be avoided with remembering. Remembering who we are, our relationship with God, why we are here on earth, and what Heavenly Father has done for us. It was funny because a few hours after we decided what our Christ-like attribute was, I was like "hey sister allen, what's our Christ-like attribute? I forgot." Ha ha. 

Anyway I'm excited to study this week and see examples of how Christ remembered the important things as well as the small things and how it was a part of His nature. 

Anyway, other cool things from this week:

* Danka, our baptismal date was sick but still came to church! She's so funny. She calls me "Bet." (I told her she could call me Bez when Bezdjian was too hard.) So in sunday school she made a comment that Bet called her and she loved to hear my voice. It was funny. Marta, this way cool member who is turning in her mission papers soon, asked what missionaries are? And so Danka said we're her psycologists because we listen to her and help her. That was nice to hear.

 
* Izabella, our other baptismal candidate took us on an adventure! Her kitchen was out for a few days so she asked if she could come use the stovetops at the chapel. Elder Reed said it was fine and we just had a lesson cancel so we thought, hey why not. So we had a lesson and then we ate lunch together. Then she told us she knew a place where some people might be interested. Our plans were to contact in a park but we figured, if Izabella's got some potential referrals, let's get them! It was a great adventure. We met quite a few people along the way and we offered to volunteer at an orphanage place. Really great. Later this week she answered the phone "hey ho, ho, hey" and so later after a lesson we were like Izabella why do you say that sometimes? And she's like it's from a bajki! (fairy tale.) and she's like you've never heard of flkdan jfkld;aj (some polish words I dont' know) and we said no. tell us! So then she told us Snow White and the 7 Dwarves in Polish and sang the "Hi, ho, hi ho, do pracy by sie szlo!" (the dwarf's song). It was hilarious.

 
* Another night we were following up on a potential back from Sister McAdam's day (SARA'S TRAINER IN GDANSK, WHO ALSO SERVED IN POZNAN AND DID A GREAT JOB KEEPING RECORDS) and it was great. She has 5 KIDS and couldn't meet then but we set up another time. At the end of the conversation we asked who she knew who'd be interested. She referred us to her neighbors upstairs and what do you know?! A cute family!!!! They're great and we set up with them too. Then later that night we met a mom named Malgorzata and her dog Feta. We met with her last night and sister Reed was with us. Great fun and she has 4 kids too. I'm loving this family thing.

 
*Arseni our recent convert went contacting with us (he's Russian/Ukranian) and evaluated our contacting.

 
*We --with the help of Sister Reed and of course the Lord-- got the standard of excellence! It was so fun to see the miracles. 

So one night it was about 10:26 and we were hungry and we have to be in bed by 10:30 and we're snarfing down a bunch of random food--like popcorn, broccoli, meat, cheese, and I said "welp, siost, this is the life of a missionary." and she goes "at least you're not picking up ulotki (flyers)." Hahaha. I feel like sometimes all I'm doing is dropping flyers all over the place and people help me and we start talking. Just kidding. 

Thank you for all you do and for who you are.

Sister Bezdjian

p.s. The knuckle-cracking is going better. But still I have urges and I crack, especially in personal study! Oh well I am working at it and I'm sure it will keep getting better. 

GUESS WHO IS NOW SERVING IN GDANSK!

 With Sister Ostler returning home to see Doctors, Sister Peterson transferred down to Warsaw II.  Because of the need, Sister Forsey and Bown, who are serving in Lodz will be transferred Friday to Gdansk.  Sisters Young and Peterson will be the Sisters in Warsaw II and continue to do great things.   Sister Masters will join Sisters Forsey and Bown in Gdansk in that wonderful companionship.  Gdansk is one Branch that flourishes with Sister Missionaries and this will surely be the case.  What a great new start for all of these tremendous Sisters.

 Gdansk was 'hopping' with missionaries.  President just transferred 3 Sisters (Bown, Masters, and Forsey) to that great city where there is lots of work going on.  Elders Finch and Myler are serving there as well.  Elder Basha was on an exchange with Elder Hayes. These two Elders had  helped the Sisters get moved up to Gdansk from Warsaw II and Lodz.  It was fun to meet up with this great group of Missionaries and spend some time with them!

 Chloe had a great time talking with the Sisters.  With the age limit for Sister Missionaries lowered, Chloe realized she only has 12 years to wait before she serves a mission.