Feb. 18th, 2013

Dearest Raffie, Lindy, Andrew, and Hannah,

 

Ok family. Thank you all for writing! Also, thank you for the cute valentine's cards. Those were fun to get in the mail. You are all the best. I love hearing from you and your words give me energy and encouragement for the upcoming week.  Thank you Mom for doing the praca domowa :D (*ahem* rest of the family...)

 

This week was great. The most amazing thing was a family that we are teaching right now came to church! They have a 4-month-old baby girl and we also had 2 member lessons with them this past week. Things are going great with them and the miracle was that their baby was so quiet and happy all during sacrament meeting and Relief Society. They are the CUTEST family ever, so please just pray for them! They love having us over and I am basically obsessed with them. Of course, when they walked into church with the baby everyone just oogled and awwed so naturally the members love them already.

The principle I learned was...from the Book of Mormon this week. Conversion can happen to anyone--even the most wicked, prideful, and hard-hearted. I love reading about Alma and witnessing his "change of heart" over and over again. It is probably one of the few stories recounted several times in the Book of Mormon. It is also interesting to see how his nature changes and he becomes an instrument in the Lord's hands. He's my favorite person in the Book of Mormon. Who is yours?

My companion and I are doing wonderful! We got transfer calls last night and I am really happy to be staying with Sister Bown in Poznan. There's a lot more I have to learn from her. And there are some people waiting to be baptized and confirmed! For info for you: Sisters Masters and Young are training and Elder Tiner is the new assistant to the president. I just know that some miracles are going to happen in this transfer! I can't wait actually to see what happens.

 

Other exciting things from this week:

 

we ran into Romana last week! on Pday

*One of our favorite people has her baptismal date  for the 30th of March. She loved the Restoration video this week. 

* We had a lesson with an amazing couple and our member Marian this week. Thez are great! 

sorrz from now on mz tzpzing will be weird because I hit something on the kezboard and I cnaąt figure out how to change it back. ooops

*Mz boots died this week )see pics attached=. Too bad. I tried to superglue them and ended up gluing mz fingers to them so that was lame. Anzwaz!

Thank you for all your hard work and love! I love you all.

the elders eating their lunch

 

our kebab diabelski (devil kebab)

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*We had culture night and went to the opera with Natalie! see the pictures. It was so fun. Minus the part where it was all in german. Free lance is the title. It had Polish subtitles.

 Once a transfer the missionaries are able to have a culture night - to gain an appreciation of Poland.  From a recording Sara mentioned trying to get culture night planned was more work than scheduling a week's worth of appointments.

Love,

 

Sara

 

p.s. Well, from this thursday I have 2 transfers left in the mission! Isn't that just CRAZY? ah!

Sis Bown making a bracelet during dinner

Options for dinner rice or cookie dough...guess which one Sara chose.  On the subject of cookie dough the sisters tried to make a more healthy cookie by leaving out the butter - the conclusion was it doesn't quite work:)

This picture was taken in St. George with Sister Bown's parents - Paula and Jim Bown.
We went to their church on Sunday to meet them and hear their oldest daughter, Sarah, report on her mission.
Sarah Bown served in the
Nebraska Omaha Winter Quarter's mission.

Sis Bown and Sis Bezdjian's sisters - Sarah Bown and Hannah Bezdjian
Note Raffie and Andrew's reflection of the display cabinet glass:)