Happy Easter! And śmingus dingus!

Dear Family czyli Mom, Dad, Sister B2, and Broseph,

Making Easter Eggs

Thank you for your easter pictures! You all look SO STINKING good. I can't wait to do the bunny hop with you all again. All our investigators keep asking us what traditions we have and whenever I try to explain the Bunny Hop, they're like what? First time I've heard of that. Strange. But it doesn't matter because I love it!

easter lunch at bożena's!

 

We had a great experience this week...when we had a big Easter Obiad and a family of investigators came! It was great. We are hoping to teach our members how to better friendship and reach out to other but overall I think it was a great event. It was amazing to see everyone eating, talking, and laughing together. We had a family there and it was fun becuase we had an "easter egg hunt" in the chapel with them. So great. We also watched a short film about the resurrection. The principle I learned from the scriptures was...He is Risen. What better news could I bring to others? It was wonderful reading John 20 and Jesus the Christ this week. I love the season of Easter.

aprons made on Pdays

 

Sister Bown and I are....doing wonderful! I am still learning lots from her. This week she taught me a lot about listening. Sister Bown is a great listener. I don't think I've heard her interrupt anyone once since we've been serving together. And that sure is saying something! Anyway, she is always so patient and listens. Another example of her patience was when the Elders/Zone Leaders played a really good april fools joke on us. They called us late Sunday evening and told us that unfortunately Pday (Monday) and Tuesday are being switched due to the holidays. We were very upset to say the least. All of our meetings on tuesday now had to be moved and our precious pday time was being eaten up by district meeting and other nonsense. Well we were pretty bummed until mid-way through language study on monday when we get a call from the Elders. "APRIL FOOLS!" It was funny but Sister Bown was patient through it all. So that's why we're writing Tuesday because Śmingus Dingus was yesterday and everything was closed.

In Poland, Easter Monday is known as Wet Easter Monday or Lany Poniedzialek and is celebrated as Śmigus-Dyngus Day (SHMEE-gooss DIN-gooss) when people try to drench each other with buckets of water, squirt guns, whatever's available. 

 

Oh man, it was so good though. The other cool thing about Sister Bown is that she knows how to have a good time. We played THE BEST prank on the elders!!! MUAHAHAHAHA. Natalie was with us and we told the Elders, hey let's meet up at the chapel and we'll all go to dinner together.

Well. When they came we were ready for them. Six pitchers of hot water. (Natalie added horrible perfume to the water too.) 1 bowl of soapy water. A corridor sprayed with horrible perfume. And all of it on camera.

 

They had no idea what hit them.

 

One minute they were walking into the chapel, opening the door, and the next--WHABAM!!! We soaked them! Then when they tried to escape--WHABAM!!! I got them again!! Oh man. Revenge is sweet.

 

AND if that wasn't enough, we had to get them one more time. So that night when we were at Kamila and Marek's for a follow up visit, Marek joked that oh we should call your missionaries and say you're here at our house completely drunk. And we all laughed. But then we were like. Wait. Do it. So he called Elder Tingey and told him "there's these girls here and they say they need to go home but they kept drinking our beer...who should I call?" etc. etc. They totally fell for it even though we were laughing in the background. It was pretty funny.

 

Thank you so much! And happy late Easter.

Love,

Sister Bezdjian

P.S. So apparently there is a new rule with emails. We can write to friends and family! And apparently we get more email time. So that is great. More details when I find out.