This week was pretty busy, and lots of fun.
We had zone training on Tuesday, so we went to Kraków. We didn't get to see a lot of the city though, mostly just the rynek, which was amazing and gorgeous!
We've
had a lot of calls to make recently, to investigators, potentials,
members, etc. I've been making a call here and there too, trying to
prepare for when I will be senior comp. So the other night Sister King
had me call one of our investigators, Beata, to try and set up with her.
I had a little script planned out for what I could say to her. So I
called, and when she answered everything started according to plan, I
said hello, she said hello back, I asked "how are you?", and then
she went totally off book. She started talking a lot, and all I could
catch was the word for sick. Sister King started indicating that I
should react like this news made me sad so I went "Awww" and then... the
horror! I started laughing. I don't know why, the situation was just
really entertaining to me. But I was laughing too hard to talk so I
handed the phone to Sister King and she took over. After a few seconds
it became clear that the situation was that Beata and her Baby were both
sick... So, to sum up this story, the other day I called our
investigator and laughed at her sick baby... lol, it's all good though, I
don't think she heard me laughing.
We had a funny thing happen on Wednesday
morning when we got a call from a sales company. Sister King was on the
phone with them for a while trying to tell them that we weren't
interested, but they were being annoyingly persistent. So I said "Sell
her the Gospel!" So Sister King says (in Polish, of course) "Well, I'm
not interested in that, but maybe you would be interested in our message
about Jesus Christ!" The woman wasn't as keen to try and sell us
something after that, it was really funny.
We had an interesting contact on a whiteboard on Thursday.
Normally on whiteboards we split up, but it was freezing. Almost
snowing, so we decided to contact together so we could huddle up for
warmth. We stopped this guy who we think now, might have been studying
theology, or planning to become a priest. He already had a Book of
Mormon, and had gone to our church, and he knew his stuff, or at least
he thought he did. At times it went really well, but at others he was
pretty rude, and I actually ended up having to kind of throw down on him
a few times, in my broken Polish (with some English thrown in, because
he knew a little bit of English). It was oddly fun though, and talking
to that one guy lasted about an hour. The best part of it was when we
were talking about how after Christ's death many of his teachings were
lost or changed, and that's why verses are different in different
versions of the bible. He got confused by this and didn't know what we
meant by different versions of the bible. So we were trying to explain
that there's the King James version, and Gideon's Bible and various
others, but he was still confused and kept insisting that his bible was
written by god and not anyone named James. So finally I just got really
annoyed because he was being kind of a tool and I said "Skorzystaj z
internetu i search "king James bible i Gideon bible"!" it was really
funny, and surprisingly, no matter how boldly I preached the word to him
he still stuck around, and we still managed to have a really good
conversation without it just turning into bible bashing, it was really
cool.
That night we hung out with Adrian, our
branch Prezydent, and Rafał one of the Katowice members. I was helping
them with some problems on the computer because neither of them knows
anything about computers. At one point Adrian and Rafał noticed my ring
"the one ring" and asked to see it. Adrian asked what the writing was
and Rafał, who was holding the ring said "Och, jest pisany w jęyzku
Elfów!" (Oh, it's written in the language of the Elves!) We all just
busted out laughing, except Adrian who took a second longer to catch on
to what Rafał had said. Which only made things funnier because of the
look of confusion on his face.
On Saturday
we had a YSA activity with the Kielce YSAs... or YSA. We had a lot of
people scheduled to come, but most cancelled the day before, so we only
had one person from Kielce Marta, then Adrian, and Kaja from Katowice.
And then 8 missionaries. It was a lot of fun though. We played soccer
and frisbee and spoons and ate some really great food... and some not so
great food. Elder Boyce made noodles for us, but because Adrian is
cheap he was only given a very small amount of money to work with. So
when Elder Boyce was buying sauce he went straight for the cheapest
sauce he could find, and instead got tomato concentrate. It was an
interesting result.
Well, that's the chodź of
the week. At least what I can remember, like I said, it was pretty busy,
and parts of it are just a blur now.
Kocham was, i tak dalej...
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