I found a fireball in my backpack... it's really yummy 
First of all, We had a
bit of a different Exchange this time, Sister Holden and Sister Herrera
both came down with the Zone leaders, Elders Garcia and Summers. and
they all stayed in Wrocław for two days to have big old awkward
exchanges with all of us, it was great!
I was
with Sister Holden both days which was really cool cuz it's the first
time that we've done missionary work together since the MTC. We
reminisced and talked about how much time we have left and how fast the
transfers are slipping by and all that. It was tons of fun! On Thursday
we had Zone training, then all went out for food at a milk bar,
followed by ice cream because Elder Garcia was here and Sister Carlson
owed him ice cream. Then we went to Legnica, all four of us sisters. We
did some tracting then had an English lesson with one of sister Call's
friends in Legnica. Her name is Elżbieta Kot and her son is a well known
Polish Actor, Tomasz Kot. She's really nice and she bought us ice cream
during the lesson, so we ended up having a ton of ice cream that day.
Also, the lesson was on telling time, which was fun because it gave us a
use for the broken clock we have in our house, and Elżbieta thought it
was funny when I pulled a whole clock out of my backpack.
Then,
just before we were about to leave Legnica, Sis Carlson saw a striped
nightgown hanging in the window of a travel shop. She just had to try it
on, and then, she just had to buy it... and then, the next day, she
just had to wear it. That day was interesting. Earlier that week we had
set up with a former and on Friday
we met with her... it was interesting. She talked... a... lot... Our
lesson went about an hour and a half, and thirty straight minutes of
that were just her talking... about Russia... Sis Carlson timed it. And
every time I'd try to say something she'd quickly say that she was going
to answer the question that I barely even remembered asking, and then
go back to talking about politics, it was the worst. I think I shut down
for about 20 minutes, because I don't even remember most of it, I just
remember praying in my head begging for help because I had no idea what
she was saying and I didn't know how to bring it back to the gospel
tactfully, and I didn't know how to get her to stop! And then, it was
like the spirit was saying to me "You know how in PMG it says not to
interrupt investigators? Yeah, throw that out the window, interrupt her,
interrupt her hard, or this will never end!" So I just started
interrupting her every time she started to get on tangents. I forced her
to stay focused and answer my questions and I feel like we actually got
somewhere with it.
It was so funny though, sis
Carlson was loosing her mind during the lesson. She could not handle
how much this woman talked. The Woman brought her nephew with her, he
was probably about 9, and he sat more reverently than my 20 year old
companion, it was so funny. At one point I felt impressed that I should
get Sis Carlson to share her experience of how she came to know that the
church was true. When I turned to her, her hair was all disheveled and
she looked absolutely crazy, and the best part was, when she spoke, the
Polish was basically broken in her brain, she hardly cased or conjugated
anything, she started her testimony like this:
Carrot - "Młoda dziewczyna... jestem (Young girl... I am) *looks at me in confusion
me - "Była (she was) *I meant to say byłam (I was), but my voice cracked
Carrot - "Była!" (she was)
After
she said that I was like, "ah crap, it doesn't even sound like she's
talking about herself... Even so, her crappily cased testimony brought
the spirit hard, and The lady didn't try to interrupt her. After she was
finished bearing her testimony she closed in the name of Jesus Christ
and smiled at me like, "we're done now, right" but unfortunately I felt
like there were other things I needed to say to her and other questions I
needed to ask her, so the lesson went on for a bit longer. When we got
out of it though sis Carlson immediately collapsed on the floor in the
family history office. It was really funny.
As for the funny stuff that happened throughout the week...
On Tuesday
we went to do a whiteboard with the elders in a park, but when we got
to the park we found it was not a good park for whiteboards. so we
wandered towards skytower looking for a different place, and ended up
taking opposite sides of the street and contacting to skytower where we
would buy drinks, because it was blazing hot. At one point it was so hot
that Sis Carlson just had to take her hair out of the braid it was in
and switch to a bun on her head. After it was up she turned to me and
said "DO I look Asian with my hair like this?" I just looked at her and
said, very seriously "You look so Asian right now, I can't even be seen
with you!" It was so funny. And it was only made funnier the next day
when I recounted that story to sister Holden and as soon as I quoted
what I had said to sis Carlson we walked past a family of Asians, I
don't think they understood me... at least, I really hope they didn't.
On Tuesday,
after we had gotten drinks at skytower, the Elders decided to eat
dinner there, but we had to go get some stuff at the chapel. The elders
were under the impression that we were going to be getting dinner as a
district though, so when they stepped onto an escalator and we said
"Hey, we're gonna bounce now" they both looked super confused, and we
ran away laughing. Then, after we had gotten our stuff at the chapel and
made some calls, we were leaving the chapel and singing the rock
version of "A Child's Prayer" that Dad sent me, in the hallway outside
of the chapel, at the top of our lungs. We got in the elevator and were
still singing. Then just as sis Carlson was about to really belt, the
elevator doors opened and the elders were on the other side. Our song
quickly and awkwardly died in our throats and the elders got in the
elevator, and for some reason, we didn't get off. Then just as the doors
were shutting, one of the guards squeezed his way into the elevator. We
all rode together to the 2nd floor, all got off the elevator, and then
sis Carlson and I awkwardly turned and got back onto the elevator. Then,
just as the doors were closing again, the guard squeezed in again, and
then proceeded to tell sis Carlson how much hair she had, and that he
could just chop off the bun on top of her head and it would all be gone.
It was all so bizarre!
That
day we also walked by the most random, funny scene. There were some
workers doing some kind of construction work on one of the streets. And
at one spot there were three of them gathered around this one guy who
was working, while the others watched him work, and one of the guys
randomly had this massive ice cream cone, It was so funny. All four of
us saw him and then just died laughing.
then, on Wednesday,
we had a whiteboard and it was so hot outside, when we came to the
chapel for English we were all dripping with sweat, and we smelled awful
(because the deodorant here doesn't work unless it's Old Spice odor
blocker). After English, Sis Carlson, Sis Herrera and Elders Lanterman
and Summers were staying after to help one of the students who wants
extra English classes. Sis Carlson was in the hall with me and Sis
Holden and the others were all in the room, starting the lesson. Sis
Carlson had been looking for some kind of air freshener that we could
spray ourselves with (yes, we smelled that bad) she found some kind of
"Dragon Lilly" scented febreeze type of thing, and handed it to me and
then someone called to her from the room, she looked in to respond and I
don't know why, but I just pointed the air freshener can at her and
sprayed it. A stream of the stuff shot out and hit her straight in the
neck. She fell comically back and sister Holden and I just dropped
laughing. Inside the room, sis Herrera had witnessed it all and she just
busted out laughing, it was so funny!
Two tiny funny tid-bits before I end this puppy so we can get some food!
We
went to Biedronka this week for lunch (it's a grocery store, basically
like fresh market, which is a store here too, but it's a convenient
store) The thing about poles is whenever you pay they want you to give
them as exact change as possible, so a lot of the time if you hand them a
bill, they'll ask if you have some grosz (cents) or złoty (larger
coins). I payed for my food with a 50 and the lady asked me if I had 65
grosz, I did not, she asked if I had 5 grosz, I did... then she asked me
if I had a zlot, I did not... then she got annoyed and gave me 19 zlots
in coins... My wallet is so heavy now.
The other funny thing, we have sung the same 4 hymns in church for 3 weeks in a row... we just keep forgetting to change them...
That's it for my week!
Kocham was!
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