Hello family! Happy Fouth of July this week! Don't eat too many hamburgers.
This Thursday we had a meeting with our babcia friend at around 11. Unfortunately she didn't show up until 3 PM. We just happened to be in the chapel when the domophone rang, and so we ended up having a little meeting right there.
I stepped on a decomposing pigeon. We have been passing it every day by the mall for a while, and I finally accidentally stepped on it. At that point, though, it was mostly feathers, so that was fortunate.
We are in the process of destroying all of our paper area books and getting them digitalized. European privacy laws are pretty strict, so it's kind of scary not knowing if you are keeping the privacy laws or not. But we texted a ton of people who were in our area book and asked them if they would be interested in meeting with the missionaries again. 3 are! 1 of them seems pretty promising. Another lady threatened to call the police if we sent another text message. That was a temptation, for sure.
On Friday we went to Park Slaski and did chalk art with Family History. The best part was when we had just finished our second spot and we saw a car coming along the path, Ready to watch our work be ruined, we were pleasantly surprised when the car drove around the chalk and into the grass to avoid running over it. I love nice people.
On Saturday I may have accidentally gone to the Czech Republic. For a branch activity, we went down to the southern mountains and hiked up a ski slope. 2nd time I've been skiing in my life. 1st time backwards skiing. After we got to the top of the ski slope, our branch president said that for the return hike, we were going a different way. By the way our branch president is THE BEST BRANCH PRESIDENT ANYONE COULD EVER ASK FOR. Just so you all know. Anyway, he said that we would go up to the Czech border and then take a turn along another path. I was picturing some sort of painted line at the border, but it was actually very vague. Kind of disappointing. And just so you all know, I didn't mean to leave the mission, but I probably did...It's a good analogy on obedience, though. It's easier to keep the commandments if you stay far way from the border, because the border can be very hard to define.
This may be my last week in Katowice. :( My companion goes home next week, and so I will probably get sent to another city for at least a few weeks. Guess I'll start packing all the stuff I've accumulated the last 5 months....
Love,
Siostra Eberting
Pictures:
1. Group photo. Missing a couple people, though.
2. At the top.
3. Looking into the Czech Republic
4. Hiking
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