Hello everybody! This week we got to visit 2 babcias!!! So much fun! Our first babcia we found as we were coming down the stairs of our apartment building, and when she found out we were from the US she was so excited and invited us over to her lovely apartment. She kept giving us food and apologizing that she didn't have a better lunch to give us (Poles here traditionally have to have a really big lunch around 2, called obiad). She kept giving us stuff, including a black pair of shoes that I have now worn 6 out of the past 7 days. Very kind of her. We will hopefully be able to start sharing the Gospel with her the next time we go over :)
Our second babcia we found from old records of people who had once been taught. I've developed this theory I call The Babcia Theory since coming out to Poland, and that is that every older lady in Poland needs someone to dote on, someone to spoil. Usually that's the grandchildren, but if there are no grandchildren she needs to find other young adults or children to spoil. Seen it time and time again.
Anyways, that meeting was so fun. She showed us all the pictures of her children and a few of her parents. One of her brothers died when he was about 20 of starvation because he was taken by Germans during the war. It's often very strange to think about how the places I go and the people I meet have so much history behind them and often a lot of sorrow.
On Tuesday we went to a Korean restaurant with a member Amyla and a fee of her friends. This is important for the story later.
On Friday we got to go to visit a family and teach the kids primary songs! They are the family I was talking about last week and it was so much fun. I love it when kids love me. We taught them "I Am a Child of God" and "I Know My Father Lives." I'm so grateful for these opportunities I'm having to teach the Gospel through teaching music. And that's actually my secret plot to teach more families. We just gotta figure out how to advertise it right. Our mission has lately been emphasizing creativity, and teaching music is something that has come to my mind a lot, so it's definitely something I will be focusing on for the rest of my mission.
On Saturday, a lot of things that happened that weren't really accidents. For example, it probably wasn't an accident that our key to the chapel wouldn't unlock the chapel. It wasn't an accident that our senior missionaries, the Womacks, were out of town and had to call another member, Brother Martin, to come help (we had English starting and needed somewhere to have our class). It wasn't an accident that Sister Baldwin woke up craving Asian food.
Well, Brother Martin (he's an American member who's in the army here) booked it over here and helped us out. And he had his Saturday off and loves helping out, and so he helped us clean the chapel, helped us serve at a soup kitchen (the really awesome one) and then he loves Korean food, so he came with us to the Korean restaurant.
Bro. Martin serves a mission in the Philippines Tagalog speaking. And a few weeks ago on his way to church he met a Filipino and talked to her. She really wanted to come to church, but she had to go to work at a Korean restaurant.
Well, I think God planned it perfectly, cause it was the same Korean restaurant we went to. So Bro Martin talked to her, we got to meet her, and we are going to get her a Book of Mormon in Tagalog.
God really does care about the little details of our lives, and if we are obedient and doing our best, He will arrange it so we meet the people we need to meet!
Last item of news: transfers!!!! I said goodbye to my beloved Sis Baldwin this morning as she headed off to Gdańsk. And I am training in Poznań! So I'm in Warsaw right now and I get to meet my trainee tomorrow! I'm so excited!
Siostra Eberting
Pictures, Me, Sis Littlefield and Memmott in Warsaw, This sign says "There isn't any path to happiness. Happiness is the path", Asian food, We went to a tropical greenhouse this week. There was a really cool aquarium too.
