Cześć, wszystkich!
I am writing this email to you all as I sit in a government building in Katowice. Yay.
This week has been super awesome! First of all, we had two super awesome holidays. Halloween happened. Most people here don't like Halloween, but we organized a party for our English students and I also invited 720 people by posting it on Facebook groups. A guy got upset at me on Facebook because I'm a missionary, but then one of our AMAZING members defended me. It just made me feel so good that she was willing to stand up for me like that.
But anyways, our party was SO fun! We didn't have a huge turnout, but it was just about right. The best part was when we did pumpkin carving, and I watched as one of our guests carved a pumpkin for the first time. He was so proud of it. I was really afraid he was going to accidentally cut his finger off.
Thursday morning, as Sister Jensen and I were pretending to run, a guy stopped us and asked us to show him the way to a river. So we walked with him to the river, and turns out, he was visiting for work for just a few days. We invited him to our All Saints Day activity (I will explain that in a minute) and he came! He brought his boss, too! So now we are friends.
So All Saints Day is a really cool holiday. Maybe similar to Dia de los Muertos? Basically, it is a day where Poles remember their ancestors. They clean off the graves and put flowers and lanterns on them. At night they go to the cemeteries and pray for their ancestors. I wish the USA had a holiday like that, because it was breathtaking. With some members and friends, we went to a cemetery at night where two of our members are buried. We put lanterns on, cleaned them off, and said a prayer. It's pretty neat to know that these people still exist and are doing good things on the other side of the veil.
Sis Jensen and I have been doing a good job just talking to a lot of people. For example, I told a little boy who was with his dad that I liked his hat because it had two eyes on it. When I told him that it meant he had four eyes, he got really upset and wouldn't look at anyone. Whoopsies. Hopefully it helped when I told him I had a hat with two eyes on it too. His dad thought it was pretty funny though.
I'm coming up on my year mark as a missionary! I really like it. 10/10 would reccomend for anyone looking to grow their faith, recognize their weaknesses, and learn to love people.
Siostra Eberting
Pictures:
1. At the cemetery
2. Pumpkins!
3. In Katowice with Ania!!!!!
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