Hello everyone!. This week has been a really good one. Siostra Ence and I taught our first lesson in Polish without any notes to an investigator this week. It was SO hard but soooo good for us. It kinda helped me to focus on the words and phrases that I really need to work on. I must say though we would get nowhere if we didn’t have the spirit with us. It helps SO much. There are words I know that I would never remember and things that I say that I didn’t plan to say but I am prompted. Basically learning to teach by the Spirit is the greatest thing I have learned so far. I'm a Fan. So you asked me about P-Day. They are bomb. Basically we wake up, get ready, go get a sack lunch in SWEATS OR JEANS :D and then we eat breakfast in our room and write letters. Today I went and talked with Tanisha while she cleaned the bathrooms for her service project. I am SO truly grateful that she is here. On the downer days she has the best scriptures she has found while here. I def think the Lord planned this out right.
Did I tell you also that my last day in the MTC is Jan 9th! We are a Pilot program and they are going to see if we can learn Polish in 9 weeks instead of the usual 12.....We are not quite sure how we feel about that yet. Anyways, we get sack lunches on P-day and do our laundry in SWEATS OR JEANS, which I love a lot. We go to the temple at like 1:15 that is our session time. Then we come back and have a little bit time before dinner. Then Tuesday’s we have a super awesome speaker come. It’s usually an apostle or someone from the MTC presidency. They come and talk to us so right after dinner at 4:30, so like 5 ish. We go and find a seats and write letters while waiting for devo to start until like 6ish. So yep that is a typical P day. Also, our entire district will travel to Poland together on Jan 9th! I am SOOOOO excited to meet my mission president and his wife! Like SOOO very excited!
This last week we focused a lot on teaching so we got to teach in English for a little bit. Teaching is a lot harder than it looks sometimes but we are starting to get really good at it. Plus Sister Ence and I work SO well together. Usually when I run out of things to say she has something and we help each other. It’s nice when we have to speak Polish as well, because we both remember mainly the same thing but can also say different things. Sometimes though it’s really hard for her and I to not compare ourselves with the Elders (Mikoliski, shimanski, manwell) They are pretty good. So we are constantly praying and working on that. Also this week is thanksgiving! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!! Please take pictures at dinner and maybe you all could write me an e-mail or something. SO this year I am SO grateful for my family and the wonderful people that you are! I am so grateful for the love and support that everyone has given me. I am also so grateful to have the opportunity to be one of the Lord's missionaries. It’s the best thing that I have ever done and there is nowhere else that I would rather be. Having the Lord with me so much is SO amazing! Also I love wearing my tag to the temple and seeing people drive by and wave at me because I am a missionary. It’s like sunshine! This last week I saw a clip from a talk from Elder Holland called missions are forever and oh man if anyone you know is about to go on a mission or you are going on one WATCH IT! It was the most motivating talk I have ever heard. It was basically do not waste a minute. Get lost in the Work. It’s going to be hard but so very worth it. I am so happy to be out here and I am trying my best to work as hard as I can and not to waste a minute.
Oh also I am grateful for Priesthood blessings. This week I got this HORRIBLE migraine and was SO not feeling good. I went to the health place and they gave me Excedrin. I didn’t want to leave class because I figured I could hide my head in my hands and listen to Polish. So I went back but later got a blessing and it was one of the first times the elders in our district gave a blessing...they def dropped like half a bottle of oil on my head. So the rest of the day I could touch that spot and my hands would be SO oily. It was ok though because the blessing was so good and it made me happy that they were so nice and willing to give me a blessing. Elder Mikoliski, who is so great, offered before I even asked. What a great elder. Also my teachers for Polish are the BEST!!! I have Brat Rushton, Brat Broadbend, and Brat Hughes. We were going to have Brat Daly (Andjez) but he is super busy this semester and cant but it’s ok :) They have individual talks with us to help us figure out what to study on our own and help us teach. They are even SO nice to me when I cry in class! ha-ha! (sometimes it happens) Sorry this e-mail is so sporadic I keep thinking of random things so I am just going on with my thoughts. I have made lots and lots of friends. Oh! One exciting thing that made Siostra Ence and I's week. We are way good friends with the 2 elders that are going to Bulgaria. Our districts get combined most of the time because we are both really small. Well they have this tiny stuffed tiger. (Malik teigra) that is how you say it in Bulgarian. Well, we stole that tiger and left a ransom note in Polish. It sounds not exciting to you, but we laughed the whole time and got to practice our awesome Polish words! Oh Mom can you please send me my camera charger cord that came in the mail from Amazon? I would like to send pictures :) Also for Christmas I would like jeans and/or a camera picture chip or just candy and letters. That would be nice. Letters are probably the greatest thing in all the earth or e-mails anyone can e-mail me. I can print them out and then just write letters back plus I love reading e-mails sop yep. ALSO guess what I am making a lot of friends here! I am the coordinating sister and I LOVE all the new missionaries that came in! We even have a sister from Scotland and she is so cute. Today we were doing laundry and she asked me if I felt like a domestic goddess haha. I have lots of sister and elder friends it’s wonderful. Oh I saw Christopher again. Sister Ence and I were laughing like no joke a building away from him, and he said he could hear me coming because I was laughing so loud. Sister Ence and I laugh all the time and I dang LOVE IT! Oh one of the branch presidency’s wife comes and visits us. She said she will even bring us things from the outside world if we need, she also gives hugs, has really good stories. She is like my MTC mom and I LOVE it! Her name is Sister Melville.
Well my time is basically almost up. I love you all! I am so happy to be serving a mission! I love the Lord and am honored to be one of His missionaries! I cannot wait to bring the gospel to those in Poland! Only a couple more weeks! LOVE YOU!!!!
Siostra Smithee
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