Hello everyone!
It's been a while I must admit. I just wanted to give you all an update on how things are going here in Poland. I'm approaching the last 10 weeks of my mission and it's crazy to think that the time has gone so fast. Serving every day of my life for the last 20 or so months has been a huge blessing and I've grown so much because of it. I'm still here in Poznań, today is transfers so I'll be getting a new companion. This is my last transfer so I'm ready to make it a good one. I'll also be acting branch leader here which will be a new challenge for me and I know it'll give me some worthwhile experience. The weather here has been hot, extremely hot. Its been up in the low-mid thirties and there's no AC anywhere so I've lost my fair share of weight in sweat haha. My time so far in Poznań has been really good. It's a beautiful city with lots to see and lots to do. Things are opening back up again which is really positive, and people are coming back to life. There's a market festival here in the Old Town which is really cool, it's amazing seeing a load of people in one place. The Old Rynek (marketplace kind of thing) is beautiful itself, and the best part is that we only live about 5 minutes away from it.
This week we had exchanges with the Szczecin Elders which was really fun. I spent the day with Elder Michalský, he's from the Czech Republic. We spent a lot of time outside, visited one of our members, did some finding in a lovely park and then to top the day off we met with some other missionaries and one of our friends and a member to go and play lasertag. It was a lot of fun, haven't done lasertag since I was about 10 years old haha, but the place we went to was mega. It was this huge underground arena. We've eaten out at some new places, we went to get Indian food and it was actually really good. We literally have the best Indian food on planet earth in Oldham, so I've been a little disappointed with most places I've been over here. But this one place we went to was really good so I'm definitely going back.
Lastly, on a more spiritual note, I wanted to share a verse that I really love. It's in the Doctrine and Covenants section 76:69.
It says "these are they who are just men made perfect through Jesus". I love this verse. It's Christ who makes us perfect through His grace. We don't have to be perfect, and we won't become perfect through our own strength. We simply have to entrust ourselves into the hands of the Lord, and he will make more of us than we could ever, ever, make of ourselves. He will make of us a masterpiece.
Love and miss you all. Drop us an email if you've got the time, I'd really appreciate it:)
Elder Ashworth x
