Czesc!It's a girl! She's a little bigger than 8 pounds, but at least i don't have to carry her, just her luggage! It was so much fun to go pick up our kids from Presidents house! President draws it out trying to make it suspensful so he talks for about an hour before he tells us which one is ours! I got Sis Gardner she's from saratoga Springs and she's amazing! It's been really entertaining with her because I'd forgotten how different Poland is from America until she got here! She asked me the other day if I knew what U Tube was, I had to remind her I'm not that old in the mission! But I honestly couldn't tell her what the last movie I saw was other than the testaments!It's been amazing though because we've been so spoiled and we've seen so many small miracles in the past few days! On her first night I took her contacting on the streets and I taught her how to say good evening so she could stop people and then I would take over, then I taught her how to wish people a good evening to tell them goodbye. I told her she had the next person to stop, and I could see her tossing and turning the words over and over in her head while they got closer, then when they finally got right next to us she stopped and looked like she was going to say something, but instead she just stood and stared them down and looked like she was frozen! I guess I told her too many things at the same time! They passed by glancing awkwardly at the frozen missionary, and I couldn't help it, i just busted up laughing! She's amazing! She's getting better and better and everytime we contact someone I find a way to have her bear her testimony on the book of mormon or something, and they can't wait to listen to her because they know it means so much to her she just doesn't know how to say it! On saturday she stopped somebody all by herself and then turned it into testifying of the BOM! I didn't want to jump in because they were hanging on her every word knowing it meant so much to her! At the end of meetings she's so excited to find out what happened! On time when the investigator had to answer her phone she just burst out with 'quick what's happening!' She's doing all she can to understand and even brings her english scriptures everywhere with her so she can understand what we're reading!But it's been incredible how spoiled we've been in the past few days! One of my favorites was we were going back to the church because we had to get her scriptures and we stopped Justyna. She was way cute and wanted to learn more about the BOM so she asked if we could meet right then and talk about it, we were only a block from the church so we took her there and taught her a 1st! while teaching about dispensations i opened up to Ephesians 2 to talk about apostles and prophets, and she almost cried. Apparently a few days ago she'd woken up and had a thought to read Ephesians 2. She'd read it and been thinking about it, and then I opened up to it to show her a verse! It was incredible! She told me we had to be messangers from God! She ate up the BOM and couldn't wait to read it! She even accepted the Joseph Smith story readily! She already has an amazing relationship with God and she lives the law of Chastity with her fiancee! Our only trick is she lives 100 Km from Bialystok and won't be here for another month, but she gave us her phone number because she wants us to call her and talk about the BOM with her! I almost gave her a baptismal date on the spot, but I knew she'd be out of bialystok for a month, so I'd have to wait till then, and we'll just have to teach her by phone, but she was so incredible! She ate up whatever we said, and when she said the closing prayer it was incredible and she called heavenly father "daddy" in her prayer which was really cool! I'm so excited!Another day we were going back to the church because the elders had forgotten to lock up and on the way there 3 girls ran up from behind us who I'd talked to on a whiteboard, they are a little gothic(not too much though) and said they'd talked about what we'd talked about in the BOM all night(I talked about the spirit world and death! They're favorite topic!) Anyway they said they really wanted one of those books we'd talked about, so they walked with us to the church and took copies of the BOM and they were so excited to read it! I've been so amazed in the past week how spoiled we've been! We even met somebody on Saturday and gave him a flier and set up for after church because he had church during ours, but then he decided to come to our church instead with his friend! And it's been like that all 3 days I've had Sis Gardner! She has to be something amazing because miracles and tender mercies follow her like crazy! I'm so excited to see what happens this week!Love yall,Tam
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