Transfers, Temples, And Kisses Oh My

Hello!

I hope everyone had a great week. 
This week was really busy, which was good. Sister Trost and I survived transfers and will have one more together! We are really excited for this transfer. 

Being in the office has been an adjustment but so good. It has been awesome to get to travel and meet with so many different members and get to know them while filming ads. We went to a town called Legnica not too long ago and it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. This branch loved each other. you could not tell whose kids were whose everyone was greeted with a hug and a kiss. they all sang together for 45 minutes before church started... and any guests were instantly welcomed with giant hugs and kisses. I felt so at home. Those kids definitely stole my heart. 
This week there was a repeated theme that kept coming up... the value of the gospel. The members here and in the various towns we have visited do not go to church to check a box. They travel great distances and have overcome so much adversity and continue to because they are members of the church. they go because it is everything to them and they treat it as such. One of our friends who was recently baptised expressed this to us explicitly last night. It was so sad. She expressed what it would mean to have a temple close to her and to have a church building and to be around people who understood what she knows. These people are pioneers in the church. truly they are blazing trails. It is such a privilege to see it and be a small part of these peoples stories. 
Office life has been good. Truly I am with my best friends. I am so grateful for them all! 
transfers happen tomorrow which is strange... I am entering my third transfer.... which means I have 18 weeks until I am home.... SO that is so scary. 
I actually am in disbelief. 
Serving a mission has easily been the best decision I have ever made. I have made my best friends and have changed so much. I am so so so grateful. God is just so good. He truly takes care of us uniquely and to our needs. I have really felt that this week. Which brings me to the spiritual thought...
Mosiah 23:10-11
10 Nevertheless, after much tribulation, the Lord did hear my cries, and did answer my prayers, and has made me an instrument in his hands in bringing so many of you to a knowledge of his truth.

11 Nevertheless, in this I do not glory, for I am unworthy to glory of myself.

The living reality of Jesus Christ has changed me. He has such a perfect plan and loves us more than we can comprehend 

I love you all and hope you have another great week! 

If you can... go enjoy the temple this week... even just go take a walk around the grounds. Extra points (yes this is a contest) if you send a picture of the temple you visit... If you can't tell by now... yes that is what I miss the most and yes I am living vicariously through you

Siostra Andrzeja

(Shoutout Bogdan for changing my name cause "yours is weird and hard to say (in Polish)" 

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