Happy birthday Hannah and Kelly! who else am I missing?

Cześć Rodzino!

Alrighty bądźcie przygotowani na to! This week was great just like every week! and I should have a bunch of pics for you guys so hopefully I have time! So this week started out with going to the the Rynek with the Sisters in our district. It was really fun, we got to see some really cool old churches and stuff. I will send those another day. There are to many, but just so you all know, it was really cool.  Elder Tingey is a little addicted to Banana juice so we always are stopping by the store and I always see a watermelon and I want one so bad,

so I bought one and ate it with a spoon in like 3 days it was awesome. Probably one of my best decisions.

                                   Also this week we ran into Sister Bezjian

who was a Sister missionary here who I served with in Gdańsk with Elder and Sister Myler woops I mean Sister Ostler ;) so that is always cool to see former missionaries. Tuesday we had a meeting with Henrique or little spaniard guy and he accepted a date or 21 of September to be baptized, but he never came to church so really it's a little iffy but hey he is great and can't wait to see him progress! Also this week we did 3 finding activities with other missionaries, one was with Elders Fotu and Garfield and it was fun. We did a white board and I walked around asking people Co znajduje sie w tym pudełku? meaning what's in the box and everyone laughed, old people didn't like it,but got lots of younger people attentions. It was a blast, also did it with Elders Saltmarsh and Swicegood as well as put on a little open house. Lots of family stopped, none wanted a tour or the book, but liked that we are here trying to do good. They always compare us to JDUBS so it was nice to let people know that we are the nice ones.  Sunday night had a really good chalk activity with the AP's, Saltmarsh and Swicegood. Elder Raines drew the plan of salvation and and we talked to lots of people, one of which was a really sweet family who at first was not interested, but after me and them talked they said well yeah were can I get this book so I gave it to them and committed them to read! the next one was a perfect stop. This old lady and fairly attractive daughter. The old lady didn't want to talk, but the girl did, feeling awkward I just talking and she is straight up interested. Her brother who is way religious received a Book of Mormon along time ago. Likes it, he told her to read it. Oh and ps he plays Rugby no big deal, didn't meet him, but sounds cool. So we got her number and hopefully something happens. Attitude is what its all about. We also had a very spiritual Zone Conference and Elder TIngey is the man! He taught so good and it was a great conference.

It was the last time I see Elder Van Bakel who is form Holland and plays rugby. So lucky he gets to play soon, but yeah sorry low on time love you all miss you all be safe and talk to you later!!!!

Love

Elder Harris

Cześć Rodzino!

Wow pretty great week. So it started out with P-Day of course and we went to the Hard Rock Cafe here in Warsaw. It was my first time in my life ever going. Little embarrassed. But it was way way good. I want to go back and get a shirt though. That would be cool. Beside that P-Day was a little dole. I am so tired For some reason Warsaw makes me ten times more tired and I sneeze a million times a morning too. Maybe I am allergic. Tuesday we had a really good Zone training. So okay, słuchajcie Zone trainings are something in our mission that we do once a month. And it's always in accordance with our meeting with the APS and President. So we do it in two in days. The first day was Tuesday, and it was for Warsaw 1 and 2 as well as Lublin and Białystok. It went good started out a little boring, but we manged to really get everyone involved and made it way fun! The next day we went to Łódź and taught the Łódź district the same thing and it went just as good.  That's always nice to get that out of the way. The Lloyd's who are the Senior couple in Łódź and Hannah's friend Brikell's grandparents, they always make some really delishes treat for us. On the way home the train broke down and we were stuck at some train station for like an hour. It was brutal and hot and we got home way late! But I am alive. Thursday was amazing.

We had a free board with the missionaries on Żoliborz who are Fotu and Garfield, and it was really really good. We meet a guy named Maksymilian whose Mom is JDUB, but thinks it's wrong and has always been curious about who we were as Mormons, so we got his number and we are going to call him today so that's awesome. We meet a girl and her boyfriend who are searching for religion and that accepted a Book and said to call today as well. So hopefully we will be getting some new people to teach. Also I think it happened on Thursday, but Elder Allen had a referral for me and so he called, and it was so funny to hear his little voice. He seems to be doing good and have some really good success in Bydgoszcz, so that's awesome! Friday was a miracle! absolutely amazing. We had a day of nothing getting turned down left and right and it was a pain, but Elder Tingey had a feeling to visit this former member and we just happened to be by his house, so we did. He let us and just laid everything out on us. He said he knows the book is true, but it scares him, he has had so much change in his life that he is down to nothing. He is scared to find God, but thinks he has. He wants to meet, stop drinking and smoking, and it was just a blessing to see the lords hand in our work. Lets see and yeah really really great. Saturday was cool, the APS czyli, Żeleźniak, and Raines called and we did a white board, nothing to successful to report, but it was good to work with them. They are great missionaries and it was fun. I love Żeleźniak. He is my rugby buddy! Then Sunday another former showed up and he said that he wants to be baptized, but people are always giving him crap about being a Mormon and stuff. He is from Spain and such a great guy so we need to really help him understand. So things are starting to really go good here in Warsaw. The church is true. This week is Zone Conferences, wish me luck, it's my first time teaching. Love you all and miss ya talk to next week!

Love

Elder Harris

Finally something that's just my size

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So just wanted to start off with how amazing Leadership council was. Absolutely amazing. Never felt the spirit so strong. The big topic was faith. And how that's all that our mission is missing. Of course we are missionaries and we have to have faith up the wazoo to come on a mission, but do we have it in the right things? It was really really cool, to really kinda look at things from a different perspective. So now me and Elder Tingey have to really plan hard and figure out how we can teach our zone tomorrow, and invite that same spirit. We do have a really good plan. I am using ADIDAS as one of my analogies! its going to be way cool. That was Wednesday.  We had lots of good stuff go down this week.  First some of you have been asking whats my area like. And I will try to explain that haha. In Warsaw they have things they call Dzielnicy which are like I guess for the fact of explain this pretend Warsaw is a state...and I work in Herriman, that's what a dzielnicy is, but not so big.  We can travel to other dzielnicy in like 10 to 15 minutes well okay so Salt lake is Warsaw and my dzielnicy is Wola which is like Herriman. Hope that make sense.  It's a bigger area it's  really city looking. Not to many neighborhoods, but in Poland when you track it's more of really high communism apartment buildings. It's cool. 

Story for this week. We went tracking and got let in for the first time this transfer and he was a Rastafarian....haha cool huh? he starts talking about it and at first I was like what? is that what I really think it is? so I asked him okay so I am not understanding your religion...so I said "Jah Rasta Fari!" he laughed and said yup. Elder Tingey looks at me and says what that I said was he smokes weed and listens to Raggae. This guy turned out to be really really cool. He was so excited to read the Book of Mormon. He has heard about us and wanted to order a Book or Mormon, but couldn't find one in Polish online. So that was a neat experience. We had a really good lesson with are baptism named Adam such a cool guy who really wants to find out more about God. What a great lesson, and he came to the Branch Activity. The Branch activity was fun. It was a Luaua and well didn't think I would go on my mission in Poland and learn the Haka, or a mixed up Haka, but yeah we have two Poly Elders so the branch president who is a senior missionary asked them to teach some of the Elders the haka and we preformed it. Went okay. It was fun. I have a video, but its to big to send so I will send it with my Christmas package. Sorry. But a really fun week. Also I had the chance like I was saying to study faith. And I love the scripture Eerth 12:6, such a powerful scripture. I know that it's true though because not only here in Poland, but everywhere in my life I have experienced that faith comes after trails, if you stay strong. So everyone stay strong. Good times are here, just be grateful and love your family. You guys are the best love you all so much!

Love

Elder Harris

Cześć Wam,

Sorry no pics this week. I promise next week.  Pretty cool week, been kinda stressed though, but hey I am learning so it's all good. I have been reading the conference addition of the ensign and it's amazing. The little talks that are not by big people are incredible. I really enjoyed the marriage one. Really was  good, not only for the future(hopefully) but as my companionship. Just gotta have faith. I honestly do love it out here. I have had sports on my mind a lot and am trying to get off it, but what I did was tie it to the gospel. In D&C 138 verse 57 talks about always being a missionary even in the next life. I thought about that. After high school I took off the helmet for the last time, probably yelled at my last  prop after high school, but the badge will always be there. My missionary badge is one of the most sacred things to me. It's my uniform. We should all be looking to find our badge weather we are members or not. Remember that we are here for a reason and that we have a purpose. This week as I was saying was stressful, language was dying,  but still learned a lot. I  had a fun exchange with Elder Fotu, he is from Lone Peak. We talk about Polys of course and he taught me a little Tongan Fefe Hake? Sai'pi that means how are you? good haha yeah doing great right?  This week was lots of mini exchanges with Warsaw II, meaning we did a white board and the same with Warsaw I DLS it was so much fun. Way to hot. We have a cool new investigator named Andrzej.  The work is going, sorry it's so short.  I love you all and miss you all. Till next week! be safe!

Love

Elder Harris