Transfer week April 26th

Hey Mom!

So I usually wait until after responding to questions and stuff to talk about the week, but I won't make you wait for the news. Slight bummer, I got transferred after all haha. I'm serving in a city called Katowice (Cat-O-veetsa). The move was rough, all the goodbyes were hard and hauling my bags everywhere was a nightmare. The good news is that I'm with Elder Einfeldt from my MTC district! It was pretty awesome, I've always been around older missionaries, and now we're back together. The interesting news, I got stuck with leadership. Elder Einfeldt and I are Zone Leaders, co-District Leaders, and co-Senior companions. I actually have to do stuff now, haha. Should be fun I guess.

Sounds like you guys had a pretty busy week too! Bummer we got handed a loss in volleyball, it's always to be expected with our program, but we always hope every year that things will change for the better. As long as we win out, we'll at least share league! Of course Disneyland was fun, it always is. I can't wait to come home and be so used to walking around all the time that I'm just the king of Disneyland. 

OK I was already the king of Disneyland, no one can put away churros like me.

But anyways, Ellen sounds like it was really fun! I gotta ask, who was on it? Anyone cool?

Also good that Brenton killed his homecoming talk. Elder Torres was pretty bummed, he doesn't give his for like a month and a half from now. Speaking of which, me writing this means that he's on a plane right now! Crazy!

So yeah, I guess my week. We didn't get to meet with the yoga girl, but the Claw elders are meeting her today. Hopefully things go well. Everyone else is doing fine, I'm hoping when President finally gives in to my begging and sends me back to Wrocław, I'll have some brand new members to meet!

Other than lessons, English was really fun. I met this new guy who's English was phenomenal. We were playing Taboo, and someone got the word "superstition". Naturally I sang the first line of Livin the Vida Loca, "She's in, to superstition, black cats and voodoo dolls", and this dude without a moment's hesitation replied, "Ricky Martin was a legend". I was dying. I'm definitely gonna miss our English class.

Saturday was insane. We had to move out of our apartment into the other elder's apartment cause the sisters kicked us out, we had apartment inspections from the senior couple (passed with flying colors), transfer calls, and then we finished it all off with culture night. That was fun. Didn't make it to the oldest restaurant, incidentally you need reservations, so we hit up another nice place and then the E. Wedel chocolate drinkery. Basically they just melt really fancy chocolate and you drink it. It was like 15zł for like 150ml, haha.

So now I'm here. I don't know much about the city, but supposedly the branch is really cool. I'm probably gonna have to translate for sacrament meetings, which should be interesting. We did walk into a baptismal date! We've got 3 investigators from the old elders, and one is preparing for the end of next month. Also, our Branch President, who's really cool, is getting married next month, and we'll all get to go. I think we've got an exciting transfer in store. Makes sense, I am in charge after all. Co-in charge at least.

That's all I can really think of from my end though! Love you Mom! Have fun this week!

Elder Haskett

Throwback to the MTC

Putting this one in for Blake!! Ward lip sync was this weekend so of course watched all the old videos of years past...fun to watch Logan and Blake together all those years then be in the MTC together!!:)

Ward newsletter April 17th

"Przysięgam uroczyście, że knuję coś niedobrego”

Hey Everybody!

So first things first, I thought I should give you guys a little bit of an update: my leg hairs have all grown back. I figured you were all wondering, didn't want to keep anyone up at night.

Also, we've had some really crazy changes in Wrocław over the past few weeks. I was serving with Elder Park before, and we did stay together a little longer than we'd anticipated, but after about two weeks the switch happened after all and now I'm back with Elder Torres. He's officially one week from his last day in the country as of today, that's a fact I know because he's not afraid to remind me of ("I have less days than you have months, haha"). It's been pretty sweet though, I've been helping him get ready for the culture shock that is the US after 2 years. He'd never even heard of hitting the whip before. Also telling him Eminem was no longer relevant, nor had he been for a long time came as quite a shock. I'm not looking forward to discovering I know nothing about what's going on back home anymore. Knowing how the internet works, that's already probably happened.

One downside of the switchback: I'm not working with any of the investigators I was before. It's cool though, we've had some pretty sweet miracles since being back together. We're meeting with a few more girls that we've found through English class, and, strangely enough, Elder Torres' knowledge of yoga poses. 

Guess I should explain that. We invited a pretty cool girl to Church, who said she couldn't come because she "does yoga, all Saturday and Sunday". That was definitely a new one for me, but Torres talked about the yoga he did in high school, one thing led to another, and we were set up for a lesson!

So yeah, things are going pretty well for me right now. Unfortunately we've got another transfer coming up, which means everything is about to change again. Who knows, maybe next week I'll be training in another city I can't even pronounce. I really hope I get to stay here in Wrocław. President has been calling it Miracle City lately. The elders have been calling it the Turnt Town. 

Elder Haskett

„Koniec psot”

April 17th

Hey mom,

So yeah, this week was pretty sweet for us. We've had a few meetings, both with yoga girl and this other girl from our English class. Things are going pretty well, so we're thinking about dropping a baptismal invitation this week. Good timing too, it's the last week of the transfer already! This one went by really quick, which was surprising cause it was 10 weeks. Other than that though nothing too crazy happened this week. English class was fun, we tried a couple new games. I basically decided to try everything possible until I find a game that makes sense for Polish people. Seemed like I nailed it this week. We put like 100 random English words in a hat and had people draw them and then try to describe them in as few words as possible. Unfortunately our oldest student happened to draw swag, and then dictionary defined it as pirate's treasure. We had no idea what was going on, and a few of the younger dudes in the class thought I was messing with them and kept guessing "booty". Close enough.

Also found a pretty sweet deal on short sleeve shirts. You probably saw the charge this week, I got 4 shirts for like $60 at a pretty nice store. It was awesome.

So I'm not really sure what else to ask for for the upcoming birthday haha. I think you already know that food is always welcome. Other than that I can't really think of anything haha.

I haven't gotten Nema's package yet, I haven't had a chance to meet with anyone from Warsaw in a while, so I'd guess that the next time someone comes to Wrocław I'll get it!

One request! This week is culture night, and we were thinking of maybe visiting the oldest restaurant in Poland, which is also the oldest restaurant in Europe! Only thing is that it's a little expensive, like 80-100zł for a meal. Not sure what the exchange rate is right now, but it's probably like 20-30 bucks? Is that cool? Let me know by the end of the day and I can check!

That's it for me though! Most likely it won't be til Tuesday til the next email. Love you, and cross your fingers that I don't transfer haha!

Elder Haskett