The week's events:
Mateusz lives 50km away from Gdańsk but ordered a Book of Mormon online and then found our number and asked to meet. He is young, sincere, and we had an incredible meeting. He understands his personal responsibility to receive his own conviction of what we teach and seems eager to learn. It just went smoothely, we were able to share a lot, answer a bunch of questions and keep it all to a brief 45 minutes - the dream. My favorite part of the lesson is when he made the connection that baptism is just the first step and our real goal is to be sealed with our families in the temple. Pray for him please, he is golden.
We had a cool white board - the first one since New Year's. I had two good discussions, the second with Adrian, this young guy. Just being out and talking to people can be such a thrill - having succesful, natural moments to connect with someone and share what's most precious. It was fun.
Things with the branch are good.
Yesterday we met with Patryk - the 21-year-old branch mission leader - as per usual before Sunday school and it was particularly good. We went 10 minutes over just in good conversation. The missionaries and the branch president are on the same page, good communication - things are good.
I had a good discussion with Józef - the older man in the branch. He's been having operation after operation the past couple of months. We went over to visit him. There was a moment, just the two of us, where (as he sat with pus and blood draining into a little container) he shared his gratitude for me. He said that he knows how much good I am doing here and was encouraging. He then said that he also knows that there is progress to be made. It was what I needed to hear. I'm grateful for my relationship with Józef.
I'm still depressed to be honest. I'm now functional and I'm not at my low point. Down there I felt nothing, now I am back up to feeling stressed and having every emotion and thought cross my mind all at once. It's overwhelming and confusing. I still am figuring things out, still unsure of myself in certain ways but I'm not void of hope. I know that small and simple things lead to great things - equally they lead to greatly destructive things, I am pretty sure I reach where I got to not by one dramatic event but rather a long sequence of many. I'm currently trying to reverse with small and simple to steps to glorious, light greatness.
Love,
Starszy Kimball
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