...as I sat in Conference I had this feeling overwhelm me like nothing I have ever experienced in my life..

Hey there Fam!!!! Goodness it's so good to communicate with you all. Always is every, week I look forward to it and when I read your letters I simply wish they would never end. I love everysingle word so much and I feel your love and prayers everyday I'm out here, and I truly mean it. When I have a bad day or even moment I think about you and you just make me smile, and you don't even know it. That's a pretty amazing power. :) Before I shoot into the answering of questions and such - SPENCER YOU ANIMAL!!!! AHHH!!!!!H!H!H!IHOIUGH!OH!OH!H!! Goodness that is TOO DARN COOL! Jestes najfajnieszy rockstarem zawsze!!!!!! (You are the greatest rockstar ever!) O goodness kid when I read your letter (first as requested) I just flipped. I am so happy for you and so glad you had that experience. There is really nothing quite like being up on that stage showing off our own creations and the fruits of your own hard work and I'm just so stoked - you even used my dance moves! I can see Phillip flipping out (who i will write back today and I love him) Goodness I love it, just the mental picture of it all gives me the wiggilies. 500 bucks. Snap kid :) So darn cool. It's a good feeling to do it all, the football and the rockstarness eh? So rad kid, you always make me proud, this is simply a moment of uber proudness and happiness for you :) How cool is that? Jeez, ok. That is so amazing that Karrie had her babies. I'm so happy to know that and can't wait to see them. They'll be considerably bigger when I actually see them, but I'm just way excited for when that day comes :) And I love that the Rushtons use my letter for FHE. I'll try to maintain the FHE material lol I didn't know it was FHE material to begin with, that's a major compliment. I got a letter from Kels last week and it was super duper nice, i appreciated it a lot :) Spencer you pronounce Henrie like Henry, just like a boys name. lol. He's from Arkansas. I know, I forgot Arkansas was a state too...:P Pop the Wistula is the River right to the right of our aparment. TO the left of the River is Centrum and all the mainpart of the city. Praga is to the left and is not as urban, but more old fashioned. THere's a beautiful park there though that we contacted through, so gorgeous. I forgot I was in a huge city. The river is kinda just there as far as I know. Point of reference. And i need to check on the Warsaw Ghettos. I know my street is one of the streets that was never destroyed and played some role in the uprising. On the safety topic, I always feel safe, there were a few times when i first got here I was a little skeptic, but I feel way good now and always do. It's a thousand times safer then chicago, lol this is for sure. ANd the Nigerians were totally harmless and we really are all good. We're safe and I'm pretty paranoid about going into unsafe situations and such so I'm pretty good about making sure all is safe and good. And my coat is way good. THe concern is most definitely warmth, not wetness. It rains off and on all the time, but the umbrella does a great job of keeping me dry and my coat doesn't soak right through or anything, it's way solid. :) Elder Tanner is in Sosnowiec and I have not heard one thing about him. I'm dying to though lol I will for sure in the next month :) OK, the weekly update!!! It's been quite a different week this week for quite a few reasons so I may not have quite as much to say, but I'll do my best. Who am I kidding, I'll find things to say, I always write way too much :P Elder Henrie caught a pretty bad cold/flu thing this week which forced us to stay in pretty regularly for the majority of the week. I wanted to die lol. It's not fun being inside all the time, but at the sime time it was a good week for adjustment for quite a few things. I can cook like a madman now. I made all our meals this week - that crazy rice soup stuff, kasza manna (cream of wheat stuff), pancakes, crepes, tuna melts, pasta with kielbasa, the works baby. YOu can call me Chef Boy-ar-dee or however you spell my name. lol. That was good and I got to clean a lot. Our aparment can fall into dirtiness pretty easily considering we;re barely there and when we are there, we're studying diligently, eating or sleeping. So it was good to do a solid cleaning of the whole thing. Pop you trained me well. :) ( Elder Gardner wants you to know he loves you all. And so does Elder Meacham. Lots of love, from my awesome zone leaders). So that was a bit of a trial though. It's been so easy being out there and working everyday, and being inside you feel unproductive an such. But Elder Henrie needed to heal and so I made the most of it. I studied a lot, got a lot of my Trainee checklist done ( every trainee has to do it in their first two months ) and it gave me a lot of chances to serve and help Elder Henrie, which i needed. It's sometimes tough getting a long perfect all the time, just being around someone 24/7 isn't easy, and being able to serve them makes it a 1000 times easier. We had a few whiteboards sporadically throughout the week , which I was super greatful for. It was so nice to just get outside and work a bit. Sometimes we have to get creative one our whiteboards cos not everyone wants to stop and talk to random peple with a whiteboard, but if the questions is interesting, they're all over it. So one question was who would win in a fight, Batman, Jackie Chan, Chuck Norris, Voldemort, Jack Sparrow or Moses? And Elder Harvey drew pictures for them all (I laughed so hard I was crying when he tried to draw chuck norris...it was like chuck norris from mexico after living of Krispy Kreme). But people stopped and it was good. I think I would have been 100% against that question the first day in here, but you learn to realize that you have to try different things and you'll find different peopl. Another question we asked was "What kind of music do you listen to?" And that one was a winner big time. I was on fire that day to, stopping everyone and just smiling and talking to anyone who would stop. I truly do love just talking to people especially about the gospel and even though I have a lot to learn, the Polish is coming and I can say most gospel centered things pretty proficiently. Still have so much to learn though. ON that day though, the elders we whiteboarded with, Garling and Bishop (both very old in the mission) came ot our house for lunch break. Elder Garling said I was doing good cos I wasn't afraid and was willing to talk to whoever. He said I was already a good missionary and that got me burning to be even better. You see a lot of missionaries kind of sputter out a lit bit and it's way easy to. It's easy to talk to every third person or only the nice looking ones or only the pretty girls. And you do have to discern to a point, but you just got to try to talk to as many as you can. I don't know, at least that's how I understand it right now. :) So it's been a good week though, despite being inside a whole lot. Conference made any sadness 100 percent better though. O sweet mercy!!! Conference is on a way different time schedule lol. We watched saturday morning on saturday night at 6, Priesthood at 11 Am sunday and Saturday afternoon at 2. Sunday morning was at 6 and Sunday night was at Midnight lol, we didn't get to see that one. But every session was just amazing. I was riveted like never before and it was just an experience I've never quite had. Every talk had such a strong and powerful spirit to it and there was so much to be grasped from the words of all these inspired people, so obviously form the apostles and Prophet. I loved having Irina there for the Saturday morning and Sunday morning sessions. After we had taught her about prophets and modern revelation she has the chance to see it happening right there. In abundance. And i could tell that she really enjoyed it. We taught her about tithing Sunday evening before the session and she is a single mother of 1 son and isn't exactly in finacial soundness, but she listened and had concerns, but said she would pray about and think about it. And I felt the concern of her heart and knew how tough it seemed, but as I sat in conference I had this feeling overwhelm me, like nothing i have ever experienced in my life, that this is the way to happiness and though there are things that may be tough, you do them because you trust the Lord and know he will provide. He asks us to do these things so he can bless us 10 fold anything we would have recieved otherwise and I just know this church is true. It's true, as I preach to these people and see what they have and what they lack I realize exactly how much this Church means to me. How blessed I've been to be raised in truth and righteousness and I am eternally thankful for that. Dad, I can see how you studied those conference talks so diligently. I ate them up like the sweetest polish pastery. They just offer so much, and there is so much to learn. This conference was the first time I just soaked up every single word spoken. Yesterday I watched 6 hours of conference lol. THat is a lot of conference, but when it's the words of the Lord and when you're so desperately desiring these people around you to know what you know, there is never enough conference. :) Hopefully that all made sense and I explained it ok. With Irina we do have a lot of work to do, but I feel confident that all will be well. I know the Lord will help her as long as she's willing to listen. WE're meeting with her at Presidents house on friday :) Neat eh? Well Fam, i've got to wrap this up but I just want to say how much I love you all. Ok I have to go now, i love you all again so much. Talk to you in a week, look forward to it already :)- Starszy Michael Rushton :) :)