I travel these days, that's what I do :P

Family of Mine!
I'm way glad you got the message in time. I was stoked to see, per usual, that my entire family wrote me. You guys are the best. Spencer, I feel your tiredness kid, but I know you are rocking it. I loved seeing you on that video last week. You look and sound so good. I miss you, my goodness. Sarah, you look grown up. Stop that :P You make me smile so much, thank you for the letter :) Annie, baby you are so cute with the contacts, and I loved the tour of the upstairs. It was rockin. I can't wait to see you play soccer! We'll be the unstoppable Rushton crew. FC Rushton baby. :P And thank you for your letter as well. :) Seriously, that video last week made me so darn happy. I was laughing the whole time. "Bikini's are bad." :P hahahahaha. O sweetest mercy. Spencer, you are a trooper :) Have fun on the water and enjoy yourselves 3x for me :) I took a FREEEEEEEEEZING -2 degree shower this morning, and when I got out it reminded me of swimming, so don't even feel bad. I had my "out on the lake experience" for the year. ha ;)
So, I don't know if you've heard, but the mission is actually a time when you travel the world and see things you only dreamed of seeing. And then you go see them again. :P I couldn't believe I was going back to London again...goodness. But it was great. We got there way late at night, caught the tube to the Chapel ( I can officially navigate myself from the airport to HydePark chapel) and then the Office Elders drove us to their home. We slept, and I got bit by huge bugs in the night. In the morning, we walked down to see Big Ben and the Parliament bulding (Elder Hobbs and I were with Elder Holden, who never intended in his life to go to England, but was so happy to be there...like a child in Chuck E. Cheese...ello Govna! Cheerio! haha) and then to Buckingham Palance, where the Queen lives. It was amazing. And then we ate Krispy Kreme donuts at Harrod's. I ate 4. I love Krispy Kreme. :P We stopped by the Chapel and on our way in I senior couple was walking towards the chapel too. The man in particular looked very very familiar. They asked where we were from, I told them, and then they looked at my name tag and said..."Rushton! Are you mike and Kim's son! Michael!? I could just hug you!" It was amazing! They are such kind people. I do remember them completely. It was a sweet little tender mercy. I'm glad you got to talk to her for a second :) How neat, and crazy lol.
We ate a traditional English breakfast and then caught our plane home. And once again, I was so grateful to be home, in Poland. O! The coolest part about London, was on the Tube back to the airport, I heard a lady pick up her phone and say,"Hello" and then a second later she switched on the"O hallo!" I asked her if she spoke Polish. She said yes. And we proceeded to chat it up in Polish, and it was amazing! I really missed speaking Polish in England. It was a pleasure to speak it with a Pole on the metro.
The Zone Leader meeting was good per usual. A little different than normal, cos we were discussing a more broad topic- how to achieve our goal of 100 baptisms. But it was good. I love seeing those boys. We had a prayer at the end of the meeting in The Saski Garden, where Poland was dedicated for missionariy work. It was way powerful, really neat experience. :) That night I flew to England.
Being out of the area for a few days destroys the week, but we made it out ok. We maintained contact with most our investigators, and most importantly, right now, Andrzej Pappelbaum is really doing well. He didn't come to church, cos he got caught in a huge!storm, and then was sick, but he is excited to meet a couple times this week. During a phone conversation we had he testified that he knows this church is true. We taught him the Plan of Salvation this week and it was one of the most rewarding lessons I have ever taught in my entire life. He just loved every second of it. If he didn't understand something, we resloved it and he just absorbed it like a sponge. He loves the Plan of Salvation, and he understands that baptism isn't just an entrace formality to the church, but an ordinance critical to Exaltation. He is SO getting baptized :) And I think we're going to do it in a river. The best part is, that the Branch is even supporting is in it, which is a miracle. I haven't mentioned it a lot, cos I'm trying to support the leadership, but the Branch President here, Prezydent Skurzyński, can be a little hard to understand at times. But he's supporting us with him too, so, major score :)
We're meeting with the young kid, Maciek, who wants me to teach him Piano, and we're going to extend to him a baptismal date too. He is the man. He's only 18, but he is excited about the Gospel, also loves the Plan of Salvation, and is doing good. I think the Poles love the plan of Salvation because it provides a lot of sense and hope to an anotherwise nonsensical and hard-to-understand doctrine taught by the church here. Good stuff though :)
The day I got back from London, we came home cleanedup, ate and then hit the Streets, and right on the Rynek (I can see the spot out the window) we contacted perhaps the two most amazing people I have ever contacted in Poland. Their names are Marcin and Kasia, and they are a couple, who obviously love eachother, not because they were incredibly publicly affectionate (like most couples excel at in these parts) but they were just way supportive of eachother and obviously loved being around eachother. They had lived in England and California at one point and speak very good English, and we had a good talk. They had met Missionaries in Ukraine who talked to them in English, and one of them who they described sounded A LOT like Todd the man Brooks. He was from southern California and had black hair. And I dunno, it just seems like Todd would contact these people. BUT, we talked and they were interested int he Gospel. They wanted to sit on a bench and hear some of it, so we sat and taught them. They were blown away by our Polish (which made me feel like a million pounds (which is like 14 bagillion zloty)) and they really liked what we had to say and wanted a book of mormon. We didn't have a spare copy on us, but they gave us their number. Such a GOLDEN number! They live in Kraków though. So, i'm praying I get transfered to Kraków next transfer to teach them and help add the most amazing addition to the Kraków branch ever. They are young, good looking, intelligent, kind, adventurous, and are the EPITOMY of a Kingdom Builder. They were only in Bydgoszcz for 4 hours. 4 hours! We only had 1 hour to contact! Coincidence? I think, NOT! ...I kind have hope for these people, if you didn't notice :P Elder Harvey said, I want to marry someone like Kasia :P true dat.
Other then that, life is good. I am so grateful I am here in Poland. I've being saying that since day one, but I mean it sooo much I can't even tell you. I love this language, I love these people, I love the Gospel and I love the members. The experience is clutch. It is sucking the marrow out of life, and I know that the Lord needed me here. Just like the Lord needed Jake in Taiwan and Jimmy in Chicago, and Ryan in Chile and Kory in Cambodia and Todd in Ukraine, and Phil in Idaho. The Lord calls us to where he knows we will touch people's souls and I know that is true.
This next week will be great. Tomorrow is Interviews with President, and then we drive with him, Sister Engbjerg and the AP's up to Szczecin, where we'll have Zone Conference! And then the next day Elder Harv and I are staying for exchanges (Szczecin is almost 5 hours away from Bydgoszcz...) so it'll be good! I hope you have so much fun on your trip. Please take pictures! And video lol. Video is my new favorite. :P I'm sending pictures home soon ma....I swear it lol. I am sorry. Have fun at EFY spency. Enjoy yourself, eat a Scoreboard Grill burger for me, and just have fun. You deserve it, Ma and Dad always says how hard your working and that they are so Proud of you, just so you know :)
Please do look for opportunites to share the Gospel- if you feel in your conscience, in your heart that you should talk with someone, do something for someone, do it! Always pray, and always read, always ask for faith and strength, because the Lord will give it.
I love you family so much. I am so glad I have this time here, and am so excited for you to someday be here to see this. You will love it :)
To next week.

z ogromną milością
Starszy Michał Rushton

Teraz mogę pisać troszkę po polsku, byście mieli możliwość widzieć że tak naprawdę umiem przynajmniej porozumeiwać się z ludzmi. Jeśteśtecie tak naprawdę moimi ulubionymy ludzmi na świetcie. Zawsze to zapamientajcie! Miłość!

Now I can write a but in Polish, so that you all can see that I can at least communicate with people here ha. You are all truly my favorite people on this Earth. Always remember that :) love!