MASSive Update!

Things are going great!! 

We had a miracle the other day and had sudden prompting to talk to one of our investigators at his work on the town square and we were prompted to leave immediately and give him a broshure about the plan of Happiness so we could talk to him about life after death in our next meeting that week. We had just returned from our sports Saturday and were finishing up some studies so we were still in our sports clothes, as we went to change we had the prompting that we must leave immedieatley and so we just wore our soccer clothes and slides ha, but we felt good about it.
But for some reason he wasn't there in his shop and so we felt kinda dumb so we wandered over to the other side of the side walk to get got some ice-cream to make up for it, and not feel so bad ;) But while doing so we made friends with the girl selling ice-cream. While we were buying our ice-cream it started raining so nobody else was buying anything and we had a good excuse to continue our conversation with her. She really opened up to us and told us her mom and gramma died recently and so we explained what life after death looks like and the plan and christ and she was super interested!!! We have another meeting with her today :) ha it was crazy,

One more, which was cool, we took a wierd route today on our bikes to go and set up some english and America presentations at some schools to get our name out and invite people to our english class and while doing so we passed one of our investigators on his bike, another one of our investigators about hit us with his car and riding our bikes out of the school parking lot we ran into another leaving school! 

Honestly, I don't even know if I am the one steering my bike anymore, I am just peddling like a madman! haha just ask Elder Hansen, literally we flirt with curfew at 21:30 multiple nights a week and after we get out of our meetings we have a few kilometers to travel with like 5-7 mintues. Thats one of the moments I believe where grace  (divine means of strength and help) kicks in. It's insane! We always have strength for one last dead sprint at the end of the night. We really love the bikes we have here, only four bikes in our entire mission, makes a big difference. So grateful. ha, on our way to meetings or teaching appointments sometimes we will ride a circle, zigzags or stop for a minute and next thing you we know there is somebody that were are teaching or somebody that is willing to find out more!
Pretty much all the people in our free english courses are between 17-23 which is way cool. A few of them now have Book of Mormons and 2 of them are new solid investigators!

We also play soccer every saturday on this awesome turf field with our new youth friends from the sports middle school, david( one of the members who plays soccer) is going to start bringing his friends too.
Literally we walk around Mielec after giving presentations in about every school now and we are like celebrities, the youth usually call out to us or we say hi to them and then we just end up talking for like 15-30 minutes about who we are and what we believe, ooor go get food with them. ;)

We have been working hard and things have been improving.

Miracle!!! One of our friend's, who is studying about our church, her mom offered to take us on a bicycle ride through the woods last pday so we did that for a few hours with her husband, went to the ice-cream factory with them and ended up gathering mushrooms with them as well, I think we can now safely say now that she accepts us! ;)

The less active family were able come to church last week as well and they are coming to FHE tonight! they are so amazing are like 30 and have a 4 year old son, they got married in the temple in england bout 5 years ago....

Continuing to work with David, it is cool to see his knowledge and confidence in the gospel grow. btw, he is a stud, has the most swag in the world.

But yeah, things are good, 
 I was thinking what we could do to teach better and help people understand the gospel and all I could think of was the members and all of their talents especially their daughter Ev, because she is currently away from us in California. Her testimony, support, wisdom and common sense(not to mention her language skills) really help us in inviting others to learn more about Christ and come more fully unto him. ;) but yeah, you members everywhere have so much power and believe it or not, missionary work is really up to you, YOU ARE NEEDED. Don't fear, only believe.

anyways,one more thing. We tried something cool as a companionship a few days ago, we tried substituted our names and situation into the first verses in the Book or Mormon that we all have read about 1000000 times and it was sooo cool! It worked and made sense and we got so much more insights that we never have before. Definitely one of the ways our Loving Heavenly Father can talk to us. We encourage you to try it. When you read the scriptures substitute your name, and setting into the story, and you will find it easier to receive confirmations to your your prayers, answers of why things in the past might have happened and personal tips for the present and future. 

I know the Book of Mormon is the words of Jesus Christ and contains the fullness of his gospel because it brings all of us closer to him to live in harmony, peace and happiness with his teachings in all aspects of our lives. And as we do, we come to know Him and his Father, his perfect grace and his infinite Atonement. I know and promise that is true. I've felt it. He is real. He lives.

Love, Elder Wood 

p.s. it has been a while since I sent pictures so these are from the transfer, more will follow

1,2. some meals (we eat a lot of potatoes and kielbasa)

3. Wishing off Elder Toone.