Tuesday: 11:30 - District Meeting. We meet with the Elders and Sisters. Elder Weir is the DL, so he conducts the meeting. We have been reading the BofM as a mission and are in Ether. Elder Weir asked each of us about our thoughts and what the BofM means to us. It was a very wonderful meeting. Sisters Ence and Smithee will be leaving us next week. They are on their way home. It will also be transfers, so we don't know who will be coming or goihg.
Wednesday: 3:30 pm - Missionary Correlation Meeting. President Cielenski conducts this meeting. The missionaries tell them what they have been doing and who they have been teaching.
Wednesday: 5:00 pm - we teach the advance English class. The missionaries teach the beginning and intermediate classes. The classes rotate every 9 weeks. We have two people in our Advance class. We have a prayer and spiritual thought. Then we have them read an article from the Liahona. We usually discuss some vocabulary words from the article they may not understand and then we play some kind of word association game. All of the people that come are not members of the church, so we use this as a means to introduce the gospel to them. We are going to be baptizing one of the gentlemen that is in the beginning class soon.
One person in our class - Mikel - is working on his PHD is Cosmetology. He had to present a paper in English on Thursday to his professors, so we stayed after and helped him with the pronunciation and spelling.
Thursdays and Fridays we are on our own. Wayne and I have been going over the inactive lists and trying to see where people live. Some of them live two hours away and President Nielson doesn't want us to worry about them right now. One day there will be more branches and hopefully wards all over so that people don't have to travel so far.
Anyways, on Sunday after we gave our talks, President Cielenski asked us over to dinner. He and his wife has two little girls. They are an awesome family. We really enjoyed ourselves and got to know them a little bit better.
Also, this week I made some brownies. They turned out hard as a rock. Don't know what I did, but they went right in the trash. It is District Conference this coming weekend and Sister Reed and I are in charge of the lunches and Primary. So we decided to make brownies and cookies. I tried again and this time they worked. Thank heaven.
So Saturday morning we set off for Katowice. The District President - Pres. Pawlik - was going to be replaced, so they expected a bigger crowd than usual. There were two meetings on Saturday. A Priesthood session and a Relief Society session. Since most of the members come from far away, they usually bring the whole family to the church. Sis. Reed and I had to have activity time for the children that would be there. We did a reference program and talked about church mice and how quiet they should be. Everyone made mouse ears and we gave everyone a little stuffed mouse also.
Then we explained the Whole Armor of God and had them color and cut out the different parts, the belt, shield, etc. They then glued these to another paper that had the outline of a little boy on it.
All of the kids really enjoyed the time spent with us. In between the Priesthood/RS meetings and the adult session, we fed everyone dinner. We had ordered Pizza and drinks and some of our desserts.
During the Adult meeting, President Nielson, President Pawlik and our Area Seventy, Elder Olsen spoke. It was a very good meeting.
Sunday morning we had to go over to the church early and get everything ready for the luncheon that would be served after the meeting so that people would have something to eat prior to going home. We fixed sandwiches, fruit, potato chips, drinks and desserts. There were about 90 people that were there. We had a hard time getting everyone into the chapel area. So they released President Pawlik and put in Brother Zan from Wroclaw as the new District President. He is the one that helps Wayne with the money and teaches the Priesthood lesson in our branch. Him and his wife have 3 boys and she is pregnant with her fourth. It will probably be very hard to their family for a little while, especially when he has to travel. But he is a very spiritual man and will do an awesome job.
I forgot to tell you what we did on Monday this week. They have an Island here called Catholic Island. There are about 14 Catholic churches on the island. This is just one of them. Also to get to the island you cross a bridge that they call Lock Bridge. Couples that have just gotten married, buy a lock and attach it to the bridge and then throw the key into the river. It symbolizes their eternal marriage. There are tons of locks on the bridge.
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