May 15, 2013

So this week has been a lot of fixing things at the chapel and cleaning things out.  President Cielenski's desk had two drawers that wouldn't close and a couple with broken handles.  Siostra Cielenska also wanted locks on the cabinets in the primary rooms and nursery, so that that the kids wouldn't pull everything out.  Wayne and I went over to the hardware store (OBI) and bought some locks and screws and headed over to the chapel.  The locks were easy to install and it looked like they would work very well.  We went into the president's office to see what we could do with the drawers and handles.  As Wayne was trying to figure out how to fix the drawers, one of the drawers that wouldn't close was on the left side of the desk and the other one was on the right.  So yep, you guessed it, he just switched the drawers to each side and guess what?  They closed!  Those drawers had been like that for a couple of years.  We just had to laugh.  We cleaned out old books and papers from one cabinet.  It filled 3 large garbage bags.  They don't throw anything away here.

Anyway, on Sunday, the president asked me if I wouldn't help in the Primary.  So now the 2nd hour I go into the nursery or Primary and the 3rd hour, I go in with the YW.  I taught the lesson this past Sunday and Sis. Zan translated for me.  I will try to get their picture this coming Sunday so you can see the beautiful girls I'm with.  I had made some cookies on Thursday so I thought I would take some to the kids in Primary and the nursery.  They were chocolate chip cookies but I didn't have any chocolate to break up for the chips, so I put in some M&Ms.  They were a hit.  I even had one of the Sisters come and ask me for the recipe.  WOW!!!

After church, Sis. Kuchno (RS Pres) asked me if I wouldn't be in charge of an activity for the sisters and she wants me to show them how to cook something American.  So I thought of maybe some kind of casserole.  Any help anyone can give me would be appreciated.

Monday night we got a call about 9:00 pm from the APs.  They were on their way here to Wroclaw to deliver our summer tires for our car and to spend some time with the Elders.  We have to change the tires on our car from the winter ones to summer ones.  This will be a new adventure for us, too.  Hopefully, someone at the tire place speaks a little English.

Tuesday we met with everyone for District Meeting.  After our meeting we went with the Sisters to eat lunch and to an appointment and then did some contacting with them.  They have these little dumplings here that are fillled with a variety of things.  They are so good.  I ate 8 of them at lunch.  Next time we order them we will have to take a picture and show you.    We easily walk between 5 and 10 miles a day.  Hopefully it's doing us some good.

Here's a picture of the APs and our Elders and Sisters.  Elder Mikolyski is on the left and Elder Tiner is the second in on the right.  They are the APs.

We went over to the Renik again.  It's the place to be.  But we noticed something that we hadn't before.  Here is a picture of one of the oldest churches in Poland.  It has an underground system that was used during the war.  It is still being used, but there are stores and restaurants down there now.

 

This is the steeple of the church.  We can actually see this from our apartment and wondered what it was and what it was attaced to.

 

By the way, we had to buy a backpack because of everything we take over to church with us.  So this is what everyone uses here.  I told Wayne it looks like he has a manpurse.  What do you think?

On the way home from tracking with the sisters, we have to walk by one of the rivers here in Wroclaw.  When we came to one of the bridges, we noticed that they had stopped the flow of the river and was cleaning the river bottom.  It looked like oil sledge on the river bottom.  But, we came across a dump truck trying to get back up from the river bottom after being filled with this sledge.  It just wasn't going to make it.  So the back hoe was helping it up the hill.  It finally made it after about 4 attempts.

Wayne and I love it here.  We love our branch and feel the spirit of its wonderful members.  We miss you all.