Well back to the government offices to try and get our Residency Cards. We started out at 11:30 am on Tuesday with the Elders in tow. They had to communicate for us. First we went to the city government office. Along the way, we split with the Elders and did a little bit of contacting on the street. I stopped a few people and told them we had an important message for them and then Elder Weir took over. No one really listened, but we passed out a lot of cards. Wayne didn't have much luck with Elder Stumph either. It was something different and I now know what it feels like to really be ignored. Anyway, we finally got to the desk and the lady kept saying that we didn't have a person who was our power of attorney with us. We finally convinced her that Elder Weir was our POA, but then we didn't have the right paperwork. So we walked back to our apartment, had some lunch with the Elders, got in the car and went back to the State Government office. They had us fill out a POA with Elder Weir and then made us pay 17 sl. for each one of us. It was now 3:30 pm and we had to go back to the City office and have them input everything in for us. We waited for about 20 mins. before our number was called. We gave all the paperwork to the lady and she said we needed our landlord with us to verify that we lived in his apartment complex. We thought we had cleared all of that up with our first visit in the morning. Elder Weir was a little peeved. Then came our little angel. One of the ladies that was helping us in the morning came over and told the lady we were dealing with now that everything had been cleared and it was okay to put our names in the computer for the government to make a "decision" on whether we can stay. By the time we left it was 4:30 pm. They had already locked the doors. When we left we passed by our little angel and we all said thank you very much. So here is our picture leaving the City office. We have smiles on our faces because I think we are good for 90 days until our "decision" comes back. If it takes longer than that, we have to fly to England and get a stamp in our passport and then fly back.
So our new Sisters arrived also. Sis. Bezdjian (dark hair) has been here since March 2012 and Sis. Blake is her trainee. They are working very well together and seem to never stop. Here they are with Julia presenting a lesson. Hopefully Julia will be baptized on the 25th of this month.
The work is really slow here. With most people being Catholic or they just don't want to listen.
Anyway, after this meeting we went with the Sisters down to the Renik to pass out papers that advertize the English classes that we teach on Wednesday nights. Sister Blake had the 8 weeks of language training and she arrived here last Friday. She was awesome. She went right up to people and spoke to them in Polish like she had been living here forever. We took some pictures of the Renik so that you can see the old buildings. We did pass out some cards also.
Monday is P-day and after cleaning the apartment, washing clothes, going shopping, preparing our English class, and go over to the chapel to clean, it was time to relax. We have a nice little deck on the backside of our apartment.
All those buildings in the background are apartment buildings.
Well that's all for now. Love all of you.
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