Friday, three of the other Senior Couples came to our apartment and we did a little tour of Wroclaw. We went to the top of St. Mary's church where you can see all of the city. It was a little cloudy in the morning, but turned out to be a beautiful day.
From there we went over to the Japanese Gardens. It was a nice ride on the tram and then a short walk. We all had to walk on some rocks to get from one side of the garden to the other.
This is a good view of the gardens, not so much of me and Wayne.
After that, all of them wanted to go to the Rynek. I guess Wroclaw has one of the biggest and nicest town centers, because all of the couples were awed by what they saw. We captured some more gnome pictures.
This one has the key to the city.
These two little gnomes are fixing an ATM machine. It was located on the sidewalk right below an actual ATM machine.
I believe this is the one that people take pictures of the most. These two fellows are both pushing and going nowhere.
They all came to our apartment for a late lunch and started leaving about 5:30 pm. Elder and Sis. Sheley had to drive about 3 hours up to Posnan, Elder and Sis. Lloyd came over from Lodz, and they had a 3.5 hour drive, and Elder and Sis. Reed came from Katowice, which was only 1.5 hours. They stayed a little longer because we had to plan what we were going to feed the missionaries at Zone Conference the following Wednesday. It was a wonderful day.
We didn't have anything planned for Saturday with the Elders or Sisters, so it was a catch up day for us. Laundry, etc. On Monday, Wayne and I decided to drive down to Rogoznica and visit an old concentration camp called Gros Rosen. There weren't any remains of buildings except for the foundations. They had a quarry close by where they would take the prisoners of the camp to chisel out the stones for the buildings. Most men didn't last but four or five weeks. They would work them from 6 to late in the night without hardly any food.
These were the size of the blocks the men had to chisel from the quarry above.
This is the first crematorium they used. It held 10 bodies and it took 24 hours to cremate them. It wasn't very efficient. They built a three room crematorium later.
These are the wash basins the prisoners were allowed to use. They told us if there was an outbreak of lice or some other disease, they would allow them to use the wash house and scrub them down.
All of the wooden fencing and barb wire is original.
Monday Night for FHE, we went to one of the members house to give a little lesson and just talk. The wife, Agnieska is a member but her husband Adam, who has been investigating the church for 20 years is not. They have a 4 year old boy who is darling. Anyway, we talked about eternal families and talked about our families and the gospel. They both grew up under communism, so the conversation was very interesting. They are a good family and we hope we can make a difference in Adam's life somehow.
Tuesday was grocery shopping, cooking, baking and chopping vegetables for a vegetable tray for Wednesday. We got up early Wednesday to drive to Katowice. We had to wait for the Piekarnia (bread store) opened to get the Kaiser rolls and then we were on our way.
This is the Katowice Zone. This is President and Sister Nielsen last one. They will be leaving on the 29th.
Good looking group of missionaries, don't you think? These kids are just awesome!
Bye for now. Love you and miss you.
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