6 June 2013

Not a lot going on this past week.  It has been raining everyday and below 50 degrees.  Wayne and I have been reading a book by James A. Michener called Poland.  It has been really intereesting to read about the history of this country.  Anyway, in the book, he talked about a  family by the name of Ossolinski and their many castles.  They lived here at the time the Suedes overran the country and lost many of their holdings and treasures to Sweden.  Anyway, we got looking in our Wroclaw information book and there happened to be a museum called the Ossolineum.  So we set out to find it and it is a Baroque palace complex right on the Odra river.  Of course it was closed.  We will have to go back, but here is the picture of the outside.

 

Every Tuesday we have District Meeting at 11:30 am.  During that meeting the DL gives us instruction from Preach My Gospel and we each have a few minutes to tell something that we learned from our scripture study.  Before we close the meeting we all get a chance to role play contacting people.  For most of the weeks we have been here, Wayne and I have been asked to talk about the gospel to someone that is sitting on a park bench.  Usually one of the elders or sisters will be the person sitting on the park bench.  This Tuesday, the DL had us role play that we were in someone's home discussing and bearing testimony of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.  We kind of commented on the fact that we didn't get to teach on a park bench.  Everyone laughed.    This past Sunday, Wayne and I went out with the sisters to visit some people.  All of the places we went to, the people weren't home or didn't answer their door.  But on the way back, we had to walk through a park and guess who we started talking to,  a couple sitting on a park bench.  I guess all of that practicing paid off.  

 

I thought I'd take a picture of the kids in the nursery.  They are eating their treat right now.  These two little kids are quite the handful. 

 

They actually broke the little table they are sitting at this past Sunday, so Wayne will have to try and fix it.  The little boy is Kuba, and the little girl is Mila.  Sorry the picture is fuzzy, but I can't stop my hand from shaking.

 

On Monday, it was very cold, so besides just doing some shopping Wayne and I stayed in the house.  But the Elders and Sisters went cruising the city together.  I told you last week about the little gnomes that are all around the city.  Here the sisters are reading with one of them. 

 

We had 5 people at our English class last night.  It was awesome.  We have them read an Ensign article and then talk about it as we read.  We're hoping that something will put a spark in their lives and they will ask us more about the gospel. 

 

Because of the rain this past week, they have had to sandbag parts of the Odra River here in Wroclaw.  Also, we understand there was flooding in Germany and the Czech.  I think this is very unusual for June, but hopefully it will change quickly.  We want some sun!

 

 

 

That's it for this week.  We love you all and miss you.