It's Thursday already. Time goes by so fast. I hope you are enjoying Salem Days. And school starts in two weeks. WOW, where did the summer go?
We had a wonderful Testimony meeting Sunday. A Sis. Allen who served here in Poland 2 years ago, came back to go to school for the summer. She has a beautiful voice, so Pres. Cielenski asked her to sing prior to the testimonies being born. She sang "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" (in Polish, of course) and it was just the perfect song to bring the spirit into our meeting. After church, she came over to our apartment, because she couldn't get into her hostel that she needed to rent for the next two weeks, and had dinner with us. I invited the sisters over also and we had a wonderful time laughing and telling family stories. We also learned that our new Mission President and wife will be here this coming Saturday for a Fireside. It will take them all day to get here, so after church all of the women got together and planned a meal for Saturday. I get to cook all of the Sloppy Joes.
Monday, we cooked dinner for the Zans. (She is in the Primary and YW with me and expecting soon) We took it out to their apartment in Legnicka, (an hour drive) and ate with their family. We stayed for FHE. This is the family with the 3 boys that run all over the church. But I was impressed how well they listened to the lesson and played the game we had. I guess they get excited at church because they don't see anyone for a week.
Tuesday was District meeting. Always good. We met with an investigator that the Sisters have been teaching. She had started to read the Book of Mormon a couple of days before. When the sisters asked her if she had any questions, she wanted to know how the Lord would direct someone to kill in the horrible manner that Nephi did and to someone (Laban) who was so vulnerable. We all tried to tell her about the taking of one man's life to save a whole nation and all of the killing that the Lord directed the people in the Old Testament to do, but this really stuck in her mind. Anyway, we continued with the teaching and at the end asked her if she would keep reading. She said she would and would not think about that one instance. She gave a beautiful prayer and asked Heavenly Father to let her know that the BOM was true.
Our English Class was awesome again. After the story, we played a game called Typhoon. We put words on a piece of paper and then made a 6 X 6 grid up on the board. We turned the words over so they couldn't see them. In the boxes of the grid, we put numbers from 1 - 10 and some of the boxes said Typhoon. We covered all of the boxes with the papers and then the students picked a paper and had to make a sentence out of the word. If they got it right, they received the points. If they picked a box with Typhoon in it, then they got to take the points of another player. It was fun and I think they all enjoyed it.
Today, Elder Durrant and I met the Sisters at church and were going to meet with two contacts. Of course, one didn't show up, But the other one, Ulenia (she's the one with the question about killing Laban) came and we had a real good discussion on the Plan of Salvation. She asked some good questions and said she would read more in the BOM. They asked her if she did find out it was true would she be baptized. And here's what most of the Poles say - I've already been baptized, I don't understand why I need to do it again. It is very frustrating.
So that's it for this week. Once again, it has been very hot. It got up to 40 degrees C today. (You'll have to figure out how hot that is in F) Again, it's about 86 in our apartment. And really humid.
I haven't shown some gnomes for a little while, so here are a couple. Have a good week everyone. We love you and miss you.
Here's a little traveler.
Here's our little sentinel to the city. I think he's fast asleep.
Here's a picture I forgot to post some time ago. This is coming into a little city by the name of Lubomierz. This is what it looks like all through Poland.
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