Last Thursday night, we met with the Elders and an investigator by the name of Jacoub. He has been going on-line to LDS.org and reading all that he can. We were talking about prayer during the meeting. It is hard to tell you about the feeling that was in that room. I thought my heart was going to burst. And to make it all worth it, Jacoub felt it too. These are the moments that we will remember for a life time. And the Elders were on "Cloud Nine". We are all hoping that he will be baptized.
We went over Friday to clean the chapel and again fix a couple of things. Good thing Wayne knows how to do a lot of the things when it comes to "fixin' up". We had dinner with the Elders at this small pizza place. Very good pizza.
Wayne and I started reading "Jesus the Christ" at the beginning of May. We finally finished it on Saturday. What a wonderful book. I had never read it before because I always heard that it was hard to understand. There were some times when we didn't know what a word meant, but the message that Jesus is our Savior and the one we should strive to become like was very clear. We also finished reading the Book of Mormon at the end of August and started over again the first day of September.
We went over on Saturday for the Children's English class and of course, no one showed up. Wayne and I went over to the Renik afterwards to see if we couldn't buy him a winter coat. We did find one at a place called "Reserved". As we were walking back home, they had a Swedish Festival going on. Here is one of the wagons they had.
Saturday night, we had the elders and sisters over for dinner. I cooked some pork chops, mashed potatoes and cauliflower. I cooked 18 pork chops, all but 3 were eaten.
After they left, I had to prepare a talk for Sunday. My talk only had to be about 7 mins. because I have to give the same amount of time for the translation. Also on Sunday, we had an Obiad (luncheon) after church. Sis. Kuchno made a delicious soup that you put over rice. Wayne, in the mean time was getting audited. President Zan went in with him too, because he did it before we came. So the auditor and Pres. Zan started saying everything in Polish and since Wayne couldn't understand, it was very frustrating. He's hoping Pres. Zan will let him know what problems there were and what needs to be corrected.
Our FHE went well on Monday. We had a lesson on Hope and then played "Pictionary". It was hard to explain, but once they caught on, it was fun. One of the words was - caboose. They didn't even know what that was. They don't have cabooses on their trains. Elder Jaeger left for Katowice after. He was part of an exchange. So Tuesday for District meeting we had one of our Zone Leaders here with us. As part of the meeting, they do language training and usually Wayne and I just sit there, dumbfounded!!!!!
Last night, we had a very good English Class. We decided to pick some of the articles from the Ensign under the "Mormon Journal" part. Most of them are simple to read, but usually have a strong message and they are written by members of the church. So we would read a paragraph or two and then ask the class if there was anything they didn't understand. We had some good discussions.
So we finally took our camera with us when we went running. Here is a picture of the beginning of the trail we go on. And the trail really goes on forever. The trails go through a lot of wooded areas. Also, there are squirrels all over because most of the trees are oak and walnut. In fact, there are a lot of people that come over and pick the walnut trees. The squirrels are red. They are fun to watch. We tried to get some pictures so you could see how red they were. But it didn't turn out so good.
Bye for now. We love you all and miss you.
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