Last Thursday was Sister Blake's 21st birthday. We had all of them over for dinner to celebrate. Sis. Blake loves beef stew so that's what we had for dinner and banana splits for desert. Elder Smith gave her a Rubik's cube, which was all pink. They really give her a bad time for being "blonde".
Everyone helps.
We had cupcakes also.
She couldn't quite blow out the candle Elder Smith was holding
Here is the pink Rubik's Cube and a really old jar of pickles that the Elders gave to her also.
I threw the pickles away. They were gross!
It was a fun hour and of course, we sang Slo Lot!
On Friday, Wayne and I took off for a city called Sobotka to look at a ski resort that we could possibly use for the YSA Conference next year. It was beautiful up in the mountains, but there was only 1 lodge and it only had 25 rooms. Not enough for what we need. Here is a picture from the mountains looking down on Sobotka.
On Saturday, we had 4 kids show up for the English class and it really was a lot of fun. The kids are so anxious to learn. Also, President and Sister Edgren came to Wroclaw. President Edgren spent the morning with the Elders at their apartment for companion study and then went out with them contacting. Then at 4:00 pm, he met the Sisters at the chapel where they had a meeting scheduled with an investigator. Her name is Marta and she is awesome. I hope that she will accept their challenge to be baptized. We went over to the chapel at 5:00 pm to meet with all of them and go out to dinner. We learned then that Marta had not come (very disappointing). We took the Edgrens and the sisters over to the pasta restaurant and had a very enjoyable time. President Edgren talked about his trip to Paris last week, where he met with 6 other mission presidents and Elders Oaks and Ballard. They met in the room where the Treaty of Versailles was signed. Elder Ballard was there also to organize another stake in Paris. It is very disheartening to see stakes being organized all around Poland. Especially when in President Kimball's dedicatory prayer opening up Poland, he said that chapels would dot this land. That was 20 years ago and there has only been one chapel built in Poland. We know that the missionaries are working hard. And we know that the gospel will take hold eventually. We kind of wish it would happen while we are here.
After dinner, we had tickets to see an extravaganza of ballet performances at the Opera House. Sister Blake had bought tickets for us and Pres. Edgren. The opera house is awesome and the dancing was okay. At least Wayne and I can say we have seen ballet. Here are a couple of pictures taken in the building.
On Monday night for FHE, we talked about happiness. And we all made a commitment to work on an attribute that we struggle with, and hopefully, our lives will be happier when we overcome that struggle. We had them make braided bracelets to wear so that they would remember what attribute they are working on when they look at the bracelet on their wrist. We will see how the experiment went in 30 days. We had 12 people there for FHE and all of them joined in and made the bracelets. We had to show of couple of the guys how to braid, but they joined right in. Sis. Malinowska made some szarlotkas (apple fritters) and they were very good.
Tuesday we had District meeting and talked about prayer and how we can help the investigators pray and know when they have received an answer. Most of these people have never said anything but a "rote" prayer. After the meeting, Wayne and the elders went and bought lunch for President Cielenski and had a meeting with him. I came home and worked on what we would be teaching for English class and worked some more on my life history.
On Wednesday we had to go shopping for some things, especially milk. And since the milk can be stored on the shelf for a long time we decided to buy to cases of it. There are 12 cartons in a case. When we got home, we realized that the cashier had only charged us for one case. So this was an interesting development. We didn't know how to explain what happened to people who don't speak English and my first thought was that when we did try to explain, they might think we stole it and put Wayne in jail. So I chickened out and just let Wayne go back to the store. (ha, ha) There's a customer counter right at the entrance to the store and that's where he went. Of course, no one spoke English so they called someone on the phone. A very nice gentleman came up and Wayne explained to him what happened and he was astounded that Wayne had come back and wanted to pay for the milk. He then told the other ladies that were at the counter and they looked shocked too. The gentleman looked at Wayne's missionary tag and asked where he was from. Wayne told him that he was from the US and that he was a missionary for the church. Another little seed.
So we have been wanting to take this picture for a little while. We don't know what this sculpture is for but to us, it is the train that goes nowhere.
Also, we pass this building every time we go to church. We don't know how this is accomplished. It really boggles our minds. One day this building was just the building and the next day, they had this advertisement up across the front of it. It is like some see through material, because you can still see the windows of the building through it and I would think that the people inside can see through it. The thing that is boggling is that it is in one piece. The building is about 250 ft long. We can't figure out first of all, how they make the advertisement, and second of all, how they put it up.
Well, that's all for this week. Except for one more gnome that we saw on Saturday. We think this is a war veteran, because he was in front of a building for the Polish Vets. Have a good week.
We love you and miss you all.
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