Last Thursday we went over to the chapel to clean because we drove up to Warsaw on Saturday to visit with the YSA group that is part of the committee for the conference next year. We didn't do very much on Friday, but prepared an agenda for our meeting and tried to put some ideas down for discussion. We left at 6:15 am Saturday morning and arrived in Warsaw at 11:45 am. The fog was so bad in the morning, especially out near the open farm land, that we could hardly see the road. And yet we had people passing us on a two lane road. CRAZY!!!!!
Our meeting with our committee was very good. They really have some wonderful ideas. The whole conference will be planned around the Plan of Salvation and each day will represent a part of that plan. Like day one will be pre-mortal life, etc. It was also District Conference for Warsaw so we went to all of the meetings. We stayed overnight in the Mission Home and attended the Sunday meeting also. Warsaw has the only chapel that is built and owned by the church. All of the other branches just rent buildings. So we took a picture of the chapel. It is very small.
They have an organ. (I almost forgot what organ music sounds like) And the chapel was full. They had to open up the back into the cultural hall and set up chairs. (I've forgotten what 80 or more people look like in church also). So here is a picture of a lot of people. What I now consider a lot of people. They even had a choir on Sunday.
Our District Conference is this coming weekend. Oct. 26th and 27th. It will be held in Katowice. So Elder Durrant and I are in charge of the food. The Reeds, who use to be serving in Katowice went home the first part of this month. On Monday, we planned what we were going to have and then got FHE together in between shopping for ourselves and doing laundry. FHE was on Free Agency and making good choices and then we played UNO. It's fun to watch these people play games that they never have before. Late on Monday night, we got a call from President Edgren. When we stayed with them at the mission home over the weekend, we got to talk with them about the mission in Poland and what some of his plans were. So on Monday night, he told Elder Durrant that he was thinking about transferring us to Warsaw to be the Mission Office Couple. He said that the couple serving now needed a break and he felt that we would be able to learn everything quickly. Elder Durrant told him that we were initially called to be in the mission office, but President Nielsen changed our calling. He also told Pres. Edgren that we will go wherever the Lord wants us to serve. Well, he said it wasn't for sure, but that he would get back with us. I started crying. I really have grown to love this beautiful city of Wroclaw and all of the wonderful people here.
Tuesday morning, Elder Durrant picked up Pres. Cielenski and they drove out to a little town called Zielono Gora. They needed to go visit with a person out there that was having some problems and to see what could be done. So that was another long driving day for Wayne. Also in the morning, President Edgren called Elder Durrant and told him that he would like us to pack up and head to Warsaw. He told us that we were an answer to his prayers. Hopefully, we can lighten his burden and help him with the whole mission of Poland.
Right now, we will have the next 9 days to get everything packed, the apartment cleaned for the new Senior Couple, District Conference this weekend and preparing the food and serving 50-60 people, our last FHE here, our last English class here and trying to say goodbye to everyone. For FHE we have bought some little pumpkins and are going to have everyone carve one for Halloween. Even though they don't celebrate it. They celebrate "All Saints Day" on the 1st of November. But we do get an extra hour of sleep. We will be turning our clocks back on Sunday the 27th.
We will be getting 9 new missionaries in on the 5th of November and we will be there to welcome them along with President and Sister Edgren. By the way, one of the missionaries coming is a Spencer Kimball. He is the great-grandson of Spencer W. Kimball who dedicated this land of Poland for missionary work in 1977.
Okay, one last thing. We found another gnome just walking around again. In this one, the gentleman on the left in just laying back listening to the gentleman on the right play his ukulele.
Have a wonderful week. We love you and miss you all.
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