28 Nov 2013

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!!!

We hope you have a wonderful day.  We have to go into the office because there is no Thanksgiving here in Poland.  And you can't buy a turkey either!  One of things we miss are the holidays.

Last Thursday night we went with the Hutchinsons and Jensens out to dinner.  Here we are with our glasses of lemonade. The glasses were filled with lemons and water.  Very interesting!

Wayne took the picture.  So it's me, Elder Hutchinson, Sister Hutchinson, Sister Jensen and Elder Jensen.  The food was very good.  But we waited for a long time to get it.

On Saturday, we kind of boxed up as much as we could.  We couldn't move into the apartment until Sunday.  Pres and Sister Edgren had traveled down to Kielce for a baptism, so we were alone again in the mission home.  We went shopping for a little bit of food. And then we walked over to the cemetery.  I wanted to show you what their cemeteries looked like every day.  People even go over and clean around the graves of their loved ones.  They sweep around them and pick the weeds.  Anyway, here are a couple of pictures.  And I thought our cemeteries were crowded.

Here's one of the statues that a lot of the grave sights have.

On Sunday, we just stayed for sacrament meeting and then went home to move.  It was the only time we had to do it.  We had to get moved in, make something for FHE on Monday, and get ready for Monday.  We will take pictures of our apartment and show them to you next week.  But Sunday was our Primary Program.  President Jagard (Branch President) let us take pictures in the chapel.  The first song was "I am a Child of God"  And the missionaries sang the song.  First Sis. Tobler stood and sang by herself.  Then Elder Tiner stood and joined her on the second line and then the rest of the missionaries stood 2 by 2 and joined in throughout the song.  It was awesome.  

So here is Sister Jagard, the Primary President.

And here are the 5 primary children singing a song.  And they did an awesome job at saying their parts, too.

Well this is our first week in the office by ourselves.  Now comes the real test.  We got a call from the Theater Group of Warsaw the other day.  They are doing a production of different broadway songs and one of the songs they are doing is from "The Book of Mormon" broadway show.  They wanted to know if they could have 40 Books of Mormon to use in the show.  I had to call the president on that one.  He decided that we weren't going to give them the books.  First of all, they cost money and second of all, we don't know what they were going to use them for.  On Monday night, we held our first FHE all by ourselves.  I made chili and took some bread and cookies for dessert.  The cookies weren't very good.  Each stove cooks differently here and I burnt a lot of the cookies.  I have to figure out how to use this stove.  But everyone enjoyed themselves.  We talked about being thankful.

Here's a picture of my desk.  And Wayne busily paying bills.  

On Tuesday, we got to orient the brand new Senior Couple coming to the Poland Mission.  They looked like they were on a plane for 15 hours.  I know they won't remember anything.  They are the Tuellers.  Here is their picture.  They will be going down to the city of Lodz (pronounce wooj) 

And these are our wonderful office Elders.  Elder Stockford and Baranowski.  We should have taken a picture out the window also.  You can see by the clock what time it was and outside it was dark already.

That's it for this week.  Once again, we hope you have a wonderful day on Thursday.  And we want to tell Kaylee and Megan how proud we are of them and wish we could be there for their baptisms on Saturday.  Take lots of pictures and send them to us.  

We love you and miss you all.