In Katowice, we met up with President Jarosz and his daughter Ada and Patrycia. Patty is the head chairperson on the committee for the YSA Conference. President Jarosz drove the 5 of us to Szczyrk to see the hotel we wanted to stay at for the conference. That was another hour. The hotel is on top of a mountain. It was a beautiful place. This is the room we stayed in.
We met with the manager on Saturday and she took us to see some of the rooms for the YSA's and some fancier rooms for like Sister Dalton and husband would be staying. After about 2 hours, we sat down and negotiated some prices and some other things that we needed and came away with a wonderful deal. Now we have to submit to Germany for their blessing.
Here is the view from our window and part of the hotel. It is huge!
See - there's no snow. It's like spring time here in Poland
We missed a baptism in Warsaw on Saturday, but learned Sunday that everything went well.
So back to work on Monday. We had to get everything finalized for the 8 new missionaries coming in on Tuesday. Where they were going to meet for a meeting with the President, how to get all of them from the airport to the mission home with luggage and people. We had everything done and organized when we left to go to FHE. The AP's were still at the office making a chart for Sister Edgren when we left. FHE was wonderful. We talked about the power of prayer and everyone joined in the discussion. Dinner was served and we took the Sisters home to their apartment so they wouldn't have to ride the tram.
On Tuesday morning, President and Sister Edgren had to take one missionary to the airport to send him home. Meanwhile, we got a message from Salt Lake City that the 8 missionaries were in Denver and could not fly out. And they wouldn't get a flight until Friday. The Mission President from the Denver North Mission was notified also. And he said he would take care of them for the next couple of days. A little while later, we were notified that Elder Tiner (the one that left in the morning) was stuck in Frankfurt. His flight had been cancelled to Chicago. We didn't know what to do about that. President Edgren got on the phone to Lufthansa Airlines to see if they could get him on a different flight. So parents had to be notified and the president was in constant communication with SLC. President was finally notified by Lufthansa that they got Elder Tiner on another flight that went to San Francisco and then on to Las Vegas (his home). This is the week of transfer also. So we went ahead with the transfer today and we have a lot of 3 companions right now until the new missionaries arrive on Saturday.
On Sunday, I had to get a picture with Sister Wendel and Sister Tobler. We knew that they both would be leaving, but they didn't know yet. These two sisters are wonderful. They both work so hard and have beautiful testimonies.
We will miss them a lot.
Today, we will have all of the missionary trainers in for a meeting. I have to order lunch for everyone. We decided on Chinese this time. Wayne has to go to the train station and pick some of the missionaries up and take them back also.
It's been crazy and really fun too. Oh by the way, I had to change some of the legal paperwork because of the different day the new missionaries would be arriving in Poland. There is never a dull moment in the Mission Office.
And it was the Festival of Lights in Warsaw on Saturday and Sunday. So once again there were fireworks and bands playing all around us. Then on Monday, it was a Polish Holiday called "3 Kings". So everything was closed, again!!!!!!
Well, that's all for now. I can't think of anything else. We love you all and miss you.
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