We have had another full and like I said exciting week. We are getting ready to do a "mini" transfer this weekend (I think that means that not a lot of the missionaries will be moved). I have to put all of the missionaries that have been transferred into the church's system so that they know where everyone is and then President Edgren has a missionary roster that he keeps, which I have to change also. The office elders have to make all of the train arrangements and coordinate each new companionship so no one is by themselves. And then to top it off, one of the elders' Polish residency card will expire 10 days before he goes home, so instead of paying the 340 zl (110 dollars) and waiting for the decision from the government to extend his residency card, we have decided to fly him to England for a day so that he can get his passport stamped and he can stay in Poland for another 90 days. That takes place next Tuesday. So I have been working with the travel department in Germany to get a flight. I think that today (Wednesday), we got a document from a District Court about owing lots of money for the land that the Warszawa chapel sits on. I tried to google translate, but it didn't help very much. And Monday after FHE, I was on the phone with our son Jeremy until midnight, trying to do our taxes. This is fun!
So this past weekend, the head of the CES program in Europe had a Mission program for the kids of Poland who are old enough to go on a mission and are preparing for that. They held most of the meetings in the Mission office. I helped Sis. Edgren with food on Friday. I prepared a tossed salad and brought some bread. There were 18 young single adults there, plus the 2 institute teachers. I used 3 huge heads of lettuce plus green peppers, yellow peppers, red peppers, mushrooms, zucchini, salami, tomatoes, carrots, and a little bit of cheese. Wayne and I didn't stay for dinner, but Sister Edgren told me that all of the salad was gone. On Saturday, they had classes all day about missionary work and did some role plays also. We stopped by when they broke for lunch. Here are a few pictures of the next Polish church leadership.
This is my favorite young woman from Wroclaw. Cindy Call. She is a very talented young woman.
Here is Wojech, Daniel and Brat Turek (CES) Daniel was baptized last year and he is only 17 yrs old. But is very strong in the gospel.
Here is Brat Kerr (CES). He is from Scotland, his wife is from Ireland and they live in England. Loved it when he would talk. Beautiful accent.
So starting from the left is Wojech, Michal (white shirt), Oscar (standing in front), Patrycia (purple blouse and gray skirt), Kasia is standing next to her, then Cindy again, Tsonga has her back to the camera and the red head is Alex. She went on a mission to Moldova and was helping teach the lessons.
That's all the pictures we took. We didn't get everyone, but they all seemed to be enjoying everything. On Sunday, we had to open the office for them so we stayed for church there. Beautiful testimonies were born. It was a wonderful weekend.
A couple of the kids got to go and be with some of the missionaries and be on a "mission" with them. Wojech went to Bialystok. And he had an experience he will never forget. The two elders assigned in Bialystok, Elders Skolmoski and Garfield took Wojech contacting with them. They were at an apartment complex when a drunk came up to them and told them to get lost. (Not in those kind of words) So the three of them left but the drunk followed them. Elder Garfield told him that they were leaving and he didn't have to follow them to make sure. That's when the fun started. He ran up to Elder Skolmoski and started yelling and then head-butted him right in the face. It knocked him down and Wojech tried to grab him, but the drunk hit him in the face with his fist. I don't think he tried to confront Elder Garfield, because he's big. The drunk ran away and Elder Garfield called the police. So Elder Skolmoski is bleeding all over the place (he broke his nose) and Wojech just didn't know what to think. But Elder Skolmoski (I think) is very proud of his broken nose. It's something to tell his children and grandchildren about.
And one of the Sisters called and said that she lost her wallet (she thinks that she was pick-pocketed). So all of her cards are gone. The church card that she gets funds on each month, her personal credit card, her residency card and the money she had in her wallet. So we had to email her dad - tell him to stop her credit card, email SLC and tell them a card was stolen. (They will send her another one) And Wayne put a few extra zlotys on her companion's card so she would have some money until the beginning of next month.
Oh I forgot, one of the Sisters on Monday was exercising by doing pull ups on a bar they have in their apartment, when it fell from the door frame. She landed flat on her back and hit her head hard. On Tuesday, she called Sis. Edgren and told her she had a very bad headache. So the Senior couple in Gdansk took her to the emergency room. She had a concussion which could have been very dangerous through the night.
English class was fun tonight. We read an article on Integrity from the February 2013 Ensign. It was very good and we had a long discussion on what integrity means to them.
So that was our week. A little bit of everything
Love you all and miss you.
Happy Birthday Gary!
Enjoy Hawaii
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