6 Feb 2014

Last Thursday we had an office meeting with the Pres. and Sister Edgren, the APs and Office Elders.  It's hard to know where the President is going to be every week, because he really doesn't say anything and we find out after he's left.  So we had a meeting so that we could put down his travel and talk about some other concerns of the mission.  It was a good meeting and we got a lot of things ironed out.  I have been tasked to look at how we orient the new missionaries coming in and what we can do differently so they feel more comfortable and knowledgeable about the Poland Warsaw Mission.

On Saturday, the Relief Society had an activity.  They asked everyone to bring some kind of food for everyone to eat and then bring the recipe.  After we ate, we made a recipe holder and we got a copy of every one's recipe.  It was a very enjoyable afternoon.  I didn't understand a word, but I had fun.

Here we are eating.  The Elders were there because they had an investigator meeting and, of course, they didn't show, so the RS Pres. felt sorry for them and invited them to eat with us.  We had an onion soup, a carrot soup, I made a casserole, some Thai food (very spicy and hot) and some brownies.  And I don't know what it was, but it had eggs in it and a whole lot of garlic.  And of course, they had their fruit tea to drink.  

Here we are working on our recipe books.  

And here we are with the books we made.

Not very many people there, but we all had a lot of fun.

This is the week that one of the Senior Couples are going home.  They decided to take a train from Poznan to Warszawa so that they could leave their car for the new couple (Shaws) that replaced them.  The Elders were at the train station with them to help them on with all of their luggage.  So all four of them were on the train trying to get all of the luggage situated when the train started to pull out of the station.  Once it starts moving the doors lock.  So Elder Peacock and Solmes rode on the train to the next stop, which was 1 hour down the track.  They explained to the conductor what had happened.  They didn't hear the whistle blow so they thought they had time to help the Sheleys with everything.  The conductor actually apologized to them because he said he forgot to blow the whistle.  So they left them ride the train for free to the next stop.  When they got off, they had to wait almost 2 hours for the next train back.  And then travel for an hour.  They got home in Poznan after the Sheleys were in Warszawa.  Anyway, we all went out to dinner on Monday night to say our goodbyes.  Here we are at the restaurant.

Poor Wayne, he doesn't get in any of the pictures.  But here are the Jensens, the Sheleys, Sister and President Edgren and me.  Oh Wayne placed the little tree there to represent him.  It was a bittersweet night for the Sheleys.  It's really hard to say goodbye.  The food was excellent and so was the company.  So we missed our FHE, but the Sisters filled in for us. 

On Sunday, at home in Salem, it was Stake Conference.  So Wayne and I got the URL address and we were able to watch the Sunday morning session.  It was wonderful to see some of our friends and to listen to our Stake President.  And we got to listen to a whole church meeting in English and understand everything that was being said. 

Well, that's it for this week.  We love you and miss you all.