20 Mar 2014

Joshua - Happy 21st Birthday on Monday!

Hope you all had a Happy St. Patrick's Day.  I took some sugar cookies to FHE on Monday.  Wayne made a shamrock pattern out of cardboard and I cut around it on the dough.  Then of course, I frosted them with green frosting.  No one at FHE knew why I made Shamrock cookies.  I had to explain it.  We also had some fun that night.  We talked about "Putting on the Whole Armor of God" and how we need certain things to protect us from the fiery darts of Satan.  So we gave everyone a egg, two plastic cups, two napkins and two rubber bands and told them to make something that would protect their egg if we dropped it from 10 feet.  They really had fun doing it.  But we all kind of made the same thing.  We wrapped the egg in the napkins, stuffed it into one of the cups and then cut the other cup down and stuffed it in the first cup.  We then used the rubber bands to hold it all together.  We each climbed the ladder in the gym, (Wayne had put down a plastic bag in case one really got messy) and dropped our eggs.  My egg broke, but all the other eggs made it through.  But I'm glad one egg broke so we could talk about what I didn't do to protect my egg enough.  I forgot to take pictures.  It was really fun and made the point.

Last Saturday the two branches in Warsaw got together and celebrated the Relief Society Birthday.  We really had a lot of fun.  Lunch was excellent and they had a little program also.  Then we made little rabbits out of a wash cloths.  Here are some pictures of that. It was a long day for Sister Roulstone and me.  At 8:00 am, Wayne and I were picking up Sisters Tobler and Mikalauska to take Sister Tobler back to another doctor's appointment.   (We had taken her Friday night also and spent about 2 hours at the doctor's office)  Sister Tobler was doing chin-ups on a bar in the door frame of her apartment and it fell.  She landed on her head and has been having headaches and numbing on her left side.  On Saturday, all they needed to do was to do a blood test.  Then on Monday, Sister Edgren had to take her to another place to get an MRI.  Meanwhile, Sister Roulstone went to the church at 10:00 am to play the piano for a meeting that was being held by our Area Authority - Elder Adler.  After we took Sister Tobler to the doctor's, Wayne drove me over to the chapel so that Sister Roulstone and I could prepare part of the luncheon for the Adler's and others attending the meeting.  Sister Edgren had prepared everything, so all we had to do was serve it.  For the Relief Society celebration, the 1st branch was in charge of bring salads, so I made a raspberry jello with cream cheese and whipped cream and everyone really enjoyed it.

Here's the flowers that were put throughout the room.  Poland has beautiful flowers and there are flower stands on every corner.

And here's everyone that came.

Here are some of the sisters enjoying the meal.

Here is our branch president's wife - Sister Jagard, Agnieska (can't remember her last name) and Sister Dresler (she's over the history center in our chapel)

Here's the cake they ordered for the birthday.  It was beautiful, but very bland.

And here we are - Sister Roulstone and me with our cut little bunnies we made.

We really had a fun time.  Wayne and I had to bring Sister Edgren home because President Edgren had taken Elder Adler and his wife over to the Marriott and Radison Hotels so he could choose which place the "all-Poland Saints" meeting would be held when President Uchtdorf comes in June.  After we got home at 4:30, we rushed over to the store to buy some things for the week and then back over to the office to help the AP's with some work they had to do.  I think we got home about 8:30 and once again we were dead tired.  

Since we have been in the office, President Edgren has brought paperwork over from 4 people who want their names taken off the records of the church.  I then send a letter to them that states that there will be no action taken for 30 days.  If within that time, they change their minds, they can let us know.  I have sent the paperwork for 2 of the people to Salt Lake City already.  They will be removed from the records of the church.  That's one of the sad parts of working in the office.  

By the way, Sister Tobler found out that she had a couple of discs in her neck that were out of "whack".  But the doctor said it wasn't from her fall.  The doctor told her that it happened some time ago and that the fall just aggravated it enough that it caused the headaches and numbness.  She has to go to physical therapy for a while.  

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

Pa pa (means goodbye)