First of all, our grandson Alex was called to the Peru Lima Mission. He will be leaving July 15th. And second, our son Robert and his wife Michelle are having a baby boy in July also. We are excited for both of their families and wish we could be there to celebrate with them. They are always in our prayers.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM ON THE 31ST AND TRACY ON THE 1ST. WE HOPE EACH OF YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!
Last Saturday we had our Poland-wide YSA meeting at the mission home. There were 19 in attendance and it was a good meeting. Lots of things got decided and committees were formed to help in preparing the event. Sister Edgren, Sister Jarosc, Sister Roulstone and I prepared dinner for them. The meeting lasted from 4:00 to almost 10:00. It was conducted all in Polish so we lost somethings in translation, but everyone knows their job now and what needs to be done. Here are a couple of pictures.
Patrycia (on the floor) is the Chairman of the Committee. And Wojiech is over the institute classes. In the picture also is Sisters Edgren and Tueller. This was some pre-planning.
This is almost everyone. We were discussing the schedule for each day.
Now they were in their separate committees several things. It went very well and Wayne and I were very tired.
On Sunday we had a surprise birthday party for Elder Brown. During the past couple of weeks, we have been telling both Elder Brown and his companion Elder Smith that we needed their help with our computer. Last Friday, Wayne called them during their planning time and asked if they could come over on Sunday. So we brought them home from church and Elder Brown was really surprised. He had no idea. We had French Toast, bacon, eggs, strawberries and whipped cream. It was fun. Wayne had to drive them back to the church though. No buses on Sunday.
Elder Smith is helping make the French Toast.
Here we are at the table. We gave Elder Brown some little cars. He sure is a cute kid.
And we sang "Sto Lat" to him also.
I think when we get home, I am going to make Wayne take me out every meal for a while so that I don't have to cook!!!!!
Monday night we had a treasure hunt for FHE. We talked about obedience and how when you are obedient, you are happy. At the end of the treasure hunt was some ice cream bars, which made everyone happy. I made some cream of chicken soup, bread and some cake for dessert.
One of the men that come is Stanislaw, who was just baptized in January. He is a very wonderful person and he works very hard at trying to learn all that he can about the gospel. Most of the people here in Poland don't have a Bible, so we would bring one with us from the office so that they could read the scriptures that we would use for the lessons. Wayne and I decided to give Stanislaw the Bible. After dinner, we had Elder Brown tell him the Bible was his. He almost started to cry. It was very touching. When we were all ready to leave, he came up and hugged me and thanked me. That took me by surprise, but I actually hugged him back and said "prosze bardzo". (you are very welcome) It was a very good night.
We have a new Senior Couple coming in May. They are the Kowalskis. His family is originally from Poland, so they are very excited to be coming here.
I think that's all for this week. We have Missionary Leadership Council on Thursday. Another busy day - but at least no cooking! (I have to complain about something)
We love you all and miss you.
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