We've had some wonderful experiences and some tough days, too. We've laughed and cried. We've been freezing in the winter and smoldering in the summer. We've had some spiritual experiences with missionaries and investigators and not so good experiences. I've cursed my oven, put my foot through the floor of the car because of the crazy drivers, cooked till I'm blue in the face, and missed my clothes dryer, but would not change this time we've had here and will continue to have for anything.
Thursday was MLC in the Mission Office. This meeting is for the Zone Leaders and the Sister Training Leaders. I love to have this meeting in the office. You can just feel the excitement and dedication of these leaders. Here's a few of the missionaries that came.
Elders Caskey, White, Kotter, President and Sister Edgren. Sister Hemming is kneeling next to Sister Edgren and Elder Brown.
This is lunch break. Elder Lanham (facing us) is talking with Sister Blake, Elder Vernon (in the back) and Elder Finch.
Last Friday when we got to work, there was an email from the Missionary Travel Dept. It was a flight home on Saturday for one of our missionaries. He had been sick for 2 weeks and they just couldn't figure out what was wrong. The doctor in Germany didn't want to send him home until he was feeling a little bit better and hopefully wouldn't have problems on the plane. This wasn't too sad though, because he would have been going home on April 12th anyway.
Then Friday night after we left the office, we went over to the Mission Home to give President Edgren all of the paperwork needed for this elder and Sister Edgren was on the phone with the companion of a Sister who passed out in an investigator's apartment. They had called the ambulance. Come to find out that she had been taking many, many vitamins and Airborne to stay healthy. We haven't heard what made her pass out, but she is up and going again.
On Saturday, Wayne and I played "hooky". We got up and went food shopping and then came home and changed into our jeans and went exploring. We decided to go to the Stalin Building and go up to the 30th floor to look out over Warsaw.
We think this is the funniest shaped building. It's all twisted.
This is facing West. The tall white building is the Marriott Hotel.
This is probably the busiest round-about in Warsaw. You wait forever to get through it.
The Vistula River in the background. This actual starts up near Gdansk near the Baltic Sea.
The round building is the International Soccer Stadium. One day, we may go see a soccer game.
And here I am standing next to someone. Maybe it's just a symbol for justice or something. They have these statues all around the Stalin Building.
After that, we went to the biggest park in Warsaw - Lazienki Park. It has a statue of Chopin in it. And while you are sitting there, you can hear some of Chopin's music playing. Here is the statue.
We think that is a tree bending over him, but really couldn't tell. But it was a beautiful day and there were tons of people in the park.
It was built around the palaces of the royal Lazienki Family. We walked around for about an hour. Here is one of the buildings that you can go into and look around. But we didn't take the time.
Then there was the outdoor theatre that was built. It said that perhaps Chopin played here for the Royal Family.
They also had clusters of Forsythia bushes everywhere. It was just beautiful and peaceful.
Monday we talked about the Book of Mormon in FHE. The lesson went very well and then we fed them some chicken sandwiches, chips and chocolate chip cookies. We had a word search game for them to play and it was fun to watch them try to find the words. They were all names from the BOM, but I guess being in English is was kind of hard for them.
On Tuesday, since transfers are coming up in a couple of weeks, we cooked lunch for the Office Elders and AP's. They actually wanted french toast and pancakes. So I made some more buttermilk syrup and maple syrup. We took some strawberries and whipped cream. We cooked two packages of bacon and had eggs also. They ate everything! Boy they can sure put it away. And they all stay so skinny. It's really not fair!
We had a good English class and had a wonderful discussion on missionary work. They wanted to know why the church makes the missionaries learn the languages of the different countries they serve in. Sometimes the questions are really way out there, but we do our best to answer and hope they understand.
Well, we have to say goodbye. We love you and miss all of you.
Happy Birthday Derek on Thursday!
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