Happy Birthday Heather
Hope you have a most wonderful day!
We had a busy day at work on Thursday. Wayne and I had to get a lot of things done because on Friday we drove down to Szczyrk again and stayed at the hotel where the YSA Conference is being held. But Thursday night we had a thunderstorm here and after it was over, we had a beautiful rainbow over our apartment.
We tried to get a good picture. I think we need a better camera.
There were 5 of the YSA committee there and Pres. and Sister Edgren, the Roulstones, Brat Turek (CES Director for Europe), Brat Jarosz and us. We got a lot of things accomplished. We drove down with the Roulstones. I took about 5 hours to get there. We ate lunch when we arrived and then started looking at rooms and negotiating the food portion of the conference. After dinner we all went on a hike to see what the best route would be for all of the YSA's at the conference. The place looked a lot different with everything green.
Here is looking outside of our room at the hotel.
And here we are eating lunch. They fed us soup (tomato or mushroom), fish, a coleslaw salad and some ice cream for dessert. I actually ate the fish. Found a couple of bones, but on the whole it was okay.
Sister Edgren, Sister Roulstone, Elder Roulstone and Czarek.
Patty is stsanding with Czarek, Wojtek and Lucasz, and Brat Turek is facing us. Brat Jarosz has his back to us. And that's my head of gray hair in the corner.
On the hike, we saw a beautiful little church. It rang bells every hour.
And then where ever you go, there are always little statues of the Mother Mary or Jesus Christ or just a cross. But there are also flowers by it all the time, too. Don't know who puts them there, but they are there.
So this was on the way to the trail.
When we got back from the hike, we all met in Czarek's room for a meeting. It was quite cozy. Everyone was on beds or the floor.
Patty is the main chair person of the committee and she is doing a wonderful job. That's President Edgren on the floor with his back to us.
It was a good trip, but very long. We got home on Saturday afternoon. I had wash to do, cook some dinner for Sunday for the missionaries and iron some of Wayne's shirts. President Edgren allowed all of the missionaries to Skype home for Mother's Day. They were all so excited. But any way, we let them use our computer and one of the computer's in the mission office. So right after church, we brought the Sisters and Elder Blom in the car with us back to the mission office. Elder Blom and Sister Poklinkowska were skyping at 2:00 pm. So Wayne and I were at the mission office for 6 1/2 hours. We had the two computers working, one in the president's office and one in the main room. We had 10 missionaries talking- each taking about an hour. You could hear the screams of joy when they finally got connected and saw each other. It was fantastic! I made two pans of casserole and one big pan of a raspberry/blackberry cobbler with ice cream. Everything was gone. Oh and some bread, too.
So Monday, the office elders took the Kowalski's (new Senior couple) paperwork down to the Ursad to get their legal process started. The people there wouldn't accept any of the paperwork because it had change on May 1st. And one of the elder's had his wallet stolen over the weekend. We had to report that, contact his parents to discontinue his personal card, and have him go the government office in the town he is in. Plus in the morning before we left for the office I had to make dinner for FHE. Let's just say, Monday was a crazy day. We did have a good FHE though. There were 11 people there, It was awesome and we talked about baptism. When we were leaving the Sisters were heading to the chapel with an investigator. It was a guy, so they asked us to be with them for a little while. Bartik was the person's name and he had a lot of questions and listened very intently. We bore a testimony about prayer and the first vision. By the time that was over, we drove the Sisters to their apartment because it was 9:15 and they are suppose to be in by 9:30. We got home about 10:30. Long day.
Tuesday was a little more quiet, but I had to contact our lawyer's office here in Poland to ask them about the new legal paperwork, because we didn't understand it. And also, they are taking finger prints now, so we will have to have the Kowalski's come back into Warsaw after we figure it out. And one of the Sisters started getting a bad case of acne and she told her mom about it. Her mom contacted some skin doctor she knew and he wrote some prescriptions for her. She purchased the prescriptions in the US, packaged them up and shipped via FedEx and put on the paperwork the word medication. Boy you sure can't do that. In the past few days we have had to fill out three different forms, try to convince customs that the medication isn't going to be sold and that it isn't harmful drugs. Yet, they won't let us come down and open the package for them to see what's in there either. So don't ever try to send medicated face cream oversees.
On Wednesday at English class, we read a story about Mothers. It's Mother's day here in Poland on the 26th. We also played the Easter Video the church put out called - Because of Him. It was a very good night. For our game, we played something fun. You tell 3 things about yourself and one of them isn't true. And then everyone has to guess which one isn't true.
So that's all. It was a wonderful Mother's Day. We did get to talk to some of the kids. Not all of them because it got to be too late. But we enjoyed being with the missionaries and feeling their excitement.
And the best news of all this week is that my brother Rob is being ordained an Elder on Sunday in Nevada after 50 years of being outside the church. It was very special news and I wish I could be there. Rob also told us that he and my other brother Gary flew to Washington DC last week to attend our Aunt June's 100th birthday party. Good things like this out weigh any of the bad.
We love you and miss you all.
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