Well, once again we have had a very busy week and it 's not over yet. On Friday, Sister Edgren came to the office so that we could plan the luncheon for the missionaries and President Uchtdorf, if he stays. He is having a separate meeting with just the missionaries on Saturday which will end about 5:00 pm. So we planned on having Cafe Rio - pork. Sister Edgren, Sister Roulstone and I are going to cook all of the pork for about 100 people. Then the other senior couples will being everything else - lettuce, beans, rice, tomatoes, cheese and dessert. We each will have to do about 10 kg each (about 25 lbs) of meat. I started cooking some on Sunday in the crock pot.
This is the season right now for strawberries here and there are stands all over the place. They are very cheap also. We bought a lot on Saturday so I made some jam. We also got some raspberries and bing cherries. I don't know where they get the fruit, but it sure is good. Saturday afternoon we took and rest and went with the AP's to the Copernicus Museum. It is a "hands on" museum and it was fun to watch the Elders do everything. Here's some pics:
Here's the Museum Entrance
Elder Lanham making different fans work with forced air.
Here's Elder Lanham again. When you started riding the bike, a skeleton showed up by the side riding the bike also.
Elders Lanham and Vernon trying to twirl each other off of the stand.
Crazy house.
After the museum, we met up with the Sisters and Elders Baranowski and Peacock.
We then went to the park and walked around for about 2 1/2 hours.
These sisters are in a three-some right now because of Sister Stratton going home. These are Sisters Poklinkowska, Blake, and Hemming. These three are a power house. The mission will miss them when they go home.
We bought some waffles in the park and everyone was trying to get mine. Elders Peacock, Vernon, Lanham and Baranowski. Vernon and Baranowski will be leaving the mission on the 17th.
The park also had peacocks all over the place. We tried to have this one open it plume, but it just walked away.
Here we all are. Sisters Hemming, Poklinkowska, Blake, me, Wayne, Baranowski, Peacock, Vernon and Lanham. We love all these missionaries very much.
Here's Elder Vernon riding a lion.
So back to the office on Monday and a meeting with President and Sister Edgren, the APs and Office elders. Discussion was on logistics of getting 94 missionaries into Warsaw on Friday/Saturday (13th and 14th) with some of them bringing luggage because of transfers which will take place on Sunday after President Uchtdorf speaks to all of the Polish saints at the Marriott Hotel downtown and making sleeping arrangements. We will have 2 Elders sleeping in our apartment on Saturday night. The President showed us who he was transferring so that the office elders could start coordinating things. Also, the legal process for getting residency cards changed so the missionaries have to stay an extra day to get their fingerprints taken. I have been working on the new paperwork since the second week in May for the 9 new missionaries and just finished yesterday. Plus the church ordered 4 new cars for our mission and a transporter for the President when he picks up the incoming missionaries at the airport. So Wayne, the APs, and office elders all went down Wednesday morning to pick all of the cars up from the dealer. And the 4 new automobiles were standard transmission and neither one of the office elders could drive them because they didn't know how. I guess they really had fun. I wish I could have been there.
But on Monday night for FHE, we had 15 people there. It was awesome!!!! We talked about obeying the commandments and what that really means. One of the sisters said that she takes a little bit of wine every once in a while because the doctor told her it would be good for her. We just had to laugh. But all the food I took was gone. I think that's why some of them come - just for the food. We do have fun.
Oh yeah, we have to do apartment inspections this week too. So Saturday we will be going to Lublin (about 2 1/2 hours away) to inspect 2 apartments, then hurry back for a baptism in the afternoon. And then we will still need to fit in 3 more apartments also.
This is really fun!!! Most of the days, we have something new come up that we've never handled before and it just makes life interesting.
President Obama was in town on Tuesday and Wednesday. One of the missionaries called me on Wednesday morning and said that he and his companion were right in the middle of the crowd watching President Obama talk. I told them that they probably shouldn't be there, but they said they couldn't move either.
Okay, that's it for this week. We love you and miss you all.
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