We love you.
Another week. We've had some good things happen and some sad things happen. We spent the 4th of July in the office. They don't do anything here in Poland to celebrate for the 4th! So we made French Toast and bacon for lunch with the office elders and we took our picture with the Statue of Liberty.
Statue of Liberty, Elder Meherg, Elder Durrant and me, and Elder Smith. Cute, huh?
Saturday we went driving around and saw another park. So we stopped and walked around for a little bit. He's the person the park was named after, Jan Paderewski. He was a famous pianist and evidently held concerts in this area. It was very beautiful.
Here I am in one of the flowers beds they had all over.
And of, course there was a little pond in the middle of the park.
There's only one thing bad about the parks and that's the bugs. They don't seem to bother the Polish people, but they sure bother me.
When we got home, we were trying to find a lightbulb that we had put away in a place where we would remember we put it and then completely forgot where that place was. Anyway, we found a flag, so here I am showing our true colors.
Sunday we had an awesome testimony meeting. I know I've said it before, but these people have such strong faith. They love the Lord and know that he is with them continually. Even when they are along in the gospel, they know they have chosen the better part. It's wonderful!
On Monday, we had 9 members of the branch show up for FHE, our sister missionaries and us. We talked about "who we are". What we stand for and that the Lord is our guiding light. Most of these people are so tender in the gospel, that we need to just talk about basic principles.
Afterwards, I called Sister Roulstone to see if we could come over and visit with her and Elder Roulstone. We wanted to see if he was doing better. When we got there, Elder Roulstone surprised us all by asking us to take him back to the hospital. He was feeling very well. So Elder Durrant had to help walk down to the car. I stayed with Sister Roulstone while they did some tests. He passed out again and started throwing up. They found another blood clot in his lungs this time. We are praying that he gets well enough that they can fly them both home. I'm so glad we went to their apartment when we did.
Tuesday night we were invited over to the mission home for the Jensen's last supper in Poland. what a wonderful couple. We hate to see them go. But everyone pitches in to help.
Sister Egdren, Sister Jensen and me.
Here's Elder and Sister Jensen. They fly out of here at 6:00 am on Wednesday.
It's getting very warm here. We walked to the office on Tuesday and went on the other side of the street to be in the shade. And guess what we found - it's not a gnome, but almost.
He was a cute little guy.
So there's another week. We wish Alex well as he gives a talk this Sunday and flies out to the Mexican Training Center at 1:00 am Wednesday morning. His best two years of his life begin.
We love you and miss you all.
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