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Winter won’t go away
We’ve been waiting for the weather to warm up out here but we can’t seem to manage it! The last few weeks has been mostly house and yard projects. We finished putting sod in around the new pergola and the trampoline hole we dug. We’ve also been enjoying Griffin and Cameron playing flag football this…
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The Sisters Move
We began working on finding a new apartment for the sisters since we got here. The Parkinsons told us there were mold issues in their old apartment and when we saw the photos of black mold growing behind the curtains we were convinced they needed to move. After viewing several other apartments, and careful consideration…
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Wolf’s Lair
On our preparation day we and the elders visited Adolf Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair located in eastern Poland. This isolated outpost was where Hitler lived from June 1941 to November 1944 (about 3 1/2 years) and from where he waged World War II. We saw what remained of the buildings of the compound, the communications network,…
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So many projects
This week, we invited Uncle Jay over to help us do some landscaping. Jay helped us lay some landscaping fabric, build a shed, and seal our wood pavilion. Lewis and Hallie loved helping. It was adorable. Jay made some money out of it and we got some projects done.We have a big birthday week coming…
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Graduation + Lagoon
This week marked the end of finals! I took 3 of my 4 finals on Friday and Saturday, then finished the last one on Monday afternoon. I’ll be working with Dr. Smalley in the lab this summer making volumetric displays. Recently he has asked us to learn how to use our spatial light modulator (SLM),…
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Visiting Elžbieta
I have attached a map of our branch boundaries. It would take four hours to traverse it east to west and two hours to go north to south. The dots show where we have members living. Yesterday we drove the young sister missionaries to the town of Kobylnica about 90 minutes away from Gdańsk. The…