Eric, Natalie and Libby made it to Poland! We met them in Warsaw and went with them first to the Wilanów Palace. Later on that Saturday evening, Natalie and Libby went to the Taylor Swift concert. Sharon and I drove back to Gdańsk. On Sunday morning Eric, Natalie and Libby flew to Gdańsk to go…

One of the great things we do with our missionaries is go to fun places on our preparation day. On July 29th we went to Sopot, a tourist city on the Gulf of Gdańsk just north of Gdańsk. We saw the Grand Hotel where Hitler stayed. We walked down the long wharf. We ate at…

We had a senior couples mission conference on July 25th and 26th. It was great to get together, learn about our callings, and feel the Spirit together. There are six senior couples in our mission. They are all very capable and very much extraordinary. All of them deal with living in a country where they…

On our way down to the Senior Couple’s Mission Conference, we stopped to see the Polish Royal Castle at Wawel. We toured the Wawel Cathedral and saw the crypts of the most honored people in Poland including Queen Jadwiga and Tadeusz Kościuszko. Queen Jadwiga was the first female head of state in Poland, living from…

“Doing landscaping service is really satisfying,” says Elder Belleau and he got plenty of it last Friday in Kisewo. He and his companion, Elder Pawlik, were joined by Sisters Dil and Sands to spread and level a mountain of sand and dirt. They commented that, “Before the seed can be planted you have to prepare…