Category: Mom And Dad

We were invited to our senior missionary conference held in Warsaw. We rode the train from Gdańsk to Warsaw on Wednesday January 29 then walked a couple of kilometers through two parks on the way to our hotel. The hotel was the best I’ve ever stayed at. Elder Parsons was the CFO for Marriott so…

Our Christmas Day 2024 was spent at home in our apartment. The sister missionaries came for a brunch then we had a nice dinner with the elders. The elders had gone to Warsaw with Damien, who was baptized in the font in the Warsaw building. They said it was a great experience to have him…

In the MTC, I first noticed that Sharon had tremors. They weren’t large but I noticed them when she was stressed. I immediately thought of Parkinson’s Disease and it was very worrisome to me. When we had been in Poland for several weeks I thought they were worse. By the time we reached Halloween she…

One of the members of our branch passed away a couple of weeks ago and the funeral was Friday. It was organized and conducted by her daughter and granddaughter neither of whom are members of the church. In planning the funeral they were kind enough to ask us to sing and to read a scripture…

The Christmas market opened last weekend and we joined the large crowds enjoying the season. My favorite booths were the ones selling food! There are so many booths and so many different foods. Can I make it through all the great food booths before the market closes?

Bryant and Paige, Melodie and Jay came to visit us in Gdańsk on Thursday October 31 (Halloween). After they arrived we took them to our church. We immediately put up the Halloween decorations that Paige brought for our English Class. The people who came for English that night not only got to see Paige’s decorations…

Yesterday we and all the missionaries in our district visited Toruń (pronounced Toroin), the home of Polish gingerbread. It was first made in the 13th century here and is famous worldwide. We took a tour and learned how gingerbread is made. As made here in Toruń, it is a special sugar cookie with ginger and…

Did you hear about the legend of the dragon of Toruń? Here is what we read when we visited the city. “On August 13, 1746, the foreman of carpentry Johann Georg Hieronimi and Kataharina Storchin, a soldier’s wife, testified to the municipal clerk in Toruń that in the spring of 1746 they saw a dragon….

Jesus said, “Except a man be born of the water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”  Yesterday we found our way to Brzezno beach for a baptism in the cool Baltic Sea.  When offered the choice between being baptized in a pool or in the ocean, Victor Barrientos, our…

We spent last week in Warsaw getting our special Polish documents and attending zone conference. Sharon also went to a special sister missionary conference while I hung out with the other senior missionary elders. Our first challenge was to go on Monday obtain the special Polish document, the Karta Pobytu. This document allows us to…