As you come into the town of Szczyrk, you see the training facilities for Ski Jumping. This is really an amazing facility. It is much taller and higher than these pictures show. You ride up on a ski lift then the grass, or artifical turf, allows you to ski down, hit the jump and land below.
There are bleachers behind the photo, so many spectators can attend and watch all the contestants.
This is one of the groups that went on the service project at the Young Single Adult conference. This group had 4 different languages going on, but everyone understood each other. 17 different countries were represented at this conference. Close to 200 were in attendance.
We were dropped off and walked up the back side of a ski run. Our assignment was cleaning up trash and making sure everything looked great. Work projects are very hard to find in these countries. If you want to do something to help a community, you are taking a job away from someone else. You need to be creative in finding things to do. The question is often asked, "Why would you want to do that? Someone has that job and is supposed to take care of that."
Outside the cities in the forest areas, you see people sitting along the roads selling jars of berries. This is one of the many men who pick berries in the hills and forests then head down to the roads and sit with their bottles of berries for sale. When we first saw these glass jars of berries just lined up on the roads, we wondered who in the world would stop (and get out of the flow of traffic) and buy berries?? But they do, and it's popular.
Siostra Nielson and Ada (Warsaw l) coming up the trail with Grzegorz (Poznan) coming up from behind.
Our group- Ada, Dorothy (Warsaw ll) and Andy (Warsaw l) Nicolas (Warsaw l) and Grzegorz.
We all wore the famous yellow vests that the Church uses worldwide for service projects and international aid- "Helping Hands"- in Polish.
Since all of our belonging are still on a ship somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, we are wearing borrowed clothing so wouldn't have to wear our "Church" clothes.
When we finished, we had collected a lot of garbage. A radio station interviewed one of the brothers and the local newspaper sent out someone to see what we were doing and WHY.
As you come into the town of Szczyrk, you see the training facilities for Ski Jumping. This is really an amazing facility. It is much taller and higher than these pictures show. You ride up on a ski lift then the grass, or artifical turf, allows you to ski down, hit the jump and land below.
There are bleachers behind the photo, so many spectators can attend and watch all the contestants.
This is one of the groups that went on the service project at the Young Single Adult conference. This group had 4 different languages going on, but everyone understood each other. 17 different countries were represented at this conference. Close to 200 were in attendance.
We were dropped off and walked up the back side of a ski run. Our assignment was cleaning up trash and making sure everything looked great. Work projects are very hard to find in these countries. If you want to do something to help a community, you are taking a job away from someone else. You need to be creative in finding things to do. The question is often asked, "Why would you want to do that? Someone has that job and is supposed to take care of that."
Outside the cities in the forest areas, you see people sitting along the roads selling jars of berries. This is one of the many men who pick berries in the hills and forests then head down to the roads and sit with their bottles of berries for sale. When we first saw these glass jars of berries just lined up on the roads, we wondered who in the world would stop (and get out of the flow of traffic) and buy berries?? But they do, and it's popular.
Siostra Nielson and Ada (Warsaw l) coming up the trail with Grzegorz (Poznan) coming up from behind.
Our group- Ada, Dorothy (Warsaw ll) and Andy (Warsaw l) Nicolas (Warsaw l) and Grzegorz.
We all wore the famous yellow vests that the Church uses worldwide for service projects and international aid- "Helping Hands"- in Polish.
Since all of our belonging are still on a ship somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, we are wearing borrowed clothing so wouldn't have to wear our "Church" clothes.
When we finished, we had collected a lot of garbage. A radio station interviewed one of the brothers and the local newspaper sent out someone to see what we were doing and WHY. 
That was wonderful service project ! in beautiful nature area ! :) Now I can see the purpuse! i love those people ! they are amazing:)
ReplyDeleteThank you president and sister nielson ! you are the best !:)
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ReplyDeleteAnd behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn a wisdom ; that ye may learn that when ye are in the b service of your c fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.
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