Monday, April 25, 2011

The SECOND day of Easter....and more!

Yes, in Poland they celebrate the 2nd day of Easter! It is always on Monday, and it is a holiday as well. Nothing is open! Early that morning we got a surprise visit from....

...Rafal and Agnieszka who were enjoying the beautful spring weather on their new bikes. (This great couple will be sealed in the Freiburg Temple next week!) Little did they know.....

...that President Nielson was aware of an interesting tradition connected with the 2nd Day of Easter...that of drenching people with water! The tradition is supposed to only concern unmarried young girls, but it has grown to include everyone in some parts of the country.

With Rafal and Agnieszka on their way down one of the many bike trails by our home, I talked President into taking a walk around the neighborhood. The weather was just too nice to stay inside!

One of our favorite places to go is the beautifully decorated cemetary close to the mission home. The Easter holiday brought many to the cemetary to clean and redecorate.



This is the dumpster on the way out of the cemetary!
This is one tough job for the garbage men this week!
Back at the mission home, it was time to get dinner ready for some special senior missionaries who were leaving to go home in the morning.

 Elder and Sister Ireland who have just completed a 2 year mission as CES Coordinators for the area.
(Yes, that's my new polish pottery and I love it!)
Of course, a good-bye dinner wouldn't be complete without a tie-cutting ceremony! The Irelands won't be going straight home to Australia, though. There are a few weeks of traveling in store for this couple! Elder and Sister Ireland...thank you for all you did to make the Poland Warsaw Mission better. A special thanks for the shadow leadership involved in helping the Polish YSA's pull off a great Regional YSA Conference last summer in Szczyrk. It was truly memorable! We love you and you will be missed!

No comments:

Post a Comment

To make a comment you must have a Google account (gmail)