Christmas

This is our "Charlie Brown Christmas tree" at the church.

We drew names for Christmas presents.

Here's what the young ones got...

...and here's the old folks' presents.

Elder Lundin, Janina, Sisters Bailey and Helfrich, and Elder Plumb

with their stockings.

We (missionaries) put on a Christmas pageant for the memebers.

Here's Mary and Joseph, before the baby was born.

Do not laugh, we are younger than Abraham and Sarah when they

had their firstborn.

The baby has arrived.

On the left is our narrator, our branch mission leader, Kazik.

The angel is announcing the birth of the Christ child to the shepherds

and they have come to adore him.  (with dishtowels on their heads)

The wisemen have arrived (they have crowns)

The angel is covering her face with her notes.

Now you can see the angel again.

Our two investigators wanted to take a picture with us.

We had fun doing it.

This is our street on December 26. 

We live on a one-way street.

It seems to us that some people park their cars for the winter.

This is how Klaudia gets to church in the winter.

Reminds Anja of her childhood. 

Zone conference Dec. 15, 2010

You just can't get a serious picture of Elders and Sisters.

The couple on the left in the front row just arrived in Poland

the night before the conference.  They were pretty tired.

Did you guess?

The "crow's nests" are actually mistletoe.

Here you can see the snowcovered berries.

This one shows the berries better.

Snow has melted off some trees.

Take a guess

Guess what these "crows' nests" really are.

I'll take another picture this week in better light.

This tree is right in front of our chapel.

Pre-Christmas pictures

Christmas tree on Długa. the main street in Old Town (Rynek)

More decorated trees on Długa.  We had had snow, but it melted. 

We got more of it the next day.

Scene down Długa at night.

Polish Nativity to be added to my collection.  It is carved into wood.

December 4, 2010

Members and missionaries and one investigator at the dinner table.

This is the other end of the table.  Clarence and I had to set up a little table for us in the hall.  You can see part of Clarence's head behind the Elders.

A special guest came to visit our only Primary child, Klaudia.

Magda making carrot salad.

Jadviga showing her love to Klaudia. I missed the kiss by a split second.

President and Sister Nielson in Gdansk

Dinner at "Sphynks". 

Pres. Nielson holding our branch president's baby.

There are more pictures of this weekend on Nielsons' blog."Nielson Poland Warsaw Mission Blog" I think it's with blogspot also like ours.