tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67678700524261293922024-03-19T04:35:32.569-07:00Drake's Mission in Poland-letters to home from their missions-Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-59589608315601332142015-03-19T16:10:00.003-07:002015-03-19T16:17:46.025-07:00But wait!!! There's more! A trip to a LEGO exhibit!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Drake and Elder Fotu were in Bydgoszcz for 3 days -- which just HAPPENED to be when the Kagele Family gave the missionaries a treat they'll never forget! And in true Kelley Kagele fashion, she not only spoiled the missionaries, but she took many many pictures to chronicle the experience. Thank you, Kelley!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Eating out with the Kagele Family</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Kelley Kagele always takes good care of the missionaries in Bydgoszcz -- what a blessing!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Kelley said that this Lego Exhibit was in town for a month and she managed </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to score some crazy cheap tickets so they could all go!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Reliving their Lego building days as kids, I'm sure!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Big smiles!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Taking a closer look</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">None other than the Titanic!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Can you imagine how long that would take to build?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And it wouldn't truly be the Titanic if Jack & Rose weren't flying from the bow </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(as much as Lego people can make their little yellow arms fly).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Isn't that piano just grand? :)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Bialy Dom in Waszyngton -- I'll have to have Drake pronounce that for me when he gets home :)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Totally captivated</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pleased as punch!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Elder Fotu and I on a bus</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dear Mom,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yeah, this is my last emailing P-Day. I will be getting ready to leave. I think the Edgrens are going to take me out to dinner. It's going to be fun and special.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yeah, it's going to be fun to have the Edgrens so close. (They are from Danville -- just an hour away from our home).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That's cool that the Youth Conference thing went well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yeah, I know all of those people at Elder Wolfley's homecoming. MAN, Elder Finch's hair is crazy!! haha</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A lot of missionaries go home and keep their hair all Euro style and stuff.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's fun having this hair sometimes.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but... i miss my old hair! -- hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I certainly want to grow it out when I get home -- haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's more fun having it long. Having short hair is kind of boring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's weird. Right now I am in Bydgoszcz. We just got here like an hour ago by train from Poznań. It was great getting to go to Poznań. I got to see Darek and Bożena and <a href="http://terraanddrake.blogspot.com/2014/01/birthday-blessings.html">Maciej</a>. I gave a talk in church. It was so surreal to go back there. It felt like I had been gone for so long. But at the same time, it felt like I was just there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, being in Bydgoszcz is even weirder. It was my first area. I still remember my first days here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So coming back here for the first time... it's really trippy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It feels like I am walking in a dream. And my trainee transfer seems SOOO long ago. It feels like forever ago that I was here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I walked into the chapel... it felt like it was so long ago that I was there. Really weird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Strange stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey do you know when my flight home is? I think I have the intinerary. but do you know when I am coming in?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That would probably be important that you know that... haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">who will be at the airport?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mom, thank you so much for being such a support for me while I have been here on my mission. With all the letters, emails, and packages. You've helped a lot. Thank you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love you, Mom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'll see you soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Love,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Drake</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> -- my hair is all wet</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Teaching Polish to the missionaries in Katowice <br />(as only Starszy Allen can; he has an amazing gift for teaching and for learning languages)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Back with Elder Wilcox and the elders in <span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">Poznań</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Elder Jones (bottom right right) went on exchanges with Elder Fotu </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I went on exchanges with Elder Garrett (bottom right, on the left)<br />Elder Campora (bottom left on the right) was roommates with Will Sutherland at BYU <br />(Will is one of Drake's very best friends from Redding; I just happened to be in Utah last April when Will opened his mission call and I asked all the boys in the room where they were going on their missions. When Dominik Campora said "Poland," I just about fell over and spent a good 5 minutes just talking to him all excitedly about it before I moved on to the next boy :) )</span></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-46197316274103304262015-03-15T22:39:00.001-07:002015-03-15T22:39:29.857-07:00Bye Bye KrakowDrake only has 9 more days left on his mission. He sent these photos last week of some dear friends in Krakow:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Łukasz Jabłoński</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Jan Ćwiertnia</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ania Mucha</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Marcin Kapcia</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">(at the Uchtorf conference last year)</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz4TGmLum2U3AsAiCgkJ250i-3JuNEjQK5kjemQb4pbvkmKnrCbpi9GR9K_UVd6NFxsPppGnGVklbPuOur9vWOqIHAzarnP6XwgeGP21INtW9PF3WIPzhsp90ynDZ07VR9U6uyhWN-fq8/s1600/P1040639.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz4TGmLum2U3AsAiCgkJ250i-3JuNEjQK5kjemQb4pbvkmKnrCbpi9GR9K_UVd6NFxsPppGnGVklbPuOur9vWOqIHAzarnP6XwgeGP21INtW9PF3WIPzhsp90ynDZ07VR9U6uyhWN-fq8/s1600/P1040639.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the Pawlik Family</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is a remake of the first picture that was ever taken of me in Poland</span></span></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-5384720161561740532015-03-08T22:55:00.001-07:002015-03-08T22:58:03.617-07:00Time for Farewells / Time for new adventures! 2/22/15<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">With my MTC missionaries -- Elder Waskiewicz, Elder Wolfley, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and Elder Blom before they headed home</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dear Mom -- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My extension now begins. Instead of going home tomorrow with my MTC group and other 4 sister missionaries, I will stay for another month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am going to be going around the mission with Elder Fotu training missionaries and serving in every single city (that has missionaries) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for a couple of days each. That will be fun. I'll be able to meet all of the missionaries and go to all of the cities. I am most excited to go the cities that I used to serve in, especially Poznań and Bydgoszcz.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdGULtnPwhIAaiQf7bo7NNzO8OahXgoYuSwggEEY4cdEVtjiBp7CxGWgCJuttPPXx5ygp8M4xKXBVPdvzTzJ_XAcVVeu1eJCINjhchEuOxaIz6KTG-dHWzGcM2wmnNlEBUWE3fN3zW6o4/s1600/Traveling+Assistants+and+APs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdGULtnPwhIAaiQf7bo7NNzO8OahXgoYuSwggEEY4cdEVtjiBp7CxGWgCJuttPPXx5ygp8M4xKXBVPdvzTzJ_XAcVVeu1eJCINjhchEuOxaIz6KTG-dHWzGcM2wmnNlEBUWE3fN3zW6o4/s1600/Traveling+Assistants+and+APs.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Drake with Elder Fotu on the right (Traveling Assistants)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Retallick and Elder Kimball on the left (APs)</span></td></tr>
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was really really hard leaving Kraków. I gave my farewell talk yesterday. I cried. A lot. I almost got a hold of my emotions until I looked up and saw that all the members were crying too. So that made me cry more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today I have my last day with my fellow MTC missionaries. They leave tomorrow morning. It'll be crazy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I hope I will have more time to email next week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Love,</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Drake</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-51186898929563632015-03-08T22:44:00.000-07:002015-03-08T23:07:05.428-07:00Visiting Zakopane 2/15/15<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeAId0sT661hf-bA_5HKU2XyufDQZ1LNBosCE9JIsSecldvYS_t382_Pn7_PYW-V8liz3DZMhG7lO6JSEZ9ZVesTNgyKIGh5Tr0pWdWrlM5zDg0i07-I5lBzGuiAOyyqylhEs8ORK_6RE/s1600/Drake+Mountain+High.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeAId0sT661hf-bA_5HKU2XyufDQZ1LNBosCE9JIsSecldvYS_t382_Pn7_PYW-V8liz3DZMhG7lO6JSEZ9ZVesTNgyKIGh5Tr0pWdWrlM5zDg0i07-I5lBzGuiAOyyqylhEs8ORK_6RE/s1600/Drake+Mountain+High.jpg" height="640" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Giving a Geography lesson to all <br />(Poland on one side of the ridge and Slovakia on the other)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Up in the mountains with the Krakow missionaries</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Dear Mom,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We are going to <a href="http://www.promocja.zakopane.pl/?strona,podserwis,pol,glowna,0,0,mainpage,english,ant.html">Zakopane</a> today. Snow city in the </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">mountains</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. Seriously no time to email. Going and doing fun things for P-Day is fun and all, but it's not fun having no time to email! Hopefully I get to catch up next week on emailing. Love you! -Drake</span></span><br />
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(a week later)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Dear Mom,</span></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Once again, I have no time to email. One of these days I hope I will actually get some time. I have some super sweet pictures to send from Zakopane. It was the coolest P-Day of my mission. It was really fun!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Love, Drake</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP0L2SIj62XS8IqAq-4MVEnAwCLla8maikZoUtP98V9k7gwBZI_5dZy-SfSjacrk4jFTcW5B6-vGdLQTilIzpSZf_zHDEkkjSQZ6V77MO02dgogDNW8cnQDWj6hDKbGlpmcSDWjkG9ASM/s1600/IMG_0273.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP0L2SIj62XS8IqAq-4MVEnAwCLla8maikZoUtP98V9k7gwBZI_5dZy-SfSjacrk4jFTcW5B6-vGdLQTilIzpSZf_zHDEkkjSQZ6V77MO02dgogDNW8cnQDWj6hDKbGlpmcSDWjkG9ASM/s1600/IMG_0273.JPG" height="360" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With Brother Pawlik for the Shelby Cobra factory tour<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">P.S. from Renee -- Drake still hasn't sent his pics from Zakopane. These are all from others. Once I get them, I'll be sure to add them on.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-31887055676978644492015-03-08T22:28:00.002-07:002015-03-08T23:09:31.980-07:00Multiple Mission Pictures -- end of 2014 & beginning of 2015<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwomIE9mHqHy8kStMUUiyWohEg2FhwX70k4fFmyTe7SvN6hQ4XwjBfw4ZfbZ3mtn4B59v1GFSYdKjQLDNXZDJHhds-UMzHSXLl_wsuyjadP5f6BF9IulrYh_jUHvCxnqCImrPTatSHeVM/s1600/half+the+zone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwomIE9mHqHy8kStMUUiyWohEg2FhwX70k4fFmyTe7SvN6hQ4XwjBfw4ZfbZ3mtn4B59v1GFSYdKjQLDNXZDJHhds-UMzHSXLl_wsuyjadP5f6BF9IulrYh_jUHvCxnqCImrPTatSHeVM/s1600/half+the+zone.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What do you do when you can't fit in everyone?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhyphenhyphenec_XAFV8r-fInuhIdvTTkfGkVGoDpHDT3cwU0X2NcDZwirkleeVvV5xC-V71RRXooOm1VcQ0tbuho0kpHdECuqkfYEK6xprbN8BrkmmLwfcvKA97D1kIcpOOYLoi5i4m1NbpNSfBLQ/s1600/the+other+half.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhyphenhyphenec_XAFV8r-fInuhIdvTTkfGkVGoDpHDT3cwU0X2NcDZwirkleeVvV5xC-V71RRXooOm1VcQ0tbuho0kpHdECuqkfYEK6xprbN8BrkmmLwfcvKA97D1kIcpOOYLoi5i4m1NbpNSfBLQ/s1600/the+other+half.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Take the photo in halves!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_bHaGV_o9yWLfdcdnFfjWocA_sAH4h3Pib2SfxLkJup6D8IXLyuoWyTCGHHyCzr79pCeRxHtptFuu9vHLrCYpv2vlvKeRls6z5WtkWxSRGyw88RSPqjvCFfQudETRJXs4NgdyEQpLzg/s1600/the+whole+mission.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_bHaGV_o9yWLfdcdnFfjWocA_sAH4h3Pib2SfxLkJup6D8IXLyuoWyTCGHHyCzr79pCeRxHtptFuu9vHLrCYpv2vlvKeRls6z5WtkWxSRGyw88RSPqjvCFfQudETRJXs4NgdyEQpLzg/s1600/the+whole+mission.jpg" height="322" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The entire Poland Warsaw Mission</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD7uKch32VSg6vQGtMCIejNLSVaszHPbqrW8DEZ4mqELnaRiY7tQE-pXNnKn4Wf3N_YXwkqwKFl_KtAd02DFB0ozQctC_ooXQwxkvIkuU7jsJXSi9U0rRrKAhRL4gOQz0W8Jlsai99a6w/s1600/IMG_0270.JPG" height="478" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Drake and Elder Garrett</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKgDKe4jagY5aC6exW4a3IIwh5wXuOtMhpVTRItAxxGLlkcqeGj7SVBfqmXFn6BL6tIm5b71Um276drGgUA9ekEZL0wKBL6RYEB4oj2jK0Qk6XhYqAlE6X_D38bgpzuP1ih0-vL-wE_H8/s1600/IMG_0272.JPG" height="480" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Zone Training with Katowice</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With the Edgrens again</span></td></tr>
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-89253251143773034082015-03-08T22:15:00.001-07:002015-03-08T22:15:21.800-07:003rd Time's a Charm -- Auschwitz again. 1/19/15<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-73238282597993823662015-03-08T22:14:00.001-07:002015-03-08T22:14:20.575-07:00New Tracting Plan in Action -- Krakow 1/05/15<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's the scoop on the new tracting plan (written by Renee from Drake's voice recording):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In "the olden days" they would go to the giant apartment areas, and would knock on doors one by one. Half of the people wouldn't be home and the other half said they weren't interested (at least that was Drake's experience with tracting his first year and a half in Poland -- and in the winter months, they would sometimes tract for 3 or 4 hours at a time). And I think that was his only time being asked in until this new idea</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So a few weeks ago, President Edgren talked to Drake and Elder Jones about trying a new tracting plan. (He heard about this idea from the Czech Republic mission president at a recent mission president conference). Instead of just showing up at the apt. building unannounced, they would write up a little letter and drop them off in all the apt. mailboxes. The letter explains who they are, the message that they'd like to share, and the time and date they'd return. (Time being a range, since they are knocking on so many doors). Also, I think they wrote 2 dates (like Tuesday and Thursday), so if one didn't work, the other might.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This way the people were somewhat prepared for the strangers at their door and if they were interested, but might otherwise be gone, they'd find a way to be there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They also had a new plan to keep track of what happened at each door. Before they would go through the building and wouldn't return unless they had an appt. (which never happened for him, but that was the idea). So for all of the people not home, they wouldn't get another chance to hear the gospel at their door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Drake wrote up a letter in Polish and included pictures of him and Elder Jones so they'd know who to expect (and even added some gold stars to seal the envelopes to make them look fancy :) ). Then they passed out their letters on Wednesday night and said they'd return on Thursday and Sunday. As before, they found 1/2 of the people at home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elder Jones took a record of what happened at each door. He said that out of about 100 doors, 60 of them opened their doors. He says that usually they spend a lot of time at the doors trying to explain who they are. This time, they already knew and would say, "Oh, you're the Mormon's?" and many would still decline, but they were generally more friendly about it. He said that one nice thing about keeping the record was that they felt like they were making progress and were moving somewhere instead of just wondering. Some said that they read the letter and would like to meet with them, but didn't have time (were about to leave or whatever). So they were able to make appt.s to come back. He said otherwise, they may have just said, "Sorry, we don't have time right now." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since about 1/2 were not home that first time, they came back a second time (so many who would have been left out the way they used to do it) and they had 3 homes who wanted to set up meetings with them, which was insane to them because to get 4 appt.s in just two tries, after going a year and a half with only let in once? He says he's still in shock when people invite them in (wonders where the hidden cameras are, etc. :) )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today he said that after going back to that building a third time and finishing up there, they chose another building last week and it ended up being a family building. HE said it was super noisy walking around and you could hear kids and babies, so that was fun -- because the idea of teaching the gospel to a whole family is probably their dream. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the knocked on the doors the next day, they said that many families (about half) opened their doors and were really nice to them, saying "thank you," even though many weren't interested. Then they came to a door and saw a dad with his wife and two children standing behind him saying, "Wejdź. Wejdź. Czekaliśmy na Ciebie!" (or " Come on in! Come on in! We've been waiting for you!" Once again, he went into shock as they invited them to sit on the couch, offered them something to drink -- they were so excited to get teach the whole family a lesson! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He said it was pretty funny because they came back 2 days later to go to the rest of the apts. and accidentally went to this family's apt. again (thinking it was a different floor), but they talked some more and the man invited them again and then called them a few days later and said he was talking to some friends at work about the missionaries and he was wondering if he could give their number to his co-worker's brother :) .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So they are super excited about this progress. For a year and a half, never let in. Before this last transfer, he was let in 2 times (and was super happy about that). Just in this past week, they were let into a home every night that they went tracting -- 4 nights in a row!</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-25306041651099728102015-03-08T22:13:00.003-07:002015-03-08T22:15:59.894-07:00Christmas and the Cold 12/2014<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">walking in the cold</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Elder Jones braving it without his hood</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Brrrrr!!!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Christmas morning!!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ooooh! Johnny's Garlic Seasoning (he was beginning to ration what came for Christmas the year before)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What's this? Hand warmers? Hmmm</span></td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-66380557404422696762015-03-08T21:53:00.000-07:002015-03-08T22:51:08.367-07:00Jasna Góra Monastery -- Visiting the Black Madonna 12/1/14<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panoramic View of the Jasna Góra Monastery</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Starszy Allen in front of the Jasna Góra Monastery</span></td></tr>
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Here's what Wikipedia says about the monastery & painting:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasna_G%C3%B3ra_Monastery">Jasna Góra Monastery</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cz%C4%99stochowa" style="line-height: 22.0799999237061px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Częstochowa</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland" style="line-height: 22.0799999237061px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poland</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, is the most famous </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland" style="line-height: 22.0799999237061px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Polish</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> shrine to the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_the_mother_of_Jesus" style="line-height: 22.0799999237061px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Virgin Mary</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the country's greatest place of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage" style="line-height: 22.0799999237061px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pilgrimage</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – for many its </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality" style="line-height: 22.0799999237061px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">spiritual</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> capital. The image of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Madonna_of_Cz%C4%99stochowa" style="line-height: 22.0799999237061px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Black Madonna of Częstochowa</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, also known as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Madonna_of_Cz%C4%99stochowa" style="line-height: 22.0799999237061px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our Lady of Częstochowa</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, to which miraculous powers are attributed, is Jasna Góra's most precious treasure.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasna_G%C3%B3ra_Monastery#cite_note-Official-1" style="line-height: 22.0799999237061px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">[1]</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Letter from a week before:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dear Mom,<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I feel bad not being able to send as long as an email in reply as you do to me!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But things are going well.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The tracting thing is going well. I will tell you more about it in my voice recording that I send next week.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today for P-Day we went and played Squash. It's like european raquet-ball. It was interesting. The ball isn't like a raquet-ball though. It's small and not as bouncy. So that's not as fun.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Transfer calls are this saturday. I will find out where I will be for the rest of my mission. I hope I stay in <span class="il">Kraków</span>. That would be super awesome. We will see, I guess.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let's see, what else happened this week. hmm. Oh, I went on an exchange in Wrocław. That was cool. Wrocław is really pretty. I can't think of anything else super exciting that happened this week.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh! There was a multi-branch YSA activity here in <span class="il">Kraków</span> on Saturday. YSA's came from Kielce and Katowice. It went well. It was a christmas party and it was fun.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am sending my christmas package home tomorrow. The gifts aren't as extravagent as they were last <span class="il">year</span>. They will also be unwrapped. So I will have to tell you which ones are for who.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You should start sending me the weather again each week so I can no how cold it is going to be and if it will snow.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I haven't gotten a christmas package from you yet. Did you send it already? And where did you send it to?<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yeah, we also had the time change. So we got an extra hour of sleep. But yeah, now I am very tired in the night time when all of the District Leaders are calling in safe. And I just want to go to bed!! haha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think Elder Jones and I are going to have a day where I speak in British accent all day, and then a day where he speaks in an American accent all day. Probably not on the same day. The crazy part is that there are TONS of British accents! And my companion can tell the difference between them when they all sound the same to me! haha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, President Edgren came down to Kraków. And he took us out to eat for dinner. And then the next morning he took me and my companion out to breakfast. But because it was a holiday, there was only one place open... McDonald's -- haha</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">President Edgren told us, "Oh great, what is your mom going to think when she finds out that I took you out to eat at McDonalds??" haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have not gotten any packages from Amazon except for the camera cord. Thanks again for that, by the way! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If your package has arrived at the office then I will get it next week at Zone Conference :)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wait, so are you going to be learning Polish? That is fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Things are going well here in Kraków. Halloween was last week. All Saints Day is the big holiday here though. EVERYBODY goes to visit the cemeteries and light candles and put flowers on the graves.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjapWghxxQEqPyhS5RjCgm7Z8CpHrH77liUwV_smKGgqgDA81oJcz8L52xOEX8CkKncj12OdgQLUjy3BGn4pVoW9E3elpJWYX6s17dypLIRou84j7zV23tbAdlyUlC_yO7ANMkzHNrJK4/s1600/tvEi0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjapWghxxQEqPyhS5RjCgm7Z8CpHrH77liUwV_smKGgqgDA81oJcz8L52xOEX8CkKncj12OdgQLUjy3BGn4pVoW9E3elpJWYX6s17dypLIRou84j7zV23tbAdlyUlC_yO7ANMkzHNrJK4/s1600/tvEi0.jpg" height="426" width="640" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We did service at the cemeteries a couple times and helped people clean graves. It was really cool and really nice to be able to help people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And then for Day of the Dead, we had a Branch Activity and we all went to the big cemetery in Kraków. And Romek, who is a genius historian and a tour guide of Kraków, led us on a tour through the graveyard. It was really cool. I will send some pictures. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Zone Conference is next week. And a general autho<span style="text-align: center;">rity is coming. A member of the Seventy. </span><a href="http://lds.org.uk/christopher-charles-is-new-area-seventy-for-greece-and-the-adriatic" style="text-align: center;">Elder Christopher Charles</a><span style="text-align: center;">. It will be cool! :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's been a busy week with my new companion. First I had zone training. We usually have the missionaries talk to train the other missionaries in the zone. But I thought it would be nice to have someone who has been recently baptized talk to the missionaries instead. So Marcin and another new convert spoke and it was really great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had a Halloween party for the people in the Branch. Lots of preparation for the missionaries -- planning, buying pumpkins, cleaning up. It went really well and was really fun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's also really fun with music because Elder Jones is from Wales, the United Kingdom, Britain!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So he likes the same music that I like -- really great British bands. He loves The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, U2. Brilliant!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've even been speaking with a British accent at times, without even realizing it now that Elder Jones (from Wales) is my companion. And I find when I do that, I end up using fancier words. But they don't actually use the word "fancy" like that because they'd say "I fancy that!" but would say "posh!" to describe something really nice. Brother Tuderhart (who is from England) from the branch says, "Cheers" instead of "goodbye."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A company here in Krakow (also in Germany and is other places in Poland ) studies food, water, lifestyle -- making a "human library," inviting people of all kinds of lifestyles or backgrounds to come so they can learn about us. So Elder Jones and I were invited to go last week. It was really great. We gave them lots of Books of Mormon. We will be going back this Thursday and will be doing another conference with the rest of the employees there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><a href="http://innykoncept.blogspot.com/2014/10/mormoni.html">Podcast of Elder Allen and Elder Hon</a> in a Polish podcast interview about the gospel.<br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-84501363751465839582014-10-20T11:39:00.000-07:002014-10-20T11:40:25.963-07:00Krakow again -- Training again!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Note from Renee -- I haven't been posting to Drake's blog lately because he's mainly been sending voice recordings and hasn't sent any photos in weeks! I finally found out why no photos (see in his letter below). In the past few weeks, he's been busy teaching, preaching and training. Last week, he went to Warsaw last and picked up a brand new to Poland companion, went to Zone training while there (saw Elder Hubbard, which always makes him happy!), went to Auschwitz again with the current missionaries in Krakow (Elder Hon was transferring and wanted to go there before he left), and Drake was sick one week with a cold (which didn't keep him down, but make it a little harder to keep going). All is well though, for sure! Drake is staying in Krakow for at least another 9 weeks, possibly until the end of his mission in February.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bell Choir is super fun! I hope you like it. It's super fun. Yup it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think I did here that you are in the Stake Young Women's Presidency. Is that fun? Have you done that before?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My new companion is super cool. His name is Elder Benjamin Jones and he is from Wales!! Super cool, huh? So he has a super interesting accent and says a lot of things differently. Which is fun. This is the craziest part though. He is the same age as CEBRE! haha. He is four years older than me! Which is certainly something new, because all of my trainee companions have always been younger than me. But I am now teaching Elder Jones how to be a missionary and how to speak Polish and he is 24! haha It's pretty interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You haven't heard the "as the crow flies" term?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What the crazy? I thought everyone knew that!! I feel so alone... But dad has heard it that is good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's something weird. Last night I was saying the poem Hey Diddle Diddle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't know why... haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and I got to the part where it says "The little dog laughed to see such sport..."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And Elder Jones was like, "Huh?? Sport? I've always heard it as "to see such FUN"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And I was like, "what...?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So I don't know if it is different in Wales. Or if there are two versions or what.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Because then I called one of the other Elders in our district and asked him to recite the poem</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and he said sport. and he is from Utah. So... I don't know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So mom. You may be wondering why I haven't sent pictures in a while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I would! But I lost my camera charging cord! And so I can't charge my camera and it is dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have tried to find the cord here in Poland, but it is a weird one and I can't find it anywhere</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So maybe you can find one on Amazon.uk and get it sent to me so it gets here fast?? Thank you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh, we also have an Elder Weggersen in our district. He is from Norway! He is super cool! And Mom, you know that you have Norwegian ancestry through Grandpa Southwick, right? :) So I have a bit of Norwegian in me as well! :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yeah, I am super happy that I get to stay in Kraków longer! I hope I just stay until the very end! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ok, I hope you like the necklace! :) It's amber!!! Because Poland is very well known for it's amber!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It feels like lately I like never have time to even write an email talking about everything that is going here. I guess it's a good thing that I have the voice recorder so that I can send you recordings. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This week's recording was a longer one because I was covering two weeks time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Romek's baptism was so great! He wanted to be baptized at the river and it rained all week long. We looked at the forecast for Saturday and it said 80% chance of rain. We woke up on Saturday to rain and it rained half the day. The skies cleared and it was in the mid-70's for Romek's baptism. Just perfect! Romek had actually said that he was going to be baptized in the river whether it was rainy or stormy or what (because he'd get wet anyway :) ), but the weather was nice for all of us there. Marcin, who was baptized a few months ago is now a priest and baptized Romek. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So Racer is about to leave! That is so crazy that Racer is going off to college. What classes is he taking? Who is his roommate?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You called Racer "Trace" Is he going by that now...? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He should know that he will always be Racer to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where on earth is the rock in Arkansas that Bryce proposed to Terra? It looks like they are on another planet!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Taken my Lisa K. from Warsaw while visiting church in Krakow <br />(I emailed these pictures to him before he wrote)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Elder Allen waving from that window up high in the middle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey, where did you get those pictures? Secret paparazzis?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That's not the apartment building window. That's our CHAPEL! :) haha We are on the third floor. (well, I guess they call that the fourth floor in USA)</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The group of Poland missionaries who went home <br />just a week ago</span></td></tr>
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Wow, that is so crazy about all of those missionaries going home.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Those were my MTC Sisters and I knew all of those missionaries really well. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I got to see Elder Hubbard in Warsaw <br />at the Missionary Council for Zone Leaders</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, for the missionaries who just came to Poland, Elder Campora is serving in Lódź. So I won't meet him this transfer. And Wright is in Warsaw, so I also won't meet him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But tomorrow I will meet Elder Summers, because he is in Katowice with Elder Dodge and they are coming to Kraków tomorrow for Zone Training, which I am teaching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Racer is flying alone to Salt Lake City? That's fun. Has he been on a plane before? Is he scared? Tell him that I think that flying on airplanes and going to airports is one of the funnest things to do on Earth! haha :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So who is Racer rooming with at BYU-Idaho?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And how long will he be going to school there?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As far as what's going on here, Romek's baptism is actually going to be this week because we had to postpone it due to some family matters. But it's still going to happen. And Marcin is still doing it. I gave a talk <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_902414106" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Sunday</span></span> in Church and it was about gifts. It was really cool preparing for it. I focused on 3 gifts that we all have or can all have in this life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3. The Gift of the Ability to believe in Jesus Christ</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Talking about the third one was the coolest. I talked about how every single person on this Earth accepted Jesus as the Savior before this life and that we chose to follow him. We were able to believe in Him there, and we had faith in Him there, so we still have that inherent ability here on Earth. EVERYBODY does. Everybody one Earth has the ability to believe in Christ because they believed in Him before this life. I even said in my talk that deep down, every single person on Earth is a Christian. But not all of them know it. :) haha That's really interesting. And true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't have a voice recording this week but I will send you one next week! :)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-16456571860022223492014-08-18T20:46:00.001-07:002014-08-20T15:45:34.982-07:00Still loving Krakow (and a TON of pictures!)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have been in Krakow for about 6 months now. It's rare to be in an area in our mission for that long. And I just found out that I get to stay in Krakow for another 9 week transfer! That will be 8 months here. I'm super excited about it! And when President Edgren told me that Elder Hon will be staying with me, I literally jumped up and down because I was so happy :) He's a really great companion! He will continue to be a district leader and I am now a zone leader. I'll get to go to Warsaw next week for a missionary council (aka Jedi Council) where the zone leaders all meet with Yoda (well, President Edgren :) ) . Elder Hubbard is a zone leader, also, so I'll get to see him there!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">It will be great to stay in Krakow with the people that I love so much. Just one month ago, Marcin was baptized. And this Friday, Marcin will be the one to baptize Romek! That is just amazing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That's super fun that you got to meet the Jensens and Aleks! They are so awesome. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Aleks helped me SOOO much with my Polish and the Jensens are just wonderful.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Elder Dodge joined our companionship -- a trio!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Elaine S. Dalton came to Poland to speak at the Eastern Europe Young Single Adult Conference. She & her husband wanted to spend time in Krakow and we met up with them and the Edgrens in the Rynek. She is super nice!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Marcin with a new haircut!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large; text-align: start;">Branch Luau -- During the Spiritual Thought</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large; text-align: start;">We bought some Hawaiian shirts at a thrift store for the Luau<br />Romek is the one on the far right;<br />he is the one getting baptized this Friday.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Everyone else did the hula while I played the ukulele</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: start;">We made a <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/gs/title-of-liberty">Title of Liberty</a> and wrote the things that would </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">We got caught in a storm while riding bikes across the city and just kept riding </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">and we rode on bumpy fields which reminded me of riding my bike </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">in our yard in Fieldbrook when I was growing up :) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Elder Vernon came back to Poland with his family post-mission. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was so great to see him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Vernon's family (& you've already met them, mom :) ) </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">We went up to the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogrodzieniec_Castle" style="line-height: 13.963635444641113px; text-align: start;">Ogrodzieniec castle</a><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;"> to play capture the flag during our Zone Conference for P-day (click to see it bigger)</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; text-align: start;">Me at the castle ruins </span><span style="background-color: #fafbfb; color: #4e5665; line-height: 13.963635444641113px; text-align: start;"> </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">P.S. While in Utah, our family went to visit the Jensens, who were in Krakow with Drake for 4 months, as well as Aleksandra (who is from Poland), who served a mini-mission in Krakow for 3 months. They loved James so much that they wanted to keep him! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The conference with President Uchtdorf was a time of reunions with church members from areas I used to serve in and with missionaries I haven't seen in a long time. My MTC companion, Elder Blom (far left) and I haven't seen each other since we arrived in Poland early last May!! Same with Sister Young (in the white sweater). It was so great to see them all again! But the conference was also a time of goodbye's. All of the sisters from our group will go back home in August and it may be until I get back home till I see some of these elders and many others I've served with, as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The baptism this week was amazing. I'll make a voice recording all about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Haha, I don't even remember talking about Pringles during a voice recording, but I guess I must have. I tend to ramble on those. (He had told us a few months ago that he was super excited to find Pringles in Poland and spent quite a bit to be able to have some :) )</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Marcin's baptism went really well. It was really cool to have it be at the lake and to be able to be the one to baptize him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Pawlik's are the best. We are hoping to actually go to their house next P-Day! I'm excited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tell Elder Hammond congratulations from me and ask him if he still wears the H-Dizzles :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I love translating! I got to translate Brother and Sister Jensen's testimonies in our last Testimony Meeting before they left to go home. After they finished, I thought, "Well, I'm already up here -- I might as well do it too" so I shared my testimony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the 4th of July here -- well, no one celebrates here -- For companion study, we went out on the balcony and we sang The Star Spangled Banner (all 4 verses). People poked their heads out their windows and some even took videos of us :) Then we went back into our apartment. I drew a picture of the American flag and Elder Hon and I pledged allegiance to the flag. I hadn't done that in a year and a half! Then we read scriptures from <a href="http://beta.mormon.org/lessons/07-book-of-mormon.html?gclid=CjwKEAjwuYOeBRCy3pLljpjDkDcSJAAhA4mt_61FJ7-3i60ofAjMW4p5lFWVta1r1NMBxksPVybkhRoCZ-vw_wcB&cid=99112562&ef_id=U4Y0ZQAAARAXwirB:20140712234940:s">the Book of Mormon</a> and from the <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament?lang=eng">Doctrine & Covenants</a> and read about living in a promised land of liberty and promise.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elder Saltmarsh got transferred to Katowice until he goes home in August. It was really great getting to serve with him in Krakow.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I found LOTS of Disney movies on sale at the grocery store on dvd for just $3! I bought Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid, and Finding Nemo. All in Polish! When I get home, I can watch them all and remember my Polish (and I already sent home Star Wars and The Incredibles and maybe a few others).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had a Zone Conference last week and talked about President Uchtdorf's visit to Poland. We were told before President Uchtdorf spoke that he<span style="background-color: white;"> didn't just come here because he likes Poland or because it fit into his schedule. He came here to bless Poland. This was the FIRST time in 28 years that a member of <a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leaders/first-presidency?lang=eng">the 1st Presidency</a> has been to Poland (last person was <a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/thomas-s-monson?lang=eng">President Monson</a> when he was a counselor). President Uchtdorf came to give us counsel and because of that, Poland will never be the same again.</span></span><br />
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click here... <a href="http://neveradulldayinpoland.com/president-uchtdorf-visits-poland/">Never a Dull Day in Poland</a> blogUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-79940172445927380452014-06-11T14:29:00.001-07:002014-06-11T14:31:01.112-07:00Out in the Country Side -- Marcin's Story<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Jensen's called me up in the morning during companionship study <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_664789292" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span> and told me that I was an uncle!! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then they showed me pictures! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How exciting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How do you feel being a grandma? Is it fun? Does that mean that people are going to stand up for you when you get on trams now? Did you ever listen to that voice recording?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They moved transfer calls to</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_664789293" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So the transfers are just going to happen a long with the Uchtdorf conference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_664789294" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span>, ALL of the missionaries in Poland will be going to Warsaw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And we will have a special missionary conference with President Uchtdorf. And then we will be all staying the night in Warsaw, so there will probably be like 3 companionships per apartment in Warsaw. SUPER SLEEPOVER! WOOHOO! :)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So we had some cool things happen this week. There was a baptism</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_664789295" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">! The sisters investigator Danka got baptized. It was awesome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We played sports, played music (brought my ukulele) and ate food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We like did a interactive Lehi's vision thing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had this rope going through the park the length of a football field, and it went through and around trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And it was the iron rod.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They then were blindfolded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And we missionaries were encouragement/temptation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The branch president and I were paired up together as temptation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Telling people to let go of the rod to come with us. Telling them that they are wasting their time and that it's only going to get harder and there is nothing at the end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some people let go. But then there were good people who were cheering them on and helping them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the end of the rod was a tree. The tree of life. It had the "fruit" hanging on it. They were little white envelopes with pictures of different temples in them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was really cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had a good turn out and perfect weather.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, and then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_664789297" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on THURSDAY</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We went up to Marcin's house for lunch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elder Remy, Elder Saltmarsh, Elder Brown, and I all went up there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He lives in a tiny village a half hour outside of Kraków called Czajowice (we are actually going there today again for P-Day. :) )</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We went to his house which is out in like farming country. It's almost like it's the same as where Joseph Smith lived. In a house in the country outside of the main town in farm land and there is a big forest right next to his house.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We got to his house and went to his back porch where he had a Barbeque going. We all sat down at the picnic table and he grilled us some kie</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">łbasa</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, which is Polish Sausage. It was super good. Then we talk for a bit. I went and walked around in his backyard and found a cherry and ate it. It was good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then we went into the forest with him right next to his house. It was so cool. Because it was like perfect sunny weather and forest was nice and cool and there were birds singing and everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So we all sat down on a log in the forest. And we had a testimony meeting. All 5 of us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I bore my testimony, and then Elder Saltmarsh bore his, and then Elder Remy, and then Elder Brown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was cool because we all bore testimony about different things and they all went together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then after Elder Brown finished, Marcin was like, "Well! I guess it's my turn! Let me tell you my story."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So he started by telling about how he was raised in the Catholic church. He was even in the ministry there and was active there. But then he started to notice that things were missing in the Catholic church. Things that he believed, truths were not there. He noticed that a lot of what they do is just for show and for gain. So he left that church to search for the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He searched in different churches. They had interesting doctrines. But they just weren't right. He kept searching. He finally found a religion that told him something interesting. That you shouldn't just believe that something is the truth because someone tells you it is. But that you should find the truth for your self through prayer. So he started doing that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And one day he was sitting on a bench in a park in Kraków, during this time of searching. It was a rare time where he wasn't busy and actually had some free time. He had had a certain word on his mind for a long time and he wasn't quite sure why. It had some special meaning and he didn't know why yet. But it was while he was sitting on this bench that two young men in white shirts and ties walked up to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From my point of view. It was another day of contacting. We had been walking down the street and for the past half hour, EVERYBODY was saying "No." Nobody was stopping, nobody wanted to talk to us. So we decided to walk into this certain park. We were walking in the park and still no one was stopping. But then I saw this guy sitting on a bench a ways down. And I got the impression, "This guy is gonna talk to us." So we went up to him and introduced ourselves and sat down to start talking to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From his point of view. These missionaries started sharing their message with him. And it was quite interesting. They gave him a Book. Exchanged numbers and set up for a meeting in a week. At the end of the conversation, he asked us what our names were. I told him that my name is "Elder Allen" and he asked if that was my first name. I said that it wasn't and he asked for my first name. I told him that it is, "Drake." And he seemed a bit surprised.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He told me later that for some reason that he didn't really know, for a long time a certain word, rather a certain name had been on his mind and had some special meaning. This name was Drake. My name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He said that that was his first sign from God, his first answer that there is something that He is trying to tell him. He later told me that it was that sign, my name, that brought him back to the second meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then we started meeting with him. And as he met with us and came to church he found that we were teaching him the truths that had been lacking. We were filling the spiritual holes that he had that he had never known how to fill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While we sat there on that log he told us about the things that he really likes about the Church. About how the priesthood isn't a job to get gain, but it is a sacrifice and is service. He loves how the branch is like a family and everyone knows each other talks to each other, and care about each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The day before, he had told me in a meeting that he believed that Joseph Smith was a prophet. So I asked him so more questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Tak"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you believe that the Book of Mormon is true?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Tak"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you believe that the Church is true?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Tak"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You have baptismal date for the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_664789298" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">28 of June</span></span>. Do you intend to get baptized that day?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Tak"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a really powerful experience. We then all knelt down right there in the forest and Marcin said a prayer. It was really powerful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was one of the coolest and most spiritual experiences that I have had on my mission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I really hope that I can stay here in Kraków to continue teaching him and helping him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I really feel like God sent me to him. That I needed to find him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And he is probably coming to the Uchtdorf conference!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That will be this weekend. It's going to be so awesome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alright we are going to get going to Marcin's house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Talk to you later!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Love,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elder Drake Allen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Note from Renee -- (The pictures below are from Siostra Pearson's blog -- as well as the pics above from the Branch Picnic)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A bit of Rain -- <br />Sister Swenson, Sister Pearson, Elder Brown, and I</span></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-47240593762771370562014-06-02T09:20:00.000-07:002014-06-11T14:31:08.442-07:00Soap Boxing<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dear Mom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yeah, I got to have a really great exchange with Elder Vernon this week. As you can see in the picture... haha :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Maybe I will be an uncle by the end of this week. That will be cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have you ever sent a picture of the Audi? I don't think that I have ever seen it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Responding to my letter, telling him I've been watching The History Channel's documentary "The World Wars.") -- Yeah, Poland has a pretty crazy and rough history. They've been through a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wait so you are going to Utah this week, and then also going to be there for Elder Harris' homecoming?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Transfers are coming up this week. We find out <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1929376830" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span>. I really hope that I don't leave Kraków. I really want to stay here to help and teach my investigators. Especially Przemek and Marcin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think I talked about it in the voice recording, but we got dropped by Zbyszek this week. :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His parents said that he can't meet with us anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's very sad.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: start;">Our last meeting with </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: start;">Zbyszek</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The sisters' investigator Danka is getting baptized <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1929376831" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Saturday</span></span>. That will be super awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I will send some pictures now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Love,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elder Drake Allen</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767870052426129392.post-21569403161532972242014-05-29T10:06:00.000-07:002014-05-29T10:06:17.870-07:00Going to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo (and to the Mound)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dear Mom,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's getting warmer here in Poland. It's like actually starting to get hot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Which is good because it is sunny and more people are out, but also it's getting hotter to the point where it's like not pleasant to be walking around outside. haha </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's not super hot. It's just super humid, and that makes things difficult.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large; text-align: start;">panorama from the mound<br />(click on photo to see detail)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This week we went to the zoo with our English class. It was the first time I had been to a zoo in a long time. I actually think that the last time I went to the zoo was with Dad in Frankfurt, Germany when I was a freshmen in high school. Weird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I talked about in my voice recording how Przemek came to church and I taught <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_502469684" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> School. So that was good! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tonight, we are starting an exchange with the APs. So with Elder Vernon and Elder Lanham. I don't know who will be with whom. But it will be cool. Tomorrow, we have Zone Training, which means that the Katowice district will be coming over here, which means that I will get to see Elder Hubbard! Yay! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think Nathan was on his mission when I was born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alex won't be in Kraków this week, I don't think. So you could always tell the Jensens to tell me when Cebre has her baby</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, I guess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That is super awesome that Uncle Bill will soon be the Oakland Temple President!! I am pretty sure that he is going to be an apostle someday... :) haha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Is Cebre's baby born yet?<br />Will she be born by the time I email next week?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No, I think that is super awesome that Racer got a Palm for scouts. That sure is something that I didn't do that I WISH I would have done!! :) And that is super cool that he is riding a scooter now. I never had a motorcycle license.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whoa, he's going to Philmont as an Eagle Scout?? That's so crazy! What is he going to do there? Can he still get merit badges...? or what?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whoa, looks like it is going to be warmer this week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">MOM MOM MOM</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">GUESS WHAT!!<br /><br />Last night, for the first time on my mission....</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">WE GOT LET IN TRACTING!! :)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(ok there was that one time with the Sisters in Poznań, but that was just caroling and she was letting in the Sisters... and we just happened to be there...)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But yeah!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I got let in for the first time!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was CRAZY!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />So we went to a building to start tracting.<br />And I did the first few doors, and then was like, "Alright Elder Remy, it's your turn!"<br />So he went and knocked on a door and a lady answered. He told her that we are missionaries, and then looked over at me to talk.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I told her about the message that we wanted to share with her. And asked her if she had some time to listen to the message.<br />And she let us in!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I started like freaking out inside, I was like, "WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON?!?! This isn't part of tracting!!!"<br />That had NEVER happened before. IT was crazy!!<br />WHOA! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And then we taught her about the Restoration, gave her a book, and got her number.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the beginning of the transfer I told Elder Remy that I had something to tell him about tracting. But that I wasn't going to tell him until the end of the transfer. I was going to tell him that I had never been let in. But I didn't want to tell him that at the beginning of the transfer and crush his faith. So I didn't tell him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So when we walked out of the meeting, I told him, "Elder Remy, you remember how I told you that I was going to tell you something about tracting at the end of transfer. Well, I was going to tell you that I have never been let in. But now I can't"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After the thousands of doors that I have knocked on... and never got let in, my little trainee knocks on his first door, and gets let in. I think that maybe this trainee faith thing works.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> he does it like every 10 minutes</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(this girl has no fear! :) )</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dear Mom,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was fun Skyping with you guys last night. </span></span></div>
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I sent a lot of pictures today. Hope you enjoy them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Happy Mother's Day again. Bad boys. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Love,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elder <span class="il">Drake</span> Allen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Note from Renee -- I have always laughed when Drake referred to something as "these bad boys" and he did that in our Mother's Day call. I told him that was my Mother's Day gift to hear him say it again :) )</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pronounced Psheh-mek</span></span></div>
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