ARRIVAL (Photos coming later)

After stops in Chicago and London and about 18 hours total travel time we arrived at Fredrick Chopin Intl' airport to be met by Pres. Nielson and one of his AP's Elder Stohel and a very small car which was to haul 4 people and 10 bags. Elder Stohel not only had to sit on one of the bags but was forced to put a 50 pounder on his lap for the 15 mile ride to the Mission home. Upon our arrival we sat in on the final half hour of a senior adult fireside and had an opportunity afterwards to meet most of the guests and other senior couples. Sister Nielson gave us a brief tour of the Mission home, fed us some of her famous apple crisp and we were off to bed where we slept like a small child. The next day, (Monday) we took occupancy of our apartment, (very nice, with one BR and 1 1/2 baths) and with underground parking and then started the pleasant task of unpacking. Tuesday, and we are off to the old Mission office, (where will be for the first two weeks) to begin our training with the office couple, (Elder & sister Thueson) who we will ber replacing as of the 29th of Oct. The new office will be open by around the firs of Nov., which is nice for us as we currently have to drive about an hour and a half each way, not because of the distance but due to the enormus amount of trafice trvelling on some very restrictive roads. The amount we need to learn, along with all of the procedures, etc to run a Mission for the entire country is nothing short of overwhelming so we are going to need a good deal of help from a higher authority. We have also been called to work with the Young Single Adults, (18-30 yrs) which we will do on Monday & Thursday evenings and on some weekends as well. The mission will have enjoyed 4 baptisms by the time our first weekend is over so the work, while seemingly very difficult is moving forward nonetheless. Pres. Stan and Judy are doing great work here as you would expect.