Our wonderful Young Single Adults

Dominik Lyzwinski is preparing to serve a mission. He is hoping to go right after the first of the year. He has such a wonderful quirky sense of humor and is willing to do whatever is needed. He is Ross's executive secretary in the Branch. I might also mention he is fluent in English due to some years living in England.

Elly Hoyland is from England. She served a mission in Poland a few years ago and is back teaching in the English school. She teaches Seminary, went to Africa this last summer on a conservation service, even had a lion inside their compound. She rides horses when shee finds the time.

Aleksandra Modzelewska has been a member of the Church for about a year and has a powerful testimony. She teaches the Gospel Essentials class. She also is preparing for a mission after the first of the year. She will be a grreat missionary, she can talk to anyone. She is fluent in English and works for Speak-Up which is a program for teaching English to those who wwant to learn a second language.

Kamila Komarnicka is an amazing busy young woman. She is working for the Speak-Up program and going to College. She is our translator whenever one is needed. That is not an easy task as she has to listen to the Polish speaker and at the same time translate what is being said and keep up with the speaker. It requires skill and fluency. She is kept busy as there are several American families in the Branch.


Dorota Musial is a beautiful and talented young woman. She has a gift for photography and writing. Her writing is beautiful and she expresses herself so well. Her roots are in Hungary and she cooks hungarian. One time for a YSA activity she made Hungarian Goulash and it was awesome, so she was kind enough to bring me some of the Hungarian seasoning she uses. I love it.

Nasa Nergui is from Mongolia and came here several years ago with her family. She now speaks Mongolian, polish, and English. When her mom teaches in Relief Society, she speaks Mongolian and Nasa translates for her into Polish then Kamila translates for Nasa into english for us who can't quite get it. Nasa is also fluent in English. She went back to Mongolia for part of the summer and is now back and attending college. She takes her education very seriously and her marks show it. She also is a beautiful talented young woman.


Solongo Unursaihan is from Mongolia as well. She learned polish by watching TV here and now you would never know she lived anywhere else. She has the most beautiful smile. It takes her over an hour to get to Church for YSA activities and Church on Sunday. True dedication. She has a sweet testimony of the Gospel.

Marta Wisniewska is an amazing young woman. You should see her on the volley-ball court. the guys are actually afraid to play against her. Her serve is something to be seen as are her spikes. Marta is planning on majoring in Phys Ed in college and she should as she has great talent. She is our YSA representative and does a great job. This her first time in leadership in the Church and she is up to the task. Her family has a cabin in the Masurian Lake area which we as the YSAs went to at the beginning of last summer.

I had to put this picture in as it was so good of Kasia and her mom. Who can seee the resemblance between her mom and Glenn Close? Kasia Gorniak and her mom, Klaudia Gorniak.

Kasia is quite an amazing young woman. She has her law degree and is studying so she can take the English profiency test. She is hopeful that after that she can go to either George Washington, William and Mary or Harvard for her masters. I'm confident she will pull it off as she has the desire, drive and smarts. She literally pulled the YSAs together from no group to a solid, close group this last year when she was called as the YSA rep. she is so fluent in English that if she is translating from Polish to English, She can do it right along side of the polish being spoken.

These YSAs are a wonderful group of Young people. I love them dearly. It is a blessing in my ife to be able to associate with them and know them.

Our New Office couple and a Sunday in Warsaw

Elder and Sister Peck from the Seattle WA area are here to replace us in the office so after some training they will be great here in the office.
It's a beautiful Fall Sunday morning and I am out in front of our Apartment waiting for our Office Elders to pick me up for Church. Ross has already been there since 6:30 this morning in meetings. We are going early so we can be at the Missionary corralation meeting this morning at 8:30am. I couldn't resist taking a couple pictures of this apartment balcony. Some of those that live on top even have trees planted on theirs in big pots. This is as close as most people get to yards. There are many parks in Warsaw where people bring their dogs, kids, etc.

This is Elder Sheridan, on time as usual with his companion, Elder Johnson, who has already moved to the back seat so I can sit in front. These are great guys and we couldn't run the office without them.

Our meeting is almost ready to start, as soon as the District leaders get there. On the left is Elder Hillyard and his companion, Elder Dabrowski. Next to Ross is Sister Bailey with her companion, Sister Jones. In the back row is Jerzego Kasperkiego, a journalist and a brilliant man with a photographic memory and a powerful testimony. He is the Branch mission leader.

Now we add Elder Fritzsch in the back with Elder Johnson, and Elder Sheridan. Elder Davis is next to the sisters.

In the last several months we have had 4 American families move into our Branch. Our Branch has really become an international Branch.

Above are Mark and Jackie Pickett who moved here from Houstan Texas, He is with Marathon Oil. Jackie has been teaching Institute to the YSAs with me and is so great to work with. Mark was Ross's counselor in the Branch Prsidency but the Elder's Quorum needed him more.


This is Andrew and Seija Staples and their family. He is with the Embassy here and is here for 2 years. Seija is the YW president as we now have 4 YW, 2 Polish and 2 American.

Andrew and Deborah Hendrian were visiting Warsaw for and doing some Family History here as his family comes from Poland. We would sure love to keep them. It turns out they live within a mile from my brother Gib and Mary, his wife.

This cute family is The Armstrong family minus the dad who was traveling on business. They, also, are with the Embassy and here for 2 years. Between the Staples and the Armstrongs we have doubledd the size of Primary and started a Young Men's and Young Women's program. The kids go to an American school here.

Here is the Boudwin family. Ryan Boudwin and his wife have a three year old and are expecting in November. He is here on a Fullbright scholorship for 3years.

One of the things we do in the Branch is every 2nd Sunday we have a Linger Longer with great food.

I got to take pictures of many of my favorite people. Below is Dorota (YSA) on the right and Karolina (YW presidency)on the left.

Kasia, Aleks, and Dorota are catching up and enjoying some of the food.

You should have seen the dessert table.

Ellie Hoyland is from England and is teaching at the English school. She is our Choir director and teaches our Seminary during Sunday School. She has five in her class and also those that are too young for Seminary come too as there is no Sunday School class for them.

It's so nice to be able to visit with the members. We don't often get time to do that as many members come from a good distance and on the Metro so time for visiting is limited.

Our Elders are always hungrey and love the Linger-longers. Here is Elder Sheridan, Elder Johnson, and Elder Fritszch.

Elder Dabrowski andd Elder Fritzsch. Elder Dabrowski has family here in Warsaw, his parents are in California. He is the only member in his family.

Sister Jones and Sister Bailey are great. Sister Jones has a great infectious laugh and she and Sister Bailey really work hard and always have a great spirit about them.

The group below are from varied places. Dennis on the left is from the Congo, Marcia and Michaelle are from Haiti and Nicholas is from South Africa. Dennis speaks fluent French as well as Polish and English, Michelle and Michaelle speak french and almost no english or polish. They are here on scholorships. So Dennis translates for them.

After much eating, socializing, and enjoying one another's company. Everyone

went away happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!