First Day in Warsaw

We left the Missionary Training Center in Provo at 5:30 a.m., flew from Salt Lake City to Minneapolis that morning and left Minneapolis early that afternoon flying over the Atlantic all night. We arrived in Amsterdam the next morning and flew from there to Poland. We landed in Poland shortly after noon. The entire trip took us about 23 hours.

Prezydent Edgren met us at the airport and took us to the Mission Home where Siostra (shostra) Edgren had homemade soup and bread waiting for us. After lunch we looked pretty good standing on the front steps of the mission home in spite of the long trip...

 

Starszy i Siostra Roulstone (Starsheh ee Shostrah Roulstone) in Warszawa (Varshava), Poland.

Front steps of Mission Home and in front of map of Poland in Mission Office

We slept all afternoon at the mission home and then went out for a traditional Polish dinner near the Palace...

Starszy i Siostra Roulstone z Prezydent i Siostra Edgren

The next day we had to get new visa photos so we headed over to the foto shop at the mall. Look Ma, the escalators have no stairs...

While waiting for the photos to be printed we made our first visit to a Polish grocery store. I asked the customer service clerk if she spoke English - Nie. I lifted my leg and pulled on my hose and said, 'pantyhose'. She led me to the aisle and left me to figure out what style and size I needed, in Polish. I paid 5,99 złoty (zwoti) - about 2 dollars Canadian to find out I need a size 3 not a size 2.

Back at the mission home we are given a shiny, new, blue opal - a gem of a car!

Driving in the Warszawa traffic is, well...fast or get the heck out of the way! It's getting better, I think. Starszy Roulstone has become my knight in shiny blue armour because I have not been brave enough to drive on the streets yet. I just hold the GPS - tight. Levi and Josh would fit right in here! 

We followed another senior missionary couple over to our apartment building: I felt like crying with relief and joy when we entered. The sun is shining and warm and the apartment is soooo nice! Enter...

  

front entrance - closets and office to the left - note the high ceilings

  

kitchen & living room ahead & to the right - appliances are all built into the cupboards - very sleek

 

bedroom to the right of the front entrance - fantastic view, especially of the night lights

 

bathroom is all marble - washing machine is in the cabinet - no dryer

laundry day looks like this - automatic dryer

 

Moon over Warszawa

(from bedroom window)

More to come...