March 17...Burger King, Ties & Nutella

hey family sorry that other email didnt send i promise it wasnt on purpose! This week was insane because it was zone conference so we spent 12 ish hours on a train traveling to and from Warsaw. Warsaw was an absolute blast though, my gosh. I cant wait to serve there the city is incredible. We got in and first things first we had some burger king.. heck yeahs... warsaw and wroclaw are the only places in Poland that have it. Then we took a trip to Adams house to buy ties. I think i told you about my experice there last time right.. i cant remember anything i tell anybody haha so i apologize im sure i repeat myself a bjillion times. It was way rad though.... im poor so i only bought one.. and even that may have been too much. It's alright thought ive got pancake stuff, rice, and potatoes to get me to the end of the month:-) and by the way i got a sweet bonUS package from lysh with a tape haha... it was kinda hard to hear her though most of it was just wind.. haha it was still amazing though...and there was something about nutella. oh mannn... i thought i told y'all about nutella... but my gosh its incredible.. i cant afford it though so i get the 4 zlot impersonation nutella. but yeah nutella rocks lysh dawg. give me nutella and a spoon and im a happy man.. > > after adams house we went to hard rock cafe which was even more expensive.. like 50 zlots a plate.. it was way good food though and pretty much every missionary in warsaw was sitting at one table.. so we had like 40 missionaries in there.. it was amazing times .. sat with some of the guys in my mtc group and reminisced... the next day we had zone conference for 7 hours.. Pres. kopsichke from the central europe area presidency talked. he rocked to a whole new meaning of the word rock. He opened up the scriptures to a whole new level it was pretty unreal. Anyways i left inspired... The next day we took a flipping pospieszny train so it took 7 hours to get home. ZL's a cheapos so they got us the slow train. (its usually and 4 hour ride) it was alot of fun hanging with the district though. Yesterday Kopischke came up to our branch in gdansk with president and he spoke and taught sunday school. It was awesome, especially since i got to hear the english than the polish translation.. really helps my polish. Mom asked if I was fluent. Like.. i dunno how to explain the Polish language.. i dont want to sound like I'm big dog because i have to learn such a hard language.. but its different than most languages.. i might not even be fluent by the time i go home haha.. im doing well though with the language, i pretty much dont talk to my companion when we are inside the apartment i feel kind of bad.. i just open my dictionaries and .. go to my happy place.. to be honest its not that happy of a place.. id venture to say its kinda an unhappy place.. nah i like studying polish, its a really cool language. > > Had an interview with president engbjerg yesterday.. it was great i really love my President he is such an incredible man. > > the work is slow but you can bet this week its going to rockkk! we got flaked a bunch last week.. we have a couple more set ups this week.. and we are going to try and bring a less active back to church. hes an ex-branch pres of gdansk, his name is like valdamar or something .. its kinda a long story. ill give the brief version.. Under the last mish pres.. barnett, valdamar was BP and his daughter wanted to go to BYU.. barnett told her she needed to stay and help build the church in Poland.. she didnt like that answer and neither did her father.. but since she needed the signature of an ecclesiastical leader to get into byu she decided to move to England and get one from some church leader there. Valdamar told the branch in gdansk (which at that point had close to 50 members) that Barnett wasnt being led by the spirit and took most the branch with him into inactivity. Barnett preceded to pull the missionaries out of Gdansk because the branch was pretty much non existent. Engbjerg just opened up gdansk about 5 or 6 months ago. so yeah errington and i are going to bring him back into the fold if we can. > > so thats been my life so far this past week... some crazy stories that i dont have time to tell.. but there better told in person anyways right ;-) > > congrats laners on varsity, big doggg at eagle now.. i have elders asking for your address.. i got your back though, fending them off for ya. > > mom- im pretty stoked for your sunday school class haha.. i have one suggestion.. bring a long wooden paddle.. maybe you can through some metal shards on it too. > > dad- way to go on the calling as well, i know its your favorite :-) compared to wroclaw this place is alright, im not going to lie i liked the work better in wroclaw.. definitely prettier here though. > playstation 3? feel free to send one here too, i get bored at nights. > > lysh dawg- what do you want for your bday? i loved your package.. my shamrock is on my wall.. you rock i love you > > cam- i cant believe you broke the xbox! :-) miss you> > have a great week> > elder daly

Oooops!

haha so i just got to the email cafe and pulled up my inbox and it said this thing failed to send last week... so here ya go ill send a seperate email for what happened this week> > Fairly insane week as far as the weather is concerned. We had the whole gamut. (theres a 5 zlot word for ya)...> Glacial winds with freezing rain early in the week.. now it's like 60 and not a cloud in the sky. I broke my umbrella,> Some Larrys were giving me a hard time so i wound up and... actually to be perfectly honest the wind broke it..> cheapo mens warehouse ... so its kind of a bummer for me cuz i have to use it. So im going around with a jacked> umbrella and people are passing me on the street laughing at me. Better then getting spit at i guess. I sort of forgot> my overcoat in Wroclaw. Like.. eh.. alright i forgot it on purpose. I didnt really have room for it and I figured that I'd> be going back down for my legal work (which i still am.. sometime) so im running around in my suit coats and a half broken> umbrella. Now that the suns out its no worries.> So the investigator pool in gdnyia is somewhat nonexistent currently. We had a ton of setups this week but only one actually> went down with this guy named Leszek. And all that ended up happening was we talked about geography, he made fun of> my Polish and corrected everything I said, and then he played us at chess, 2 simultaneous games. He beat us both, but ill> have you know i held my own for a while... i still claim its cause everything on the board was in Polish, wat a bully face.> > It was dzien kobiet this week, basically women's day. Im not sure why women in Poland have a day dedicated to them> every month of the year. So basically it was valentines day all over again with the flowers and pda all over the place> yep, lots of funnnn. Errington and I walked around the city of gdynia a few hundred times this week. I'm starting to see people> I've already contacted .. Errington is already on a first name basis with half the city. Ive gotten some good practice contacting> trains because we spend alot of time to and from Gdansk. Same old story with Poles talking about me right in front of me> because they dont think i speak polish.. then i freak them out way bad when i start talking to them haha its way funny.> I got a lot of people smiling this week which is always oen of my goals when im out talking with people. They're such> closed people to strangers, once you make them laugh and get their trust they actually start talking! fancy that...So ive been slaving away> during language study to incorporate my personality a little more into the language.. i got some good one liners im rocking now.> > Yesterday i gave my talk and it went pretty well actually. Hopefully i didnt accidentally dirt-ify the doctrine of the church.> We'll see if we still have members coming next week...> > Zone conference is this week Thurs-Sat i think. It's down and Warsaw so im pretty elated. Then Pres. mmm> presidenttttt flip.. wats his name... ahh Kapische? hes the first counselor in the Area Presidency in Europe.> Anywho he's coming to the Gdansk branch this Sunday along with Pres. Engbjerg and his wife. So it's going to be> an intense weekend. I'm loking forward to it but at the same time i hope it isnt a repeat of Wondra.> > My companion rocks socks. I get along a lot better with him than i did with Duty. I have some pictures but once again> the computer is way too old. So that is kinda whats going down... nothing too intense, i could go on about> how much i love the catholic church again but i wont. I felt bad i got in an argument this week that> i shouldnt have. in the end all it does it make me feel way cruddy.> > I havent eaten any fish yet.. but if i can convince my companion to stop being a girl and eat some sushi... then> itll be good times :-)> > I miss music. My ipod is useless because my adapter is too weak sauce for my ipod deck player deal.> i do, however, have a cd player.. so feel free to send cd's :-) Efy is good.. heck ill take some celtic sheep-> herding music .. jay-z, eminem, etc etc..> > hows life back in idaho? the 'project' reached its conclusion yet? Dad and lysh's bday coming uppp..> heckk yeahhsss! hope camo and laners and enduring schooling welleth... i saw an ad on a billboard the> other day for mom's real estate business.. good to see the empire is continuing to grow. For reals actually> there is a store just around the corner of my place that is sporting an Nvidia 7600 gfx card.. represent! :-)> > Life is amazing, the gospel is heart-changing. i love you all so much> > heres my address by the way i forgot to send it out.. oops...> > ul. Zygmunta Augusta 6/87> 81-359 Gdynia> PolSKAA!> > elder daly

West Country!

Hey everyone!! I love all your comments...some of them really make me laugh. This last weekend I went to the Beautiful Green WEST COUNTRY...Part 1 - we are going back this week as well!!! Our first stop was in the gorgeous city of Bath where we saw the ancient Roman baths - so cool! I wanted to jump in the warm hot springs lol.

So when you get 40 girls in the English country, you of course get Jane Austen brought up and an obsession with Pride and Prejudice :) Some of us visited one of the houses Jane Austen lived in and wrote some of her novels...Bath was a frequent place in her novels.


We went to Dartmoor...a moor is an outcrop of rocks in a treeless landscape. A lot of people hiked to the top - I chose to enjoy the view from about half way up because I didn't want to kill myself trying to hike in rainboots :)

OK, here is where the obsession with Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice comes in :) We woke up the second day and went to Stourhead Gardens - oh my gosh, it was breathtaking. I have grown to love the English country and nature so so much. It is also where they filmed a part of Pride and Prejudice...at the Temple of Apollo. So all of us girls enjoyed walking around the Temple and imagining the scene they filmed there - it was a good time lol.

The Movie!

Real Time!

STONEHENGE!!! Know I can say I've seen a landmark that people started

building about 3500 B.C.!!

Our final stop was at Salisbury Cathedral, which was beautiful! I had just visited the national Gallery this past week where they have some amazing paintings and one of my favorites was one of Salisbury Cathedral that John Constable painted.

In the cathedral was one of the oldest working clocks in existence!! Pretty cool!

And here are some random pics of my roomies that I like!! Us six girls make up the smallest room in the center, which is fun because we have really gotten to know each other and such, and we all share the wonderful address of the ATTIC in the BYU Center :)

Sean's New Address-March 13, 2008

Sean Daly
ul. Zygmunta Augusta
6M 87 81-359 Gdynia
Polska

Tower of London, Greenwich, and Hampton Court!!

The notorious Tower of London that held many famous prisoners, used gruesome means of torture, and most known for its beheadings! We saw the Yeoman Warders, popularly known as Beefeaters, the Royal Armouries' collection, and the Crown Jewels!!! So cool!!

Beefeater Teddy Bear :)

Around the Tower of London...

Torture at the Tower!!! We saw the different ways they tortured the prisoners such as the rack.

After the Tower of London, we went to Greenwich. What's in Greenwich you may ask???....well the PRIME MERIDIAN!! I got to straddle the line...one foot in the Western Hemisphere and one in the Eastern :)

A couple weeks ago we took a day trip to HAMPTON COURT PALACE! We got to explore the palace, the Tudor kitchen, and one of the oldest hedge mazes!

These were my favorite...mushroom trees!!! I thought they were way fun!

It was a little chilly that day, so we found refuge in the only warm place we could find...the bathroom lol. We thought we'd take advantage of the warmth and ate lunch in there - we got some funny looks when people walked in and saw us eating in there haha :)

The MAZE!!! We had tons of fun trying to get lost :) Our goal was finding the heart of the maze, which we did...yay!!!