POLAND! December 15, 2010

Dominique is in Poland!

She told us that when she arrived, she was going to kiss the ground!

She was supposed to travel with a senior couple, but when they got to the airport, they had overbooked the flight to Chicago out of Salt Lake, so they routed Dominique through Dallas and then she was supposed to meet up with the senior couple in London and travel on the same flight to Poland. However, the flight out of Dallas was delayed for 3 hours and when she arrived in London, her flight and the senior missionaries had already departed. So she was able to arrange a flight late in the evening and arrived about 11 pm in Warsaw.

Unfortunately, no one had informed President Nielson and he spent most of the day waiting for the missionaries at the airport and then when the senior couple arrived (several hours late), he was surprised to find out that Sister Stay wasn't with them. So he had to come back late at night to pick her up. We feel so sorry for President Nielson! He had to go through so much extra work to get this one Sister to his mission!

Sister Nielson writes about their day here:http://nielsonsinpoland.blogspot.com/2010/12/terminalpolish-style.html

Dominique had an incredible experience at Temple Square, and we will send a few last notes that she sent about her experiences there. Dominique will be serving in Katowice, Poland with Sisters Brown and Smith. It appears that Sister Brown will go home at the end of December.

Here are pictures of a recent visit the mission president made to Katowice:http://nielsonsinpoland.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-zone-conferencekatowice.html

Katowice is a city of about 300,000 people in South Poland near the borders of the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south. It is one of the main coal mining and steel manufacturing areas in Poland, but it is also the third largest science center in Poland. There are over 100,000 students attending over 20 schools of higher education in Katowice, so there should be a large youth population there.It appears that in the surrounding areas are mountains with a number of ski resorts.We are thrilled that Dominique made it to Poland. She will be transferred to her new area today.

Thanks,
Tim