September Passes By In Hungary

This picture was taken on our first day in Hungary, on August 23rd, 2011. This is on Castle Hill in Budapest. We include it now, out of order, because we got it later from Sister Bagozzi when she posted it in an email. We had a nice dinner overlooking the Danube at this location. We like this picture.

This begins some of the pictures in Szeged, where we now live, which we promised you in the last blog. This is the Belvarosi Bridge (the downtown Bridge) It is really quite beautiful with hanging flower baskets. We're not sure you can appreciate it without zooming in somehow. Who is that handsome man in the foreground?

This is the big museum in town. We haven't visited it yet, but we'll get around to it.

These are a few of our Young Single Adults at our regular Friday night activity. We have a spiritual message, then we eat, then we play games. We fix and provide the food and for this we get to pretend we are kids again.

Our Young Single Adults participated in a Youth Fair that was held in our city. That's our good friend Laci (Pronounced Lot-See) in the white shirt giving a presentation about our program. We were really pleased that our Young Adult Center was asked to participate. That's the back of Andrea in the blue dress.

Here's Laci with Viki, another one of our YSA's, at the same event. She was baptized last February.

Only a block away from our apartment is this impressive water tower built in 1904. It is no longer used to store water. It is not often open but we were lucky enough to happen by one day when it was. We really enjoyed touring its interior, seeing the displays, and taking in the fabulous view from on top. (275 steps) Andrea counted them.

Here is the view towards the center of town from the top of the tower.

I would take this duplication out if I knew how, but it is simpler to apologize right now rather than to figure it out. Sorry.

This is the view towards our apartment building. It's hard to point it out to you without a finger. It's the grayish looking one sort of in the middle of the picture and directly below the water tower that is seen on the horizon.

There, now the picture is much prettier.

This is the water tower at night. It is always lit up like this and we think it is very pretty.

Here's the picture of the main building of the Szeged University. It's a big campus scattered all over town. They have a student body of about 30,000.

Andrea wanted you to know that we can get a Big Mac anytime we want. So far we have not felt the want. This is in a downtown area that we call the walking streets. We have no idea how long ago they closed this section off so that it is foot traffic only but is is a very pleasant place to visit.

This is called Heros' Gate. It is a Fascist era construction. Things didn't turn out too well for hungary after the First World War and got worse after the Second World War, but the defeated should still memorialize their heros.

This is the Votive Church on Dóm Ter. (Dóm Square) The original church which stood here was wipe out by a flood early in the last century, along with half of the rest of Szeged. The small tower at the front left is all that remains of the original structure.

This is me with a new friend I met on the square.

A closer look at the church.

We participated in a service project sponsored by the YSA's, digging a garden plot. The girls in the picture, including Andrea, didn't really spend any time with the shovels, but it makes a good picture doesn't it?

This is meal time provided by the family for whom we dug the garden plot. Every one in this photo is a missionary except for the man with the camera. His name is Géza, a really nice member and an indefatigable picture taker, and an exemplary blogger of the first order.

On a trip back from Debrecen to see their Young Adult Center, We stopped give me a few minutes to wake up. This is our car, a Skoda. As you can tell, the countryside in this part of Hungary is flat. Very flat. Flatter than Kansas. It is called the Great Southern Plain. Agriculture is everywhere. They grow peppers for fresh produce and for making paprika. They grow lots of tomatoes and lots of grapes. Lot of corn and lots of sunflowers. They grow a little of a lot of other things and during the growing seasons their is plenty of fresh produce to buy.

Here are three Young Single Adults at the Friday Night Activity that we just held earlier this evening. Klaudia, Nik, and Viki.

That's all for this posting. We hope everyone is well and happy.

Love,

Elder and Sister Adams