November/Thanksgiving in Hungary

Ahh, this is what Fall looks like outside our apartment window.
We had an activity (actually in October) where we took the YSA's to play Teke.
That's nine pins, the game that was once outlawed in most of America because
of gambling and corruption. That gave rise to the invention of 10 pins (bowling).
Here are four Szeged Elders just before transfer day, wondering what will happen
to them. Elder Rummler, Elder Bullock, Elder Nielson, and Elder Allen (sitting/it's his
birthday). All but one of them missed their guess by a mile.
So, we went to Romania!! Refer to Sister Adams' informative and entertaining
email for details. We are in front of the Branch House for Oradea, Romania. It
occurs to us that we haven't sent you a picture of the outside of our Szeged
Branch House. We'll have to fix that.
Here are Hungarian and Romanian YSA's doing a Greek Dance. The next day
they will be taught a lesson by us in English. What a Church!!
When the conference finished the next day, we all took off for a tour of the city.
Here is one of the prettiest sights in Oradea! Yes, it looks like a horse is standing
on her head. Sorry about that.


Me and my friend Gergö with his ukelele. He's not bad!
Andrea and Timi and the city hall.
Just some interesting Romanian architecture.
This area of Romania is actually part of Transylvania. Have you heard about
the little wooden stakes I passed out as part of my lesson? No, really.
We walked around and into a very ancient citadel.
This is what it used to look like. If you Google Earth Oradea, you can get a nice
satellite view of it. It's really pretty impressive.
Andrea and her Mona Lisa pose.
After the Oradea weekend, we had to drive to Budapest to return the mission
van that we had borrowed for the trip. That gave us a chance for this picture
of the famous Chain Bridge over the Danube. It was a cold and breezy day.
So, on the Monday after Thanksgiving we held a Thanksgiving Super P-day for
missionaries in our area. Andrea made the meal as traditional as Szeged would
allow. We had 8 Elders and 4 Sisters over, from 3 different cities.
It took two pictures to get them all. It looks like 13 instead of 12 because Elder
Allen is in both pictures.
The first activity after the meal was Whipping. Practically every Hungarian
Missionary has taken to this p-day activity. They're really good at it!
The second activity was watching Ratatouille, in Hungarian of course.
Well, congratulate me! This is the only picture that is unintentionally out of order.
Andrea on a visit with branch sisters to a lady who recently had a baby. Andrea
drove the two sisters by herself, 38 Kilometers out of town. Andrea was with the Primary President whose name is also Andrea. Oh and, the new mother's name is Andrea. Oh, and
while we think of it, she has a daughter whose name is Andrea. Holy cow, there were
four Andreas there! It is not an uncommon name here.
These are some of Andrea's primary kids pretending to be prophets. This was
what Andrea was able to come up with for costumes. Not bad for our meager
resources. Well, that's it for November. Have a wonderful December, Christmas,
and New Years. What will December be like for us?