Our Mission In Hungary: A Busy February

This was the month that true winter hit.

This was the first snow fall, so we were impressed. Little did we know what we had in store.

I don't know why this one is underlined. Just one of those blogging mysteries that we all have to live with. Anyway, we took our Young Adults out to dinner. Call it an etiquette dinner if you want, but I don't think I learned anything.

Ahh, the underlining is gone but the snow is back. This was when it really decided to snow in a serious way. There's a video of this at the end of this posting.

Szeged ended up getting about 18 inches of snow.

I submit this picture for those of you that are following the change of seasons out our apartment window.

So, just how deep did I say the snow got? The locals tell us that they haven't had this much snow in Szeged for 25 years.

February saw the conclusion of our stocking hat service project. We went to two different places; a day facility for handicapped young adults, and a home for permanent care of handicapped individuals all the way from infants to adults.

We were able to personally deliver some of the seventy-three caps that we knitted.

In an effort to find something different to do for an inside event, we held a Western Night for one of our Young Adult activities. This is as western as we were able to get with our limited resources.

There was food; hamburgers and hotdogs. There were games, including a seed spitting contest. Guess who won? And there was line dancing. Our young adults love 'Cotton Eyed Joe' and 'Boot Scootin' Boogie'. (See the Video at the end of this post)

Here the whole group that attended. I think I must have taken the picture.

February we attended a baptism in Békescsaba. It wasn't the first baptism there since our arrival; just the first one we could attend. Gréta is a fine addition to that small branch.

Where do you hold a baptismal service in Békescsaba? In a hot tub in a hotel. It was really hard for the Békescsaba missionaries to find a place.

Here is a snapshot of all of the missionaries serving in Szeged in February. Our sister missionaries operated in a threesome for a few weeks.

Just in case you didn't get enough snow pictures, this is what the flat countryside looked like on the road to Békescsaba. This is our cute little Skoda.

Valentine's Day is no big deal in Hungary but Andrea made a point to serve pink, heart-shaped pancakes at one of our Family Home Evenings.

In February we finally figured out why the Hungarians don't care about Halloween either. They have Farsang! It's like Mardi Gras. That's when the Hungarians get a chance to put on costumes! So who needs Halloween?

This is the costume idea that Andrea came up with for us.

This the the costume you do when you have seemingly unlimited ties. This is Elder Beaumont and Elder Moffet.

And our remaining two Sister missionaries, Sister Papritz and Sister Suranyi, came as doctor and patient. Please note that Sister Suranyi was doing her very best to look very bad.

Andrea is still taking any chance she can get to hold a baby.

A major benchmark for our little Young Adult Center was the arrival this month of our Foosball Game! Gergö was able to beat Laci and I single handedly. What I mean is, after the game pictured here, we made him try again with just one hand. I don't think I'll play him anymore.

In February, we went to Budapest to hold a second committee meeting for the July Eastern Europe Young Adult Conference that we are hosting near Budapest. We took our committee of young adults by bus out to see the site of the coming conference. Besides Hungary, we had people from Poland, The Czech Republic, Romania, and Serbia.

This is the Hotel where the event will be held in Dobogókő Hungary.

This is in the dining hall of the hotel. The distinguished gentleman (no I'm not talking about me), is Elder Mannfred Schütze, our supervising Area Seventy from Germany.

Dobogókő has a beautiful view of the bend in the Danube River North of Budapest. Sorry nothing is green yet but I promise to get you a more colorful picture in July.