Október

It is amazing to me that even though we were in Hungary at this same time last year, we still seem to find plenty of things to take pictures of.

 Here are the three sisters of Szeged.

 It took Andrea and I a year to locate this statue in Szeged.  It is titled "California Einstein".

This is a "Where's Waldo" type of test for my video game playing sons.  Can you tell why I took this picture in our splendid Catholic church on Dom Square here in Szeged?  The answer is in the close up picture featured as the last photo of this post.

 We took a drive out through the countryside to visit this dear sister with our young elders.  She faithfully comes into Szeged for Sunday church services and for various other activities by taking a bus ride and a train ride.  It takes us about an hour to drive to her house.

 Another be-nice-to-the-elders meal provided by the Adamsék (Adamses).  These are our elders from Békéscscaba: Elder Rosen, Elder Vanderpool, Elder Forsythe, and Elder Hansen.

 We made a special trip to Budapest this month to attend the opera (Carmen) with our fellow senior couples and mission president.  We are eight couples in a row.

 We spent an evening along the peaceful Tisza River.

 We had our last campfire of the season with our young single adults.  It's getting too cold to do it again.

 This month, one of our favorite young single adults, Evelin, was baptized.

The baptism was held in the round pool in the center of this elaborate public spa.  It was the only location that was available for the date.  It was a little lacking in privacy but it actually turned out quite nicely.  We did have a private room to hold a before and  after program in as pictured in the previous photo.

 A reception was held afterwards in our Szeged branch house.

 Here the young missionaries are doing the cooking.  Following a district conference, they wanted to cook french toast with slabs of bread cut off of an absolutely huge loaf of bread.

 Back to Budapest for our quarterly seniors' training seminar.

 We visited the parliament building again and I took this picture of the famous Holy Hungarian Crown.  It is a national treasure which was hidden away in Fort Knox for a number of years during Hungary's tempestuous history.

 Here are two other national treasures.

 Occasionally, we appear in the same photo together.

 This site is called "Shoes on the Danube".  These bronzed shoes are here to mark the location where the Nazis massacred Jews and then threw the bodies into the Danube; but not without having the victims take their shoes off first so that they could be reused.

 This is a view of the Buda side of Budapest taken from Gellert Hill.  Gellert Hill is where Hungary was dedicated for the preaching of the Gospel by Apostle Russell M. Nelson in 1987.

 For a Friday YSA activity, Zoli (sitting) taught us how to make balloon animals.  Perhaps I will have a new career when I return to the states.

 An end-of-transfer lunch.  Elder Hatfield (without the coat) left to serve in a different city in Hungary and Sister Hall (in the white blouse) was finishing her mission here and was on her way home.

 We notice a brand new scale model of the town square here in Szeged.  Why don't we have something like this in Corona?

We pulled over to take a picture of the setting sun on our way back from Békéscsaba on Sunday.  It is getting dark so early now.

And so, we finish with our little photo game.  Yes, it is the Triforce of Hyrule symbol from the Zelda games.  There must be a very powerful secret hidden here in Szeged.

We love you all.  Until next month. Tom and Andrea.