Adunare in the Hungary/România Mission

The most exciting thing that happened this week was a trip to Horia.  A little town just outside Arad.  We went to visit our branch member, Dana Muscan and her family.  We had a wonderful visit about some things she would like to do.  She sent us home with some bags of beautiful grapes.  Many of the homes in Romania have a grape arbor growing over a support system across their walkways or driveways.  They provide shade and bountiful fruit.   Dana put Elder Gore to work with the scissors cutting down the grape clusters.  We filled two bags. You can see Elder Paul in the background making friends with the dog and cat. Below you can see Sister Folsom and Brent supervising the grape clipping. Undoubtedly, Elder Andersen is imparting some little know grape facts.  Here you see Sister Castaneda fielding the soccer ball for a little scrimmage with Luca, Dana's 8-year-old son.  Here are a few shots from the forest where we take our walks in the morning. The spider

We had a busy week including a trip to a castle, a trip to the dentist and a legendary storm on Sunday.  So, here we go. The mission office had some street contacting materials made for each area of the mission.  Frank and Cheryl Leavitt who came to the mission at the same time as we did and are assigned to Bucharest, were assigned to get them to the areas.  They called us and we scheduled an appointment to meet and pick the materials up.  We planned to meet in Deva and see the Hunedoara castle while there. We had some lunch at the mall in Deva and headed over to see what we could see at the castle. It was closed to the public, but there were some interesting things going on. This is the same castle where Brent took the Elders and Sisters a few months ago. It was the home of Vlad the Impelor or 3 years. Brother and Sister Leavitt and me in the khaki skirt with the peach color shirt. Brent took this beautiful shot as the sun was going down and the lights came on.  A