Adunare in the Hungary/România Mission

Tender mercies of the Lord are all around us.  The Arad county record archive was finally open this week making possible our trip to find some records for a person who lives Germany. The tender mercy was in the way we came to have this assignment.  Long story made short, the Lord has a way of doing his work.  We were asked to try to locate a birth record for the grandfather of a man who lives in Germany.  His grandfather was born in Arad, Romania.  We were happy to give it a try.   It has been a fun adventure.  We did not face as much difficulty as we expected at the archives because the archivist spoke English.  He helped us get a pass that allows access to the archives for a year.  Then, he helped us compile a list of the records we wanted to look at, based on the records available and what we were trying to do. We can request 5 books each per day.  We went page by page through the records looking for the surname of the person we were looking for.  Sadly, the

On New Year's Eve, our building was surrounded by fireworks.  They are not as elaborate as in America, but definitely fun to see .

Our Christmas day began with breakfast and a walk in the woods.  There were more people out than we thought there would be considering it was a holiday.  The grass is beautifully green even though it is December. A couple of Romanian gentlemen on a Christmas morning errand. We decided to go to McDonald's for Christmas dinner.  When we told our daughter Jessica, she reminded her Dad that in America she couldn't get him to go to McDonald's.  It seems that going to McDonald's is the only place to go for a quick burger when the craving sets in. When we were full of burger and fries, we walked across the street to see the Christmas market.  We walked around looking at the shops and walked up the bridge that crosses the Mures river.  The bridge railing had some locks on it like the bridge that Brent saw when he was in Frankfurt, Germany.   I found a couple of pairs of fuzzy slippers and a few wooden Romanian toys to bring home as