Adunare in the Hungary/România Mission

Week 42 began early as we got out of bed so we could deliver the Sisters to the train station.  All three of them were assigned to ride the train to Cluj.  Arriving in Cluj, Sister Kerrison met her new companion and they rode the train back to Arad.  They got here at 9 p.m.  Sora Folsom and Sora Pitcher flew to Bucharest.  Sora Pitcher picked up a new missionary who she will be training.  Sora Folsom is headed to Chisinau.   Our next adventure this week is a trip to Horia to teach Sora Muscan another temple preparation lesson.  She has a goal to receive her endowments in the Frieberg, Germany temple.  Sora Muscan's GoodLooking chickens - She Loves them! We have been making daily visits to the post office and receiving packages at our apartment.  It is a great feat to receive something that has been sent from the US.  We received a beautiful book called the "Teaching of Thomas S. Monson...

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...

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 Rom...