Adunare in the Hungary/România Mission

Our mission car is the way we are able to get to see our branch members, many of whom live an hour out of the city. We go in every direction and sometimes in opposite directions on the same day.  This week we visited our member in Nadlac who is west of the city near the Hungarian border.  As we stepped inside her gate, we saw little frogs jumping all over.  The sisters shreeked with delight and were trying to catch the little things.  There must have been a hundred of them jumping everywhere in the grass.   It happened so fast I did not get a good photo of Sora Broadbear, just her legs.  We also made a trip to the Posta this week.  And surprise, surprise . . .we received a package that Jennifer sent to me for Mother's day.  It was just a few weeks late, but at least it got here. And reading the notification slip, it looks like it was here for a while.  We are not sure why we are only getting notified abou...

More walking in the woods this week.  There is still a lot of lumber being removed.  We talked to a man at the Park museum who told us that after a big wind storm last year, it was decided that the trees need to be cleared to keep from having them fall down and cause a problem after a storm. This is the sister's investigator, Gabriel.  He lives outside Arad in the countryside.  His home is on an approximately 3-acre piece of land at the bottom of a hill covered with grape vineyards. He works in France and has been meeting with the sisters there, but now he is at his home in Arad, so the sisters have been teaching him.  His cute little mother has come from France to live with him.  This day she made us some fried zucchini and the neighbor sent over a bread called Placinta. It was like a large scone. The Romanians almost always offer us drinks - apa (water) or cola (coke) or fanta (like orange soda).   The roses are bloomin...

Sora Broadbear, who came to Arad 5 weeks ago, has not been to see the Fortress near Arad, so that is the first order of business for this week. A small village called Lipova is at the bottom of the mountain where the Soimos Fortress is located. Sora Nemelka Sora Broadbear Beautiful Lipova valley with rich dark brown soil. This flowering tree reminded me of the "Tree of Life" in Lehi's dream. Some of the fancy chickens roaming around where we parked our car. Solar unit on the top of a Lipova home.  Back from the fortress. Monastery in Lipova. The sisters applying for Sora Broadbear's Visa.  We drove to Covasant which is a village outside of Arad to visit an investigator and have a picnic.  We took our pb&j sandwiches, cookies and chips and stopped alongside the road by a little lake.  We set up our stuff in some trees and dreamed about camping....

A trip north of Arad to the village of Horia happened at the beginning of this week.  We went to see Sora Muscan, one of our members.  She has a nice home and wonderful grapevine covered outside space.  We had to go out to the back and visit the variety of chickens, ducks, and turkeys who live there.  We are not farmer enough to know what type of grain this is growing in a large field where we walk in the woods, but the big grain field reminds us of home.   I was trying to get a photo of this field when Brent decided to smell the flowers.   Photo bomb! On Wednesday and Thursday this week we flew to Chisinau, Moldova for a senior conference with all the senior couples and President and Sora Hettinger. The view from our plane as we landed in Moldova.  Elder and Sora Godfrey planned a great couple of days for us.  We really enjoyed spending time with the other seniors on the chartered bus.  We ...