Playing catch up

 At Christmastime, every city in Hungary (and possibly most of Europe) set up Christmas Markets in the town square.  There are booths that sell all sorts of food, hats, crafty items, etc etc.  This above photo is of "chestnuts roasting on an open fire"( except the fire isn't open.)  We bought a few to try--kind of soft inside. 

 Roberta, our RS president, sings in a little community choir.  We went to the square to watch them perform.  This is 4 o'clock and it is dark!  Sunset is at 3:45 so we have long nights.

 This is at the town square--all bundled up.  It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

 Hungarians in the kitchen.  Janos wanted to cook for us again for Sunday dinner.  Helping him are Dorie and Villie.  He made a Hungarian dish that the Hortobagy cowboys make--an inexpensive dish and I can't remember the name.  It was really good.

 Making paper chains

 Sister Kennedy and Elder Bebel's last Sunday dinner with us.  Elder Bebel got transferred after only about 5 weeks.  He is going to Szeged to be a zone leader--he is an excellent missionary.  Really smart. And he plays the piano well.

 Transfer morning we got together for a Steel Breakfast to await transfer calls.  We were afraid we might lose Elder Bebel and we did.  He is such a good missionary. He was enthusiastic about helping us track down inactives.

 Saying goodbye to Sister Kennedy and Elder Bebel.

 Our crazies!  Such a fun group and super duper missionaries!  

The Debrecen bunch--Steels, Sister Kennedy (about to depart to America--well done), Elder Bebel,

Sister Oberhansley, Elder Nyman

 Our sweet new sister, Sister Woofinden from Washington state. The youngest of 9 children.

Our Canadian, Elder Nabrosky, Elder Nyman's new companion.   Elder Nabrosky has two months left of his mission and we were so fortunate to have him sent to us.  He was our zone leader a transfer ago in Miskolcs and I was so impressed with him them.  He has lots of great experience, is a great leader, and has a really upbeat personality, and he speaks the language like a champ.  (He also speaks German and French)  I think they only send the best and brightest to Hungary.

We recently decided to just start going down the inactive list and trying to find them.  We don't make an appointment because we have to have someone call for us and they are usually hard to reach.  So we are just heading out to see who we can find.  We have found several at home and they have all been very nice.  We set up an appointment to go back.  If they are not at home, we leave a Liahona with telephone numbers attached.  Of course, we need a Hungarian speaker with us--Sister Weberg speaks a little and the missionaries go with us once a week  Hopefully we can get some to go back to church and "build the branch."

Viszlat!

FUN FACT:  Hungarians say "Hello" for goodbye.