Some forgotten Christmas photos

 The Christmas villamos.  One tram is all lighted up, just at Christmastime.

 The mission home.  The president lives here, there are offices, and a branch meets here.

 Zone conference/Christmas party.  This was a really fun day. We first had training, then a scrumptous Christmas, games, gift exchange and Miklos came and passed out gifts.

 The seniors from our zone.

 We are the East Zone

 Doing the gift exchange

 Miklos--sorry, I didn't get him turned.

 The Steels--Seniors from Debrecen

The Budapest McDonalds by the train station.  It is supposed to be the most beautiful McDonalds in the world.

Sunday dinner and transfer day

 Michael is an investigator from Taiwan who is going to medical school here in Debrecen.  He comes to Sunday dinner almost every Sunday.   He is so funny and makes us all laugh--we all love him.  He attends church and all the other activities in the branch; unfortunately his parents won't let him be baptized--yet.  He just turned 26 years old.

 The Broadheads are a missionary couple from Yuma, AZ.  They are the Family History Specialists and travel all over, talking in church and giving workshops on family history.  They came to Debrecen last weekend and we were able to spend some time with them and get acquainted.  They are really a sweet couple.

 

We all got together for a Steel Breakfast on transfer day to wait for their transfer calls.  It's a pretty exciting morning.  We were afraid Sister Oberhansley and Elder Nyman would be transferred and sure enough they were--darn it. We were privileged to be with them for 4 1/2 months in Debrecen.  They are both wonderful, wonderful missionaries and have made being in Debrecen so much fun.

Elder Nyman is receiving his good news.  He was so excited about his new companion, Elder Haws.

 The Debrecen team. Front- Sister Steel an Elder Nyman. Back row--Sister Woofinden, Sister Weberg, Sister Oberhansley, Elder Steel, Elder Nabrotsky.

 Our wonderful Sister Oberhansley is being sent to Szeged to train a new little greenie for the last two months of her mission.

 Our greenie, Elder Nyman, is no longer a greenie but a great missionay. He is being transferred toTatabanya.

 Our sweet Sister Woofinden is staying in Debrecen with a new companion, Sister Westover.  They are sister trainers--kind of like zone leaders.

Elder Nabrotsky will stay in Debrecen for the last five weeks of his mission (but we can't talk about that.)  He will have a new greenie to train.  He will be the District Leader and we will have great meetings.  When he was our zone leader in Miskolc I loved his training meetings

Working with these young missionaries is the highlight of our mission.  They are absolutely amazing!

New Years Eve

This is how I spent New Years Eve.  The YSA were watching a Disney movie and I was watching my dreams.  I had to pay a bribe of 10 Milka bars for this not to be shown to the world.

A Little More Christmas

 Sister Magyar sent me a few more photos of our Christmas dinner.  Here wer are opening the little gift bags she gave to each one.

 On the floor, Sister Weberg and Sister Szabo, L-R in back.  Elder Nabrotsky, Sister Hegedus, Elder Nyman, Sister Magyar, Sisters Steel, Woofinden and Oberhansley.

 The Monday before Christmas we went caroling.  I didn't take my camera so we went back a few days later to get pictures of the town square.  They set up an iceskating rink in front of the Nagy Templon.

 This is what the members call the "Lehi Tree" after Lehi's vision of the tree of life.  It is a fake tree totally covered with lights and is gorgeous.  When we went caroling we stood in front of it and sang.  People actually stopped and listened.  Then we went to 3 homes of branch members.

Downtown Debrecen is really pretty all lit up for Christmas.

It seems most of my photos are of us seated around the table for Sunday Dinner, so I haven't taken as many of those.  Our main activity nowadays is going out in search of the inactives which I really like doing.  It's pretty exciting when we find someone home and they invite us in.  We usually schedule another visit.  Of course, we are with our Hungarian-speaking young  missionaries because we no speaka the language.