ANOTHER ADVENTUROUS WEEK

Where has the month of February gone? Transfers were on the 9th and we now have two sets of elders in Eger. And with transfers always comes the goodbyes for the missionaries that have completed their missions and they are going home.  We lost some wonderful missionaries this month.  In particular Elder Watson, one of the AP's in the mission.  Also going home is Elder Mellor, who served with us for a time when we were in Budapest.

Our Eger Elders!  Elder Seamons, Elder Larson, Elder Kellogg and Elder Bradshaw!

Elder Watson and Elder Mellor we will miss you both so very much!

Elder Peterson, Elder Watson and Sister Peterson, saying our final good byes .

Eger, is known as "Wine Country" because of all the rolling hills covered with vineyards. The most famous wine is named 'Bull's blood".  This last month our friends here in Eger took us to a famous restaurant in the vineyard valley surrounded by wine sellers.  Of course we turned down the wine but enjoyed a great Hungarian meal.

Fine dining in Eger!

Barbara and Péter have been showing us the great places to eat in Eger!

Beautifully decorated walls with the famous wines of Eger.

Sunday we had our first organizational committee meeting to start the process of creating a wonderful YSA Country Conference. August 8-12 will be the summer conference that Hungary will host with nine other countries participating. We had 20 YSA's in attendance as well as President Vasváry of the Stake presidency and our High Counselor, Oliver Szobonya. There was much excitement as everyone is ready to put together a very memorable event.

So good to see our some of our YSA friends again.  Berta, Zita, Timi, Sister Peterson, Panni and Enikö

Panni and Sister Peterson

Early morning baking raspberry sweet rolls for district meeting, because we love our missionaries

The gospel of Jesus Christ gives each of us hope.  Elder Bednar teaches us that, "We should not underestimate the power of the Lords tender mercies.  The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in troubled times in which we now and will yet live.  When words cannot provide the solace we need to express the joy we feel, when it is simply futile to attempt to explain that which is unexplainable, when logic and reason cannot yield adequate understanding about the justices and injustices of life, when mortal experience and evaluation are insufficient to produce a desired outcome, and when it seems that perhaps we are so totally alone, truly we are blessed by the tender mercies of the Lord and made mighty even unto the power of deliverance." (see 1 Nephi 1:20)

And Ether gives us a promise in the 12th chapter, 4th verse.  "Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope of a better world, yeah, even a place at the right hand of God, which HOPE cometh of FAITH, maketh an ANCHOR to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abiding in good works, being led to glorify God."

May we all recognize our true source of real Hope.  We are all sons and daughters of a loving Heavenly Father and he sent His Son Jesus Christ to save us from this fallen world.  May we never lose that Hope, no matter the circumstances in our life is our prayer.