Slow Week, thank goodness!

This week has been slow, at least in terms of blogworthy news and pictures! I will have more pictures next week because of the upcoming Thanksgving holiday. Even though the Hungarians don't celebrate Thanksgiving, they do eat turkey so we will be eating turkey (galore) and the typical sweet potato casserole, dressing, cranberry salad and pumpkin pie just like the rest of America.

About 20-25 of our missionaries and their children will gather at the Eden House on Thursday to celebrate together. Glenn and I are responsible for picking up the turkey from the Grand Market Hall in downtown Budapest, and the last we heard, we could expect our turkey to weigh about 20 kilos. That is 44 pounds! We found out that you can't get small turkeys at this time of year; they do, however, have "family size" turkeys at Christmas time. I think we are going to cut the turkey in half and Karen will cook half and I will cook the other half!

On Saturday, we are going to the town of Gyor about 1 1/2 hours away to celebrate with some of our other missionary friends. Fortunately, I am not cooking that turkey!



We are still waiting on the mom at the Eden House to give birth so Glenn and I are staying close to the phone. Earlier this week I took one of our missionaries to the medical clinic we use in town, and I thought you might like to see some pictures of it. It is very clean and modern, and looks like any doctors' office you might see in America.



This is Kriszta. She is the liason between our missionaries and the clinic. She schedules our appointments and goes with our folks to specialists who are "outside the clinic" in order to show us how to get there and to translate for us if the specialists don't speak English. Kriszta has been witnessed to by many of our missionaries through out the past couple of years, and she became a follower of Christ about 7 months ago! Keep her in your prayers, please.



Glenn has used his electrical know-how this week to install an electric gate opener for me! He worked outside in the cold and dark (even though it was about 5:00 pm!) It is so nice to just punch a remote in the car as I drive up to the house and have the gate open for me! Glenn was able to do all the work except for the welding!

I am going to be teaching conversational English to our landlord's son once a week. He is about 5th or 6th grade and has been learning English at school, and does a pretty good job of it. It won't demand much of me; I'm just supposed to give him an opportunity to talk and help him with his pronunciation. Would you pray for my time with him? Pray specifically that I will have an opportunity to share Christ with him.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!