Our New Friends in Finke

Having a few laughs with our new friends in Finke, a village about 30 minutes away from Miskolc.

On June 2, 2017 we, along with Edina Spisak

Edina, our friend from
the branch and our translator

as translator, visited the participants in the Finke project.  Atilla, the project trainer, greeted us and proceeded to show us around the garden plot.  The garden looks beautiful!  

Atilla Toth

They have already harvested several of the vegetables and have replanted.  Atilla was quick to let us know that the excess vegetables were donated to the local school and the government.  

Planting corn and string beans to support each other

A few minutes later the rest of the family members joined us.  We sat around the table next to the garden and played a getting to know you game.  We had prepared questions in both English and Hungarian.  We had a good time as they read the questions in both English and Hungarian and we did the same. Many laughs were shared because of the unique pronunciations on both parts.  We are looking forward to returning often to teach some English to them -- and they will teach Hungarian to us!  We also plan to do some crafts and they want us to also teach them cooking and canning.  Humm - that might be a hard one.  I told them, they need to teach us the cooking.  They won the cooking contest last year at a Northern Hungary festival - their first year to enter.  

On our first visit, they asked several questions about the church. They were familiar with the young men in Miskolc who wore white shirts and black and white name tags and knew that we were from the same church. After we left last time, Melinda, the sponsor of the project, asked us to tell them about the church and invite them to attend church ("if that is okay") Because of their interest in the church and Melinda's asking us to share our church with them, Elder Moser felt prompted to give them Books of Mormon just as we were leaving. They received them with gratitude and they seemed eager to read them. They even asked if we could read them together on our next visit. This is one big family (about 40 members) who are very supportive of each other. What a blessing the church would be to them. We excited to be able to share the message of the gospel with them.

Of course, they would not let us leave without gifts from their garden.  

I think we might be spoiled this summer.  Yummy!