The car

We love having a car and it was very dependable through the first three weeks of our mission but then it decided it had been good enough through the cold spell and started to not want to move. I can relate to that. It acted like the emergency brake was on all the time. After it was warmed up then it would be ok. Steve took it to the dealership a couple of times but they didn't know what the problem was. They did change the oil but strangely that wasn't the problem.

The check engine light came on and Elder Bagozzi told us to take it back to the mission home so he could get it checked out.

So a trip to the car wash was in order.

Lucky for us they spoke German and could say roll up your windows!

Ah, there is a world out there, this car was really dirty!

Steve finished by using the vacuum to get the rocks out of the car. I would say sand but these are really big pebbles they scatter on the road.

We headed straight east to Budapest.

We got into some haze that is hard to see on the picture and then heavy fog before we got to the mission home. The check engine light went off on our way there so Elder Bagozzi said to keep the car because it was better than the one he was going to trade us for.

The one good thing that came out of our trip is that we got to meet the Cromar's who just got in from California. We are no longer the new kids on the block. The office elders took us to a government office to apply for our visas. The stack of papers they got ready for each of us was twenty pages. Hopefully there won't be any problems in getting our visa. We realized today that we came through Amsterdam without going through customs, I sure hope they let us go home  when the time comes.