A week in the life of Elder and Sister Flammer

I thought it would be fun to let you see what a week is like for us in Sopron.

Last Sunday we were assigned to speak in Szombathely. This is a very friendly branch that is about an hour and a half from Sopron. It would be closer if we could go through Austria but we are not suppose to leave Hungary. We are going to ask for permission to drive that way because we will be going there more often for YSA. 

After the meetings Sister Szvoboda invited us to their home for lunch along with the four missionaries that serve in that city. They feed the elders every Sunday night. They have nine children and three of them are on missions now. They lived in Vietnam for five years. He is Hungarian and she is Swiss. They are a  great family.

This is a picture of the back of their home.

Monday night we went to the Filharmonia Concert with Richard and Eta. He teaches English at the university and she is now our Hungarian teacher. This is a picture of the back of her head. The performance was really good. Actually, the picture is of the performers  and Eta's head. I will get a front shot soon.

The concert hall is in the middle of Sopron and was once owed by a wealthy Hungarian but when the Communists took control of Hungary they used it for their leaders. It was renovated in the last couple of years and is a nice concert and art building.

On Monday, after we took the elders shopping, we stopped by a place that said Bali Beauty. Because of Steve's ability to speak German we were able make appointments for him to get his hair cut and for me to get mine colored. This took place on Tuesday with just a little hitch, Steve's cut took 15 minutes and mine color took an hour and a half. I know for a fact that next time I will be going by myself to Bali Beauty. The color is darker than I have ever been but it beats "mouse gray". One strange thing is that there was a dentist office in with the beauty salon. I am thinking that next time I could get my teeth worked on while the color is doing its thing.

Our good friend Eva came Tuesday afternoon and we started THE quilt. Eva has been so good to us and speaks very good English. She lived in Pennsylvania for a couple of years. Her ability to speak English and Hungarian has helped Steve out a lot in his German and English classes. We didn't want to stop sewing but Richard and Eta and their son came to dinner that night.

Our land lady wanted this tree moved from the back yard to the front yard so Steve worked on it on Thursday. What a guy!

Elder Olsen and Elder Bullock came over on Saturday morning to help make the move. We just hope that there is not a strong wind anytime soon.

Eva came back over on Saturday morning and we were able to finish the quilt. Now we need to figure out how to get some seven and eight foot boards to our house for some quilting frames. I told Steve that we could just carry them home from OMI, it is only a couple of miles from where we live. He thinks that we can bring them in the car. No one that we know has a truck here.

Elder and Sister Gudgill were assigned to speak in our Sopron Branch today 

so they came on Saturday in time to join the English Club. On our way to dinner we met Tibor who is in the English class. He is one of the nicest guys we could ever meet. He let us see is garden. Steve will blog more about him and his talents another time. 

This is part of  the stone wall in his back yard that was build around Soporn hundreds of years ago.

I forgot to say that on Monday we went to lunch to celebrate our anniversary of our engagement 42 years ago. Steve had this idea last week but we didn't have time to go. The food was great and the ice cream menu looked really good with the fresh raspberries on it. It was still cute with canned fruit cocktail and the ice cream is very yummy here. We probably won't blog about the day we did a taste test to see which place has the best ice cream until we are sure we have tasted them all. Two in one day was really great!

This was in the entry way of the restaurant we ate at, I wanted Steve to get on it but he wouldn't even stand by it. Anyone hungry for wild boar?

 We saw this motorcycle at the Sopron Mall. Pretty cool wouldn't you say? We also made three pans of brownies to deliver to branch members and other friends during the week. We had paparika chicken at the branch presidents home yesterday which was delicious.  Game night on Friday night at the branch house was great where my team creamed Steve's team in pictunary. We do  need to come up with some new games soon. 

We are loving being in Sopron with such great people.