Getting the Tires Changed

Each Summer and Fall we need to take our car to Budapest and have the tires changed from summer to winter, or visa versa.  Yesterday was the day for us.  While we were there we took the opportunity to have lunch with three of the other couples in Budapest.

The couple from the top right is the Wiggins, the first Humanitarian Missionaries to serve in Hungary, they are great finding many ways to help. Next to them are the Heaths, the auditors for parts of  Eastern Europe.  They go to several Eastern European Countries helping branches and wards with money issues, plus they are in charge of the audits for all the wards and branches in the countries they serve Each district (consisting of branches), or stake, (consisting of wards) have to do an audit twice each year.  High councilmen or others are assigned to do the audits.  I was assigned to do them in our district, which consists of Sopron, Szombathely, and Papa.   That gives you an idea of how desperate they are for help.  Then across the table from the Heaths are the Carpenters.  They are the mission secretaries, a job that only the very best can do.    

These statues you will see were at one time in various places in Budapest.  After the revolution in 1956 these statues, which depict various communist "dignitaries" were torn down and placed here.  The one above is a pair of boots.  These were on the statue of Stalin, which was torn down after the revolution.  His body is elsewhere.  

The is the entrance to the "final resting place of the statues" of various Soviet sympathizers after the Soviet take over.  

This is a statue of Lenin, considered by the Communists to be a very great (evil) man.  He was the man responsible for millions of deaths.

This was once attached of a Soviet statue, and it depicts solidarity.  I took the picture from the end so that I could get it all in.

Everything in these statues depict solidarity and nationalism. 

This gives you a sense of the size of this statue.

This again depicts solidarity.

This statue above is described on the plate note above. He is a Hungarian who was great during the occupation, meaning he was a communist and helped murder his own people.

Another Hungarian hero, as far as the communist were concerned. 

This one speaks for itself.  He was the one who brought communism to Russia.  He was responsible for millions of deaths among his own countrymen.

Notice how all the statues depict pride and determination.  

This is a car that was available to be purchased during the years of communism.  If you ordered one

 you had to wait 6 to 8 years for delivery and you had to pay half up front. It had a "two stroke engine" meaning that you had to mix oil with the gas.  Even today we can see a few of those old cars on the road.  They were produced in Zwickow in East Germany.

What a great opportunity to see this with the Heaths.