February? Party Time!

What can you do
during those long, cold, boring winter days? Have some people over,
visit and party! February was dedicated to having guests in our home
and we loved it.

First we had some
of Laci’s students over, as we usually do a couple of times a year.
Eight students came on a Friday afternoon and we had dessert and
snacks. Of course, Fanni and Luca thought that “the kids” came
just to play with them. So they kept bringing out their toys to our
visitors.
The following week
we had the guest lecturer of the Bible School over at the house. Dr. Steven Bramer
has been a good friend of ours for many years. We had the chance to
take him for to see the great synagogue in Budapest. He brought back
so many nice memories from DTS.

The weekend after
that there was a summer volunteers reunion weekend at the camp. They
had a great time with fun games, fellowship and a three part series
of teaching about the will of God. We hope and pray that they will
grow in the Lord and continue to stay faithful in their walk and
ministry for Him. We also hope to see them this coming summer again.
Hopefully their friends will join them also.

We also had Laci's
parents come and visit us for a couple of days. I guess the main
reason of their visit was to see the the grand daughters. The girls, of
course, loved every minute of it. And so did I (Szandra) as I had
somebody to talk to (my mother-in-law) all day long!

Just this last
week we took the girls to a concert right here in our town. The
major’s office organized a Hungarian traditional folk music group
to come and entertain the little children. Fanni and Luca
had a great time singing, dancing and listening. We bought a CD for them and now they keep
partying at home all the time.

The very next day
Laci and our director Alex Konya traveled to Bratislava to meet a
missionary. They planned working together and doing street evangelism in
Slovakia’s capital. There are lot’s of Hungarian
speaking people living there, and it is also a great ministry
opportunity for Englsh speaking students, as younger Slovakians
usually speak some English. In the meantime the girls at home invited
Alex’s wife Pam over for lunch to join the lonely souls. The Lord
has blessed that day too.

This past Monday
we felt we should invite someone else over and so we had one of our
staff friends the Csikos family over for dinner and some fun
fellowship. They have two boys and so the four kids together enjoyed
themselves to the last minute. That gave us, parents the chance to
have a nice after-dinner talk time.

Finally, Szandra’s
mom had her birthday on February 28. We visited, and left Fanni
at her house for two days – the perfect birthday gift – and of
course had some cake as well with other gifts.

We hope you had just as fun February
as we did. Spring is in the air here as well. One day Fanni said:
Daddy, look! Spring is here! Where? Right there, daddy! Can’t you
see it?