Bad Homburg, Rhine River, and Beckov Castle

We spent the last weekend in Bad Hamburg, Germany at the Mission Presidents' seminar. We were able to see our good friends, Jim and Lynda Henry, who are presiding over the Porto, Portugal mission. We had some amazing training by Elder L.Tom Perry, Elder Rasband of the First Quorum of Seventy, Bishop Burton, and the area presidency. We also took a side trip and cruised down the Rhine River, stopping off for a tour of the Rheinfels Castle, where we had a delightful tour guide and dinner.





























While in training in Slovakia, we took our assistants--Elder Whiting and Elder Chambers-- on a tour of the Beckov castle. Aren't they cute? I think this picture of them should be on the cover of the Ensign magazine.

Beautiful Budapest and Other Stuff

We had the opportunity to visit Budapest, Hungary, while attending a Young Single Adult conference. What a beautiful city!










There was a biker's club posing in front of the parliment building in Budapest.












Sentendra is a quaint little town just north of Budapest.










Matthew joined his Czech friends for the conference. You can see more pictures of him on YouTube.com. They had a great time. Michal on the back row has just received his mission call.









We had quite a group of characters departing from our mission at the end of July.









Actually, they were awesome missionaries, and we miss them very much; but we wish them the best of everything in their new life at home.










Here are our new missionaries fresh from the MTC. We are excited to have them with us.










We took the office missionaries on a trip to Cesky Raj for P Day a couple of weeks ago. It is about 45 minutes north of Prague, and can best be described as Zions National Park meets the Rain Forest. It is absolutely breath-taking. President Slovacek, below, is wearing a bright blue garbage bag over his clothes because it was raining.