the ercesi flea market is a spot,well where you can find just about anything. we had read about this place a couple times and finally decided we better check it out. and well it didn't disappoint, a great place to find all sorts of old antiques, war memorabilia, old furniture and plenty of conversation with locals. we had no intentions of buying anything and left with just that but we had a great time looking at all sorts of things and talking with some of the shop keepers, our item of interest is these old irons they have, 150 years old, they use hot coals as the source of heat, kinda cool but i think a little to heavy to haul home. on this picture take a look at the canes, i had to stop lynnette she desperately wanted to buy the hoof one! yikes!

this last month has found us quite busy, trying to juggle helping with the missionary training course going on at our team center and also at the same time trying to keep up with our regular ministry, yesterday was the final day with everyone heading out to their countries. every sept and jan all new missionaries joining OM and heading to eastern europe first come here for a month of training, (we did this last year in jan.) this time around we had a german family heading to Albania, a american girl also going to Albania, 2 koreans going to Kosovo, one dutch girl going to Moldova. We also had Alba a Chilean going to Albania, please pray for her as she is still awaiting her visa to enter Albania. she is staying here in Hungary until then and it can be quite hard to see everyone else off while you have to wait. We had her over to dinner last night, i kinda had to laugh as i never thought I would say I'm having a chilean over for dinner who is going to albania in Hungary, the world is getting smaller these days! we had a great time as lynnette made us stuffed chicken with a feta, and roasted almond sauce in it, nagyon jo (very good)! and relaxed played cards together.

please also continue to pray for Miklos and Eva the gypsy family who we have been sharing about, i went out with some team mates to visit and miklos is doing quite bad and he and his wife are taking it really hard. the doctors have said he is beyond help and it's really difficult to see him and the family. pray for a miracle that his health would turn around and for his family that they would be comforted during this time.