September and October 2009

Elder Brockman, President and Sister Baughman, Elder Garcia
Elders Brockman and Garcia were serving as office elders at the time.

Elders Garcia, Laitinen, Hazy and Brockman
Elders Laitinen and Hazy were serving as the president's assistants at the time.

Welcoming Elder Hintze and Sister Crosley, Sept 15, 2009

Our departing missionaries - Sister Dettling with
Elders Foote, Davies, Hazy and Paletsas
Sept. 16, 2009

Elder Bennion (left) and Elder Grossen

Elder Clark (left) with Elder Vaterlaus

Some of our Buda District missionaries

A few of our wonderful missionaries:  Sisters Nestor, Andersen, Eskelsen and Garner
Elders Gardenhire, Olmstead, Dencs and Garner

(Starting left side going back) Elders Wilson, Szvoboda, Laitinen, Hay, and Nemelka
with Elders Runia (right side), Gowdy, Casper, McRae and Davis enjoying
a bite to eat in the mission home.

President Erich Kopischke, our Area President, visited our mission in September.  All of the missionaries came into Budapest for zone conferences.  They loved being taught by such an inspired, dynamic leader.  Months after his visit the missionaries were still talking about his teachings and how they were applying them to the work.  The above photo shows President Kopischke (left) with President Baughman.

Elder Reeves with Sisters Wade and Marshall outside the Tatabánya Branch house

Our incoming missionaries in October:  Elders Macelka and Imreh (Hungarians serving mini-missions) with Elders Kennedy, Tracy, and Baumgartl, and Sisters Shurtleff and Wolfe

Our departing missionaries - Oct. 28, 2009 
Front row:  Sisters Nestor, Thompson, and Anderson, Elders Gowdy, Hansen and Christensen.
Back row:  Elders Olmstead, Castagno, Carlson, Vaterlaus, Gaufin, and Reeves

Sister Eskelsen (left) and Sister Shurtleff (right) at Orsi's
baptism in Szombathely, Oct. 2009.

Enjoying a district dinner at Sister Wade and Sister Marshall's apartment - Left to right:  Sister and President Baughman, Sisters Barker, Anderson and Andersen along with Elders Gardenhire, Garcia, Chiarelli, Laitinen, Runia,
Brockman and Olmstead.

"Lift up your heart and rejoice, for the hour of your mission is come. . ." (D&C 31:3)



President Gary S. and Sister Marilyn Baughman being welcomed at the Ferihegy Airport by
President Walter G. and Sister Katie Gasser, the departing Mission President and wife,
July 1, 2009



Elders Hazy and Plowman, the president's assistants, manning the grill for our 4th of July barbecue

Celebrating the 4th with Sister and Elder Gudgell, Elders Lynn, Pickerd, Plowman, Hazy,
Olmstead and Forbes, and Sisters Andersen and Eskelsen

Sister Gudgell and Sister Eskelsen

Elders Lynn, Olmstead and Pickerd on July 4, 2009

Our first zone conference - July 2009

Sister Low (front center) with Elders Jones and Pinkston.  Back row -
Sister Dettling (second from left) with Elders Runia and Vaterlaus in Kaposvár

Dinner with the Miskolc District President, József Szamosfalvi, and his family

Bread anyone?

Every six weeks we welcome new missionaries fresh from the MTC and bid farewell
to our departing missionaries.

Welcoming (left to right) Elders Hosch, Kubricky, Mason, Miller,
Gardenhire and Clark
Aug. 4, 2009

Welcoming dinner at Vapianos

Even though we had only served together for a short while, it was very hard to say goodbye to our departing missionaries.  Front row, left to right:  Elders Monson, Jensen, Wilkins, Corbett and Spackman; back row, left to right, Elders Pinkal, Smith, Plowman, Mansell, Erickson, Whiting, Hecht and Nelson - Aug. 5, 2009

In August President and Sister Baughman attended a Mission Presidents' Seminar in Preston, England with over 35 mission presidents and their wives.  Elders L. Tom Perry and Ronald Rasband and their wives, along with Area Seventies and staff, joined with them to teach and train.  They attended a session at the Preston Temple and also enjoyed sightseeing in the beautiful countryside.  The scenery was like a fairytale - simply magical.  It was a memorable and spiritually uplifting few days

 

Elder Brent and Sister Nan Gudgell - departing office couple (far left)
Elder Lynn and Sister Kaye Garner - incoming office couple (center left)
Sister Karen and Elder Bruce Haslem - new mission couple (back row)
Aug. 2009

Sisters Dettling, Eskelsen, Andersen, Nestor and Holzapfel -
five of our amazing sister missionaries!

Elder Musters holding one of our "finding" tools -  Aug. 2009



Zone Conferences (above and below)

In September Blair and Sue Garff, dear friends of President and Sister Baughman, visited Hungary.  The Garffs served as Mission Presidents in Nigeria and are now serving as the Manhattan Temple President 

and Matron.   



The mission welcomed more senior missionaries to Hungary in September.  Elder Larry and Sister Barbara Williams, and Sisters Bonnie Marshall and Faye Wade.  Sisters Marshall and Wade oversee the Center for Young Adults in Budapest.



Elders Foote (left) and Castagno on apartment-check day

Showing off their tie collection

Sister Thompson (left) and Sister Hammond