Highlights of Timisoara

Presdient Lundberg adds final touches to the taping job of the broken window before we head for home.

Dinner at Gabriella's!

Joshua, Gabi, Elder Jepsen, Elder Woodard, President Lundberg

In addition to the wonderful zone conference at Timisoara, we had a few more exciting experiences. On Friday night while President Lundberg was inside the Vila (church building) doing interviews, somebody broke into our minivan. They broke the right passenger window as well as the back left window. The thief took President Lundberg's new briefcase with his scriptures and language materials as well as Elder Bringhurst's backpack. It contained some needed and treasured belongings including his journal! The assitants had to put cardboard in the windows and duct taped garbage bags around them. We had to pull over once on the 12-hour ride home when they got to flapping a little too much. We felt like the Beverly Hillbillies driving home. The five of us were in the van for the long drive, with different passengers doing the duty of a rearview mirror. We also played "buzz," a group game that helped Joshua to learn his timestables! Oh, and I mustn't forget---we got pulled over by a policeman for not having our lights on during the day. Elder Rigby kept speaking English and we were sent on our way.

Another wonderful memory of the trip was having dinner with a member, Gabriella. She made a delicious meal of soup, bread, stuffed peppers, dessert, etc. Gabi could speak English quite well and we had a great visit. Gabi sent Joshua home with seashells from the beach and a really neat turtle. (It wasn't real, fortunately.)