This whole week we have been busy with a Book of Mormon art show that the elders have been working on. Here are these humble church art kit pictures, some crinkled, being shown in a city of midivil frescos. The missionaries had framed them by wrapping crepe paper, which was USED, around styrofoam panels. The tape didn't stick, so they had paper trailing off them and they looked mummified. I thought of all the framed prints in the states and these guys just doing the best they could think of, and I prayed that someone would come. Then, after a Hungarian sister said to me that she "no like"' I took off the crepe paper and spray painted the styrofoam panels, which looked much better, but still pretty humble. I also took down and washed our curtains, table cloth, and our micro fiber towels so we could drape something over the things we used to prop the pictures up on. And right at the opening time, a nonmember wandered in! It turned out that she is a student who is going to school in Budapest and has been taking the lessons from the mission secretary for about a year and a half. It was funny...she walked in with us and the branch President thought she was with us, so he didn't say anything to her. The missionaries thought she was with the branch President, so they didn't say anything to her. Finally, I asked everyone who she was, and they realized that she'd come to see the art show. Then everyone launched into gear. She was still there when we left and was visiting with everyone there. It will be nice for her to have another branch to stop in on her way to Budapest, which is about two hours from the city where she lives.
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