The Church ... July 5, 2009

For three years we met at this building, the Budapest English Speaking Branch. Each year it seemed like the number of families declined, as more families moved away than moved in. But we enjoyed getting to know many of these people over the last few years.
During our time, primary had a maximum of twelve kids and as little as 5 kids at one point. Church was always only two hours (Sacrament Meeting and Priesthood/RS...Sunday School was substituted for Priesthood/RS on the 5th Sunday). The branch had for most of our time only a couple of youth. Life will be much different in our new ward in Kentucky, where the primary has >125 kids and church is three hours again. Our kids really only know the last three years when it comes to church, since they were barely in primary when we moved to Budapest, so this will be an interesting transition.