Training in Hungary

On February 3, 2020 we flew into Budapest, Hungary.  We were met at the airport by Elder and Sister Richards from Bluffdale, Utah.  We spent our first night in Budapest and the next morning went to visit two organisations that Latter-day Saint Charities is working with.  The first organization was a seeing-eye-dog training school.  This unique organization breeds and then trains dogs to work with blind people.  There is much more that goes into training a dog than one thinks.  We enjoyed our visit and found the work fascinating.  Latter-day Saint Charities helped this dog-training organization prepare an apartment that those receiving a seeing-eye dog can stay while they and their dog learn to work together.

The second organization we visited was "Equal Chances".  This is a sheltered workshop where people with various disabilities work, socialize, receive job training and feel valuable.  Latter-day Saint Charities helped provide sewing machines that workshop clients use to make a variety of different articles.  

The Richards live in Debrecen, the second largest city in Hungary, about a 2 and 1/2 hour drive from Budapest.  After our visits in Budapest we drove to Debrecen where we spent the next 3 days training Elder and Sister Richards.  On Friday, February 6th we returned to Budapest and flew home on Saturday morning.

"Be we reminded that a perfect body is not required to achieve one's divine destiny.  In face some of the sweetest spirits are housed in frail or imperfect bodies.  Great spiritual strength is often developed by people with physical challenges, precisely because they are so challenged." Russell M.Nelson, April General Conference 2012, Thanks Be to God