Well winter has definitely arrived in the Wasatch Mountains. Lucky Doug, gets to stay in where it is warm and cozy while the rest of us have to trudge around to go to work, the store, shovel walks, scrape the windshields. You know all that fun stuff.
12/12/07
Hey!
I did get your package yesterday (tuesday) and thanks for the shirts and such, i will try them on a little later today. i hope you liked some of the pictures, i promise we do work hard. we began consecration week today where we only speak hungarian and be more obedient and such, it should be pretty fun :)
so how's life goin at home? i heard you got out some of the christmas decorations! that's awesome! we put a couple in our room thanks to some packages from you and aunt grace and other people, our room is lookin good :)
so we have 2 weeks from today until we are on our way to hungary! i think we may see our flight plans pop up in the mail on friday or monday, i hope friday :)
it's weird that we have to start getting ready to go, like i had to go get a suit dry cleaned this week and i have to sign up for a haircut next week and such, it's strange :) but i'm so excited to get outta here! you have no idea! :)
well, i can't think of anything adventurous that has really happened lately... oh, in the temple today, we did sealings and Stephen R Covey was our sealer, we thought that was pretty cool :)
the language is really fun, ya, it's hard, but i still think it is way fun to speak and learn! we can get by pretty good with eachother, the only problem is that we are fine here in the little MTC, but in hungary, it'll be way different. having Maria here a couple times has really helped though (maria is the real hungarian lady).
we teach 2 more times in the TRC and then it's pretty much TRC all day everyday :) and weonly have like 2 more sundays... it's cool that it's all counting down! 14 days and i'll be on a plane to hungary!!!
How's mom doin in her little brace thing? sounds like she's becoming part of the Borg from star trek ;) just kiddin! (kinda) I hope it helps out...
so dad, i'm not sure, but i don't think you will be playing any more golf this year... sorry,. but it's ahrd to find the ball in 3 inches of snow :)
well, i gotta go for now, i think i'm getting on the email a little later today, but we'll see, love ya and tell mom for me too! love ya!
-gaufin elder
Sounds like the Elder is getting really ready to get out in the field and do the good work. He sent a few pictures this time and of course some stories if you can decipher them. We have a picture of his District on the Christmas Card, and another of the "world watching chairs" now closed due to snow.
12/5/07
so... i stubbed my toe when i got here and it just kinda hurt a little more over the weeks and then i was like "oh dear..." and i figured i had better get it fixed and healed here instead of in Hungary where i'm not sure how the procedure and healing would go. but oh well, it's all good. i do get to go to the outside world today, and it oughtta be fun :)
all is well in the MTC, not much has changed... i did get my hepatitis A and B shots today... i'm going to be all doctored out by the end of today!
so we only have 3 weeks left here, we get our flight plans in like a week, i'm so excited to get outta here! :) :)
i sent home some pictures of the adventures in the MTC and i'll be mailing home my memory card so you can get the pix and videos off of it.
i'll probably send home another postmark thing before we leave for hungary, i'm not sure what'll be in there, but just know i'll be leaving some stuff home. i'll ask my teachers about the converter thingies...
hey, i paid for my shots today and they were $103 dollars... it kind of depleted a mass of my funds... i'm pretty sure you know what i'm gonna ask for :) but could you send me a little money?
thanks again for the packages and mail and such and i'll try to stay on top of sending you stuff...
thanks again!
love ya,
elder gaufin
When I figure out how to post a video clip I will put up one of the "Mattress Dominoes" mentioned in an earlier posting. It will make you laugh out loud.
11/28/07
hey dad!
thanksgiving was really good, we got real turkey and m,ashed potatoes and stuffing and pie. they took good care of us :) We had jeffery R holland talk to us in the morning and it was really good. he really has a lot to do with missionaries and he loves them, he's a very animate speaker about missionaries :) that night we had a fireside about humanitarian work and then we did the service project: we made 10,000 first aid kits. every year when the missionaries do it, a couple months later they are needed, like the tsunami a few years ago, the earthquakes in south america and floods and fires all over, we made the kits that those people can use. they are also shipped to africa and such for those who need them. so i'd say thanksgiving was pretty good :)(we've now heard from 1/4 of the quorum of the 12, and it is rumored that 2 apostles are coming during christmas season... :D )
thanks for sending me the candy and christmas decorations! i got 3 packages yesterday that all had like christmas stuff in them! it's fun to countdown to christmas, because it's not just christmas, but we leave to Hungary the day after!
speaking of Hungary, we had a hungarian lady come and talk to us yesterday and it was cool, we could actually understand some of what she was saying!
we teach the second lesson in hungarian this week, and it should be pretty fun. 2 weeks ago (last week was thanksgiving so we didn't have the TRC) but 2 weeks ago, we taught in hungarian for the first time and some of our district members said some funny thigns: one told the lady investigator he was teaching, "i love you" instead of "i loves it". another elder said, "the great onion flavored..." instead of "the great apostasy" and there were some others too. i haven't had anything like that happen yet. except in class when i said someone was stinky instead of guilty... oops!
i've got some more pictures that i'll be sending home soon, i think i'll mail them tomorrow morning.
also i'm going to send my memory card, suit pants, and some things i want to save, but don't want to lug around in hungary (like my first daily planner and such...) i'll try and mail those today during laundry time or something.
also, do you want to let me know what kind of converter they use in hungary, cause i found the little ones here in the mtc, but i don't know which ones to get, or if i even will get them. my universal one is kind of big and heavy, but i will probvably use it anyways, but it only has 1 plug i can use... i can't remember what power thingy they use in hungary... i'm not sure if i'll get any anyways, but they are only like $2.50...
let the family know how greatful i am for all the letters, cards, and packages and dear elders! going to get mail is like christmas, but instead of once a year, it's twice a day! :) but thanks them for me, they are the best!
the language is coming, it's getting easier to memorize words and such, because they aren't so foreign anymore :) well, i'll write you a letter probably this afternoon and mail home the pictures and such.
talk to ya soon
love ya!
elder gaufin
Then there is the language to reckon with. Try to read the 1st Article of Faith in Hungarian!
I guess you can take the boy out of the man, but it doesn't look like the man really forgot how to be a boy and to imagine. This would be Elder Doug in "The Matrix".
Sounds like he is doing well and really ready to get out and breath some clean Hungarian air. Atta Boy!
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