Whipping, Under Attack???, and Other Stuff

Well some more time has passed and Doug seems to be getting whipped into shape. Well, at least when he isn't whipping himself that is! Then he has to wake up in the middle of the night to explosions and lights and well, it wasn't WW3. New companion, same area. And there is some reassurance to his Mom that he is OK. That in response to a nightmare that Mom had one night.


3/24/08
haha mom, I am OK!
haha you and your silly dreams :) haha i am doing ok, last night it was storming and i woke up to the room lighting up and then a low rumble that grew till it shook the window panes and set some car alarms off. so imagine me waking up to a bright flash, windows shaking, car alarms, an ambulance siren, and an orange glow from the street lamp. me and D... elder thought it was world war 3!!
other than that, it's been good, we went whipping today and i only hit myself in the back of the leg like 10 times :)
haha sounds like kellie has you all hooked up :) maybe she'll help me out when I come home :)
sounds like you are staying busy as aalways, with Master Gardner, tulip festivals, work, easter, and so forth :)
well, i don't have much time (details in the longer letter) but i thought I'd say we are just fine (so far) and that all is well :)
i love ya tons! guess what? colby harris is going to greece on his misison and goes to the mtc on June 4th i think, does he go in with taylor r...??
love ya tons, see ya!
-gaufin elder

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3/24/08
Hi dad!
well, we had transfers this week and i am with Elder D... out in Hajdúböszörmény still. he is a funny and cool guy er.. elder, and so it should be fun. he is about my size with red hair.so last night, imagine this:
I woke up to a bright white flash, along with a loud rumbling and then the windows began to shake. A car alarm went off, and I heard an ambulance siren going off! on top of that, there was an orange glow outside our windows!!!
as it turns out, it was a big storm last night and i guess lightning hit somewhere in Böszörmény and it was so close and loud that the flash of it woke me up and then i came to in time to feel / hear the rumbling of it, and it rumbled so loud the windows shook in their panes!! and then it was so loud and strong that it set one or two car alarms off and on top of that, an ambulance was sirening out in the town somewhere. and our street lamps are orange, so i thought stuff was on fire outside! i thought we were being attacked or invaded!!! and D... thought the 2nd Coming was happening! haha how about that for a night in hungary :) don't worry, all is ok now :) nothing happened, we are safe :)
well, we had easter on sunday and in hungary, it is on monday too, so we had a super p-day again, no tracting or anything today... we did go whipping though :) i only whipped myself like 10 times in the back od the legs, and i accidentally whipped elder b...'s whip out of his hand :) on accident :) we didn't think anything would be open today, so we hadn't planned a whole lot, and then we decided to see if perchance the email place was open, so we did and it was, so you get aan email from me today and not tomorrow :)
not much to report this week, we are going to go through our area book one more time and call old investigators and see what's up. the first one we called set up a program with us, so that's a good sign :)
Haha yesterday in church, there were a lot of people tehre for easter, and they all left after sacrament meeting to go home and cook for family members, it decimated our branch, we had like 1 young man and in priesthood, only like 5 people... haha it was raining and so everyone put their umbrella out in the hall, but they left the puffed out so they could dry off, so like 20-30 umrellas were crowding in the branch house, i wish i had a picture of it :) and don't worry, i am taking pictures, i just haven'T had an opportunity to print them off yet... but i will in the next few weeks.
as for the weight, we do a lot of bike riding and walking and i don'T eat very much out here for some reason... but i've had to tighten my belt and such the last few weeks... I don'T know how it happens, it just kind of does... :)
i eat like a small yogurt and a jó reggelt in the morning, a jó reggelt is a small package of like 4 wafer cookie things that you can eat for breakfast, they are like hard granola bars, and i usually have that for breakfast, and lunch is like bread with butter and spicy red sauce on it with kolbász (like pepperoni but uch much better!) and then dinner... i don'T really know what we do for dinner to be honest...we might not even have it.. :)
well, i bext be off, the place is closing soon, but i wil talkt o ya next week!!
love ya and thanks for the weekly letters, i am getting those and i love to read them!
love ya,
-gaufin elder

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3/17/08
hey dad, so it said it sent the email to you, so i was able to snag it out of the sent folder, i resent it to you though, just inc ase it didn't come up.
it talks about the baptism, or the lack thereof... gr.. anyways, that's in the other letter.
i got a little green card from you this week with a poem thingy inside, was that all there was in it? just the card and poem, becasue it had been opened before i got it... i think the might target card envelopes more than regular white ones, especially ones that have something extra in them, becasue they think it's money... so watch out for that and let me know what all was included in the card. ...
i do know josh b..., he was on the tennis team with us, i didn't know him well though, i mostly knew his younger brother who was in my grade, so i know his younger brother a lot better. i know who the other kid from our stake is, but i haven't seen him here yet, and i don't know him that well, but i'm sure i'll run into him, i hear he has like a little less than a year left.
for transfers, i am staying in my area, but i might get moved to debrecen in the middle of the transfer, rumors are flying around., so i don't know until the president says something. but i am getting a new companion, elder dillman, i don't know who he is, but i will i'm sure :)
that's cool that so many new missionaries are leaving on their misisons, could you try to get me their misison home addresses? or somethin? and maybe i'll send them a letter later on...
our p-day went well on saturday, we were told just to email like normal on monday and not worry about it, so here i am :) sorry no email on saturday. for p-day we went to hortobágy and bought whips! :) i am way excited, i can get it to crack real good now :) pretty much next p-day will be spent whippin with the district :)
not much to report this week... hasn'T been too eventful, the week before transfers are usually not very eventful.
so not much to report... maybe next week there'll be a bit more :)
i love ya tons and i'll talk to ya later!!
--gaufin elder

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3/10/08
hey mom,
thanks for the email, i think the fellowshipping is a big deal, in our branch, it's not very united and we're trying to think of things we can do to make it better, but it's hard, becasue some are very recent converts, some are very old converts... we think and think and we hope that something will present itsself to help it out...
things are goin well here, not much to report, it is pretty muh spring though! haha i'm excited to ditch the suitcoat. i've always liked wearing one, (because of all the pockets of course.. :) ) but i get hot really easy and it is a killer sometimes. i think that i may buy a few more short sleeve shirts, or mend some of my long sleeved ones, becasue i've only worn long sleeve ones to the temple in the MTC and i have only worn a long sleeved shirt 2 times out here... so i don't think i need all 5... i might fix a few of them to be short sleeved :) haha that oughtta be interesting huh? i guess we'll fid out :)
well, i don'T have much time this week, so i will write the bulk of my stuff in dad's email, i love ya!!!
talk to ya later!
-elder gaufin