"Where Did That Darn Pedal Go?" or "Why Am I Flying?"4/14/08
hey dad!
so i thought i'd start off with a little adventure i had this week :) so as you know, we are kind of opening a new city that we have to bike to, well, the city is like 15 kilometers or about 9 miles away... well, we set off friday morning to reach our destination and we are biking along great, we make it to about the halfway point, about 5 miles and i got to pedal hard and SNAP!!! my left pedal where it connects to the crank snaps clean off! and so the handlebars jerk around because my weight gets shifted so fast, and before i know what happens i'm over the handlebars laying on my bike, but my legs are still under it... my helmet smacks the road and i just lay there and start to laugh :) haha and that's not the worst part, the worst part is that we had to walk all the way home from that point, it took us 2 hours in like 90 percent or more humidity and we are still forced to wear suit coats and it is really hot!! haha 2 hours to get home!
haha so that's my adventure for the week for you i hope it made some of you smile :) i sure did, i also have a huge bruise on my inner thigh i got from smacking the bike, another decent sized one where i the back of me leg got stuck behind the remaining pedal and a few more here and there from handlebars and what not... :) haha all in a days work :) needless to say, we didn't get much done that day :) and don't worry, i have pictures of the bruise and of how in the middle of wnowhere i fell, i mean it is flat as a pancake and fields for miles around us and i eat it... ahha not good :)other than that, things are going well out here, we couldn'T meet with some people, becasue they were out of town, but hopefully next week we can :)
it's amazing how fast time is going right now, it is so crazy!!!
speaking of time, a transfer is 6 weeks, and i am in the country for 15-16 transfers, usually 16 though, and i am in my third right now...
other than that, thigns are goin alright, we can take suit coats off on tuesday, so that will be nice :)
not much else to report, the weather is gettin hot and humid out here, which is a bummer, but that's all good...
well, i am doin alright and i love ya all, see ya later!!
gaufin elder
Conference in Hungary and a recipe for a monster Conference Sandwich
4/07/08
haha hey dad! sounds like you are brushing up on your hungarian! :) that's awesome!
how are things going?
i am staying in my area for this transfer and maybe even one more... which would make it 4 total here. that would be ok, because i like it here :)
we have a few people we are trying to get on baptismal date, and we'll see how that goes, we're trying hard for our goal, and i hope it works :)
we got to see general conference :) here's our schedule for it:
U.S: saturday morning session - saturday 6 p.m. (live) (here)
priesthood session - sunday morning 11 a.m.
saturday afternoon session - sunday 2 p.m.
sunday morning session - sunday 6 p.m. (live)
sunday afternoon session - didn't get to see it yet...
it was cool to see, but weird to think it was 10 am there and 6 p.m. here!! it was an awesome conference tjhough, what i saw of it. i missed going out to eat, but we did have conference sandwiches, which i hope a picture of it gets to you today :) it was a 1/2 kilo of bread, 1/4 kilo of ham, tons of ham, tomatoes, and lettuce, and some cheese :) it was awesome, i will send a picture of it :)well, the interviews went well, me and d... are going to travel and open a new city. we will live in our same spot, just we will ride our bikes the 6-7 miles to the city, spend all day there, and ride 6-7 bikes back... it will be adventurous and HOT!!
it is warming up so much right now, i don't like it. i think i will cook alive this summer... but it's ok :)
i can't think of much to say in this one, just sending some pictures home...
as to the questions, people get interested when we say we are from america, and then they ask why we would come to hungary and why we would learn this hard language... they odn'T believe we aren'"t huingarian until we start to speak to them,. but even then, the good missionary speakers sound just like hungarians... we joke that the only people that learn hungarian are babies and missionaries :) a lot of time when you mention jesus christ or god, they shut down, but if you mention the book of mormon, then the pay a little more attention...
As for PMG (preach my gospel) unfortunately, i didn'T use it a whole lot as a priest, and i wish i would have. Pmg is one of the best gospel resources you can have. lots of people like to include it in the standard works. it is a complete gospel guide and missionary help. it is soo cool! you learn it very intimitely in the MTC too, it is very cool!
well, i have to go to the g...'s, i will see ya later!!!
love ya, bye!
gaufin elder doug
What? A stick to keep the gas on?3/31/08
hey dad!
so i got some pictures for ya finally :) some are of me and my trainer, tracting, my new companion, and such.. and some food... the picture with a silver bar from the wall to our oven is when the gas wasn't working right so we had to prop the stick against the gas button to keep the gas on... it was interesting...
thigns are going well here, the work is picking up, we have 2 new investigators and hopefully andother one next week that works out. we have a district goal of 10 baptismal dates by the end of the transfer... so me and dillman are responsible for 3 of them... it will be hard, but i think we might be able to do it :)
the weather is getting warmer and soon we get to take our jackets off :) so now i can squinch up my belt to the like 4th or 5th hole... it's getting to where my suit pants bunch i have to cinch it so much... luckily the grey suit is a little smaller, so i will have to wear that one more... if i ever serve in the big city, i might just get another suit and some shirts :) or something... :)
i have to turn in a ton of reimbursements tomorrow at interviews, like 50,000 forint-worth, which is about 275 dollars ish, that'll be nice :) i get mail tomorrow too, so i am looking forward to that too.
we have been tracting the buildings again, but the only problem is that the Jehovah's Witnesses got that idea too... they did the buildings like 3 days before us... that makes tracting a bit of a bummer, but we did get let in a few times and got a couple new investigators, so it's ok :)
well, i don't have much to write about, in my interview tomorrow, i get to find out where i am going, and if they are closing the city or not...
in debrecen they are starting an outreach program, which targets college aged kids, like 18-30, and we hold activities like once a week and it's just a place they can come and have fun then we do like a spiritual message at the end and they come back the next week, but there is one in budapest becasue of the colleges and now there will be one in debrecen because of the medical school and colleges and such, it will be cool, so they are going to move our companionship in to debrecen either half way through the transfer, or at the end... and i may stay or i may not... i don't know... so i guess i find out a little bit more about it tomorrow...
i will let ya know!
well, thanks for the emails and such and i hope you like some of the pictures! i love ya tons and i hope you have a good week!!!
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