05 May 2008
Hey dad!
i'm sorry to hear about the poopy weather for golfing... on the bright side, i might still be able to beat you when i get home :) haha but i doubt it :)
the weather here is usually dry, and most of the time there are a few clouds in the sky, to be honest, it is almost exactly like utah only a bit more humid... there are some wicked lightning storms ai saw and some freaky torrential downpours of rain like i have never seen... thtose were awesome, aoh and in böszörmény we had pea sized hail come down real good for a while... and that night it lighting like nothin else... i have a video of some of it and some picturesa of lightning i got...so, Pécs is a city with probably around like 150,000 people in it i think... it's fairly good size... it might have abit less people though... (that was terrible english, but it happens to all of us who learn hungarian... :) ) it is in a small valley with hills around it... and some larger hills they call mountins, which are very scenic. in fact we ewent tracting up in some of them yesterday and we found a creepy abandoned mining company... they had what looked like a floating mansion on stilts all abandoned with broken windows and such... it was creepy!! and we tracted down a dirt road with some rather nice houses on it... no luck though in finding people... the city itself is very pretty and has some cool buildings in it... it is definitely one place i would bring you all to!
haha transfers: first off, my other comp, elder d... was not so happy to find i was leaving... we were rather a good companionship, or at least had some good times while working :) anyways, i had to pack up all my stuff so that the senior couple could come to our city and take my luggage back to debrecen so i wouldn't have to deal with it on a bus... i love senior couples, they are priceless! then we spent the night in debrecen at the other elders apartment and then got up at 4:30 to get ready to catch the 6:06 train... we had a 2,5-3 hour train ride to budapest... we got into the keleti station (east side) and had to lug all our luggage to the nyugati (west) train station, so we had to deal with travelling on villamoses (mini trains or i guess like trams or trollies...) once at nyugati, we got tickets to pécs, which is another 3 hour train ride. oh, the senior couple drops off the luggage at the debrecen train station, so form then on, we have to lug it around... so ya...
OH! i forgot one of my white t shirts in the apartment, becasue it was hanging up to dry, so elder g... (senior missionary) offered to take me and d... out to get it... well, we take the 25 minute ride out there and just as we pull into böszörmény, d... asks me, in hungarian, if i have the keys... haha i'd given them to d... becasue i was leaving earlier in the day... haha so we spoke in hungarian so as not to raise alarm with elder g... who had just drive us 25 minutes to another city just for my shirt... well, we get to the apartment and me and d... say we'll be right back... well, we get up to the door and we are like "well now what?" well, i don'T have lock picks on me and d... doesn't have anything, so we decide to use the old credit card trick... except d... forgot his wallet, so i have to get out my old mtc card i don'T need anymore... well, we mess around with that for like 10 minutes just with the card, sliding it up and down side to side, but the door is really tight, so d... is trying for the third time to go at it from below, so he is sliding and pulling with all his might when SNAP!! the card breaska dn d... almost rolls down the stairs! it was at this time that we tucked our missionary pride between our legs and went down and told elder g... what was really happening... he laughed his head off at us...
so that's transfers for you! :) i will hav to work on my "being locked out" skills... some other time...
as for branches and wards... the first stake was organized in hungary just recently, so up around budapest there is one stake, so there are a few wards in it, but everywhere else there are just branches, and i am in a branch right now, but it is a very cool branch, one of the best in the country... they work a lot with the missionaries, whcih is nice :) church is somewhat like in america, just with a lot less people, so there are some big differences of course, but the same basic stuff goes on :) some people dress up, some don't, you have like your really strong members and not so tstrong... we do a lot of less active work out here... but overall, it is somewhat the same... imagine yellowstone church, but for 3 hours, there you go :) that is a good summary, except usually we are in a real branch house, and not a gym :)
haha i don't know what we are going to do without z..., he is the coolest guy ever! he says that when he comes to america we are going to buy a pig and he'll come to our house and kill it and we'll cook bacon over the fire just like they do here :) haha he said that if you (the parents) come after my misison we might just do it there at his house insted, but either way, we would have to visit him, he is so cool! haha i'll miss him a ton. his daughter actually cried when i left, and then she called the next day to say goodbye... i'll miss them a lot as well as some of the peolpe who lived in debrecen...
for studies we usually read BoM for 15 mintues ad then like research a topic,or at least that's what i do to find references for it in the BOM and Bible for lessons, then we have comp study, whcih varies what we do... and then language study, which we read grammar books or we memorize vocab for an hour... i have learned a lot about christ and the atonement during studies and by reading the bible, i realise a lot about how different religions get confused. i also don't now how people survive without the BoM... the bible can be so... boring... i am so gald for the BOM i also realise the importance of the restoration now.. i didn't know really why it needed to happen till i started learning the gospel deeper... just things like that i have never really thought about... i love personal study, it is one of my favorite things...
haha i do have enough ties now :) i might get some new shirts and a suit this summer, but for now i am ok, i did pull some money out like 2 weeks ago for a tie bag and such that i needed... but i willl let you know when i am in the frame of time to get a suit and such... i might get some white shirts sooner than later though, i gave 3 of my unused long sleeve ones to my last companion, we wear the same size and i had never worn them and didn'T want to haul them around the country with me... so some of those are gone, ido have 2 left though, no worries...
well, mom brought it up a bit, but i thought i would ask, who all is coming here when i get done, like what are your plans so far as for picking me up, i know it is far away and i try not to think about it, but i am rather curious... and it is no problem for you to come pick me and and i travel for a bit after the mish, mom was wondering about that, but as far as i know, it is just fine. i heard we have like 2 weeks or something we can travel around... also, i will have a new misison president by then, so i don''t know if anything will change or not.....well, i love ya and i will talk to ya on mothers day, i still don'T know if in the morning or in the after noon, maybe morning though, the only problem is that that is prime tracting and finding time for us... so maybe afternoon, but we'§ll see, you'll hear from me one of those times :)
love ya tons, see ya!!
gaufin elder
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