4th of July - Hungarian Style and some little annoying bugs...

The 4th of July, heat, and little flying bugs -- what more can you ask. Seems the little bugs like white shirts and ...

7/07/08
Hey Dad!

So we have been tracting our little cheeks off this week. we have been doing ten-stories (storeys? storys?) they are buildings that are 10 stories tall with anywhere from 3 to 6 doors on a floor. it is a good way to talk to a lot of people in a little amount of time. they are kind of fun to do, becasue you meet all sorts of people there...

About the language, it is coming along just fine, it is till a bugger, but it is coming, i can get around ok now. it is getting time when i might beocme senior companion sometime soon, in the next few transfers, that is a scary thought! but it is ok. i can understand pretty much the point of what people are saying, but sometimes it gets the best of me and i just end up embarassing myself :) but yxa, it is going ok :)

For the fourthof july, we had some elders over to spend the night for sport day the next day, and they live in a different city, so it is easier for them to spend the night with us and we ended up grilling some hamburgers and it was way fun! it turns out i make some good hamburgers :) so we had our own little party i guess :) no fireworks though... although my companion attacked me today with a water gun...

the tithing people are doing alright, they want to be baptized, its just that silly tithing thing. the worst part is that i know they can pay, my comp knows they can pay, and they have said they can pay! so we are just working with them trying to get thigns organised for them... maybe someday... ti is hard though becasue they have been investigating for 3 years and know everything... but it will go good.

speaking of baptisms, we might baptise a little girl who just turned 8 in our branch, we have to talk to the mom and find out what all is going on, but the girl wants to be baptised :) so that will be cool :)

our mission standard is what kind of numbers we need to have each week, our schedule pretty much stays the same though, but for the standard, it has been redone and is really different than before. we now have to have people on bap date each week, at least 2 people, which will be hard... and we have to have lessons taught to a bap date, but that cant happen if we dont have a bap date :) so it will be ahrd, we are really working for baptisms out here... we were doing good with finds and programs, but baptisms are the only thing not happening. we would have like 8 people to go down on one day and only 2 of them would go through... so we are trying to get better at that.

my companion is doing good, we do well together, we are not sure if we will stay together though, becasue there are rumors going around about our city and maybe one of the companionships will be taken out this transfer... we have interviews tomorrow, so hopefully we will find out something as to what will happen with us. this transfer will just be a big surprise :) with previous misison presidentrs, they were very predictable, but with President G..., anything can happen, he kind of does what he wants :) not predictable in any way.... so we will see.

so there are these little bugs, like gnats, and they are out in force... they like white shirts too... especially the white shirts with missionares in them! haha in some spots, you will get 30 of them on your shirt and it is bad, becasue they stick pretty good, so you cant shake them off, and when you go to brush them, haha, they like to smear very easily... so all of our shirts have battle scars of little smeared gnats or midges, whatever they are... they have been a pain, you'll be talking and walking and suddenly walk into a cloud of them, and of course only you can see them, so other people think you are weird when you flail around... it is funny :)

people say that july is the hottest month of the year, so if i can make it through, it will be good :) last yerar, 500 people died in hungary becasue of the heat, so i am glad we have a fan and might be getting a second one today :)

we can print stuff out at this place, it costs a little bit, but thats not a problem, haha i do enjoy the paper copies, those are funny ones :) but if you do switch to electropnic, i guress that would work...

well, i don't have much else to report this week, except that i love ya tons!!!
gaufin elder