Doing some teaching in the park

Some of the stuff that we eat and playing piano in church and talking to an investigator in the park under some odd circumstances ;)

6/16/08
Hey Dad!
I thought about your comment on different Book of Mormon colors, but then i realised that England has been opened for 100+ years and there were different ones back then, but hungary has been opened for just over 15ish years and there are only 2 translations in hungarian and they are both blue., which is nice to know in this situation :) the book that lady talked about wasn'T the book of mormon, it was like a timeline thing and had other writings in it... but still...

we have scheduled a bunch of programs for this week, so we'll see how everyone is, and we did a bunch of tracting this past weekend. I really like the way Elder D... tracts, it is different, he makes it more personal, so people open up to him... it's not the usual robot door approach... This transfer should be awesome!

as for food, they don't feed us a lot here (the members) so we are on our own... transfer week is rough, so we survived off of pasta for the past 3 days, but we went shopping this morning :) happy days :)

I usually eat simple stuff, some of it includes:
- Kolbász (like pepperoni, but much more better) sliced up on bread with some butter and spicy sauce, it is really good :)
- cooked noodles mixed with some tejföl (like sour cream) and some seasonings... this meal is pretty much called missionary surprise becasue everyone knows how to make it and it is for those weeks when you ahve to penny pinch :)
- an egg and kolbász sandwich.

for times when we actually plan what to make, we make some good stuff, i am an ok cook i have decided :) we make some hungarian foods and then some easy american ones, depends on how much we want to spend on food that week... we usually get gyros once or twice a week (a gyros is a pita with meat, lettuce, onions, cabbage, tomatoes and spicy sauce with some kind of ranch. ) it is really good and when you get here, we will hav one :) we also get ice cream every now and then becasue it is close to us and it gets hot here...

most of the apartments have some kind of pots and pans... some missionaries get rather atatched to a pan and buy a new one and carry it with them to every area, its kind of funny :)

speaking of piano playing, one of the girls here, saw me playing piano and ssnuck up on me and asked me to play in church... it turns out she is the ward music coordinator or something like that and now she thinks she can get me to play piano... so last sacrament meeting i played piano and usch... i practice the hymns when i can, becasue they are very handy... when i have kids, they will all learn at least a few hymns, regardless of what they want, they will learn them, at least a few... that's a big regret of mine right now... but ya, i try and tickle the ivories when i get the chance, before district meetings and such, i just have to be careful who my audience is... :O

I am trying to work hard and with Elder D... i think we are going to work our guts out, we have only been together for 5 days and we got as many finds in the past 5 days as me and p... ot last transfer. goes to show who likes to work and who doesn'T. i am so greatful to finally be with someone who is still young and excited about the work! not old, trunky, and burned out... this transfer will be a good one i think!! and just know, i am tying to be a good missionary, you never have to worry :) i promise!

not much happened this week, oh, i'll share this little experince...

- So me and Elder D... go to a program with this guy that me and Elder P... found... This is our second time meeting and he wanted to meet us at one of the squares and show us around the city a little and talk. So we went and met with him and ended up at this outdoor bar kind of place where lots of people set up little shacks and were watching the european soccer cup. So we sat down and he ordered a beer and us two Fantas :) and we talked about what he does for work, I introduced Elder D... and talked about the church. Well, after like 45 minutes he says he has to go to the bathroom, so we go and he goes and we are walking around and he orders another beer and asks if we want to go up farther intot the square, towards a big temple. so we say "sure". well, there is a concert going on and we kind of stop to see who it is and such. Well, he says, "lets go sit down for a bit and we'll talk" so we sat down at the back of the square and were kind of listening to this concert and talking about the gospel and church and such. Well, after a bit, we are just about to leave and get home, when.....we notice a white shirt coming towards us and i think to myself... "that looks like a missionary!" and lo and behold, it is an elder who just got off his mission on wednesday and was touring around with his parents. now, this misionary was very obedient, very good misisonary, so imagine this situation very carefully in his eyes:
- 8:45 at night, almost time to be in. (we have to be in at 9 unless in a program, then 9:30)
- 2 missionaries at an open air, free concert sitting down with some guy
- that "some guy" is holding a beer, wearing a leather jacket, somewhat shaved head and a goatee...

ya... a bit awkward to see the elder and his parents in that situation...
oh goodness... we didn't feel bad at all until he walked up... it was the situation that was terrible, but it wasn't bad at all... me and d... just kind of said "duh!"

it was actually a good talék with that guy, he is one of our investigators...

so ya, an awkward story from me this week, it was one of those bad place, bad time, meeting the wrong people kind of thing, almost like getting caught with your pants down... but oh well, all is wel :)

i will try to write a paper letter to you today if we got time, but for sure sometime this week, i have a few i need to write...

thanks for everything and i hope things are going well!!!

love ya!!
gaufin elder

p.s. if you are thinking of sending a package for my b-day or sometime, remember to include a bit of crystal light and some skittles or other goodies, those are the most appreciated :) but i do enjoy the whatever elses that get thrown in :)

p.s.s. that last p.s. is not a plea for a package (mom) so no worries, just whenever you end one again, just try to have those things in it :)
love ya!!!
gaufin elder