Fast talking and spit flying!

Wow, fast talking old guys and a mass zone conference complete with tours and what is that plant??

6/30/08
Hey dad!

Things are finally somewhat picking up, we tracted last night and found another investigator that shows some promise, and we have a few more investigators that are doin alright, we are now trying to work with them. last week we did a lot of less active and hometeaching. we ha our mission standard changed this week, and now we have to make sure we get all of our studies in and we are reporting that to our leaders. we also have to have baptismal dates and such like that. it will be hard, but we are working on it.

that is cool about the golf course and such! we will have to play it hen i am home. speaking of that, it is crazy how fast time has gone by and is going by! i have been in hungary for 6 months now! that is a weird thought. my companion hits his year mark next transfer, and i was in the mtc with him! that is so crazy!!!!

it is getting hot over here, it is about 80 degrees in our apartment at night, with the fan going... it is just barely sleepable,. but soon enough, it will not be so fun...

on tuesday we had a mass zone conference where it was our zone, the west zone, and the east zone all together. we had our normal zone conference and training, but then they took nus to an open air museum where it represents different parts of hungary and so we could look at different building types and try different stuff... at one of the exhibits, it is field of a type of plant that looks exactly like weed (marijuana) not joking at all, it was really.. well... questionable, but funny too :) it was a whole field of it, and whether it is a museum or not, that can't be right :)

we also went to a little walking street with shops and a church thing that if you go to the top of, it has a good view over the little city. it weas really fun to see other missionaries and such there. it was fun to march around with 60-70 other missionaries in a big clump, haha it made a lot of people stare at us :)it was way fun though!

so we are trying to get that one copuple to pay tithing and eeach time we meet with them, we get closer and closer, so it is only a matter of time, when i first met with them, they said they couldnt pay it at all. next, they said they were willing, but coulnt pay it, then last time they said they were willing, and caould probably pay it, but dont want to giv up some stuff. so maybe this week will get them :) i hope so anyways, they would be a tight family in the church.

when me and d... were tracting, we got let in by this older man who invited us in right off the bat, and he said he only had a few minutes, but that he wanted to talk, so being the good missionaries we are, we accepted and went in and sat on his bed (may sound strange, but usuallys a bed doubles as a couch in hungary) and so we sat down and he immiediately started. hewas a conspirist of the worst sorts. i have only known one other hungarian to be able to speak as fast as this man. he spoke so fast and spit was flying everywhere and we went from subject to subject and the next was evern more ridiculuous as the last! we went from him talking about some white book being true, just because the title of the book said it was a true book, to saying [..some removed here...] and that al gore was an awesome person who invented the internet...he thinks the holy ghost came down as an eagle, not a dove... and more stuff along those lines... it was incredible, and we covered all that and more in about 20 minutes, he spoke so fast, it was incredible, i dind'T think mouths coul move that fast! he asked me a question and i dind'T even know it, all the sudden he stopped talking and there was a silence like after a train goes by and everyone was looking at me, the old man, and my companion, and it took me a full 15 seconds to realize what he said, and i accidentally said "tessék?" which means a polite: "what?" and he started all over again and my comp just started to giggle... it was an interesting let in... there are some weird people here :)

well, not much else has happened, we might go tie shopping today and fin a companionship tie or something.

i love ya tons and thanks for the letters and email and such, i will honestly try to get a letter off this week, i really have had no time, we are out of our aprtments til 8:30 and then come home and plan and get ready for the next day, and then it si bed time... but i will try to :)

love ya tons!
gaufin elder