Good grief transfer calls come on a different day. How unsettling!

07/21/08
haha hey dad!

so last week, on tuesday we get to district meeting and our district leader is not happy... he then proceeds to read a paper that says that we will no longer get transfer calls on sunday, but tuesday morning and that getting transfer calls should not affect our missioanry work... haha we all said "riiiight"... some people get more affected than others with transfer calls, so president decided to do it this way... we willl seehow that goes, soi won'T know what is happening til tomorrow morning, sorry....

as for the ten stories, imagine a giant cinder block hollowed out with apartments, anywhere from 3-6 on each floor. they all have little tiny kitchens with 1 maybe 2 bedrooms and a main somewhat bigger living room... and a little tins bathrooma nd shower. they don"'T have air conditioning, and most have heating... that is a ten story... they were big and cheap for communists to build, so they had people live in that to work in the city, and then they would give each family a little plot of land outside the city to go work in a garden on the weekend and someitmes they had a little house out there... it just depended....

the funny thing is that hungarians still continue to build 10 stories, becasue they are cheap, they are just plain... sometimes they will paint them bright orange or green, or red... but a lot of them are just gray cement color... a lot of them here in pécs are green, orange, yellow, red, peach... (we have to be careful saying the word "peach" here, becasue it is a bad word... so we say the hungarian one : "összebarack... haha a little harder,, but i guess it works :) )

well, thigns are going good, most of our people get back from the balaton this week, which will be good, on the other hand, like half our ward missioanries will be going to the germany temple this week... so it will be hard to get member present lessons... that kind of stinks...

so, heres a story for you: me and d... tract in this ten story and get let in by this guy who looksd about 50... we go in and sit in his kitchen, there are cigarettes and alcohol everywhere, but we proceed to give him a first lesson... well, towards the end, this lady walks by the door to the kitchen and then looks back in the door way, then leaves, then looksd back and then leaves and does this like 5 times and finally she comes in and she was about as high as a kite... oh my goodness... we had the most interesting conversation with her, becasue the guy left to talk on his cell phone and left us alone with her!!! she saw our jézus krisztus nametags and talked to us... it was creepy.. and then she lit up her cigarette or two and smokes right in front of us, not windows open... i was just gld that was the last time i wore that shirt for the week... and here's the worst part, whenever she'd talk to us, she would always like reach over and squeeze our hands as if to be like sincere ofr something, that was creepy, but here is the worst part... we finally stand up to leave and she gives us "puszi"'s!!!!! a "puszi" is a kiss on the cheek... and actually we got one on each cheek... that is the second time i have been puszied on my mission and i wanted it to be the last! it was creepy... we are not sure if we will go back.....

you mkight wonder about the other time i got kissed... it was back in debrecen when i was washing dishes at a ward activity and one of the relief society members was trying to weasel her way in and do them and i galiantly shooed her away and she grabbed my face and planted a kiss on each cheek and said thanks and then wlkaed away... i just stood there with soap dripping off my hand snd wondered what just happened... :)

well, i will tlak to you all more next week, love ya!!!
gaufin elder

P.S.
i forgot to say, a few people write me fairly often and i have been trying to write them back, it has been rather hard this transfer though, but i am trying to be better at it...
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so they don'T have root beer over here and us missionaries know how to make it with a co2 bottle... all we need is the extract... so like a little bottle would be sweet! the reason they don'T have root beer is becasue they used to have a medicine that tastes very similar to it, so they won'T sell it here...

love ya!