Have you ever wondered where the missionaries in Hungary come from and some thoughts on cooking thrown in.

07/28/08
Hey Dad!

The 10 stories we do, we have to "Csengo""-in which means to ring in, so ya, we have to stand by the little telefon and ring person after person til someone lets us in... kinmd of a pain, but also lets us know if we have to go to the top floor or not in some of them :)

depending on the person in a 10 story, they can be all sorts of decorating done in them... sometimes people put plants out in the hals and it feels like youa re in ajungle, other times, people put rugs out side... just depends on the person, other people keep belongings out there in big cupboards and such... it is interesting...

well a lot has happened this week, so i best get started :)

1.) we went to a big branch conference in dunaújváros which is a 2-2 1/2 hour bus ride away, so the branch and the missionaries loaded up and embarked on our little journey. there were about 4 or 5 branches there adn the mission presidency spoke to uas. it was good, and after wards, president gasser held a meeting with investigators and recent converts and he let them ask him any questiopn they wanted to... some interesting ones came up, like why did god wait to so long to resotre the church?, why can't women have the preisthood?, why isn't there a tempo"le in hungary? / when will there be one... and stuff like that.

as for the temple question, hungary needs 5000 active member to build a temple, and believe it or not, they have a ploit all picked out and bought, we just need the membershipo to do it... and that is active people, hungary has about 4000 members, but only 1600 are active unfortunately...

2.) Well, the elders that live in Komló, a little city outside of Pécs got robbed a few nights ago... i guess the door was unlocked and someonbe came in and stoile their backpacks, mail, watches, camera and wallets... they found the backpacks and wallets, but they were empty, so that was kind of exciting, they just woke up and saw the front door open... so they called the fuzz and had to go fill out a police report :) so good moral learned, make sure the door is locked...

3.) it rained for 3 days striahg there and we still turned in the best numbers i have seen since coming to pÉcs... it was awesome :)

as for my weight, i think i am staying about where i was, me anbd d... eat a little better than before. we are thinking of running a coule times a week, so we will see how that goes. Hungarian food is ahrd to cook, becasue it is so opily! and heavy! meat and potatoes and onions and half a bottle of oil in each meal... makes it hard to lose... but it hasn't come back. I might go get TEsco suit (tesco is like costco in amerika) and they are only like 15 dollars and they look really good :) one group of elders bought copmpanionship asuits :) aso i might do that at the end of the summer and get rid of my blue suit... evry time wear it, i have to cinch up the blet and it bunches in the back... not a fan of that..

so as for missionaries, most are from the U.S., we have a few from canada, like 2 or 3. we have one finnish elder who just got here, and we have one native hungarian. we did just get a new greenie who speaks hungarian though, but is from vietnam, his mom is hungarian and taught him hungarian, so he already knew it, which will be nce :) but for the most part, u.s.a. elders.

the flowers here are awesome, we drove through the countryside to our conference yesterday and they have sunflower fields up the wazoo! it was very pretty, they also have a lot of green hills and some small forests :) it is really pretty :)

And speasking of transfers, i am staying in Pécs for at least one more with my same companion :) it should be fun, we are trying to get some bap dates, we are thinking of bap challenging the tithing people tonight at our program, sop we will see how that goes...

well, i will talk to ya later! i best be off!

love ya tons and thanks!!!
gaufin elder