The post phone call(s) wrap up and Christmas was good.

We enjoyed the opportunity to talk to Doug over the Christmas holiday. So good to hear his voice, and feel his enthusiasm and drive. He sounds like he has grown up and might even be a man. Nahhhh. But Christmas was good and he is now anticipating his next transfer. I wonder, do missionaries get their name day off?

12/29/08
hey dad!
haha it was awesome talkin to you all on christmas and christmas eve! that was way fun! i can't wait for mothers day! that will be cool too! and i will only have like 4 months from then till i am home! crazy!!
well, for christmas eve, we went to the tomaék and they fed us some good pasta and we hung out and talked and had a good p-day :) they are tight
then for christmas day, we just went to a members house, the k..., for lunch and ate stuffed palacsintas (like pancakes) they had yummy meat in them and such, then we had some fried meat (i thin it was pig...) but it was really good. we played fooseball with them too, it was awesome! then we went to the branch house and wathced a movie, called home, ate food, and played ping pong and piano...
then the next day we went to the m... family and they fed us some cooked cabbage and meat, then mashed potatoes and fried meat, it was really good! then we played games with them, like charades and such,
so for transfers it is on the 7th of january, and i don't know where i am going, i hope to go to Szeged, becasue a few of the elders from my mtc group are down there and i ould like to serve around them, but we will see... maybe it will happen, but i don't know for sure. theres a couple other places i could go to, but i hope for Szeged :) that would be tight!
this week is new years and around here they call it Szilveszter... becasue it is a name day...in hungary, every day of the year has a name or two that matches with it and if your name is say... János, and jan 31st is jános's name day, then you get to celebrate it, and have gifts and food and such, it is like a second birthday, it is cool. but they just call it szilveszter becasue i think that january first or december 31st is that name day... but we are oging to érd to watch the priesthood session of conference and then the next day we are going to amembers house to have some food and such becasue it is another super p-day :)
so that should be pretty fun! it sounds like you had a ton of fun too, what are you gonna do for new years?
well, i love ya tons, not much to tell casue i just talked to ya, but ya... i might trya and email some pix on wednesday at the tomáék's house, beacsue we are spending part of the p-day there hopefully :) love ya tons!!! tlka to ya later!
Gaufin elder