12Jan2009
Hey dad!
so Kispest is going ok, i will give more details a little later in the email... My comapnion is Elder P... from Colorado Springs, and he is from the group right above mine, so we can both speak and understand fairly good, so it will be fun :)
haha i got lots to tell, but i'll answer a few of your questions first off :)
so in sting pong, i only had one welt :) i got lucky :)
as for the gas stuff in the ukraine and in russia, we here a little bit about it, but asfar as i know, it hasn't affected us yet... some of the people talk about it, but ya... nothin yet...
so i did get the christmas package and i loved it! haha i like the food! i miss some of the foods back in america :) so you all done good. i do have enough root beer stuff now :) haha thanks and no need to send more, this should last me :) mmmm good stuff! the hungarian posta likes to go through stuff fairly regularly, i have neevr had one of my packages gone through, but the little cards you guys send, like for chrismas and stuff, those get gone through every now and then... so don't send any money or anythign valuable to me... ... buti don't think i have had anything missing... a few other elders have had stuff taken though... your letter comes in a little "damaged" baggie and they say that it got damaged somehow... riiiight :)
i will let you know if i need anything though... right now, i don't think i need anything... but i will let ya know!
we went to the chinese piac today and we bought a few thigns, like a hungary jacket i have been wanting that is only about 15 dollars and some ties and such... i am looking at a suit there that i might get in the next few weeks or months... but we will see :) the chinese piac is awesome :) chinese people everywhere speaking hungarian, english, and whatever other language... if they can count in that language, that is good enough for them :) the bargaining is a ton of fun too :) ew got some really nice ties for like 4 dollars each :) thats what i am talking about :)
Ok--- nmow for the adventurous stuff:
so, let me start with getting transfer calls on monday morning saying i am going to kispest, that was all fine and dandy, not really looking forward to going to kispest, but i can live with it...
well...
Wednesday: transfer day.
so we go to the misison home and i drop off d... to get his greenie and i wait for 2 hours till the other elder getting transferred can meet up with me to go to the train station... well, we get to the train station and Elder P... is there waiting, he had been there for 2 hours in the cold... so we hurried to go home. on the way home, P... tells me we have no where to live... haha i laughed and he chuckled and said? "no, really..." and it wasn't funny anymore...
as it turns out, a few months before this, someone had thrown a rock or something at one of the Kispestapartment's windows and the glass broke... well, the glass fell onto someones car and that someone decided to sue our landlord... well, in turn, she decided to sue us (the church). well, the Senior couple in the office said "ok, we've had enough" and they called P... on sunday before transfers and told him to find somewhere else to live by saturday... we hgave to be out of the apartment by saturday... 6 days...
well, P old companion was getting transferred, so he didn'"t want to lookf or apartments, so we are now down to 3 days to fiund somewhere to move into... we have wednesday night, thrusday, friday and we have to be out sometime saturday...
*nervous laughing*
well, so we spend wednesday looking for somewhere and we went to a real estate place and they helped us find somewhere nd they call up the place and arrange for us to go over that night to look at the apartnemt. well, we get ther and it is perfect! 3 rooms, nice kitchen, perfect! until we find out there is no washing machine... the landlady was taking it with her... now, you might thiunk we could just wash things ourselves, but in all reality, we are missionaries... you know we aren't going to do that.. well, after talking with the senior couple, they said they will get a new washing machine for the lady who owns the place, but then the problem, comes that if we have to move out, 3we have a washing machine that the mission now owns...
ok.. scratch this place..
thus ends wednesday...
*mind you, we still have lessons and programs to go out and teach to investigators and such while this is all going on!!*
Thursday: we wake up and have weekly planning. then we have lunch.. and started looking again..
well, we found one other place to look at and we went over there and it was nice... 2 rooms, kind of small, but nice kitchen, new building, built in 200? ('05 or '00) and it was nice... problems: no furniture, no beds, no places to put all of our church stuff... but other than that, nice... but it was kind of far away from everything too, at least 20 minutes more away from everything... well, we sadi we liked it and set up to sign a contract on friday morning at 10 in the morning. good, everything good.
well, then we go and look at one more realitor (sp?) place. well, we go in and we tell them what we need, and they say they have one place that might be good... well, they said they'd call the landlady later... haha but we ain't got time for later! but she did call us later that night and said we could go and look at the place on friday at 2:30... haha cutting it close you think?
well, the rest of the day we spent looking up other realitor places ad they had nothing... It's not fun finding a misisonary apartment... haha small budget and plus, mind you, all of this is in hungarian!!! haha we don't know those words!!! haha i can teach yoiu all about the gospel in hungarian, but can't talk to a real estate agent for 2 minutes... oh dear, really glad P... was there (he used to study only the dictionary in the mtc and his first 4 transfers... it came in handy...)
well, we had english class that night, so we couldn't do anything else...
now arises the problem of us signing a contract at 10 in the morning and having another place to look at at 2:30... see the problem? haha we did too!
Friday: last day...
well, we called the 10 am people and cancelled that thing so we could looka t other places... well, we roesort to looking on the itnernet for places. it was going good, we found one that we really really thought would work when....... the power goes out! we had a blackout!!! p... was writng the number down and then BOOM, nothing... haha no good...
so we call up S... (an old missionary who came back to marry a hungarian chick and now lives in budapest... he was p...'s trainer) well, we call him up and he starts looking for palces for us too and he gets us that number... well, problem, the people won't be out of that apartment till january 20th or something... no good.
in the meantime, s... set up another apartment to lok at at 4:00.
well, we go to the 2:30 one praying it will work... it is 1 street away from the branch hosue and we have good hopes.... well, we looka t it and it is perfect! beds, washing machine, heat, everything... until the price came up... the utilities were double than everywhere else we had looked... well, that got shot...
now we are really banking on the 4:00 place... well, this place is in Pest, our area still, but on the other end of it... so we book it over there and we meet the land lady over there and her son and her son's girlfriend.
they are really nice and let us in and we walk into this little 1 room apartment... it is pink and has 2 beds, washing machine... utinsels... everything... p... looks at me and i looka t him and we say "ok!!"
now we have to run to the mission home to get paperwork for tis and a down payment... well, we do that and then we run back to the landlydies real house... we go in and 2 hours later we walked out! it was so much fun!! we spent like 20 minutes oging over the apartment stuff, and then the rest of the time was just getting to know us and why we are here... we might get an investigator out of the laedy is everything goes well :) they are so fun to be around!!!
Saturday: morning time, the other 2 elders in our area come oevr with their suitcases and we load up all our book of mormons, pass along cards, pamphlets, clothes and make a journbey to Pest... those were so heavy!!!!!!
so we spent all of saturday moving out and cleaning out the old apartment and then at night we closed it with the old land lady... (she is kind of a pain and not evry honest, so it was more incentive for us to get out other than just the lawsuit... plus, she is involved with 4 other lawsuits at the moment... tells you something huh?)
home sweet home!!
Sunday:
sunday morning:no heater working... no hot water... had to shower boiling water.. not something i want to do again... adn the heater we couldn't figure out how to work it... we finally did though and we warmed up a little bit...
side not on the water ehater, it only comes on after like 11 at night to save money...well, we go to bed at like 9:30 so there was no way to tets it to see if it was working... we just played with the switch and prayed it would work :) it did this morning and most of the things are in order... the toilet does leak when you flush it, when the bowl fills up with new water, about a half liter leaks out the back onto the floor...
haha we went spider hunting last night and i found out that when taking a picture of a wall with the flash, you can see the spider web in full glory!!! not a good idea!!! i think our apartment buiding has to be like 200 year old at least!!!
oh, and i open a letter from uncle k... and aunt b... and uncle k... said that their trailor space was like 472 square feet... K...n and b..n once lived in salt lake in a 400 square foot apartment... (if i remember right)
you want to know what our square feet is in our apartment? haha 315 - 340 square feet!!! if that!!! it is between 32 meters squared and 35 meters squared... it is itsy bitsy! and with both beds out... it is even smaller... we learned quickly that we both ahve a lot of junk!!!
well, i hope you enjoyed that, i gotta run and know that thigns are getting better, it is fgun to be in actual Pest!
i love you all and sorry i don't have too much time to write everyone!!!
love ya!
gaufin elder
12Jan2009 pt. 2
by the way, chinese piac is chinese market, haha it didn't click that you all doN't know what piac means :)
and just know, i am getting the full missinoary apartment experience here :) don't worry :)
love ya!
Gaufin elder
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