1/19/09
Hey dad!
Things are going well, i am having a good time here, i am warming up to the city and good thigns are happening. my first sunday here, a lady came up to us who has been coming to church for 2 years, her whole family are members and her husband has finally let her get baptised, so she came up to us and said she wants to go through the lessons real quick and get baptised! so we planned out a date for january 31st and such.
as for the chinese marker, we are alsways careful, and you can never have too many ties, out of that bag of like 700 ties, i only kept like 150 - 200... and i have been filtering them down since then... we are lookinga t getting another bag, me and [p...], but we will see :) we both love tie bag ties, they are so fat and crazy :) haha i have a few that are like 7 fingers wide!! almost 8!
our hot water dealio doesn't have to do with the ukraine or russia, but just us and not knowing how to work our heater... it only comes on at like midnight and runs till like 6 am, and we didn't know where to turn the dial too, we called the land lord, but we didn't know the right words, so we just everntually said "ok, got it" and hung up... and the resulkt was boiling water in the morning... and the real heater for like the room heating took us a while to figure out to... and sometimes it makes a wailing noise... haha :)we had interviews this week and i have no idea if i am staying or going, it was early in the transfer, so i don't thionk even president knows what will happen :) but they were good anyways :)
so kispest is like the south, east region of budapest... we live like right in the middle of the city ish... [... and there is a lot of] cigarette smoke... i can now tell the difference between cigarette smokes... there are diferences, they don't all smell the same :)
the ward ehre has like 310 members, but only like 80ish are active, so now we are going through the ward list to meet with all of thgem if we can... the bishopric asked us to do it one last time.
we actually live pretty close to the duna (danube??) i don't know what we call it... but i don't know, i like the city, it just takes a while to get around it... cause it is so big! our area is huge too... so using metros, buses, Hévs (small trains, like a metro, but above ground and stops are farthur apart)
but ya... lots of people. lots of dirty things here, and lots of old things. haha i joked alst week about our apartment being 200 years old... ahha then our landlord said that 200 years ago, a Priest built it as his house, the whole building... and so once again priests are living in it.. she thought that was so funny. speaking of the land lady, she owns a printing place and her father or someone writes religious books, like he retranslated the new testamebt from 8 different languages in to hungarian, and did like a revelations book and such, so she gave us like 10 free books... and some are pretty big... i am excited to read some of them,, and see like how the new tzestament differs from the version we use, and what the revelations book says and such...
well, we would visit some of the museums anbd such, but they are closed on mondays... lame... but we do go sight seeing lkike once or twice a transfer here in budapest, so we will go do that sometime soon i think :)in our district there are 4 missioanries, but in budapest, there are 20, so i know them all, becasue over half of them were in the mtc with me :)
there are tons of historic stuff, like hero's square, the bridges, parliament... and gellert hegy, stuff like that :)
well, love ya tons and talk to ya next week!
Gaufin elder
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