December 5: First one down, 10 more to go!!

Hi everyone!

I apologize now for all of my spelling errors. The computer is being disfunctional and says that every English word I type is wrong. So I will not be able to notice unless, I look at every word, if I made an error. 

Reason for the subject line. Every transfer we have interviews with the Mission President. For first and second transfers he starts in Hungarian but when they stop understanding he just switches into English for the rest of the interview. Well....... I had my second interview COMPLETELY in Hungarian. I didn't catch what he said sometimes and when I asked him to repeat it he repeated it in Hungarian, not English, and I was able to do all of the interview in a foreign language! I felt so happy afterwards! But the only downside is that we have a lot of new missionaries coming in, and not very many leaving. We are now an extremely young mission with well over half of the missionaries being in Hungary for less than a year. Since the more experience missionaries are needed to fill the leadership roles, if you are able to survive with the Hungarian you know, you will be training in the next group! So all of you need to pray for me not to train next transfer!!! Just kidding. Don't do that!! It would probably turn out worse and things would get messy!

Thursday night we had pancakes with the American family for dinner. They were super unhealthy and incredibly good!! And the scariest things is, is that she was planning on making dessert to, but she ran out of eggs!! Phew, dodged that 50-days-worth-of-fat-burning-exercise bullet! But it was super yummy. They are a fun family, just really inactive and sometimes, sadly, kind of lazy about living the gospel. Oh well... We can only try!!

On Tuesday we had splits with Tatabanya in Pápa. I went with first transfer missionary. It was really good! We only got kicked out of one building... well... we weren't even in the building. We were ringing the bells and the man came down adn said that no one was interested in the building. I told him that our message was very important and we would like to continue ringing the bells trying to talk to people, just to make sure. Well... He didn't like that and told us to get out of there. So we left... for 5 minutes. And then we came back and finished the building! We had a great time! 

Well... That was our week in a short email!! I will be sending pictures next week that are now on my companions camera that he forgot to bring!!

Love you all!!

Elder Biesinger

1:So we didn't get a lot of pies... So I needed to make the most out of the pie I did eat

2:Went falu blasting. that is where you go into a village and just tract there all day cause you will never go back because it takes so much time, unless you find someone to teach. This was just a pretty sunset that we saw

3-4:This is a puzzle that I have been working on for a little over two weeks. I have only used the free time that I have, so no one freak out cause it seems like I am not doing missionary work! I promise it was all between 9:30 and 10:30 at night! Very exhausting and VERY annoying. There are 12 missing pieces. And when I was finished with this one and was looking at another one I was startled to find 4 of the missing pieces in a different puzzle! I was very upset with the missionary who did it!! But it was pretty funny and brilliant how he did it!

November 28: I Am Going Vegetarian

Hi everyone!

Ignore the subject line, I would die if I did that. But... the reason for the title is that on the only meal that you really have to have some kind of meat... I didn't. We had a district meeting on Thanksgiving (just coincidence) and so everyone brought some food. One person brought mashed potatoes, another orange loaf, another apple crumb bread, another cheap Spar (a small cheap store here) rolls (don't ever do that). My companion brought Banana bread and I brought a couple pies and some stuffing. In all.... Besides that apples in the pie and the potatoes we only had flavored bread for THANKSGIVING. Good thing that holiday isn't just about the food! We had a good discussion on what we were thankful for. A lot of it was things about America and sports... Actually, it was family and friends...

Luckily we got invited to go to the NATO base here in Pápa by an inactive American family. So we got all the papers signed and we were permitted to go onto the base. If you were to picture a communistic base, this would be it!! But he zoomed us around the base and was able to take us up to the HUGE plane that he flies on. It was super cool. 

We had a great time that night! I don't think there was a single person speaking Hungarian there except for the Hungarian ambassador. We had super good food and MEAT!! Being vegetarian is definitely not a bad thing, I just like meat and I like it on Thanksgiving day. I inhaled one huge plate and finished of one of the American families kids plate (It was in a cafeteria type of thing and so we would have to wait in lines to get our food). We left  the party with two extra pies in our possession that the Mother of the family got for us! When we got back we received three heaping bags of goodies from the American family who had gone to an American base in Italy and had shopped at an American goods store there. It din't have everything but it had some amazing treats in it!!!

Last Tuesday we had splits with the Elders from Győr. It was super fun. The Elder that I was with this time was one of the best Hungarian speakers to have been in the mission for a while. He was almost a native (that is what the natives said). He didn't have an accent and he had amazing word order! I have found my goal!

So some people have been asking me about my schedule.

6:30- wake up and exercise 

7-8 - B-fast and getting ready

8.- personal study,

9- companionship study

10- go out and tract or street (find)

12-lunch

1- Find

5-6 -dinner

6- finding 

8- language study

9- nightly planning and relax until lights out at 10:30   

That is my schedule with fluctuation in the finding hours. That is when we travel and teach lessons. It is a blast! Sometimes we have to tract at 8 instead and people are not happy. Cause guess what?' Hungarians all go to sleep at 7... Isn't that interesting. Not really!! It is super weird and annoying!! Silly Hungarians. It doesn't help missionaries very much that it gets dark at like 5:30 here now.

Well... I don't think we did much else this week! We are missing American Football and Christmas music. We don't have anything to play it on so we celebrate this new season in silence!

Well... I wish you all well in your various endeavors!!

Elder Biesinger 

November 22: Crazy Week

Hi everyone!

This week has been kind of crazy. We had a training in Budapest on Tuesday so we had to tract at 8 in the morning so we could get everything done because of how late we would be getting home. Luckily no one was getting mad at us and we were able to talk to a couple people. 

Thursday we had splits in another city called "Tatabánya". I was companions with a new missionary (we don't call them greenies anymore). It went better than I thought it would. We were able to talk to people and I was able to understand most of what they were saying and I could speak back to them. But it was a stressful couple days because neither of us spoke Hungarian! 

We had 5 member presents this week. That means that we had 5 meetings with an investigator and that a member was there. In Pápa we usually get 1 or 2. This week has been insane with work!! 

On Sunday we had district conference (because we are not in a stake). We left at 7 and got back at 5. Long day! But I really enjoy those kinds of days!

My companion and I have been cooking a lot more. This week we made Egg strada/ breakfast strada. It turned out AMAZING!! It was super good. But this upcoming week we are going to be filling all of our free time up with cooking, cause it is thanksgiving and we are having a district meeting feast because it is scheduled on the same day!! Should be super good! There is also a NATO base in Pápa (weird, I know!) and there is a American family that are members , so we got invited to go to the celebration for a little while on Friday. They will be having real american things shipped in so we can have a taste of home... Kind of.

This morning my comp and I were throwing a Frisbee in the alley by our apartment. The Frisbee accidentally got stuck on top of a ledge. I offered to let my comp stand on my shoulders and just grab it, but he didn't want to "break my back" and so he taped some stuff together and tried to get it down. After a while it finally worked. But I got some good pictures and a fun video showing what he did!

Pictures: cool Hungarian embroidery, The picture of a family we are teaching (father is strong catholic, son wants to be baptized but wants to have his fathers blessing, mother is a member), one of the nénis we teach binds books and she is working on this bible that was printed in 1918... that is a little older than me!!

Well... Besides getting a haircut I think that that is all that I did this week!!

Good luck everyone with everything in your lives!!