December 11:Dracula

Hello y'all,

This week was a lot of fun. It started of with a great P-day in Budapest! We went to Castle Hill and into the labryrinth beneath the castle where it is believed Count Dracula was kept prisoner. It was a lot of fun. there were sections were there is a fog machine and we couldn't see a foot in front of us. My companion disappeared and the jumped out and scared the sisters a lot. It was a party. While we were walking around (after we came back to the surface) it started to snow! Lot of fun. After we left the sisters we went to the mission home for interviews and then went back to Érd and played games with the other elders till the end of our P-day.

Tuesday. We went to a members home and had a really good lunch. I guess there is a thing here in Hungary (maybe in America too) that says that if you have a clean plate after a meal (you wipe it clean with bread or something) then, depending on how clean it is, the next day will be just as sunny. So if there are a couple marks on the plate then there will be clouds the next day. Interesting theory. We tried it out and guess what! It was still really cloudy and rainy:) I always love working in the cold and wet! It is just so much more fun for me (I'm not being sarcastic)! Maybe cause it is more like the first missionaries who had to do similar. I now this is nothing CLOSE to how hard it was to them, but it still is fun to think about!  Right after lunch we rushed home to change into sporting gear. One of our investigators invited us to play soccer with a group of her friends. So we went. It was a lot of fun. About 30 minutes into it I felt some blisters on my feet. They hurt pretty bad but when you are playing sports there is no stopping. About 50 minutes in I made a really hard cut while running with the ball and I felt a lot of pressure build up in one blister, then a little pop and the pressure left. It was a pretty interesting feeling... When we got home I took of my shoe and thought that my sock was just wet from the sweat. I took of my sock and lo and behold the bottom of my foot had blood all over it!!! SUPER AWESOME!!! My blood blister grew and popped while playing, in addition to this I had weird lacerations around the blister.... Super cool! After hobbling around for about 5 days the pain left and I was able to walk like a normal person!!!! 

Thursday and Friday we went to help a member finish chopping his wood. It was a lot of fun! He took a bunch of pictures and send that he would send them but he hasn't yet. I will be sure to send them in an email whenever I get them! 

Saturday we went to the branch house to practice a song with a member. My companion has a pretty good singing voice and so he was singing a Hungarian Christmas song and his sister is an incredible singer so they are working through the member and both singing parts to the song and the member is compiling it for them. So we practiced that for a long time. I was the camera man and had to hold the camera about a foot above my head so my shoulders died!! Good exercise I guess... After the practice I was able to have an interview with one of the other elder's investigators!! She is 14 and comes from a not-very-religous family. She has incredible faith and is getting baptized in a couple of weeks!!! 

It has been a really great week! Lots of fun things happened and are happening!! 

I hope all of your weeks were equally wonderful, and if not, that this upcoming one will be even better!!!! 

Biesinger Elder 

P.S. Somebody else has the pictures from our Budapest adventure so I will send those once I get them.

The girl is Dorka, the one getting baptized. and then thos are the goodies we got from the branch! 

I am sorry these are coming in a series of small emails..... Don't judge. It was cold...