January 15

Hello everyone,

This week was pretty fun. We had a lot of fun adventures. I think I forgot several of them so you will just be getting the most memorable ones.

On Saturday we had a lesson planned with someone who lived in a small falú about 30 minutes out of Szeged. It was a kind of weird address and location so we made sure that we invited on of the youth members who had a phone so that if we got lost he could figure out where we needed to go. Well... he canceled on us about an hour before we were scheduled to leave. We were also rushing home from holding a 24-hour exchange with the the district leaders in Kecskemét. So we got home, dropped off our stuff at our apartment and went to the bus station to get out to the village. We got there and due to miscommunication we started off our journey lost. We called the potential investigator and she gave us some instructions, then we called our member so that he could look up on a computer what we had to do. Both of the people were telling us different things. So after a while we the lady (potential investigator) sent her son to show us the way from the train station. We had to go on this little deer trail for about 10 minutes and then 30 minutes on these crazy complicated dirt roads. We wouldn't have every made it without her son guiding us. Today we tried to find it on google maps and it didn't have some of the roads we went on. It was pretty exciting. But yeah, after about 1-1 1/2 hours we found it and had a grand old lesson.

While we were on splits the elder that I was instructing wanted to have a rematch with some KFC buckets. I think I wrote about it like 3-4 months ago but we all ate a bucket of KFC except for one elder. Well he made it to Kecskemét and insisted that we do it again. So we went for our lunch break. The other elder (who had been there longer) said that it was at the mall. So we left. We headed out the opposite way of the mall. At first I thought that there was a different mall and that was why we were going out in the other direction, but after a time it became evident that we were getting to the outskirts of town. Well.... I called the other elders and found out that the mall, that was 2 minutes away from the apartment, was the one that we wanted... Only few people can get lost going to a building that you can see from their house. 

On Sunday we need to translate for a guy from Japan who is here for school. A little background. Yesterday my companion was saying that if someone speaks Hungarian well enough they usually are asked to give at least one talk in church. Well.... after the 3rd hour one of the branch presidency came up to me and said "you must speak really good Hungarian if you are able to translate the talks in sacrament meeting". This man knew his stuff... They always compliment you and butter you up and then stab the hot knife into you. He continued to compliment my Hungarian skills for a couple seconds and then said "since you speak so well we want you to give a talk in Sacrament meeting". They do this to everyone! Whether or not they speak good Hungarian. Oh well.... practice is always a good thing. 

The rest of this week was good. We had some really cool lessons with investigators and had some parties tracting with only a few angry/rude people. Weather has been good. Last week it was getting really warm and awesome but this week it got really cold and is now snowing... I guess there is still hope for a snowball fight! :)

I got some pictures this week. 1) While my companion was talking on the phone I started building a card houses. 2)There is a weird kind of monument on top of a hill here and on one of the signs the catholics used our Jesus for their stuff. The one from the most recent Bible videos. It was really weird to see. 3-4) the monument 5-6) my companions previous companion collected little pokemon things and during our weekly calls with the missionaries he would impale old oranges with them and stuff... Party. 

Hope you all have a great week!! 

Biesinger elder