January 2: Pink Party!

Hey,

So this week (two weeks) since I email has been great! We were able to celebrate Christmas Hungarian style, lots of fish soup, herbal/fruit tea (cause we don't drink other tea), and huge meals several times a day. I must say I am not a huge fan of the tea and fish soup. Usually. We went to one of our investigators homes for Christmas eve and they gave us fish soup that was pretty good. They puree the fish soup so it is a kind of creamy soup, and then add fish chunks. They also put in something else and refused to tell us until after we ate it. Every sensible person would probably take that as a sign that they probably shouldn't eat it. But since when were missionaries ever normal? And they insisted that it would be delicious. So we ate it. It turned out to be big clumps of fish eggs... Awesome. Well, I am becoming experience with the Hungarian specialties! 

This week I was attacked by the pink eye. It was pretty great! I made sure not to take any pictures :) No one else got sick with it so that is good. 

For new years we went to a members home, not until 12, and had a party.... kind of. It was with his new girl friend so it was kind of interesting..... But we have to acquire the experience of a Hungarian new year somehow right? 

So these are some pictures!! 

The first one is of our Christmas party a couple weeks ago when one of the delightful missionaries snuck up behind me and strangled me. Second is of a friend from Kispest that came for a visit and insisted I make a sign. Third is pretty normal but there is a story behind it. Right before this there was a little kid that was attacking me and maybe almost breaking me suit, bag, coat, and yeah. So I tricked him into going into a room and then closed the door and during the picture I am holding the door and preventing him from getting out. Everyone had to adjust around me. But yeah... I had the them open the door to the church and then after the other missionaries made it to there I let go of the door and ran... Sometimes the greatest dangers of missionary work come from those who you should be able to trust:) Oh... and I am blinking. Can't make that picture any more perfect! 

Over all it was a great week and the holidays were really good! Oh, we had a baptism on the 23. Not my companionship, but it was in our district. It was really cool. I was able to see some dear friends who came to support the girl that was baptized. It was a perfect Chirstmas gift! I got some amazing gifts from family and friends! I will have to take some pictures of some of them and show you all... Some are pretty atrocious! 

I hope you all had amazing holidays!!! 

Biesinger Elder