Hello everyone!
So this week has been CRAZY!! Last week involved a lot of traveling and meetings as leaders, but this week was packed with teachings. We averaged about 4 teachings a day. Then we have to go get my companion legal, go hold a baptism interview in Békéscsaba, and get back to meet the APs so they can hold an interview with our investigator.
So on Tuesday we left at 9 in the morning, and got back home at about 9:15 PM (minus a 15 minute dinner break). It was insane. In the evening we also went to a symphony. That was really pretty, and long. We met with a man and we were talking about the Book of Mormon and the relation it has to the Indians. We told him that God made the Lamanites skin a little darker so that there was a difference. Our investigator threw up his hands and said "you sir, are very racist!"... well... I didn't know how to take that. He then started laughing really hard and said that he was also racist and went on for a little bit about different racist things. We stopped him and explained that it wasn't being racist and that racism isn't good... well... he took that alright. There is also something in the Hungarian language call formalizing. It is a special way of conjugating verbs and stuff that you do with people who are older than you or that you don't really know (pretty much) and after you meet with someone they usually start just talking normally to you. Well.... The man is still formalizing us after two meetings and it is driving us crazy. It isn't really hard to formalize, just different and kind of annoying sometimes cause we don't want to slip and insult him and stuff.
Wednesday we left at 10 and got back at 8:30. We had a little more time to do studies that day.
Thursday we had district meeting. After we had district meeting we went over to a members house to paint. While we were there she pointed to a section of the wall that a repair man had done a really bad job mudding (vakolni) it and she was sad cause she would have to get someone else to do it. Well. Thanks to my dad having us mud a lot in our house right before my mission I told her that I had a lot of experience doing it and could do it for her, but that it wouldn't be super professional and stuff. Well, it was a lot of fun and she was grateful for the help. Then we had Angol óra. Oké, I can speak English, but teaching english is totally different. They are asking questions about different tenses that I didn't even know existed! They ask questions and I'm like "Im sorry, I just speak english, I don't know it". It is pretty rough. But we did get a paper and learned how to teach english a little better.
Friday and Saturday we were in Békéscsaba. Their investigator decided that he needed to wait a little longer and so there was no interview. On Saturday our investigator had her interview and she passed!! The baptism is planned for next saturday! It is so cool to see that changes that have come into her life since she has been living the principles of the gospel!
Sunday we had the self reliance missionaries come to instruct our branch about the program and last minute (5 minutes before it started) they came over and asked me to translate. The dear senior couple are relatively new and they haven't really learned how to talk so that it is easier to translate, so it was a party! Good practice and insentive to learn the language better!
I think that is about everything.... This week it snowed again.........................
Biesinger elder
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