Hello everyone!
This week was a little more eventful and interesting then the average. Feel free to skip to the end if you want or you can skip to my Saturday summary because that is when the best things happened.
Monday: After our preparation day we went to a English discussion class as distinguished guests. The people spoke pretty good English but they couldn't understand that we spoke (to some degree) Hungarian and that we talk with Hungarians on the street, in Hungarian. I don't understand why it was so hard for them to understand. We were a little late getting out of there and we had a FHE planned with another family that we had to take a train to get to. Soooo.... we got to sprint for the train! What a great thing. Once we got to the station (Érd alsó) we bought our tickets and had a couple minutes before our train left. The ticket person said that the train was going to Érd felső!! So we got to sprint. Let me tell you... Both my companion and I are pretty freakin out of shape. It was pretty awful!!! The FHE went pretty well. After our lesson the Grandma asked us how long we have been on our missions. My companion came a transfer after me but both of us are going home at the same time. She thought for a minute and then said "8 months is the perfect amount of time to find a Hungarian girl!".... Well... was not expecting that. She went on for the next 20 minutes instructing us on how to flirt and get the Hungarian girls. She told us to accidentally bump into them all the time and then start conversations with them. What great néni knowledge.
Tuesday: Today we went over to an investigators house. A little background on him. He invented something when he was 12 that he sold to a big company for a lot of money. He has traveled everywhere. He has been a doctor, lawyer, accountant, and butcher. He is pretty brilliant and yeah... cool guy. He was telling us a story about his medical school years (for the faint of hear this might be gross...). He told us that here if someone dies on the street and they don't have a a family (homeless people) then the bodies get taken to the medical schools and the students use them for practice. At one of these occasions the teacher/doctor wanted to play with the students a little. He said "if you are serious about being doctors and that you have the guts to do it, you will be fine doing this" and we walks over to a corpse that had his stomach open (you could see all the organs) stuck his finger into the liver, wiggled it around, and then stuck his finger in his mouth!!! What the students didn't notice was that he stuck his pointer finger in the liver and stuck his middle finger in his mouth, so he didn't actually do the gross deed. But the students (most of them) didn't see this and one of the teacher's pets went over, stuck his pointer finger in the liver, and then stuck his pointer finger in his mouth. SOOOOOO gross!! We were laughing so hard.
Wednesday:We had splits in Dunaújváros with the zone leaders. During the course of the split we had two people let us in!! The first person was a young man about 25. He told us he didn't have time and to come later. We exchanged telephone numbers and went on our way (we were in a huge 10 story building). A couple floors later we get this random call and it is the guy. He told us that he was bored and wanted to actually talk with us. So we went back up and had a really cool lesson with him! Scheduled a return appointment when his daughter and wife could be there. The second let in was one a lower floor when a elderly lady opened the door. She told us that she was just visiting and so she wasn't going to let us in. But then we heard a voice from the back room yelling for us to come in. So we went in. Once we got in the room the owner of the flat (another elderly lady) turned to look at us. Eyes went wide, and then got really mad and told us to get out of her apartment.... We were kind of stunned by it all but thought it was pretty funny. Later in the day we (all four) went to a big building. One of us started at the top and the other started at the bottom. We thought the elevator worked so we said we could go to the top. It didn't. You need a special magnetic key to make it go. So we got to run up to the top floor where we took a little breather. At one of the doors I knocked on a little girl came running up to the other side and started talking. We heard the father come and he told the little girl to knock back. So she and I had some fun knocking back and forth different patterns. They opened the door after a little while and we talked for a while. It was good. The girl was about 2 years old and neither father nor daughter were interested. Oh well!
Thursday: Today we came back from splits and went straight to a Nénis house for lunch. It was really good. After we got back we had angol óra. During it we were asked what the difference was between purge and clean. The only example we could think of was purge the world of impurities. I think that elder Wrathall from our district is getting to our heads. He talks a lot about purging the world. But yes.. it was hard to explain the difference to them speaking English. After angol we had district meeting. We decided for one of our transfer goals that we will get 3 new investigators a week and as incentive if one companionship gets it they can make the other companionship do some thing weird (drink a liter of straight lemon juice). I will keep you updated on that!
Friday:Today we had splits with the other elders in Érd. I went with elder Wrathall. For dinner we ordered a pizza. We underestimated what 60 CM would be. So in the end we had to turn the box sideways to get through the door. And I could barely eat 2 slices... It was pretty big.
Saturday: Today we decided to do some less active lookups. Elder Wrathall looked at the map (we were in his area) and we left. We walked for a while for going to the first street and couldn't find it. We went to the next one and walked for 30 minutes and didn't find it. We went back to our apartment and had lunch and looked at the map again. With both of the streets if we had walked 5 more steps we would have found them!!!! Frustrating. Later in the evening, after we went back to our original companions, we went to Előds for dinner (one of our investigators). He fed us the meal of pig brains and pig feet.... The brain wasn't that bad. It was partially raw... But the feet were dreadful. The taste was good but the texture was awful.
Sunday: Today we had stake conference and I was able to meet with my dear friends from Veszprém and Kispest. It was a lot of fun and really good to talk to them all again!
That about summarizes the week! I hope it didn't bore you too much!
Love you all!!
Biesinger Elder
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