March 6: Long Ride and 2000 Dollars from Make-Up

Szervustok,

This week has been pretty full. We had a zone training which is a blast. One of my zone leaders has been my zone leader for my whole mission. He has been following me around. He is super cool so I can't complain.

So on Saturday, bcause I am district leader, I was on splits with one of the missionaries in my district. We were going down to a place called "Sziget Halom" where one of their investigators lived. It takes about an hour and a half to get down there. So we set up an appointment with their investigator and with another potential investigator. We also had a referral from Salt Lake that we needed to look up. So we had 3 programs that we were going to. Well.... We got down there and one by one all of our programs fell through. We picked up some lunch and went back home. 3 hours of traveling for some interesting food. And blessings of course! But it was a lot of fun. Elder Harris (the missionary) and I were able to talk a lot and get to know each other. 

This week we were at a members house, and since she was a single woman we brought a male. During the course of our meal the topic came up of "seasoning". Our male told a story about when he was in America a person gave him some cornbread. When he took a bit out of the cornbread he said to the person who gave it to him "this doesn't taste like anything" the man responded "it isn't the really thing, sorry". Man 2 left the room and came back with a jar, he proceeded to dump a whole bunch of sugar on the cornbread and said "now try it" our male then tried it and said it tasted great. So now our member says that when Americans don't think something has taste, they just get a whole bunch of sugar an dump it on top and then eat it. It was pretty funny. 

This is a clip from my email to my mission president about on of our, almost, investigators.

There is a golden investigator in our area. Her name is Luca and she is 17. She is currently not an investigator right now because we have not been able to meet with her with her parents permission yet. She finally got her parents to sign her paper that says we have their permission to teach her. She has come to church for three weeks without being invited, she has taken the indexing challenge and wants to come to the mission prep class. She has also invited random people to come to church. She fits in really well with the ward and went around getting the other youths numbers so she could ask them questions if she needs help with indexing and other things. We are so excited to start teaching her this week. God has truly prepared her for this.

This girl is super cool. She started coming to English class and then got invited to come to church once. She came the next week and has come ever since. I am super excited. She loves the youth and has met with the bishop a couple of times already, everyone has accepted her as part of the ward (I am actually in  ward now, not a branch).

So explanation for the second part of my subject line. A new sister in my district has a makeup tutorial channel on youtube. She has 25000 subscribers and makes a steady income of 2000 pounds each month even when she is on her mission. That was the explanation. Might spark some interesting ideas. I know my younger brother Drew has had a dream about doing a makeup tutorial channel! 

Sory fr alll of teh mistkaes in spleling. My Compture dosen't sohw when it is wrng adn I dnot wnat to go bck adn raed evertythngi agian.

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I hope all of you have a great week!!

There will be email with more pictures!!

Love you all!

Elder Biesinger

We ate at an Mexican restaurant which was pretty good!

So the picture of the other elder is awesome because of his choice of shoes.

August 22, 2016: Holy Freakin' CSODA!!

Wow....... wow... Um. Hungary is.... GREAT!

So my first serving area is Pápa! It is a small town in Western Hungary and it is so pretty!

I'm not sure what to talk about.. Oh! Saturday we had a goal to give out one Book of Mormon. It was like 8:30 at night and we were heading back to our apartment. It was a big holiday night and my companion said that we would probably see lots of drunk people. Well... I only saw one. One big burly one staggering and zigzagging up the alley towards us. Not exactly the ideal first situation to meet a drunk person in Hungary. He yelled at us and put himself in our way. Let us just say that he could kill a fish by just swimming in the water! He talked to us about a lot of stuff and intermingle English words that his  daughter had taught him. After talking about the Book of Mormon and gospel a lot we gave him the Book of Mormon and our number. We had to refuse giving him our autograph a lot. It was pretty great! We finally got away from him after teaching him how to say "bye" in English, and my comp got a hug'!! Sucker! But the man was  a lot nicer than he originally seemed. I guess God answers questions and requests in mysterious ways!

So I will go back to my first day. We had a 10 hour flight from Salt Lake to Amsterdam and then a 2 hour flight to Hungary. Once we got there we were met by the Mission President and his two assistants. When we got to the mission home we were sent to get our residency permit pictures with one of the missionaries who were at the home. As we went to get our pictures we practiced streeting. It was pretty fun! That night we slept in a super nice hotel. 

Day two. I was assigned a senior companion, Elder Smith, and we left at 1:30 for Pápa with the missionaries going to Győr. It was a 3 hour train ride to Győr where we would then take another train to Pápa. Our train broke down at a staion along the way to Gxőr. We had to wait for 30 minutes for them to get a new train, then we had to wait at the next stop for 30 minutes for no apparent reason. Once we got to Győr we got our tickets and walked up the stairs right as our train was leaving. So we had to wait for an hour until our next train... Which left an hour late. We ended up getting to Pápa at 7:30

Day three. Today was my first district meeting. My assigned topic to talk on was "How Sexual Immorality leads to not being spiritually born due to the tendancies of the the natural man". The world hates me!!! It went alright. We had a good time and ate some really good stuffed lángosok (plural lángos). On our way back to Pápa we went to the mall really quick to get my new bag. While we were there there were some workers working on 15 foot ladders on the ceiling. When they where done at one place they wouldn't get off their ladder, they would just walk around, using their feet to pick up the sides of the ladder. So they where kind of waddling around using the ladder as stilts. It was quite impressive!!

During one of our lessons this week we were teaching a 13-year old boy. We were teaching about prayer and saying that you can receive and answer to your prayers through the scriptures and Holy Ghost. Right after we told him that he told his mom to  pray for him. After she prayed he took a bible, opened up to a random page, and read what we pointed at. It was the scripture in Ezekiel talking about how the end of the world. Very important answer :S We think he is a little autistic.

Sunday was great! When I was introducing myself there were two very similar words I used. "Magyarorszag" and "Mennyeiorszag". The first one means Hungary and the second one means Heaven. Well.... I kept using Heaven instead of Hungary, which isn't bad, just embarrassing.

Well... I think taht that is about all! Below are some pictures from my apartment. In my room there are three fans!!! Kel Heaven!!

I hope life is going well for all of you!!

Elder Biesinger