August 17, 2013
Amit felteszek az email-emen
magyarul nem jelent semmit ami fontos. Csak fel akartam irni valamit magyarul
ami nem volt 'szia családom'. :) (I'm putting this in my
e-mail in Hungarian. It does not mean anything that is important.
I just wanted to write
something in Hungarian which was
not 'hi my family'
Hey, guess what? I'm sending you
guys pictures this week! Wooo hooo! Be excited! Even more so because I have
some kewl stories behind them.
This week has actually been pretty
fun. For most of every day we have been stuck in the office and taking greenies
to the bureau and having them apply for residency cards, which only meant that
I got to drive! Wooo! Trying to find every opportunity of mine to drive because
I miss it. Plus it gives me better practice since, in this city, everyone
drives like the own the road. I know back at home people can be like that, but
here it's in a different light. It's like they think that there is no one else
on the road but them. Komolyan (seriously)! It's rijfkdléskjfdélajdiculous! But
worth it at the same time.
When we did get out of the office we
were able to have some fun AND I was able to take some pictures so that all of
you can enjoy it!
Last p-day I said that we were going
to hang out with the AP's and play some sports and stuff. Way fun! But we all
soon found out, and when I say soon I mean like 5 minutes, that we were all
super out of shape. So after an hour or so of playing soccer, Frisbee,
football, 3-flys up, we just about collapsed. But it was so worth it. I did get
to wear my new Superman shirt that you sent me and Superman socks. I'm pretty
sure they are what sustained me throughout our activities by giving me super
powers. Plus, Elder Christensen wore his Superman shirt so we just were
superheroing it up out on the field!
When I get home, I'm going to try and find
some sort of soccer team to play on or something so that I can get some good
regular exercise in AND have some awesome fun playing soccer. I miss playing
that sport soo much! Being with Elder Corbishley has brought back memories of
playing it since he is super soccer kid. Hopefully there will be something like
that at home. We'll see.
Elder Christensen and Elder Magda "Super-Heroing" it up on P-day |
Monday we were invited to a family
home evening to one of the members here. They actually lived in America
for a really long time. They've lived in New York, Texas and then they lived in
Florida for a really long time and now there back in Hungary for a while. She
has her grandson, who is 19, here in Hungary and she wanted us to get to know
him. He speaks fluent English, since he was raised in the states for most of
his life, and also fluent Hungarian. What a lucky guy! To be fluent in two
languages, one of them being English. I would love to be able to do that. So we
went over to their house and they prepared Pörkölt for us, which was to die for
delicious! But the other awesome part was that their house smelled almost
exactly like Granny and Granddad's house. I don't know if I've talked about
this before, probably have, but I'll repeat it again anyways, I've found that
the scent of Granny and Granddad's house has kind of unique smell, which is a
good smell by the way, and I have figured out that it is a Hungarian kitchen
scent and I love it! I actually called Heather up after the family home evening
and told her this and she told me that she didn't even know her house had a
smell. Returning to the family home evening part, we had dinner with them and
we talked, switching back and forth from English to Hungarian, which was way
fun because they speak English perfectly, so if we didn't know a word they
would just switch to English. After dinner we shared with them a spiritual
message and asked if we could help with anything and the grandson, Roland, said
that he was planning on cleaning up the backyard so that they could make a fire
pit so that the other youth from the ward could come over and have BBQ's and
stuff. So we scheduled a few days to come over and help him out.
The last part of FHE, which mom will
love, was finding a little friend outside of the family's house. As we were
leaving we heard a rustle in the grass next to the house and we went looking
through it to see what it was. Can you guess what it could be?........a
Hedgehog!!!
IT was the cutest thing ever! I immediately thought of mom since
she adores hedgehogs. So we took some pictures with it and loved it to death,
literally though, it's heart was pounding pretty hard.
To make sure that it
wasn't going to have a heart attack or anything, we put it back into the woods
and it scurried away. So kewl! Probably one of the kewlest highlights of the
week.Isn't it CUTE??? |
Elder Corbishley and the hedgehog |
On Tuesday we went back to the
family's house to do some of the yard work in the backyard to get it ready for
digging and tearing up the ground for the fire pit that we are planning to
make. Roland is such an awesome guy! We were able to really get to know him and
he said that he was planning on serving a mission and was going to have an
interview with the bishop the next day to see what he needs to do to prepare.
Hanging out with him kind of reminded me of the times when I hung out with the
missionaries back at home before I left for my mission and how much of an
example they were to me and I felt like this was my chance of doing the same
thing back. I'm excited to see the journey that Roland has ahead of him. We
told him that he had to tell us, since we'll probably be home when he gets his
call or at least in a different area, where he was going when he got his
call.
Buda Castle |
After helping him with his backyard,
we were walking back to our apartment and we saw that we had a few minutes to
spare before we needed to return home. It was such a nice day outside, and we haven’t
had many of them for the past few weeks since it's been dreadfully hot, so we
decided to go to Buda Castle, which is on a little hill next to where we live
that overlooks the Duna, and see the city lit up. It was so pretty!
Budapest is
such a beautiful city at night when the street lights are lit up and are
reflecting on the river. Such a blessing to serve in this city again. And,
August 20th, which is the main Hungarian holiday, is next week, so we'll have
some fun exploring the city then also.
Buda Castle |
Another really kewl thing that
happened this week, at English class we actually had a TV news station record
our class! Annnndddd I got to be interviewed afterwards! Do you know how
ideg-tépő (nerve-wracking) that was to do in Hungarian?!?! I was so nervous!
Even with all of my theater and performance background that I have being on
stage and everything, it did not prepare me to be recorded speaking in a
foreign language. I had to put all of my focus on the questions, even though
they were basic, so that I could understand the questions exactly so that I
wouldn't be like 'Uhhhh......could you repeat that again?' But it was still way
kewl! They asked me why we held English class and also asked me about my family
being part Hungarian and things that I knew about it before I came here and if
I knew the language. It was way fun! Maybe we'll be able to see it if we're at
one of our investigators houses :P
The Earth |
The last kewl thing of the week that
we did was that we went chalking yesterday. Yup, we went back to grade school
and played with chalk!! Ok, maybe we didn't 'play' with chalk, but it did feel
like it when we we're doing it. We basically just went tabling by the Duna and
brought a bunch of chalk with us and drew out the Plan of Salvation with quotes
and scriptures on the side representing the drawing.
IT was way fun! And there
were also some people who stopped and asked us what we were doing and were
interested. Finding people is so much more enjoyable when you make it fun and
unique. We had a blast doing it and definitely made for a good first memory of
chalking.
"Adam fell that man may be. Men are that they might have joy." |
"And thus the world was created." Elders Lynch, Corbishley and Magda |
Well, that was my week! I haven’t
had a week this super duperly fun filled for a while. Not saying that I haven’t
had fun for a while, just that I haven’t had one that really was memorable AND
got me to take pictures. That's when you know that I had a good week when I
send pictures back. ;) Today we have our first concert of two, the second one
will be next Saturday. It's going to be great! We have some kewl numbers that
we will be doing and I have one solo, 'My Soul Hungered', and two duets, 'Firm
in the Faith' and 'The Prayer', and the woman that I'm singing with is
Hungarian, but we are singing these songs in English since there's no real
Hungarian translation for them. I'm stoked to sing these songs, just because I haven’t
done anything like this since last year when I sang my duet with Sister
Surányi. I've been so out of practice. And now Valley Choral just had the Call
to Unity concert! Man I miss that so much! You guys sang O Danny Boy?!?!
AHHHHH!! I've wanted to sing that song for soooo long! Blast! I wish I could
have been there. Maybe next year if Paul has the choir sing it again or
something. I miss that choir oh so much. I don't know if everyone in that choir
knows how they have a special spot in my heart. The wonderful atmosphere and
community of it all and the music that we were able to sing has shaped me to be
the man that I am today. Please give Paul special thanks for me the next time
you see him. He is one of the big reasons why I can and love to sing.
Sounds like life is about to pick up
with school coming around the corner back at home. Though I do miss school a
lot, the stress part of it I am glad to be away from, ha ha. Hopefully I'll see
Great Uncle Steve. I sent him an email last week, but he never wrote back.
Maybe we'll run into each other somehow. And, also, I heard that Sister Skiba,
one of the sisters who was here in Budapest last year when I was, is coming
back to visit tomorrow. That'll be kewl!
I hope everyone has a funtastic
filled week! Stay sharp and prepare the day with quick Morning Prayer before
you go out the door.
Sok szeretettel,
Magda Elder
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