Sunday, July 19, 2009
Pictures
Pictures will be coming I am having a hard time uploading them to the blog so stay tuned. Sorry it has taken me so long to post. Blakes blog has just had problems or something. Stay Tuned..
July 13, 2009
Ya this past week went by really fast. We went on splits this week and it was me and Peugnet ,we were in the MTC together, And we tought this lady but we both are still learning this language and didnt quite understand everything but it was way fun. And that lady actually said the closing prayer at our program. The Elders have been meeting with her for about 4 months now and she has never said a prayer while they were there. And she finally did. it was pretty cool. Church was good this week we had alot of people there, and some really good speakers.
So the other night we were just chilin and then this car alarm started going off and about 5 min later it was still going so we went to the window to look and see where it was coming from, and all of a suddon we see this thing fly out of the window below us. haha these drunk people were throwing little things of Yogurt out the window and trying to hit the roof across the street but they we so drunk they couldnt even make it across the street. It was pretty interesting to watch. So thats whats new here drunk people throwing yogurt out the window.
Mom thats way cool that your friend at work is interested in the church. Thats so cool. i hope that goes well. its so awesome the power you can feel when you read the book of mormon. All of our investigators and less actives, that were teaching, i can tell when they read the book of mormon because there week went alot better and they are alot happier and have questions.
I love you guys and hope life is going good for yall.
-Elder Smith
So the other night we were just chilin and then this car alarm started going off and about 5 min later it was still going so we went to the window to look and see where it was coming from, and all of a suddon we see this thing fly out of the window below us. haha these drunk people were throwing little things of Yogurt out the window and trying to hit the roof across the street but they we so drunk they couldnt even make it across the street. It was pretty interesting to watch. So thats whats new here drunk people throwing yogurt out the window.
Mom thats way cool that your friend at work is interested in the church. Thats so cool. i hope that goes well. its so awesome the power you can feel when you read the book of mormon. All of our investigators and less actives, that were teaching, i can tell when they read the book of mormon because there week went alot better and they are alot happier and have questions.
I love you guys and hope life is going good for yall.
-Elder Smith
July 6,2009
Happy 4th of july Family!!!
> So this week was pretty crazy, On
> wednesday when we were meeting with this really funny
> awesome Bacsi named Laci Bacsi President Gasser called us,
> now he is supposed to be leaving in like 5 hrs when he
> called us, so this was something very serious. So mansell
> answered and walked out then came back in and i dont konw
> why but i was so scared that President wanted to talk to me
> but then he had lynn go talk to him. So what happened is a
> missionary here has been having some really painfull joint
> pains
> and he needs to go home so lynn went to be companions
> with Olmstead in Buda. So Now its just back to Mansell and
> me again. Its weird how much more quiet it is around the
> house with lynn gone. We miss that kid. At first i was a
> little nervous to be going into a 3some but it only took a
> day and i was loving it. But thats ok we see him almost
> every other day.
> WEll also this week we had a
> really awesome program with this lady named Szandi, who is a
> single mother and is very interested with the gosple. she
> Always has questions whenever we go over there and also she
> is willing to meet about 3 times a week! Its so cool to see
> there excitement towards the Gosple.
> So we went tracting on Saturday and i knocked
> this one door and this kid about 22ish answered and let us
> in. We just stood in his kitchen and tought him a first.
> Then His mom walked in and saw 2, Strapping Young Men haha,
> Standing there talking with her son and the first thing she
> said to him was "What did you do!" haha she
> thought we were the police, alot of people in hungary think
> we are the police. but we told her what we were doing and it
> was all good. So hopefully we will be having a program with
> them this week again.
>
> Well quick thing so i talked with our Bishop,
> ya hes a real Bishop none of this Branch president stuff our
> WARD is pretty big her in pest :D, and he served his mission
> in Russia and he is about Chris Volks Age. So last night it
> hit me that Chris served in Russia so i was wondering if he
> knows him, His name Is Balatoni Gábor or in English Gábor
> Balatoni haha.
>
> Well i met president and sister Baughman the other night
> and Waffle Night wow they are really neat people, Short haha
> but they are awesome. i only talked to them for like a
> minute or so but i like them. Im sad the Gasser's are
> gone but hey Smith and Baughman, Now doesnt that sound
> tight?! haha
>
> Dad for tonight tell the Branch
> this Jól csak a szivével lát az ember.
> Ami igazán lényeges a szemnek
> láthatatlan. Thats good isnt it!
>
> hope Nate shows up ;)
>
>
>
> WEll have a good week and i love you guys!
>
> -Elder Smith
> So this week was pretty crazy, On
> wednesday when we were meeting with this really funny
> awesome Bacsi named Laci Bacsi President Gasser called us,
> now he is supposed to be leaving in like 5 hrs when he
> called us, so this was something very serious. So mansell
> answered and walked out then came back in and i dont konw
> why but i was so scared that President wanted to talk to me
> but then he had lynn go talk to him. So what happened is a
> missionary here has been having some really painfull joint
> pains
> and he needs to go home so lynn went to be companions
> with Olmstead in Buda. So Now its just back to Mansell and
> me again. Its weird how much more quiet it is around the
> house with lynn gone. We miss that kid. At first i was a
> little nervous to be going into a 3some but it only took a
> day and i was loving it. But thats ok we see him almost
> every other day.
> WEll also this week we had a
> really awesome program with this lady named Szandi, who is a
> single mother and is very interested with the gosple. she
> Always has questions whenever we go over there and also she
> is willing to meet about 3 times a week! Its so cool to see
> there excitement towards the Gosple.
> So we went tracting on Saturday and i knocked
> this one door and this kid about 22ish answered and let us
> in. We just stood in his kitchen and tought him a first.
> Then His mom walked in and saw 2, Strapping Young Men haha,
> Standing there talking with her son and the first thing she
> said to him was "What did you do!" haha she
> thought we were the police, alot of people in hungary think
> we are the police. but we told her what we were doing and it
> was all good. So hopefully we will be having a program with
> them this week again.
>
> Well quick thing so i talked with our Bishop,
> ya hes a real Bishop none of this Branch president stuff our
> WARD is pretty big her in pest :D, and he served his mission
> in Russia and he is about Chris Volks Age. So last night it
> hit me that Chris served in Russia so i was wondering if he
> knows him, His name Is Balatoni Gábor or in English Gábor
> Balatoni haha.
>
> Well i met president and sister Baughman the other night
> and Waffle Night wow they are really neat people, Short haha
> but they are awesome. i only talked to them for like a
> minute or so but i like them. Im sad the Gasser's are
> gone but hey Smith and Baughman, Now doesnt that sound
> tight?! haha
>
> Dad for tonight tell the Branch
> this Jól csak a szivével lát az ember.
> Ami igazán lényeges a szemnek
> láthatatlan. Thats good isnt it!
>
> hope Nate shows up ;)
>
>
>
> WEll have a good week and i love you guys!
>
> -Elder Smith
June 29,2009
Well family this week has been awesome! It was really hard to say goodbuy to debrecen, and especially Szabó and the District. But new place, Newish companions and tons of people. Wow this place is huge sorry the pictures are small or blury but im using an old computer and its weird to use so i don't know how to do it right. But hey so we live on the 11th floor and this is the veiw from my bedroom window you can see the Duna, Parliment, Fishermans Bastion, and lots more but ya its really neat. Ha so yesterday we were streeting people down by the Duna and its been raining like crazy here, and the Duna is so full that there is this road that goes down by the shore and its almost 3ft under water, so the duna is about 6'-7' overflowing, and the Duna isn't a small river. So thats alot of rain.
Well Mansell i now on this P-90X Diet workout thing and hes got me doing it too :) haha talk to reed about it he'll know about it. Basically its a really tough workout and eating diet but it makes you really strong. We did Yoga the other day and i dont think ive been more tired and sore in my life. Ha its way fun though.
Alright so pest is HUGE but we had English Class on thursday and we taught the Profi Expert class and there is this old guy named Frank and he is one funny old man. He kept trying to stump me on what engine parts were and how to build engines haha It was really random but i knew all the answers and i stumped him twice but, we ended up talking to him after because he was, Amazed by me, about the church and he didn't come to church but were working on him.
Yesterday was awesome we were streeting and i couldn't get any body to really listen to me, then Mansell told me that i just need to bear a simple testimony. Dang it worked, i saw these 2 guys, on separate occasions, and the first kid was about 18 ands moking but i just told him that i know that this messge is true, and he said that he wants to meet! Then this other guy that was about 22, he wants to meet now just becuase i told him that i know thta it is true. Thats it. Ahhh it was so awesome.
Well being in a threesome is really different alittle more rushed but wow its so fun. I learn alot more from the both of them, Lynn is really good in the Language so i learn aton from him, and Mansell is just.... Mansell :) Hes an amazing missionary he works so hard, hes a great example to me. I think thats why president put me with him again, because he wants me to learn how to work really hard and be very very determined about my goals. Almost Obbsessed.
His Homecoming is on August 16, at the big white church by the Holgol Zoo. Hes not sure about the church but ill try and let you know more later. The Gassers is on the 9th of August, in Bountiful im not sure again which church.
Well i love you guys and thanks mom for the Love, My companions thank you too, I worked out a deal with mansell, since were not allowed to go to a Massage place, for 2 oreos he gives me a 5min massage. I think its worth it...
-Elder Smith
Well Mansell i now on this P-90X Diet workout thing and hes got me doing it too :) haha talk to reed about it he'll know about it. Basically its a really tough workout and eating diet but it makes you really strong. We did Yoga the other day and i dont think ive been more tired and sore in my life. Ha its way fun though.
Alright so pest is HUGE but we had English Class on thursday and we taught the Profi Expert class and there is this old guy named Frank and he is one funny old man. He kept trying to stump me on what engine parts were and how to build engines haha It was really random but i knew all the answers and i stumped him twice but, we ended up talking to him after because he was, Amazed by me, about the church and he didn't come to church but were working on him.
Yesterday was awesome we were streeting and i couldn't get any body to really listen to me, then Mansell told me that i just need to bear a simple testimony. Dang it worked, i saw these 2 guys, on separate occasions, and the first kid was about 18 ands moking but i just told him that i know that this messge is true, and he said that he wants to meet! Then this other guy that was about 22, he wants to meet now just becuase i told him that i know thta it is true. Thats it. Ahhh it was so awesome.
Well being in a threesome is really different alittle more rushed but wow its so fun. I learn alot more from the both of them, Lynn is really good in the Language so i learn aton from him, and Mansell is just.... Mansell :) Hes an amazing missionary he works so hard, hes a great example to me. I think thats why president put me with him again, because he wants me to learn how to work really hard and be very very determined about my goals. Almost Obbsessed.
His Homecoming is on August 16, at the big white church by the Holgol Zoo. Hes not sure about the church but ill try and let you know more later. The Gassers is on the 9th of August, in Bountiful im not sure again which church.
Well i love you guys and thanks mom for the Love, My companions thank you too, I worked out a deal with mansell, since were not allowed to go to a Massage place, for 2 oreos he gives me a 5min massage. I think its worth it...
-Elder Smith
June 22,2009
Happy Fathers day! I have the Best Parents ever!!!! Thanks for all the stuff, care packages!!!! You guys are awesome!
K this is crazy so us the Elders ran to the other elders apartment to do a super work out and then we did our studies there. But mainly so that we could all be together when we got transfer calls. So they came really early in the morning and Brockman Answered it. So Szabó is getting Apgood, My mtc district buddy, And haha your not going to beleive this, I am going to Pest In a 3some companionship with Mansell And Lynn Elder, Haha wow im so excited. Lynn was my Ősi, The older Hungarian elder, In the MTC so this is going to be way tight! BUt im going to "kill" be the last companion of Mansell's. Ahh im so excited, I really sad to be leaving here because finally all of our hard work is finally showing but now im leaving it all for apgood haha oh well the work is going pretty good in Pest so thats good. WEll now i will have served in the 2 largest City's in Hungary! Not what i was expecting.
So This week was pretty good we had alot of good bye programs with Ági and Zitus, Ági left for america on Saturday, Then we finally were able to meet with Krisztina Néni, She is the Coolest Néni ever, She fed us so much food. ahh it was so good then we taught her about Temples and that was good. Oh but the coolest thing ever is we went on Saturday To Zsoka's Garden House, She is our landlord and a very faithful Angol Óra, English Class, Student. haha but wow we went out into the country way back into the trees and fields and Her family has this little House with a big garden around it. We picked Sweet Cherries, little red things, little green things, little purple things and raspberries. They all tasted good but i dont know what some of them are called. I have never seen them in america. Then we went inside and ate dinner with them and the sisters were there. ohh it was so cool, i loved going out there, I want to serve in a place like that so bad, but that wont be for awhile But the city will be fun im excited.
Well it was hard saying goodbye to people and there is this family The Szabóék and they have these little kids that i can never understand but i played blocks and puzzles with them at there house and now they love me. But the little girl kept giving me hugs at church and she cried when i left, ha wow that was kinda hard to see. I love these people a ton they are so neat. I am going to try and put some pictures on so i hope that they get to you. Thanks for everything and the packages!
-Elder Smith
Ohh and we bought Tie Bags haha its just a huge bag of Ties. I got a really good bag. I now have 135 Hungarian Ties!!!! Its sweet! haha so theres some pictures of that too.
K this is crazy so us the Elders ran to the other elders apartment to do a super work out and then we did our studies there. But mainly so that we could all be together when we got transfer calls. So they came really early in the morning and Brockman Answered it. So Szabó is getting Apgood, My mtc district buddy, And haha your not going to beleive this, I am going to Pest In a 3some companionship with Mansell And Lynn Elder, Haha wow im so excited. Lynn was my Ősi, The older Hungarian elder, In the MTC so this is going to be way tight! BUt im going to "kill" be the last companion of Mansell's. Ahh im so excited, I really sad to be leaving here because finally all of our hard work is finally showing but now im leaving it all for apgood haha oh well the work is going pretty good in Pest so thats good. WEll now i will have served in the 2 largest City's in Hungary! Not what i was expecting.
So This week was pretty good we had alot of good bye programs with Ági and Zitus, Ági left for america on Saturday, Then we finally were able to meet with Krisztina Néni, She is the Coolest Néni ever, She fed us so much food. ahh it was so good then we taught her about Temples and that was good. Oh but the coolest thing ever is we went on Saturday To Zsoka's Garden House, She is our landlord and a very faithful Angol Óra, English Class, Student. haha but wow we went out into the country way back into the trees and fields and Her family has this little House with a big garden around it. We picked Sweet Cherries, little red things, little green things, little purple things and raspberries. They all tasted good but i dont know what some of them are called. I have never seen them in america. Then we went inside and ate dinner with them and the sisters were there. ohh it was so cool, i loved going out there, I want to serve in a place like that so bad, but that wont be for awhile But the city will be fun im excited.
Well it was hard saying goodbye to people and there is this family The Szabóék and they have these little kids that i can never understand but i played blocks and puzzles with them at there house and now they love me. But the little girl kept giving me hugs at church and she cried when i left, ha wow that was kinda hard to see. I love these people a ton they are so neat. I am going to try and put some pictures on so i hope that they get to you. Thanks for everything and the packages!
-Elder Smith
Ohh and we bought Tie Bags haha its just a huge bag of Ties. I got a really good bag. I now have 135 Hungarian Ties!!!! Its sweet! haha so theres some pictures of that too.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Blakes Letter 6/15/09
Wow sorry about last week, yes we were busy but what happened is that i spent most of my emailing time writing you guys but then the ldsmail log you out after 20min but lets you stil type. Then i went to send it and it told me that i needed to log back in so i did and it erased the whole email ugh... i was way mad, then i hurry and typed you a short version and sent it but it sent it back to me for some weird reason so sorry there was no letter last week. ill try and find it and send it to you again.
Well this week has been awesome. there is so much i want to talk about but this is the coolest thing EVER!!!! So there is this guy that is about 55 and he was baptized in 91' but went in-active in about 94' and has had a hard time. He has been really depressed since then and was totally miserable. Then with Mansell we streeted him one night and had to pull his teeth to get him to talk with us. Then over the past 4months we have met with him about every week and he seemed to be getting not so depressed every time. Then just 2 weeks ago i gave him a new book of mormon and told him that he had to read out of it every day, because it will make him feel happy, it took about 15min to get him to accept the commitment, So then this last week we met with him and he was the happiest man in hungary. The first thing he said to me is that he read every single night before studying for court cases (hes a lawyer) and ever since then he has been progressing in court cases and he finally won a case that has beengoing for 15years. Ahhhh its so awesome to see the power of the Book Of Mormon, how it really affects your life. This guy is awesome! He speaks english pretty good too so its easy to have programs with him.
So that is my awesome spiritual story for Debrecen, We are getting transfere calls next monday and i am pretty sure im leaving here. Also Ági, she is one of the young women here, is leaving i don't know if i have talked about her much but she is awesome!!!! She is 22 now and speaks fluent english and Hungarian, She is leaving for america on friday to go to a scout camp thing for 2 months then she is going to Germany to live with a family and take care of the kids for a year. She has been a huge help to the missionaries and is one of the strongest members i have ever met. Wow its really sad to see her leave because this branch is going to struggle without her. But i think its good too because this week the members realized she is leaving and know that they need to start picking it up. WEll im doing good and i love you guys and thanks for the email about ashlee and libby she is cute :) i bet bridger is pretty excited!
WEll love you guys alot and thanks for everything!!!!!
-Elder Smith
Well this week has been awesome. there is so much i want to talk about but this is the coolest thing EVER!!!! So there is this guy that is about 55 and he was baptized in 91' but went in-active in about 94' and has had a hard time. He has been really depressed since then and was totally miserable. Then with Mansell we streeted him one night and had to pull his teeth to get him to talk with us. Then over the past 4months we have met with him about every week and he seemed to be getting not so depressed every time. Then just 2 weeks ago i gave him a new book of mormon and told him that he had to read out of it every day, because it will make him feel happy, it took about 15min to get him to accept the commitment, So then this last week we met with him and he was the happiest man in hungary. The first thing he said to me is that he read every single night before studying for court cases (hes a lawyer) and ever since then he has been progressing in court cases and he finally won a case that has beengoing for 15years. Ahhhh its so awesome to see the power of the Book Of Mormon, how it really affects your life. This guy is awesome! He speaks english pretty good too so its easy to have programs with him.
So that is my awesome spiritual story for Debrecen, We are getting transfere calls next monday and i am pretty sure im leaving here. Also Ági, she is one of the young women here, is leaving i don't know if i have talked about her much but she is awesome!!!! She is 22 now and speaks fluent english and Hungarian, She is leaving for america on friday to go to a scout camp thing for 2 months then she is going to Germany to live with a family and take care of the kids for a year. She has been a huge help to the missionaries and is one of the strongest members i have ever met. Wow its really sad to see her leave because this branch is going to struggle without her. But i think its good too because this week the members realized she is leaving and know that they need to start picking it up. WEll im doing good and i love you guys and thanks for the email about ashlee and libby she is cute :) i bet bridger is pretty excited!
WEll love you guys alot and thanks for everything!!!!!
-Elder Smith
Monday, June 1, 2009
From Blakes Letter June 1st
Shoot well guess?! what on wednesday it will be my 6 month mark on my mission, Wow this is going way too fast.I get so busy planning and setting up programs and stuff i forget where time goes and these weeks go soo soo fast. Wow
So this week here we had interveiws, splits, lots of meetings (with the branch), and a Kirándalás (its like a pic-nic type thing) so its been a very busy week, we didn't have any success streeting or tracting, and everysingle program we had dogged us except 1, and that one was way cool. so it made up for all the dogs. So my companion wonders why i am studying these words like Welding, machining, weird car parts and stuff but that guy we met with is a welder, locksmith, and works on cars. So i can understand more of what he is saying than my companion can haha but during the lesson the spirit was so stronge. He doesn't beleive in God and he feels like praying is pointless but when we asked him to pray and read, right off he said he would because "he feels something" YES i love this church!!!!!
WEll i love you guys alot and thanks for everything especially your prayers, i can really feel them!!!
Sok Szeretettel
-Elder Smith
So this week here we had interveiws, splits, lots of meetings (with the branch), and a Kirándalás (its like a pic-nic type thing) so its been a very busy week, we didn't have any success streeting or tracting, and everysingle program we had dogged us except 1, and that one was way cool. so it made up for all the dogs. So my companion wonders why i am studying these words like Welding, machining, weird car parts and stuff but that guy we met with is a welder, locksmith, and works on cars. So i can understand more of what he is saying than my companion can haha but during the lesson the spirit was so stronge. He doesn't beleive in God and he feels like praying is pointless but when we asked him to pray and read, right off he said he would because "he feels something" YES i love this church!!!!!
WEll i love you guys alot and thanks for everything especially your prayers, i can really feel them!!!
Sok Szeretettel
-Elder Smith
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