Today I dont have much time to email cause we are going to go to the ZOO!!! But I will do my best to recap our week.

J: We went back over to his house this week and it actually when really well! We put him back on bap date for Oct. 22nd. We still have a lot to teach him and he didnt come to church yesterday so we will see how he keeps progressing. We are hoping for the best.

I: I who we did a stop smoking program last week with had a friend that wanted to try the stop smoking program also. So we went over there and explained the program to her and she decided she wanted to try it. She really wants to quit. She is also a professional cook and she made us this stuff called Lecsó. It is my all time favorite hungarian meal. It has tomatoes, onions, tomatoe sauce, and LOTS of paprika in it. It is so delicious! And hers was the most delicious kind I have had! Hungarians really know how to cook. We went back over to actually start the program with her and she had already quit and gotten rid of all her cigarettes and everything! We are hoping she makes it! She also had 3 other friends there that were interested so we will see if we can get some more investigators! That went really well.

Speaking of food - Hungary has the best food! On saturday there was a huge food festival in the middle of the city and it was awesome! You bought a ticket and could go around and taste all these different foods. It was awesome! We went there for lunch and were so full afterwards. It was kinda like a childhood fantasy....they had HUGE caulderons of soup and it was delicious! With delicious bread and all the people were dressed up in old Hungarian clothes. They were singing traditional hungarian songs as they cooked and everything. It was so cool! Some of the members were there cooking too so it was cool to see them. I love hungary and their traditions. They are so cool. I wont be able to send pictures today but I will send some next week.  Also we got to have a sajt (cheese) night with the members. It was kinda like mozarella sticks but tons better. I love hungarian food!!!!

We also got to go to Debrecen this week for district meeting. It is a beautiful city and about 5 miles or so from Romania.

This week it has been super rainy. It has rained like every day. One particular day, we thought it was going to be good weather and we both forgot our umbrellas. So of course, it decided to rain more than it had on any other day. It doesnt just rain and then pour here. It just pours. So we ran and tried to find a building to go tracting into but we were already soaked. We looked like two drenched rats tracting but we kept on working! And we knocked on so many doors that day for so long. It was getting close to the end of the day and you can say we were both getting a little discouraged and a little sick from the cold. I knocked on one door and a man answered and just said 'Im happy with my life. I dont need anything. I dont want to change. My life is just fine. So leave.' Something along those lines and he shut the door pretty hard in our faces. But afterwards I was just thinking how Christ feels when He knocks on our door and we are sometimes so caught up in our busy lifes that we just tell Him we dont want what he offers and shut the door. I feel like a lot lately the Lord has been 'knocking on my door' with something He wants to teach me but I dont see the need for the change. It was just a really good thing that I needed to learn this week. I have really started to come to realize that I cannot do this on my own. I still am really struggling with the language but I am coming so much closer to the Lord because it is so hard and because I am struggling so much. God really does love us when He gives us trials even though they are hard. They make our faith in Him stronger.

Today is my 6th month mark in Hungary. So weird to think about. I still cant speak the language and I dont understand a lot of what is said but I have grown to love the people and love Hungary. I just cant believe how fast time is going by!

I love you all! Thanks for all the love and support!

Falslev Nővér