Szia family!!

Sounds like everything is going good at home! Thats crazy about the new bishopric you guys got. They will be good though. You should send me pics of the new fence and the new car you guys got next week.

This week has been a good week. We have been meeting with the red sox guy and it has been going really good! He has already finished Alma and he came to church yesterday and had a lot of questions. The only problem is we cant teach him anymore and he doesn't like that very much. He doesn't have a lot of money so he walks every where he goes. It takes only a half hour to walk to the branch house here and it takes him 2 hours to walk to the one in pest. But he is in pest area so we have to give him to the pest sisters. We are meeting with him today so we will see how that goes. We are hoping there is a member that can give him a ride or something. When we told him that the other missionaries were going to have to teach him last week he said 'I live in Buda now'. It was really funny! We tried to get permission to teach him here since it was closer for him but that didn't work. I'm really bummed we have to let him go. I don't know if he'll keep meeting with the missionaries or not since it is such a long walk.

Also we have been working with an older lady. She is so sweet and she has had a really hard life! A lot of her family has died. She has read a lot of the BOM and she has highlighted and marked up everything she has read. She thinks its really funny when I try and speak Hungarian so she said she has become my Hungarian teacher. She tries to teach me how to speak Hungarian but I can't understand anything she says. She loves me though! I think the harder you struggle with Hungarian, the more the Hungarian people love you for it. She told us that she has been investigating different churches and she feels a lot different in this church. She was having some concerns about being baptized but yesterday she told us after church that she knew she wanted to be baptized. She has only been investigating for about 2 or 3 weeks. She is a really sweet lady! Really funny too!

This week we also met with a girl from Serbia. She is awesome! I really got along with her and we became good friends instantly...probably because we were speaking in English! haha! But her dad and his family (her parents are divorced) live here in Buda and are active members. We met with their family and had a lesson and then the next day another girl took us up to Geléert hedge. It overlooks Budapest and it was absolutely gorgeous up there! I took some cool pictures. Then we went to a park up there and taught her about the restoration. It was an awesome lesson! She has a lot of the same beliefs as we do, but unfortunately she left back to Serbia on Saturday so we cant meet with her anymore. I am really really bummed we cant meet anymore! I am going to stay in contact with her though! She is really awesome! She will come back to Hungary though to visit so hopefully she will contact us again when she comes back! I just love all the people here! Especially the ones that I can actually talk to!

The girl who tried to commit suicide last week, we only got ahold of her once and it was her boyfriend that picked up the phone. He wasnt too nice and we were pretty worried about her. Then we were tabling and saw her! We went up and asked her how she was doing. She was with some of her friends and she just said that she didnt need God in her life anymore. It was really sad! But we told her when she does, she knew where she could find us.

We had a woman baptized in our ward on Saturday and it was great! Her husband was already a member but he had been inactive. She is such a sweet lady and they are really strong in the church! She got up and bore her testimony yesterday and from what I could understand it was really good! We had an investigator come to her baptism and she really liked it! She had a lot of questions and so we are meeting with her today. hopefully that will go good!

This week was also Sister Kennedys birthday. That was really fun. We invited Pres. and sister Smith to lunch and they came with us! It was a really good time! We went to this place called the guru where they sell palacsinta's (it means pancakes but they are really crepes. Everyone eats them here. If you go over to someones house they will fix you crepes even if they werent planning on you. and they usually just put nesquick stuff it in! they are the best!) It was really good to get to know the Smiths better. They are awesome!

Everything is going really good here. Transfers are next week. Im pretty sure I will still be staying in Buda with sister Kennedy. We'll see what happens though. Hope everything is going well at home! Love ya lots!

Falslev Nővér

The statue on the top is Gilert Hedge we hiked up to.

On top of Gelért hedge. So beautiful! this is the Danube river looking over on the pest side. so cool!

My companions and i on top by Gelért hedge. The story is that this guy was fighting for his religious freedom and so he thrown into a barrel of nails and thrown down the mountain. This is the place where Elder Nelson dedicated Hungary for missionary work! Such an amazing dedicatory prayer!

We were tabling and then all of the sudden TONS of people started dancing all these cool traditional Hungarian dances! It was so cool! People are really talented here.