Naegle nover: I stay March 31st

        We got transfer calls this morning and I stay in Buda but I am being banished to Óbuda (another section of the city) because the APs want my apartment. Dirty politics. Luckily I will be able to keep my investigators and everything should be about the same I will just have more travel time.

       Highlights from the week included teaching crazy Csaba the Law of Chastity. He didn't take it so well and thinks that we just don't understand how it is in Hungary because in America chastity is just a foundational thing for everyone. But he thinks it's not fair to make 16 and 17-year-olds get married so that they can have sex. We couldn't really get the concept of waiting to sink in. Given that we all almost passed out from his body odour, I don't think that we need to worry about Csaba breaking the law of chastity any time soon.
      He promised to come to church and he did, but only in time for Sunday School, after which he went up to beautiful Betti Klinger (the young, pretty sunday school teacher) and asked her to explain to him how she could possibly keep the law of chastity as a Hungarian since these Americans don't really understand how it actually is. Face palm. But at least he came to church. There is hope for Csaba yet!

      We had a farsang party (farsang is kind of like Hungarian Halloween) and it turned out pretty good. Young single adults from all over the country came so I got to see Sister Kovács who is really Kíra now, and Szílvi from Debrecen, who was filling out her papers to go on a mission. It was soooo great to see them. We also had a couple investigators come so it was a success.

      Yesterday we went with the senior couple, the Petersons, to look up the older sister of Sister Peterson's sister's friend who is Hungarian but lives in the states. When we finally found the address the people who lived there said that Éva, who we were looking for, did not live there. So we called the number we had, and I awkwardly explained who we were and that we wanted to see her, and she, not really knowing who we were, told us that we had the wrong house number and to come on over. So it was a great success. She hasn't seen her sister in America for 30 years. It was cool to talk to her. She was really happy to have visitors and told us that we should have called and she would have baked for us. But we chose not to call originally because we were afraid she would tell us that she didn't to see us and then we would have had less of a chance of ever meeting her.

      I don't know if you remember Balázs the hit gyüli guy but we expected to never hear from him again after he cancelled our first meeting. Then he unexpectedly called us and wanted to meet. So we met at the local Starbucks and we tried to teach the Restoration. We ended on really gracious, respectful terms, but he hadn't read the Book of Mormon at all and said that he didn't really have time to read. So I suggested that we leave ten minutes early so that he could have ten extra minutes to read. He kind of got the point. It's so silly because he said he'd be happy to meet with us and hang out. But whatever. He really does have a strong faith and loves God and that's nice to see in the world.

      As always, thanks for all your support. The Gospel is real and changes lives. It changed mine! I love you all. Have a great week!

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