Day 7&8 - In Budapest

Szia! Jó napot!

(Hello, good afternoon)

Man oh MAN yesterday was so full we were too tired to blog again, but I look at that as a good thing :D The weather in Budapest has been amazing, no hotter than 26 (78F) even in the sun and there has been a delicious breeze that makes even the warmest parts of the day very comfortable.

Yesterday we started off at a rush to get to John and Allison's language lesson on time. We

made it just fine and Megan and I settled in to observe their learning. Their teacher had a different idea and turned the next hour and a half into an introductory lesson for me and Megan (hence the greeting of this post). It was good review for Team Jordan and quite challenging for Team Naylor. Still, we enjoyed it a lot and she gave us the papers she wrote on while teaching us as a souvenir/review. This is John & Allie with her.

After the lesson, with what little brain energy the four of us had remaining, we stumbled into a Hungarian pizza place and enjoyed our pizzas quite a bit. (Megan's had baby octopi. . .) Castle Hill was our next destination and we spent about an hour walking around the ruins that ranged from several centuries old to Hapsburg-era palaces now converted into museums.

We found some park benches to rest for a time because we didn't have to arrive at our next destination for a while. Megan and I had a chance to pool our thoughts and observations about Hungary thus far and talk about what God had been revealing to us. We met up with Heidi, another member of United World Mission for which John & Allison also work and headed out to one of the suburbs. There are several national Hungarians in this suburb who are hosting an English camp as an outreach to their community and John, Allison & Heidi are all teaching. Megan and I helped one of them, Zoli, pass out fliers while the other three helped a man named Tibor. We prayed with them over the camp and all met up at the building where Zoli, Tibor, their families and a few other Hungarians meet for weekly Bible Study. There were some missionaries from Campus Crusade for Christ there as well as other volunteers who would all be helping with the camp. We prayed, planned and ate together. As we were leaving, knowing that we had just come from Ukraine, Zoli decided that Ben needed to learn how to dance like a Russian. Ben failed. Zoli did not.

Today we relaxed a bit more. John and Allison went for another language lesson but we stayed back. We met them for lunch, then came back to their flat to do some laundry and rest. John and Ben headed out to meet with several of the Jordans' friends because one of them was returning to his home country for the summer. Megan stayed at the flat with Allison to hang out with her friend, Sofia. They watched Twilight with Hungarian subtitles and made pancakes, eggs and hash browns. After supper, Megan and Allison scoured the 9th District for ice cream, FINALLY succeeding at their fourth stop buying Allison's favorite called Bird's Milk. The girls had a night and the guys had a night. Ben got to meet lots of young believers from all over the world tonight. Please be praying for the guy returning to his home country, we'll call him Cymbal. Cymbal comes from a place that is very hostile towards Christianity and there is the possibility that someone could report his recent conversion and he could be either jailed or even executed for his faith.

We didn't go to Keszthely today, as you may have guessed. We're taking the 13:05 train down tomorrow and should arrive around 16:30. We think we'll have internet at the Speak Out! Conference we'll be attending with Doug & Patti Meyerdirk, but if not, we'll be back with John & Allison next Thursday the 1st. Have a wonderful weekend!