Just a quick email

On Wednesday morning this week we are moving into another place so we've been looking for an apartment and taking care of all that fun stuff. I've never looked for an apt and the first time is in a different country. I didn't do much because we have a member here who like helps us with everything and speaks English like she was born speaking it so she helped us with almost all of it, if not all of it.

We played soccer on sport day and I'm not very good, I can kick it hard but that's about it!

But Győr is awesome and Elder Egan is also awesome. We are already getting some work done. While trying to take care of all the stuff going on this week we still made the "20 lessons club" and stuff, so the work here is going great. I'm hoping I'm here for a while.

Well, got to go. I hope everything is going good at home!

A little bit about Győr

information and map from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C5%91r

Coordinates: 47°41′03″N 17°38′06″E / 47.68403°N 17.63507°E / 47.68403; 17.63507
Country: Hungary
County: Győr-Moson-Sopron
Area
- Total 174.61 km2 (67.4 sq mi)
Population (2008)
- Total 128,808
- Density 730.71/km2 (1,892.5/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 9000
Area code(s) 96

Győr is the sixth largest city in Hungary and lies halfway between Budapest and Vienna, Austria. It has been inhabited since the fifth century and along with the rest of the country, has endured a lot of trials. It has been occupied by Celts, Romans, Slavs, Italians, Turks, Mongols, Czechs, Austrians, and many more. During the 17th century, rather than try to defend the city yet again against the Turkish army, Gyor's leader burnt down the town; the Turkish army found blackened ruins. The Turks still call it Yanık kale ("burnt city"). The town was then rebuilt by Italian builders. Gyor continued to experience hundreds of years of unrest.

Three rivers, the Danube, Rába, and Rábca, all merge here.

Today, the city is of great importance in Hungary, it is a cultural center and also a university town and very popular tourist attraction. Győr has no sister cities in the United States.

There's more rich history and gorgeous photographs at the Wikipedia link listed above.

New city, new companion

Well, Josh is moving to the north western part of Hungary to a city called Győr. He will be serving with Elder Jared Egan from Gilette, WY. He has been out for 2 transfers longer than Josh and left the MTC the day before Josh entered. It's well worth looking up Győr on Wikipedia and searching the city on Google Images. What a gorgeous place. The work is apparently very strong there and the people are good.
As I'm trying to do with the cities Elder Josh serves in, I will post some history, statistical information, and probably make a slideshow in the next day or two of the city. So far, I'm completely in awe of the photographs I've seen.

Some tidbits from today's email:

Wow, I'm moving already. I heard that this city is amazing and I'm really excited. I will be serving with an Elder who is 2 transfers ahead of me, Elder Egan.

The language is still kind of hard but I'm sure I'll get the opportunity to speak a little more here and there and we both have some of the same interests and so I think that we will get along well. He was the one that told me after seeing my drawings that now he has started drawing. So I guess that we can help each other because he was a fitness trainer before he came on his mission and so I hope that we will work out a lot.

We have an investigator who is about 40ish and she really liked me and Wilcox Elder and now both of us will be gone. So I told her that there will be other missionaries, but she said that we were like her children and so it's hard for her to say goodbye. She's pretty cool and I hope that she continues to progress.

Other than going to a new city, we just went to a party. It's called a farsang- that's a Hungarian holiday around this time where they dress up like we do at Halloween but it's basically to scare winter away. It was pretty fun, I did some limbo and I never thought that I could go that low. It hurt after but oh well it was funny. I'll miss Pickerd Elder and the people here.
Well, love you and hope that you guys have a great week. I'm sure I'm going to after I get all unpacked and have things taken care of. I'm excited to progress to new places again.
Love you
Love Joshy