6.3.07

well, haven't posted in a week, so i thought we should update on our last week or so. kyle is keeping busy with more school visits to do baseball teaching in the gym classes. he told me today that they have handed out over 600 flyers (to the upcoming baseball camp) and seen probably 800-1000 kids in the last couple weeks! i was surprised by how many kids they have taught this game of baseball to....but its great that they are allowed into the Hungarian schools to do this, usually with quite a welcome. i went along once and we noticed a funny thing. as soon as the teacher walks into the gym all the kids line up in a row and say "good afternoon" (in Hungarian of course!) to their teacher....sounds normal right? well its a little weird because the say it in this monotone voice all together and REALLY slow. like its the military or something...not sure why, but its funny! but in 2 weeks there will be a baseball camp (over the weekend, 3 days) that they are inviting all these kids to. and hopefully they will end up joining a team after the camp! so with all the "fun" in playing baseball...the real hope is that we can some how share Christ's love with these kids. the season starts in the beginning of April and we will be helping coach the kids team again....or at least kyle will (and i will when i can.) so please pray with us that lots of kids would come out and that we can share the news of the gospel with them!

i on the other hand, have been busy with English teaching. in the last couple weeks we have gone from 1 lonely student (Olga) to adding 5 more! its great and i am enjoying it! i don't see them all on one day because their levels are so different. so on Mondays i meet with Olga, very beginner. and on every other Tuesday i meet with Zsuzsa (good Hungarian name) she knows a little English from high school. on Fridays we meet with 3 kids (Dori, Zoltan & Gergely) the are around 10/11 and they only know the basics too, but they are a great bunch on kids, very fun! and recently i have been meeting with another girl (Timi) for her to practice her spoken English skills, she is preparing for an interview and a job where she has to know English well, so she needs some help with speaking skills. she comes on Monday and Friday mornings. very quickly we have gotten really busy with English and baseball, but its been good. we are really praying that through these activities we won't just teach baseball or English but that God would use our lives to bring to more to Him.



and since a post isn't finished without a picture, we will leave you with one from a day at the used clothing sale we have on Wednesdays in Ofalu. there is always something interesting to find...a couple weeks ago Rita and I found these toques! (Rita is a fellow OM'er that we work with in Ofalu) the other girl in the picture was visiting Rita, she works in Bosnia with OM....hopefully she doesn't mind this picture of her on the internet!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you may have found the new OM team uniform.....very distinctive hats!

Anonymous said...

Baseball Practises, English Studies, Bible Lessons and now Toques. Hungry is offically Hip!
Way to keep busy K&L.
*Still miss you guys!

Kyle and Lynnette said...

touques.....eh...thats canadian for winter hats, wollen caps, taboggan or whatever else the rest of you call them!