what to write....nothing too exciting has been happening around here this last week. we are just getting back into life and ministry here in Erd, which is nice after being away for most of the summer. although we have been a little disappointed when the Ofalu centre got broken into twice in the last couple weeks....they managed to steal the last computer that was hiding in the attic the first time....and now there is officially nothing of value to steal in there. but whoever it was decided that twice would be nice...we think they are just trying to discourage us. but we will continue to use that house as long as we can!

we have started up the clothing bazaar again and English club too. we are getting some good exercise lately too because we have to bike there and back which is about 10kms round trip...so 3 times a week is pretty good! anyways, today we met with Olga for the first time since the beginning of summer. she is her chipper self with many thoughts flowing out of her and arguments that could last us a lifetime. but today was hard for me (lynnette)....for some reason my Hungarian was not working and i was feeling so frustrated with myself. i really wanted to give her the answers to all her questions that were floating around in my head in english....its just that when they come out in hungarian....well they aren't as good. so i kept telling her that it was an off day for me, but she continued to talk and talk. so i just pulled out my hungarian bible and started reading some verses to her....at least she could understand me then! and then she stopped me and reminded me of the verse that i taught her in english the last time we met.....she proceeded to say the whole thing off by heart too. it was this verse:

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God." Epesians 2:8

i was very encouraged that she actually remembered it and hoped that God some how can use that verse to remind her that she can be saved through grace and have an assurance of salvation in Christ. then we moved on to the "english" part...i was going to teach her some names of foods today, but she stopped me and told me that she wanted to learn another verse from the bible in english....so that's what we did! although its so hard meeting and talking with her...i know that God has a plan and purpose for all our times together even though we only understand each other half the time....and kyle is looking up words in the dictionary for me the whole time! but at the end of the class i asked her for some advice on how to cook this one hungarian specialty....and oh did her eyes light up when she had the chance to share some of her culture with me. it was funny...i will be sure to come up with some more cooking questions for her next week too!