Well this week
has been full of some crazy days and if I could call this week anything it
would be the week of Hungarian. I don’t think I have ever spoke or listened to
more Hungarian in my whole life. I got to a point where my brain just about
shut off. It was awesome. I’m learning so much. It’s a very painful way to
learn the language but it is coming along just fine!
Anyway, this week
for my birthday the sisters brought me cookies and wrote me a song. One of the
sisters plays ukulele and they made a song for me it was super cool. They are
awesome sisters. After that we went and had dinner on a boat. It was this
really nice restaurant out on the water of the river and was super cool.
Awesome and unforgettable birthday!
Thank you all for
the birthday wishes, they mean a lot!
This week was
also super hard! I had to say goodbye to my best friend Elder Murdock. I was
super happy to see him go because he has had an amazing mission but I am also
going to miss him! I luckily got to say good-bye to him because we went up to Budapest
for zone conference and he wet home the next day! Zone conference was amazing and
we had some cool experiences going up to Budapest on the train. We started
talking to this guy and he had a lot of questions and we were able to answer
them and tell him all about our church and why we are here. It was really
awesome.
We gave out all
our books on the train and when we started talking to another person we realized
we didn’t even have a book to give them. Super sad but I guess it was good that
we had already given them out. You can only carry a certain amount of books so
it was really cool.
This week the Hungarian
team played a game and we just happened to be tracting during the game and the
people were super not interested in what we had to say so we changed our approach
and asked if they were watching the game and if they said yes we would ask if
we could watch it with them hoping they would ask us about why we are here and
who we are... even then everyone didn’t want to talk to us. So don’t tract when
Hungary is playing soccer.
This week has
also been the hottest so far. I feel like I say that every week but it
seriously gets hotter and hotter every week and every week I feel like I am
going to die. So this week since we don’t know where anything is we had to
search for where one of our investigators lives and it took forever and was in
the middle of the day in the heat. We walked all over town and figured out that
she lived right by where we live.... she just gave us the wrong street number.
But we met with her ad it was awesome. We taught her about the book of Mormon
and she said she is going to pray about it so that is super cool. The only bad
part is her daughter is a Mormon hater and told her to not meet with us but the
old lady went behind her daughters’ back and met with us. I was proud of her ha-ha.
Also this week I
had a true test of my Hungarian knowledge and gospel. We were walking down the street
and there were a couple kids and a dad out side sitting on the wall and the dad
told us to come over, so we started to talk to him and it quickly turned gospel
and we started talking about why we are here and slowly one by one more and
more people joined the conversation. Before no time the whole family was
outside listening and asking questions. It was really cool but I really had to
stretch my vocabulary. We gave the dad a book of Mormon and next week are going
to go back and teach them the lessons. Super super cool but the dad has some
strong and kinda weird thoughts about God so it will be interesting when we go
back.
We then had a
really long hot and just straight up hard day. We walked and walked and it was
so hot and we were both really tired and just all day worked outside and it was
getting close to when we were going to go back when we got stopped by a young
girl who started to ask us about who we are and what we are doing here. She
ended up knowing a little bit about us and we had a really good conversation. It
was really fun because I was able to joke around with her and to teach her
pretty much the restoration as we just talked and were friends. She said she
might come to English class so we will teach her more there hopefully.
Then to finish
this email off with some big news!!! I think in the upcoming month we will be
baptizing three boys!!! They are a part-member family and the boys all want to
get baptized so this week we are going to give them a date! IT is going to be
really cool. They invited us over to have dinner, which ended up being a barbeque
and was so cool and amazing food and then we taught the plan of salvation to
them, I am so excited to teach them more. They are all such cool kids and are
going to be a really big addition to the ward here. I am stoked!!!
I would like to
finish with a quote I heard this week in zone conference.
If a bird lands
on a branch, it doesn’t trust the branch that it won’t break, it trusts in its
own wings.
Sometimes we
doubt our own abilities. Don’t. Trust in yourself and you will watch yourself
do miracles.
Sok szeretettel
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