November 7, 2016
Well you heard
from me on Wednesday so this will be a little bit shorter.
This week on
P-day we went to the Zoo and it was super fun. Not as fun as the zoo in
Nyiregyháza but it was still so much fun. Also on Monday, we met with our investigator
Roland. He is doing really well. He is just so young that he is having a hard
time grasping everything we think. It was a really cool miracle though because
we went to his house and we started talking. Roland’s older brother and two of
his friends also live in this house and the girl was doing dishes right as we
walked in. So Roland did the missionary work for us and invited her to stay
while we taught him. She asked if it was bothering us and we of course said no
and made space for her to sit down. Then Roland took it to the next level and
turned straight to Vikki (that is her name) and said “okay great you say the
prayer...” it kind of went quiet and she said I don’t know how to pray, so Roland
once again stepping in to teach tells her all about prayer and how we pray and
what we say and how we do it. So she said okay I will say the first one but you
say the last. So he agreed and then she said the opening prayer!! It was crazy!
Super cool. So we ended up teaching the whole lesson to Vikki because we were
re-teaching the restoration and Roland just helped during the teaching it was
great. At the end of the teaching he was like okay your turn to pray and so she
was like what no way you said you would say the closing prayer, and just before
this we had talked about Roland coming to church, so she said if you say the
closing prayer I will go to church with you... we both just had our jaws drop. Roland
was doing all our work for us. Sadly they did not come because their alarm didn’t
go off but hopefully next week.
Something funny
happened this week too. We had district meeting and we wanted to order pizza
for everyone so I called the pizza place and started ordering pizzas. We didn’t
know which one to get so I just told them a random number on the list, it ended
up being pretty good, but that’s not the funny part. The best part was when she
asked where we live and I told her the address of the church building and she
was like yea you guys are the mormons... “ was like yea, we are the Mormons”.
So I was laughing joking around with her and she knew that it was us because
the way I spoke and where we were in the city. So now she thinks Mormons aren’t
super weird hopefully.
We also went on
splits wit the Buda Elders this week. I was able to be in Budapest for two days
and it was gorgeous I loved it. It was super fun! We also had a cool little
miracle happen! I
was able to see a small miracle while I was with Elder Heaps. We decided to go
tracting instead of meeting with one of their investigators because we could
not find a male member to go with us and we just had the feeling we needed to
go tracting. So we said a prayer and went out on the streets. We talked to a
lot of people and some said that we could come back but while we were tracting
Elder Heaps called the woman we would have met with and told her that we would
not be coming. She was very sad to hear this because she had spent along time
cooking for us. We said we were very sorry and continued to tract. A couple
minutes later we got a call from this investigator saying that she had invited
her boyfriend over and that we would now be able to meet with her. Her
boyfriend was against the church and was mad that we were meeting with her so
this was a really big miracle that he agreed to join the teaching. We shared a
great message and it went really well. It was great to have to spirit there and
to teach this gospel to someone that is prepared!
So that was a
really cool miracle and it was really fun to be up in Budapest for a
while.
This week was
also stake conference. We got to be there for the Saturday priesthood session
and adult session because we were there in Budapest and then on Sunday we got
to see the broadcast! We had a member of the 70 come and give a really great
couple of talks to us. He gave a great talk to the missionaries about learning
the language and how to be successful. After I was able to have a good
conversation with him and he even gave me a hug. It was awesome. Not just
because he was a 70, but also because I got a hug haha.
I would like to
finish with a quote that I found somewhere I can’t remember. I think it was in
a talk. It goes like this "Calm winds don’t carry ships to promised lands,
stormy seas do." I love this quote because it is so true. We so often
think of our trials or our hardships as bad things and that life would be so
much better if it was just smooth sailing. I know for a fact that if I did not
have hardships I would not be the person I am today and I would not be in the
direction of the promised land. I think it is important to be grateful for hard
times because that’s when we grow the most.
I love you all!!
If you have any questions or if you are curious about random things here like
in Hungary let me know I would love to answer some random questions because I feel
like all I do is write about my week and there is a lot of interesting things
about this place that I leave out!
I love you all!
Ure Elder
November 2, 2016
Well this week
was crazy!!! This was the first week of all the new things that I am doing! We
gave training on baptism this week to all the elders and sisters in our zone
and it was really great! It was exciting to be able to teach everyone and be
able to prepare for this transfer!
Then this week we
also had our first split with other elders. We went on splits with elders from Sopron.
I was able to go with Elder gabel. He is a super cool guy and he is actually
from Denmark but has lived in America almost his whole life. It was super funny
because he came to our city and the first time here he was able to experience
how kind people are. We got yelled at and kicked out of a building and both of
us just started laughing ha-ha. This guy was crazy and I was asking him why we
had to leave and I said just out of curiosity what are we doing wrong and he
said I am curiosity and told us to leave again.... so what ever that means hah
it was great. We also made a tradition to cook something yummy on every split
so we made banana bread with the elders. It was super fun and really good
actually.
We also taught a
really cool lesson this week to a member family. We used a friction erase
marker and if you hold a lighter below the paper enough for the heat to touch
it the writing disappears. So we taught about repentance and the atonement. If
we are marked up wih sins, we can always us the atonement and our sins will
disappear and look white as snow. It was really cool and fun!!
While we were
teaching that family the cutest thing happened. We were saying the opening
prayer and we always kneel at their house so I was kneeling and mid-prayer
their youngest kid gets up and turns around and gives me the biggest hug around
my neck and just stayed there until the prayer ended. It was the cutest things
I have ever had happen. I guess he just new I needed a hug. He then would not
leave my side the whole lesson so I now have a new best friend.
This week was the
meet the Mormons showing where anyone could come and bring their friends to
meet the missionaries. It was really cool but sadly not a lot of people came. A
couple members brought their friends and that was great but other than that it
was just a free meet the Mormons movie for us in Hungarian. It was a nice break.
This Sunday I was
asked to give a less active member a blessing because the sisters have been
meeting with her and she has been fighting smoking for a really long time and
she wanted a blessing to get over the hump and to just give it up. It was a
really cool blessing and I just love giving blessings in Hungarian and just
giving them in general. I was able to say a lot of cool things that once again
did not come from me. I think that’s why I like it so much because its like God
is talking through me and that’s a super cool feeling.
One crazy thing
that happened this week is we looked up a less active member and found out that
she actually died three years before, but her family wanted to meet with us. So
they let us in and wow was it crazy... very interesting people with a very
interesting smell.... I will not say more but I love fresh air. We met with
them and they were super nice and we are hoping to visit them again but it was
one of those times where someone lets us in and it feels like we walked into a
totally different dimension. It was nuts.
For Halloween we didn’t
do anything... They don’t celebrate here so it was kind of lame and it was even
lamer that our p-day was on Wednesday but its okay! We did end up having lunch
with a member and we grilled cheese... just pure cheese. I feel like I have
clogged arteries now but wow was it good. Other than that we just worked the
whole day... Celebrations don’t really happen as a missionary, just felt like a
normal day!
The last
hilarious thing that happened was we met with one of our investigators that are
progressing really well and we brought Bence. She offered us tomato juice,
something kind of like V8. I said yes and Bence also said yes. So she poured it
and Bence saw that it was spicy... so I drink it and it was actually really
good. I loved it. So I look over at him and I see him drink it and he starts dying...
He was like gagging and his face was so funny. All of this was in silence and
so I am trying not to laugh but he is being so funny that I had to bite my tongue
and cover my mouth because I almost started laughing so hard. It was so funny.
I would like to
finish with a hymn that I heard in church on Sunday. I can’t remember which one
it was, it was just one line that stuck out to me. It said "I trust my
life with him" It hits me really hard. I do trust my life with him. I have
a huge testimony that we are here and the things we do are for a reason. Everything
happens because our
Heavenly Father
is leading and guiding us. I know everything will work out because I truly
trust my life with him. That’s why I am here. That’s why I knock those doors
and why I walk the streets because I know He is the guide. In this life there
is no need to fear, no need to worry, not need to stress. Love God. Keep his
commandments. And trust him enough to give your life to him. I love you
all.
Ure Elder
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