This week has for
sure been one of the busiest weeks of my mission. The reason for this is that
we had a Missionary Leadership meeting in Budapest and then splits in a whole
different city and then when we got back to our own city we had to meet with
all our investigators so we ran from teaching to teaching... I don’t think I
have had a legit dinner hour in days... But don’t worry mom I am still eating a
lot of food, and I am not dying. I am healthy, I do push ups :)
Well sadly I just
realized that I forgot my paper that had everything that happened this week on
it at home and I can never think of everything on the spot but I will do my
best. So this week was full of us giving blessings, getting yelled at during
tracting and then miracles.
I will start with
talking about splits because it was really fun and I made a memory that I will
never forget. It was snowing almost the whole time we were there and it was the
best day ever. What made it even more scary, but great at the same time is the
fact that we were riding bikes and the ground was pure ice, I survived so don’t
worry, yes probably not smart but it was still so great. We only rode bikes
because we had a teaching that was far away and we had to get there in time and
we were willing to sacrifice haha. The down side is I slipped a couple times
and one time when I caught myself I ripped a hole in my pants. It is fixable so
I am not mad and I still think it was worth it because I was able to ride down
the streets of Hungary on a freezing day while it was snowing and just say to
myself... I am a missionary. This is awesome!!!! haha.
Before that
during the week we had a really cool miracle happen. We were tracting one day
and thought to look up an old investigator and what ended up happening was his
wife was home and she said for us to come up but we couldn’t stay because he wasn’t
there but right when we started to talk to her he ran up to us and finished his
run, so we all went in together and we were able to eat dinner with them and
have a really cool talk. It was really awesome to be able to talk to him again
and he told us that he was still planning on reading the Book of Mormon but he
just can’t find the time right now and we were able to bear testimony that it
will help him in everything he does not just to learn more about God. It was
really cool and a great miracle.
Now onto the
funny stuff when people get mad at us. I think I will just share one today but
the others were also very funny and sad. So we started tracting one day and we didn’t
start on a good note because the first woman we talked to flipped out on us for
being there and was really mad that we even tried to talk to her and wouldn’t
leave us alone and told us to leave but we we weren’t even by her door; we were
outside, so she went inside and we moved on and came to this man, we gave our
approach and he stayed silent through it all and then said, boys I am not
interested, and so I asked well do you know..... And during what I was saying
her turns around and picks up the phone behind him and says are you going to
leave?? And I was like “what the?” yeah, we will leave so we left and I was
just stunned that someone could be that fast to call the cops on us, so we got
to his neighbor and he comes out again and flips out on us because it was his
cousin that lived next to him and he was a younger kid and he didn’t want us to
brain wash him. He wouldn’t even let us knock on the door but we were like well
maybe he will be interested, like we believe everyone should get a chance to
choose if they want to hear our message or not because it can truly bring
salvation, and he was like what do I need to be saved from...? I’ll have you
know he was a catholic and knew about sin and all this and this was after him
getting very heated and so I replied... Your sins... he really didn’t like that
so I just walked away and we moved on. It was pretty crazy and really sad but
Hey that’s what I am here to do, we didn’t even raise our voice once! We just preached the good word. It kind
of felt good though to get some adrenaline going... not gunna lie!
Then on Sunday it
was the day of blessings. In church we were asked to give two women blessings
and it was really cool. They were both blessings of comfort and peace and it
was just a cool experience like it always is. Then later that day we were able
to meet with this inactive family and one of their little girls was really sick
so we were able to give her a blessing also. She was a really cute twin and her
mom asked us to give her a blessing so that she could not be sick and so that
the rest of the family would not get sick. Then rewinding a little bit this
week. We also gave a blessing to a member that has a big test coming up and he
asked us to give him one so that he can be able to learn better and be able to concentrate.
It was a week full of Priesthood and it was really cool. It is such a blessing
that the priesthood has been restored and that we can truly use it in our
lives.
This week has
seriously been spent full of just running everywhere and just meeting with
everyone that we can. It has been a really great week. This week I have learned
that if you have faith and you don’t think that it’s not going to work, but you
instead think for the slightest possibility of hope. Then it will work because
you will then do everything you can to make that happen and make it so it works
out. I love this work and I am thankful to be a missionary.
Love Elder Ure
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