hello all, another week here in Magyarország! (the hungarian name for hungary, in case you didn't already know.) Fun fact dad, the name of spain is spanyolország! how weird is that?
So we had a bit of a
crazy week here for the Érd district. A couple of elders in the mission
got sent home for health reasons and such so they had to do a lot of
switching up of elders so that meant that on monday before we went to
play basketball with the elders then our elders got a phone call from
the APs that elder lindow was getting transfered to székesfehérvár and
we were getting elder loveland instead. So it was kind of a sad day
saying goodbye to lindow. But he is such a good sport and was sad to
leave but excited for what was in store for him in his new city. But now
we have elder loveland with our little district of Érd. He is from
virginia and is very talkative. He has been out for about a year and a
half I think so he is older than elder meek but meek is still the senior
companion which he was confused a bit about when he first got the call
but it is great. It is always interesting getting to know new people.
Sister sellers is kind of sad though since she was good friends with
lindow but its getting better now that we're getting used to elder
loveland.
On tuesday we went to Tatabánya to go on splits
with the sister training leaders. The train there was cool since we
drove through a lot of little towns and farm fields. It was nice to get
out of Érd for a little bit but it was also nice coming back. Tatabánya
has a lot more factories in it and is mostly ten stories so it was good
to get back to our családi houses and more greenness. One of the sister
training leaders is actually hungarian so it was interesting going on
splits with her since she speaks the language perfectly. It was nice to
get some advice from her and how to use the language more naturally.
anywho, we taught four programs this week.
The
first one was on monday before családi est. We taught Ka_ who is a
recent convert and a less active in her 20s. We taught her about
missionary work and a little bit about following the prophet. She is a
really sweet person... We think she lives
with her mom too because she told us that her mom won't let her get
married but we couldn't really understand why so we are guessing that
her mom must think that if she got married then she wouldn't be there
for her anymore. But Ka_ told us how she really wants to work towards
the temple and getting married but it is hard with her mom not really
agreeing. So we taught her about missionary work and she said she wants
her mom to learn about the church so we are hoping that if her mom
becomes more accepting of the church than ka_ will be able to get
married and such.
We also met with Ág_ and
Má_ again, this time with a member, Aniko. So it was kind of an
emotional lesson. The first thing when we got there Ág_ welcomed us
in but the first thing he said was that he wanted to give the book of
mormon back and that he wanted to stop meeting with us. We asked him why
and he said that it was just all too hard and that he was too old to
change and basically as we kept talking to him it was also hard because
he didn't want to change alone and because Má_ didn't want to change
he wouldn't. We we just so grateful that Aniko was there because she is a
convert herself, and like má_ used to be roman catholic. She ended up
talking to them and comforting their fears enough to get them to keep
the book of mormon and agree to go to church at least once before
completely disregarding everything. Sister sellers and I were really
close to tears during most of the lesson because we pray for them so so
much, at least like 10 times a day so to hear them feel like they can't
do this just broke our hearts. It just makes me wonder what happened in
between our lessons to cause such a change. But we are going to give
them a week to cool off and then call them again so I am just praying
that they will feel the truthfulness of our message.
Our next
lesson we taught was on friday to our angol órian, Kla_. She is just
the coolest person ever. She is 20 and blonde and just super cute and
sweet. We met with her in the branch house and she was waiting outside
for us when we got there with her boyfriend. When we went inside she
told us that they have been dating for three years and she hopes they
can be together forever. She is just super cute. We started with talking
about english and such but she almost immediately started asking us
questions about the gospel. We ended up just switching to hungarian and
talking about the plan of salvation. I guess her father is from the city
and her mother is from a falú or the country so her father isn't very
religious but her mother is a strong catholic. She said that as kids
they raised them with a belief in God but that when they grow up to
search for a church that they believe in and want to join so that is
what she is doing. She super loved everything and when we gave her a
book of mormon she was super excited to read it. We are just so stoked
for her since the moment she first walked into our angol óra we knew she
was different. She was interested in learning more so we are meeting
with her again this friday!
Our last lesson was with a member
family. The mother Gyö_ is a member and two of their kids are
baptized but the father isn't a member and their youngest son isn't old
enough yet to be baptized. They are super cute and we decided to watch
the restoration movie with them and then talk about what we liked in it.
It was so sweet to go around the room and have the little kids tell us
what they like. Their daughter is eight and was baptized a few weeks
before I got here. Her name is ez_ and she is just the cutest kid
ever. She always makes us bracelets and such out of those woven rubber
band things. She is apparently really funny but I have a hard time
understanding what she says so we mostly poke each other and make goofy
faces to communicate but she is the cutest. When we were at their house
she was sitting next to me and said that my earrings were beautiful and
that I looked like a princess. Seriously she is the cutest and she wants
to be a little missionary someday so we put our tags on her and
pretended that she was our third companion.
We have zone
conference on wednesday so we'll be going into buda again this week so
that should be fun. It should be a pretty good week, the weather is
getting nice here and flowers are starting to bloom so hopefully that
means that not everyone is going to be sick but life is great and I love
hungary. I hope you all have a good week!
Love
heath nővér
No comments:
Post a Comment