22 June 2015
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| train ride home from debrecen |
Wednesday: still were on splits. We taught a
couple of really cool people one of them being this 17 year old girl
named Imola. She spoke almost perfect english but wanted to meet for the
gospel too. She met with the missionaries a while ago but school got
too busy so now that it is summer she had more time. It was an
incredible lesson. We taught her the restoration and told her our
conversion stories. It was really cool to teach her because I felt
like I was talking to my old self. She had the same questions I felt
that I had when I was her age and I was so grateful that I got to bear
testimony to her that God answers prayers and that she can get an
answer. I really wish that I could be serving in debrecen right now just
to teach her but I know that that is why we were supposed to go on
splits. It was super cute though at the end of the lesson she asked if
we could all take a picture.
We also had another cool experience as
we were on the bus to go to meet a member for dinner. As we were waiting
by the bus stop there was this girl that I could tell was eavesdropping as we were speaking in english so I didn't really worry about it. When
we got onto the bus I saw that she kept glancing over at us so I sort of
smiled at her and it turned out that we were getting off on the same
stop so Sister Geröly asked her if she knew where the street that the
members lived on was. She said she did and then started speaing english
to us. It turns out that she spent about five months at a YMCA camp in
new jersey and she spoke english pretty well. She called her boyfriend
to get the directions to the street and as we were waiting for him to
call us back she asked us what the difference was between our church and
others so I started to tell her about the restoration. It was super
cool but then her boyfriend called back and we started to walk towards
the street. She said she was actually interested in going to church
sometime to see what we were like and she was interested in meeting to
learn about the church too! It was super awesome, we exchanged emails
and we'll see if the debrecen sisters meet with her. It was just killing
me that I don't get to be the one to teach these people but it was cool
that I get to be part of their stories.
The members we met
with were really nice and at the end of the lesson they gave us a bag of
american chocolate chips. It was awesome.
Thursday: We
had angol óra and had a lot of people in it actually. It was really
great. There is this student named Krisztof. He is a student and
studying film. He is really legit, also a hitch hiker.
After angol óra we met with a member viki to practice hungarin. She is super great and adorable with a pixie cut.
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| our street performer friend |
Friday:
We met with Gábor. It was good. After that we met with Roli. He was
great too. After them we met with Zsuzsa, the depressed one. It was
really great because Viki came to the program with us. She is just an
incredible member present. She was just such a great friend to Zsuzsa.
Saturday:
We met with an rcla, Piroska. She is this old néni. It was a good
program, she just talks a lot. We also met with Magdi néni. She is the
grandmother of the 11 year old member márk. She has been meeting with
the missionaries for a while now and has always had excuses about why
she can't get baptized but in this program she actually brought up the
fact that she wants to be baptized on
august 29th. So we have a bap date now!
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| our investigators. Magdi néni is the one on bap date (to the left of me) |
Sunday:
We had church and then that evening we met with the orás Laci family.
They are seriously the coolest people ever. We met his son this time. He
is basically a piano protegee and is super great at english. We then
talked with the father about the gospel and he was super facinated by
why we are here and he thought it was awesome what we do. I told them
about how I found out about the book of mormon being true and it was so
awesome. I just love being a missionary.
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| the super cool family we teach. Buba, Dávid and Laci |
So this week we
are having a mini transfer. On thursday Sister Whitaker is going to be
transfered to Debrecen because Sister Geröly is going home. Me and other
Sister Whittaker are staying here. So we will be going up to Budapest
on thursday. It'll be good. I hope you all have a good week! love you
all!
Heath Nővér
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| a palacsinta that was left for a little too long... |
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| buda castle yet again before zone conference |
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| Buda castle |
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| crazy csilla. |
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| elder bagozzi (the office couple) and me |
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| folk dancers outside of the museum here in szeged |
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| folk dancers |
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| lavender lemonade |
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| so...whitaker made a smoothie...but the bottom wasn't screwed on all the way... |
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| our apartment and the window I do language study in |
