12 October 2015
Hello all!
What a week it
has been!! For reals though, it has been fantastic! I have a new
companion now! Our little greenie Willets has arrived! She is so great
and we are already having such a blast here in Pécs! Willets is from St.
George area, but grew up in Maryland. #eastcoastrepresent. She is the
oldest in her family and loves running and music. She is already so good
at the language! I swear, they must be doing something different in the
MTC. All these greenies are so smart already! Life is great, God is
real. Doesn't get much better than this.
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| me and widtfeldt with our new greenie sister willets! |
Well, to move on. Our week:
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| us with erzsi |
Kedd:
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| baby's first milka |
After that we went and had
our last supper with Levanen with Dávid. We went to maestros, which is
our favorite pizza place. It was good reminiscing on the "old days".
Then
we had Családi est. Great stuff. Me and this one kid in the branch have
this thing were we high five eachother a million times. Its funny.
Always kills my hands by the end though.
Wednesday:
We
had to be in budapest by ten for our trainer meeting so we got up at
three in order to catch the train. We got into buda and then hung out in
the mission home a bit before our meeting. It was super great catching
up with sister hafen from the mtc, because we are both training now and
so it was fun talking with her about it. Shes so great. I keep crossing
my fingers that we'll be comps someday together.
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| hafen with our greenies! |
Then at
ten we all gathered for our meeting. Trainers on one side of the room
and greenies on the other side. Then after the APs and Szabadkais gave
their remarks we found out that sister widtfeldt and I would get sister
willets! We were super excited. We totally got the best greenie.
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| New missionary training |
After
that we started on our way over to kelenföld train station. On the way
down to the metro, we were just putting along down and all the sudden
they all stop, jerking us forward. The suitcase I was carrying almost
fell and almost pushed me down. We look over to the other side where
people were going up and some guy had fallen down and I think that's why
it stopped. So we start to try and carry the suitcases down the
escalator, slowly. But then they made an announcement that the were
starting again and so we stop. Then with a big jerk, the escalator
starts shooting backwards bringing us up to the top again. We all
grabbed on to the sides for our life and the people on the other side
just started cracking up laughing. It jerks to a stop again and slowly
starts moving down. We get off eventually and make it to our metro. We
had to trade lines though. On the way to get onto the next metro we were
a bit confused by which side our train was coming on so we had paused a
few seconds before getting on the train to glance back at the other
side to make sure we were getting on the right train but while glancing
the doors closed. We were like, whatever, we'll catch the next one. But
this guy comes up to us and starts asking us where we want to go. We say
in the direction of kelenföld. And he was like "that was your train"
and we were like. Yeah, we'll just catch the next one. But he just got
angry at us and was like "why didn't you get on? can't you see that it
was your train?" and we told him that we weren't from here and were just
making sure it wasn't the other side but he got all angry and was like
"it was written in your language? why can't you read it?" and we were
just like, sorry sir..we aren't from here. He then later came up to us
once we got on the metro and tried arguing again. But we just ignored
it. They both said kelenföld on both sides..bocs de nem bocs. Anyhow.
That was fun for willets to see. Right off the bat almost dying on an
escalator and then getting yelled at by a guy on the metro.
But
do the adventures end there? Nope! So after waiting for our train back
to pécs and visiting with a couple of other missionaries, the time came
for our train to depart. We hurried to the platform, got all of our crap
on the train but everything looked a little different than usual. And
one of the elders was like, "do we usually take gyors (fast) trains to
pécs?" It turns out we got on the wrong one and were headed to Györ.
Well, we hurried and told the ticket checker and she said we could get
off on the next stop and get one back into kelenföld and then from there
catch a train again to pécs. So we get off at this random stop. All us
(the pécs missionaries and the kaposvár ones too) get off the train and
are stuck there for about half an hour. Eventually the train came, we
hopped on. The lady on the other train had let the ticket checker on
this train know and so we got back to kelenföld and eventually our train
came for pécs. Lesson of this story: Never listen to elders.
Well, we eventually got back to pécs. Got some gyros with Dávid so he could meet Willets, and then went home.  |
| stuck at a train station, after taking the wrong train. waiting for our train back to kelenföld |
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| stuck at a train station |
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| because kruger just happens to have a saber... |
We had a program with Éva and helped her
translate some random old english book about funerals and how they used
to prepare the bodies for burial. It was super weird...Welcome to
hungary sister willets!!
Then later we had a program with
Dávid's friend who came to conference, Lilly! It was so so great! She
was totally interested in church and she almost cried when we gave
her a book of mormon. She is seriously so incredible. She reads the
bible every night and prays. For reals, shes like dávid in girl form. So
prepared!
Then we had angol óra and one of our students
said something super wise when we asked him what his favorite music was.
He said "thats like asking a writer to pick a favorite word." touche
szabolcs!
That evening we made baby's first rokott krumpli. And baby had her first túró rudi! Having a greenie is fun!
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| baby's first rokott krumpli! |
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| baby's first túró rudi! |
Friday:
We
had a program with Erzsi. She fed us this weird meat paste stuff...good
thing we love her so much. She is so incredible though. We mostly
talked about fasting because she had read a conference talk about it.
Then
we had a program with Dávid and talked about the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, but mostly repentance. It was great. His personal experiences he
shares about how he knows these things are true are always so powerful.
Hes going to be a great missionary some day.
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| a drawing dávid and us did after getting cocoa. I am now harry potter nővér |
We then met
with M_ Mária. She is wonderful as always. She had visited home in
budapest and while there she found a bunch of stuff from when she was an
active member. She found her baptism program and pictures of her
missionaries and stuff. It was super cool!
and it turns out that sister willets's old branch president's son was
the missionary that baptized her daughter. And one of sister willets's
friends from college is hungarian from the Kispest ward and Mária is
good friends with their family. Things are great.
Saturday:
We had district meeting with our new district. Our elders are Elder Simmons and Martindale. They're pretty cool.
That
evening we had a branch program with the Szabadkaiék where they talked
about missionary work. I seriously love them so much. Every time they
speak you can just feel the love pouring out of them. President
Szabadkai talked a lot about the movie forest gump and said we all need
to try to be a bit more like forest. He had goals and he wasn't settled
until he achieved them the best he could. Ex. running across america,
basically pro ping pong player. And forest stayed by jenny's side
through it all. It was just great. I love them tons.
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| our wonderful district |
Sunday:
We
had fast and testimony meeting. Probably one of the best sundays I've
had in hungary. The testimonies given were just incredible and the
spirit was super strong. One was given by a young woman in the ward
named hanna. She's become my little best friend, we joke that I'm big
hannah and shes little hanna. Her testimony though was incredible. She
talked about how during conference she wanted to get an answer for
whether she should serve a mission or not (keep in mind she is 13) and
during one of the talks she was praying and when she finished her prayer
the speaker said "kellene menni" or "you should go" basically. She said
that she now knows she needs to go on a mission. Another young man in
the ward gave his testimony too and he talked about when he is going to
be a missionary and its just so cool to see how the youth of today are
already preparing to be great missionaries.
After church
we tried to do this look up but it ended up taking us on a bus ride
about a half hour out of the city. We were searching for it in the rain
for the house but it didn't exist so we headed back into the city and
broke our fast and did studies that evening. It was great.
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| kis hanna és nagy hannah |
I
seriously love my comps though. I'm going to be so sad to see sister
widtfeldt leave but Sister willets is so incredible. For reals, this is
the best trio ever. And I know my transfer with willets is going to be
great. Life is good! God is real! The church is true!
Have a good week!
Love,
Sister heath |
| baby's first streat! |
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| making stuffed peppers |
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| baby's first töltött paprika! |
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| our district |
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| Pécs=heaven |
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| this is the street we live on...yeah...I'm a little spoiled... |
