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| "tableing"! |
2 November 2015
We
went antiquing with the elders. Pécs has all these cool little shops so
basically we sent the day exploring. There was this one store with all
this awesome art. It made me really excited about going home and making
art again.
Tuesday:
We had greenie training in
Buda! So we got up super early and went into budapest. The training was
good. Basically the APs talked about the missionary handbook and then we
did this trivia thing with sister szabadkai. Then president spoke to
us. "the best thing you can do is assume the other loves you" -pres.
Szabadkai. It was fun! The best though was seeing sister hafen and
talking with her. We got to reminise about the good old days when we
were greenies!
After training we had a couple of hours to kill
before our train came so we went and saw the bazilika. It was super
gorgeous and we got some pretty cool pictures of budapest!
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| new missionary training |
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| székesegyház |
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| bazilika |
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| mtc reunion! |
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| the view from the tower in the bazilika |
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| the view from the tower |
Wednesday:
So
they are doing renovations on the branch house here, adding a second
floor so wednesday morning we were in a program and these construction
workers came and started working so we couldn't use the branch house for
programs this week and we won't be able too in a couple of weeks either
so that will be fun.
But the STLs got here for splits and we had a program with Erzsi with Levanen. It was super good for erzsi to see her again.
Later
we had a program with Niki and András. Best part of the program. Niki's
daughter Lily really likes tejföl (or sour cream). So she was eating
spoonfuls of tejföl the whole program. #hungarianchilden
That
evening we went to dinner with the elders and dávid. and then after
walking home we found this huge pile of leaves so what do we do? play in
it of course. So much fun. Definitely the best decision we made in a
long time.
thursday:
We had a program with Lilly
<3 best thing ever!! We taught the
plan of salvation and it was so so
great! we had to meet in this little tea shop because of the
construction on the branch house so we drew it out for her on a paper.
It was so great and she said it made so much sense. She loved that there
isn't really a "hell". The only question she had was what the people in
paradise do while waiting for resurrection. It was so cool because at
first I wasn't sure how to answer but then I just felt myself saying
that rather than spirit prison and spirit paradise being two separate
places, I like to think of it more like it is one place. What makes it
prison or paradise is dependent on the way you feel in it. It may seem
like a prison for those people who choose not to follow the plan but it
is a paradise to those who followed the plan because there they get the
chance to be missionaries! And really that is the thing that brings
real joy, helping you brothers and sisters come to Christ. It was so
cool to see that God really does fill our mouths. It was such a learning
moment for me. Seriously Lilly is so incredible. I feel so lucky to
teach her. Sister vandenberge really put it right. After our program she
said that she felt so privileged to even teach her one lesson.
That
afternoon after the Stl's left we had a program with Pui Kati. It was
super great! She found this children's bible and has been reading from
it and it has been so great because it is easier for her to read! I
could tell that it has been helping her so much. She was so excited to
read for us! love her!
That evening, the elders had a great
idea. We carved pumpkins in the shape of a book of mormon and the world
and tabled with them. We made a poster to match the world one that had
the scripture about "for God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten son" and we had another poster that said (pre note, the word
for pumpkin is tök and a phrase that people use here to say cool is tök
jó or pumpkin good) "tök jól érzünk magunkat mert mormonok vagyunk" Or
"We feel great because we're mormons". Its funny in hungarian, I promise.
Anyways tabling with them was a huge success.
Friday:
We
had to go to the hivatal to get sister willets registered to live in
hungary so that took up our morning. It was fun. Thank goodness we had
elder simmons here who used to be secretary so he knew how to do it.
I
was feeling pretty sick (just a cold, no worries, better now) so we
stayed home the rest of the afternoon and I rested while we weekly
planned.
That evening we tabled again with the pumpkins. And
guess who walked by while we were tabling? LILLY! so we chatted for a
bit and read a scripture that we texted her earlier that day. It was
great!
Saturday:
We had district meeting at a
restaurant because there was still construction on the branch house. So
that was an adventure. Later we had a program with pui kati where we
read some out of the book of mormon with he and we gave her a children's
illustrated book of mormon. It was great.
Sunday:
Minden
szentek napja! or all saints day! So after church and stuff we went to
the cemetery. It was super pretty they put flowers and candles all over
the graves. Super beautiful and peaceful.
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| some of the cool graves on minden szentek napja |
Well that was my
week! I hope you are all doing good! Never forget just how great life is
and there are always miracles if you look for them! Puszi!
Sister Heath
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| a cool tower here in pécs |
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| cool maze we found |
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| milk here comes in bags. |
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| Pécs |
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