Last full week

6 June 2016

soo, this is the start of my last full week and I'm just freaking out a little bit but it'll all be good.

Last week:

sister szabadkai with the palacsintas (basically crepes)

Monday:

We got to cook with sister szabadkai and it was incredible.

Later we were on splits with the szolnok sisters and I was with sister mason.

We had a lesson with an adorable less active lady who actually is the mother of another of our less actives. She was super nice and basically opened up her whole life to us and we talked about the miracle of repentance and it was just such a good feeling.

flipping the palacsintas

Tuesday:

Sister Mason had a doctor's appointment so we figured out where the hospital was she had to go have tests done at so that was kind of an adventure through buda. I'm so used to living on the pest side that the buda side was fun to explore.

Later we tracted and met this polish guy and talked with him for a while and told him all about the book of mormon. Then some lady kicked us out of the building.

Later we took a train to Sopron for splits there.

Wednesday:

Sopron was super pretty, there were some old roman wall ruins and stuff so the downtown was super cool. I was with sister Smith on splits and it was great. She's awesome. We ran into a couple of cool people tracting that hopefully will turn out to be something for them. 

Later we took the train back and it was hard to not be emotional looking at the hungarian countryside and thinking about how I won't have much longer to see it. It started raining a bit too so there was this wonderful wet earth smell coming in the windows and, yeah, I just love this place so much.

splits in sopron

splits with sister mason

 in the elevator to get to the sopron branch house. (mormon house)

splits in sopron!

Thursday:

We had a lesson with John and it was AWESOME. Hes the guy that used to be a bible teacher, so he always had sort of looked at the book of mormon as something that contradicts the bible but we encouraged him to re-look at it and pray to find out if its true or not. So he's originally turkish so he said the other day he was looking at the church website in turkish and found this video about nephi and when he was watching it he got this super peaceful feeling and he knew that it was true and ever since that he was reading in the book of moroni and he knew that it was from God because what moroni taught was like the bible. It was super cool. Except he's going to be out of the country until september now so we won't be able to meet with him for a while but it was great.

Later we met with a wonderful less active named gyönygi. She is all I aspire to be. haha She is a super health nut and does joga even though shes not too young anymore. But we basically talked about how we get help from god through all sorts of different things and one of those is the scriptures. She is just so wonderful and has such a good heart. She gave us these biscuits with jam and one of mine had the jam in the shape of a heart and I pointed it out and she was just like "there are no accidents". It was adorable.

Later we had angol óra and we did an obstacle course with tables and chairs and stuff set up for them to get around blindfolded with just their classmates to give directions. It was fun. 

our obstacle course angol óra

Friday:

We had district meeting and then later we met with this néni in her little shop that she owns. So the other day she showed up to the mission home and gave the secretaries her info and then told us about her and so we called her and she invited us to her store. She sells pins. Like her whole store is full of every imaginable pin with anything to do with hungary on it. It was impressive. I guess her grandfather started it in the late 1800s and its been run by her family since then. She told us her whole life story basically and it was awesome. She is kind of crazy but it was cool. So she has family in america that are mormons and years ago they came to hungary and found her mother and her and ever since then she has had interactions with the mormons but just felt like the other week, she needed to find us. So that was cool. We'll see what happens. She talked a lot.

Later we had a lesson with Csilla at her house and Panni came. It was super good. We watched the restoration.

After that we went with Panni to another member, Kriszti's apartment. It was super great. So kriszti has a non member boyfriend from canada and shes been trying to talk with him about the gospel so we talked with her about missionary work and how to do stuff and it was just so great to visit her. We just love them both.

kriszti gave us kiwis before we left and so we were just holding kiwis on the metro.

Saturday:

We helped a family move. 

All our programs canceled or dogged.

We sat by the duna a while and contemplated things and it was great.

kispest graffiti we found on the way to help the move

Sunday:

We had a special stake conference broadcast from salt lake. It was good. So we met in the pest ward building. 

Later we had a really good lesson with Jozsef and enikő was there. She was super great help. We talked a ton about agency and about basically if people actually can choose or if its all based on our circumstances. It was kind of ridiculous but good. 

Later we visited a less active, melinda, where she works. She is just the most wonderful person ever. It was incredible because she actually admitted she was less active this time! The last few times she totally denied it and so recognition is the first step.

Later we met with sister szabadkai and she talked a bit with me about how great my mission has been and how the next step in life is going to be great too and it was super embarrassing but I couldn't help but cry in front of her and it was just, oh gosh. and then the president saw me crying it and its just like now they all just think I'm this emotional mess. But its all good. I think I've just been trying not to think about it and her talking about it made me realize its more real. 

It was a good week though. Later today we have interviews and cleaning checks because the transfer is coming up. Life is good. I love budapest. I love hungary. I love my mission. 

Sister Heath

a statue we found the other day. my future dating life

győr with cribbs

győr

szolnok

szolnok with greenwood

so recently we've seen this graffiti all around the city in chalk and its jsut been weird stick figures with the name peti next to it. Its our favorite.

pigeons. everywhere.

my favorite street in pest.

we made strawberry cobbler. and ate it for breakfast.

győr

 

Back to Szeged and other wonderful things

magdi, döme, márk, and klaudia

23 May 2016

wednesday:

We went to SZEGED!!!! so we did a little training at the zone training in szeged since we're over the sisters in that zone. We drove down with the szabadkais so we got a little nice car ride and it was just so strange being in a car. I've gotten so used to public transportation I'm going to feel so spoiled getting back to a car. It was so great to go back to szeged though. So much is the same yet its changed, it was kind of trippy to be there haha. We gave a training on helping members know what to do when they come to lessons and it got me pumped to help the missionaries when I get home. 

So it was cool though after the training I had a text from edit, the lady I met on the metro, asking me to call her. So I did and she simply asked, when can we meet? it was super cool.

I was on splits with sister gertcsh and it was great. We go to go back to teach the Márkék!! So I got to see márk, klaudia, magdi, zsuzsa and döme! it was so cool seeing how big they've all gotten but the best part was that they all remembered me and when klaudia said the opening prayer she said that she was thankful that I could come back and see them. It was such a little miracle. 

Later we taught a less active lady and went tracting and it was great. 

dóm templom in szeged

Thursday:

We did studies in szeged and then headed home to make it back in time for angol óra. 

Friday:

We met with mária (the random néni that showed up at church a couple weeks ago and we didn't know if she was a member or not). Well it turns out she isn't a member and is very confused about the whole "one true church" thing. But she always says that if she wasn't hungarian she would be a mormon but because she is hungarian she has to be catholic...so that's interesting to discuss.. But she is the sweetest ever and I swear, she told me like a million times during the lesson that I look like her granddaughter. 

Later we went on splits with the békéscsaba sisters so I was with sister Grogan. Sister grogan is a convert from texas and super adorable. She told me that one of her friends simply invited her to seminary and she went to early morning seminary for a year before she actually went to church. She's super great and loves being a missionary. So we tracted a bit and then we met with Edit! Edit is literally so cool but the only problem is that she plays violin in a protestant church on sundays at the exact same time as church so she can't come but we'll see. She met with the sisters like five years ago and so she knows a bit about everything and says she already knows it's all true, so that was super cool. But we'll see. She's literally the sweetest ever though. When I recited the first vision she cried and was like, that is so true. So it was awesome.

 parliament with sister grogan. It's cool having your tracting area so close to pretty things

Saturday:

We had a lesson with Csilla, this thirty-something lady who is super cool. She's met with the missionaries for a long time but this was my first time getting to meet with her because of splits. It was a really good lesson. We talked about he plan of salvation and gospel of jesus christ. She had so many good questions. 

Later we met with this older couple that willets tracted on splits. His name is baranyai lajos. His wife is pretty sick and has some mental problems. We think she had a stroke or something but she isn't all there but is a sweetheart. They are super old though but he had read from the book of mormon that willets gave him and he loves it. He says he keeps it next to his chair always so he can read it. They didn't really understand too much of what we taught but they were super nice so we'll see.

Then we had MCM and játék est. 

Then we tracted this beautiful building with nice blue doors. It was pleasant. 

Sunday:

We had church and we got to go to primary for the third hour to do an object lesson so that was super fun. Then after church we played catch with one of the little girl's teddy bears but for some reason every time I caught it I was sent to börtön or prison. It required much pleading and many fake tears to get out. 

Also an awesome thing. So one of our recent converts in szeged, roli, recently moved into the kispest ward boundaries and we've been trying to call him to meet because he lives like an hour away and its hard for him to get here for church on sundays but we wanted to meet with him but he was at church!! It was so cool talking with him and catching up. It was cool too because I can talk to him better now than I could then so it was awesome. He's so great. Hopefully we can meet with him soon.

That evening we went to the szabadkais and had our weekly meeting with sister szabadkai. She is literally the most wonderful human being ever. We laugh so much with her. Next p-day we're going to go cook with her and learn to make some hungarian food. 

Also, fun thing. We're going to be on TV. President called us the other day and was like, a film crew is going to follow you around for a day. So we're going to be on some channel here in hungary. So that should be cool. I guess they just want to do a special on who the mormons are and what mormon missionaries do. And we're the lucky sisters that are going to be filmed. yay.

Well, hope you all have a great week! 

love,

Sister Heath 

 sister giullian and gertcsh with us in front of dóm templom