Hello friends and Family!
What
can I say, this week has been pretty great! The work here in Pápa is
definitely not easily, but who said it would be? Yeah, I can't think of
anyone either.
Monday night for Family Home Evening, we played
soccer. It is pretty much a Pápa FHE tradition, at least during the
summer. Sadly though, I think we have seen as much as we are going to
see summer-wise. It has gradually been getting darker and cloudy around
here.
Tuesday
we had a program with one of our investigators who has been flat-lining
for the longest time but then all of a sudden went up after we brought a
member to one of his programs, but then
on Tuesday
we started to see him go down again. Getting investigators to come to
church is not an easy thing to do. Of course, Hungary is NOTHING like
the USA where people can just get in their car and drive to church when
it is pouring rain or snowing. Instead, the people in Hungary usually
ride a bus or walk everywhere they go. The only problem with that is bus
times don't run whenever you want them to, but instead they have a
schedule and if that schedule doesn't comply with your schedule
well...what are you going to do? We have a few investigators that can't
make it to church because of bus times, but then if we were to change
the time of church (which is
8:00 AM--
a little early, eh?) then other members who the bus schedule works for
now, wouldn't be able to come. You can't please everybody, right? Hűha!
It's hard for sure. Anyways, sorry back to our investigator. This
specific investigators doesn't have a problem with getting to church,
but he goes to another church, the evangélikus church, with this Néni
every
Sunday.
We can't get him to come to our sacrament meeting. I secretly think he
has a crush on this particular Néni, he's a bacsi so it's perfect. No,
but really, we don't know what to do. We have offered to walk with him,
everything, but he doesn't want to leave his other church and his
friend, so we will see where we will go from there.
,
we had zone training in Győr. That was great as always. It was nice to
see some of the missionaries I'm familiar with. Plus, we had the
pleasure of having President Smith (Mission President) and his wife come
to our zone training. He talked to us about, "how to be successful in
missionary work." "If you want to be successful in missionary work, you
will have to do it the Lord's way." I learned a lot about how important
it is to do it the Lord's way even if "Sister Whitaker's way" is a lot
different. We think that we know ourselves better than anybody else, but
actually there are two people who know us better than we know
ourselves. God, because he is the Father of our spirits, and Jesus
Christ, because he completed the atonement in our behalf. He felt
everything that we will feel or will ever feel in our lives. I am so
thankful for this knowledge and it brings me great comfort when I do
things that is contrary to "Sister Whitaker's way,"' because I know that
God will bless the people that I teach, through his way, infinitevely
more than I could ever by doing it my own way. I'm so thankful for my
Mission President and his wife, they are such shining examples to me.
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