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Transfer
week! AKA chaos week! Oh man, I absolutely love transfer week! People
are moving everywhere and it tends to get a little hectic but hey, it's
part of the mission experience!
I am happy to say that I will
be staying in Székesfehérvár! I am super happy about that. It will be
awesome to stay here with my investigators and this wonderful branch! On
the other hand though, I am sad to have to say goodbye to Sister
Schnoor. She, indeed, will be leaving, but the city she is going to is
absolutely stunning. I have been there many times and she will
absolutely love it! I have no doubt that her and her companion will do
great work there! My new companion will be Sister Sholly, who happened
to be Sister Schnoor's companion before me. They talk very often so I
feel like I almost know her through Sister Schnoor but I am way excited
to work with her. Sister Sholly is in the group beneath me, so I will be
going senior. It will definitely make me stretch but I think it will be
good for me. This week has so much in store, I can hardly wait.
As
far as what's going on in Székes-lands. We had a good week this week.
Our landlord came over and painted our apartment so aside from having
all the windows open, freezing our butts offf, trying not to get high
from the fumes, times in our apartment were fun.
We
had a really unique experience, and it actually just started out with a
phone call. While we were emailing last week, we got a phone call from
someone who said that they heard that they could receive a DVD about
happiness from us and that he was interested in receiving such a DVD. We
set up a time to meet later in the week, and when we did he ended up
being a super nice man. We first talked to him about what we are doing
here in Hungary and what our calls as "missionaries" mean. We continued
to talk to him about how our church was restored on this earth and how
we believe that we can find happiness in this life. We watched the
"Finding Happiness" video with him, and he really liked it. We were
hoping that we could meet with him again, but at the end of our lesson
he said that he wasn't really interested in meeting again but "maybe we
could get together sometime later and pray together." We were a little
bummed out when he said he didn't want to meet again, because he seemed
to accept everything we taught him.
Then on Sunday
we walk into church and guess who is sitting in the congregation? The
same guy! He stayed for two of the three meetings we had, and he really
like them! The speakers who spoke on Sunday
did SUCH a good job. I couldn't have asked for a better sacrament
meeting to take a first-time investigator to. It was such a good meeting
and I felt the spirit so strong! Sunday evening we got a text from him saying that he would like to meet with us again so we scheduled another meeting Monday
(yesterday). We met with him and it went really well, he asked a lot of
good questions and we had a good chat. At the end Sister Schnoor asked
him if he would be baptized if he knew the church was true and he said
yes. We didn't give him an exact date, but when he said "yes." Sister
Schnoor and I had the widest grins on our faces. We were so happy!. We
scheduled to meet with him again this week, so hopefully we can give him
a more specific date. It's truly a wonderful thing how God puts people
in our path and vise-versa so they have an opportunity to accept this
wonderful gospel.
I'm super grateful for the opportunity
to meet with all the wonderful people here in Székesfehérvár. Everyone
we meet with is super nice and willing to help these two struggling
girls speak Hungarian. Oh goodness. It's so fun because we speak so much
HUNglish in our lessons, especially when people English.
Oh
man...embarrasing moment of the week. So one of our investigators took
us to this coffee shop (we drink hot chocoate) a couple weeks ago and
there was a guy there who spoke English, and of course we love when we
find people who can speak English. So we went back this week to try to
talk to this guy more about English class. We walk up to the door and
the hours on the door say Nyitás: Szombat 09-02 It was well after 2:00
. Sister Schoor and I looked at each other and we were like, "oh man,
they're not open." But then we pushed on the door and it opened. There
were people in there, and we were wondering if there was a mistake on
the sign or something. So we sit down and the same guy, who we talked to
last week, came around the corner. We asked him if they were open and
he said "of course, we're open. There's people in here, isn't there?" We
told him that we saw the sign on the door and it said that they're only
open until two. He said back to us, "yeah.... that's what it says..."
we kind of just pushed it off to the side because it really wasn't
important, but then after we drank our hot chocolate we told him we
wanted to show him the sign so he follows us to the door and we show him
and say "look, it says until 2:00!" Then he looks at us and says, "Yeah, we're open until 2:00, 2:00 in the morning..." Oh man, did we feel like idiots. Even above that it said that on the weekdays they're open until 24:00.
I always forget that Hungary works on military time. See...like I said
in last weeks email, sometimes I forget that I'm in Hungary. Is that
weird. Anyway, so we kind of made fools out of ourselves with that, but
we talked to him about English Class...hopefully he comes!
That was just a few things that happend this week. It was a good week to say the least.
I hope everything is well with you all, I love you all so much!
Oh, HAPPY THANKSGIVING and Vigyazz a Fekete Péntekre (becareful on Black Friday--people get pretty vicious).
Szeretlek benneteket,
Whitaker Nővér
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