Oh man, where do I even start this week?! This week has been filled with good programs and great experiences.
I
guess I could start with our awesome investigators. This week has been
hard on everyone. Literally almost everyone we teach has been sick! It's
been really hard to set up with them because they are all at home
resting in bed, but we did manage to meet witha few people. We actually
ended up getting a few referrals from some people we teach. That's
always the best! Referrals are not an easy thing to obtain, and it's a
big deal if you get one from a church member, let alone an
investigator.
One of the young boys we teach
brought his friend to our program and his friend was super curious about
what we do, then instead of us answering his questions, our
investigator just went ahead and answered them all for us. It was super
cool to see him explain our purpose as missionaries from an
investigators point of view. We literally didn't say anything but sat
back and listened to him talk about us and his experience with the
missionaries. On top of that, this boy is just a super smart kid and he
clearly knows why we're here! We are meeting with both of them today and
we are SO excited. It will be good!!
We meet
with another girl weekly, and her twin is actually being taught by the
missionaries in Miskolc. Their parents don't know that they're being
taught by the missionaries, but they both want to get baptized. Her
sister actually already has a bap. date so we hope that we can give her
one. Although when we met with her last week she told us about her
"bucket list" and how there are things on there that she needs to do
before she would get baptized. Interesting, right? Bucket lists...they
get you every time. We will definitely be helping her with that, lépésre
lépésről (step by step).
We went to another basketball game, with the same group of people this week. It was super fun.
We
actually went to a members house this past week, we've been helping her
with her family history work. Her sons and husband are inactive, but
they have been there the past two times when we have gone over so we've
had a good opportunity to talk to them. The husband asked me if I played
any sports and I told him that I really enjoy basketball. Turns out he
loves basketball too and he knows the players on the Eger basketball
team. He said that he could look up when the Eger basketball team plays
and that we could go to a game sometime. Uhh, YES! Don't have to ask me
twice! I'm super excited for that.
But on another note, I
didn't know how unfamiliar I am with Family History untill the Family
History Consultant of the branch asked me to help her with her family
history. I wish I would have asked my parents about Family History a lot
more before my mission because It's super hard to teach someone who
probably already knows more than me in Family History, about family
History...if you know what I mean. My advice to all you: Do family
history!
Last note on investigators, we met
with KC. I think I wrote about him in last weeks email. Last week we
asked him to read Alma 32, he came to our program this week and told us
that he wasn't able to read the assigned passage we gave him, then he
pulled out this huge computer programming book and he was like, "this is
why I didn't read, I have no time." Honestly, I was a little frustrated
because in last program Sister Brady and I both testified how when we
put God's commandments first, he will bless us in all other things. We
ended up reading the chapter with him and he had a lot of good input,
questions and comments. Then at the end we commited him to just read a
single verse each day, and not just pay attention to what he reads, but
specifically pay attention to how his studies go. I can especially
testify to the truth of the message we shared, because it was not easy
in college to balance school work and the things God has commanded us to
do. When our workload is large we have a tendancy to put secoond things
first and push the most important things to the back, at least this is
what I've experienced in my life. We did not beat around the bush or
anything like that, but we were straight up with KC and told him that
we're talking to him like this because we love him, not because we want
to condemn him or scold him but because we want to see him become closer
to Heavenly Father, one verse at a time. It was a really really good
program.
My companion in Székesfehérvár, Sister Sholly was
the person who found KC and they are still really good friends, during
the lesson KC said, "you remind me of a certain person, Sister
Whitaker." I questioned, "who?" and he said Sister Sholly. I told him we
served around each other and we do have a similar personalitly. We
don't sugar coat the things we teach, we are straight and direct with
the people we teach. That's how it's got to be. Do it with love and the
spirit does the rest!
Okayyy, so the rest of this email is just going to be full of random fun crap that we did/ran into this week.
hahahahahaha,
so last P-day my companion and I are walking in the Plaza (mall) and we
see this arcade came (similar to the claw machine that you see in every
Wal-Mart), one of the prizes in the machine were small speakers, which
my companion has been wanting to get since the beginning of the
transfer. We walk over to this machine and put some money it it. You
would have thought we were starting a rap battle in the middle of
Compton. Before we know it there are like ten teenagers/young adults
surrounding us in a circle just watching us play this arcade game. It
was waaaayyy too funny. Sister Brady and I joked around that we are
going to go up to the Plaza again and play the machine, and while one of
us is playing the machine the other one is going to be handing out pass
along cards. But really, we are planning on doing this!
If
anybody is curious about how well my Hungarian is coming. We received a
call from one of our new converts. I answered the phone and she started
talking about maybe meeting up later in the week. Then she said that
she would be going to her work place to clean and to tidy things up, she
asked us if we would help her so of course we said that we would gladly
help her. Right before her program my companion and I get changed into
reg. clothes (so we could clean) and we get to the branch house, meet up
with her talk for a little bit and then start walking to her work
place. She had a big trash bag filled with stuffed animals (she works at
a hospital for kids), plus she had her bike and backpack so she had her
hands full. We helped her carry some things up there. We get up there
to the entrance of her work place and she turns to us and says "'Thank
you, you guys have a good day" gives us puszi (kisses) and sends us on
our way. I was like, what the...." I thought we were helping her clean
and stuff. Ends up all she wanted us to help her with is just carry the
stuff up to her workpalce, which we were happy to do for her, but we
were just expecting more. Welcome to my life, trying to speak/understand
the language.
Okay, probably the biggest thing that happened this week. Friday
night my companion and I were walking on the street and we see these
people walking towards us. We thought we heard them speak English and as
we got closer, it became apparent that it was definitely English. We
stopped them and turns out that there is the Paraolympic Judo World Cup
going on here in Eger Hungary! How craaaazy is that!?! Anyways so come
to find out, they were Americans, all but one of them are participants
in the paraolympic Judo cup, the other one was the coach. We talked to
them for a while. They told us to come to their matches, but we didn't
know where it was so they told us to just go up to the Hotel where they
were staying and ask the Hotel Receptionist because they had just
arrived Wednesday and they didn't really know where they were either, so that's exactly what we did Saturday.
We walked up to the Hotel and asked the hotel receptionist where this
match was, turns out we got there super late, too late. All the matches
had already ended. We ended up going back to the hotel that night and
trying to find them, just to tell them that we tried going to their
match, but we were late. Long story short, we ended up finally finding
them and talking to them for a good hour and a half. It was SOOO fun! We
planned a dinner appointment with them tonight and Sister Brady and I
are beyond STOKED! They will leave Thursday
so we just thought it would be a good idea to get together with them
one last time. Plus Sister Brady's cousin is serving a mission in the
Chicago area and some of them are from Chicago and have expressed
interest in meeting with the missionaries (even though they are not us
(: ) in Chicago. BOOM, that's how we do missionary work here in Eger!
That
was my week in a nutshell. Things are just great here, and I LOVE my
mission! I wouldn't trade it for anyyyything! We do work and live it up
at the same time, and it's great.Love you guys!
Szeretlek,
Whitaker Nővér
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