It's just another day in Paradise here in Szeged.
Well, this week was pretty busy for us, we met with a lot of people.
I
can't tell you how great our investigators are here. They are just
amazing people who are so serious about learning out the message that we
have to share. You can really feel it and tell that this is no game to
them, but that this is really interesting to them.
We have three people who have a baptismal date. All of them are in May, and all of them are progressing really well.
I
talked about a man that we did the no-smoking program with, a couple
weeks ago. We still visit him on a weekly basis. He has not touched a
cigarette in two weeks, nor has had the desire to smoke. God is real and
he helps people overcome addictions and obstacles which they don't
think they can overcome. That's what I've learned by teaching this man.
This man is also a regular attendee in Church, he comes every week and
has just started bringing his two daughters as well. After this last
Sunday, we called him that night and asked him about his experience at
church and he said that he really liked it and that everyone was really
nice to him and he felt like we were very close, like a community. Na,
this is exactly what I was saying about how IMPORTANT members are in
missionary work. If they make people feel like our investigator felt
last Sunday, they are going to want to come back and feel the way they
felt again. It's that simple, just be nice (you can do a lot more than
just that, but this is a good start).
Another one of our bap.
dates we met with a few times this week and well.. okay funny story. We
met with her in the beginning of the week, and when we walked into her
apartment, the sun was out, birds were chirping, no clouds but then when
we were finishing up, we walk out and it's pouring rain! Again, my
companion and I didn't have our coats so our investigator gave us an
umbrella to use, we ended up still getting soaked but we get home and
throw our umbrella on our porch so that it can dry over night. Well we
share porches with our neighbor (it's just a long walk way) and funny
thing about this neighbor that we have never really met, just have seen
him and every time we've seen him, he's been really nice to us. But the
first week that I got here, we had swept our kitchen and put the broom
on our porch, well the next morning someone had moved it, but we
eventually found it. I can't remember our other experience with our
moving our crap, but we basically came to the realization that nothing
is safe to be left out on our porch, unless we want it moved to a
different location. We forgot about that though, because nothing had
happened for a while, so we put our umbrella on our porch and the next
morning it was in the trash... what the heck?? Haha, okay, who are you
to throw our umbrella away. We actually just laughed about it as we went
to buy our investigator a new umbrella the next day. We told her the
story about how her old umbrella is somewhere in the dump but that we
bought a new one for her and she just laughed. We all had a good laugh
about it. Our teachings with her are going really well, she came to
church
Sunday,
which is actually a big step for her, she likes church but she does not
like being around of crowds of people so it makes her really
uncomfortable when people are near her, but she came
on Sunday and really enjoyed Sacrament meeting.
Like
I said, our investigators are taking steps in the right direction and
some of them are small, but the majority of them are personally big for
them and we are so proud of them!!
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