My subject explains my tuesday morning. The worst part about it is that I didn't even think it would inconvinience someone else which makes me feel dumb, but the best thing about it is that I think my neighbors hate me less now that I don't do it for 45 minutes every morning!
We ate lots of stuffed cabbage and I feel with every serving a few of my once talented taste buds drown and suffocate in the fumes of fermented cabbage. So by the time I get through next year's holiday season I should be completely ready to handle the culinary disaster of shaved ice found in the Phillippines. (Also, that word is very hard to spell. In Hungarian the translation is phillips islands. )
This week we were able to finally meet with our investigator, Gyöngyi, who has been in the hospital. She's kind enough I think I'll risk catching a disease and go back to that death-trap of a building. On a more serious note, she is really struggling healthwise which is hard to watch and hear about, but It really is a blessing because she is coming so much closer to the Lord. Her Book of Mormon is on her side table (next to one of her roommates with a crazy lazy eye) and she says she is praying more now than she ever has in her life.
We gave Zsuzsa, another investigator, to the sisters when we re-drew the areas here in Szeged. She was sad but handled it well. It's hard to watch her not progress since she's ready to get baptised as soon as her partner will agree to marry her; but the answer, like always, is more prayers and love, love, love.
We had a fantastic MCM and our branch president came who is one of the only sarcastic Hungarians alive and is just so great to be around. We went through the ward list and he told us who we should go visit and who we (mostly the sisters) should avoid.
We also had a branch New Year's party which we were able to attend the first thirty minutes of before our bedtime hah! Luckily we were given out of pity all the leftovers from the party.
And yesterday we had great church service where we talked alot about the Europe mission plan. This was followed by a impromptu testimony meeting where members shared their testimonies about missionary moments. And this was followed by not letting this opportunity go to waste and me running around and setting up times we could visit the members or times they could come help us in our lessons since everyones' hearts were changed all of a sudden! One testimony in particuler touched me, but It won't be explained adequately in my translation, but here goes nothing:
Basically this néni has been a member for around ten years and last week for Christmas she got the courage to follow the Europe plan and "invite a friend." She chose her best friend/husband who is not religious and wasn't very supportive in the past. He agreed to come and she bore testimony of the Spirit softening his heart. She told us that as she walked to the door she was surprised to find him standing next to the door in nice clothes. He asked if he could come with her again today and she asked him to repeat what he just said cause she didn't believe a word of it! She was overjoyed and walked with her husband, who is in a walker, across the city, stopping at a bar halfway through because he wanted a beer, but not judging him because that was not her place. Her job was to love him, invite him, and teach him through her example. That is in fact all our callings too.
11 And the Lord said unto the
I know our efforts of sharing the gospel are not wasted when we do not see immediate or results in the seemingly far future. It is our sacred duty to love all God's children and my resolution is to seek more diligently than ever before for charity, which makes this all possible. I know when we have charity we can feel the love of God whenever we serve and pray. Because we have been given much we too must give.
Sok szeretettel,
Hughes Elder
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