"That moment when
you realize…."I have made a terrible miscalculation…"
SZIAAAAAAAAAASZTOKKKKKKKK
AGGGIEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!
I hope everything is
going good for you all in texas. I really do. I hope that it is warm and the
sun is shining and the tank is clean and that everything is handy dandy. But I
also hear its been negative 40 in the states valahogy (somehow) and so I must
hope that it is not the case for College Station. But if you all have hit the
Ice Age whil I was gone that would be quite unfortunate for me. I may even have
to stay in Hungary. Only time will tell!
To start this wek off,
it was miracle filled. We have seen the goals we set be achieved and people we
teach progressing and it is just so amazing to be an instrument in the Lords
hands and to see these things come to pass. We have found 7 new people this
week, 9 the last week, and we are really jsut so blessed and I must give thanks
to my God who is providing us with the success we are seeing. We have had a
lull in activity with the people we are teaching from last weeks email, but I
would like to say, that it is only in hungary where with in one week of
finding you will find a buddhist, aethiest, muslim, satanist, and patriots fan
all in one week. Crazy stuff happens here Im telling ya.
Everything started
taking off this week on saturday when we went to go look up a less active
or now termed returning member in a small town outside of Hungary called
Orószlány. We took the train planned our escape so we wouldnt get stranded like
the last time we were there with Peery Elder my trainer, and we took off. We
are there, jsut starting our fast so feeling a little drained but excited, and
about halfway through the train travel of 20 min I noticed a dude on the
opposite side of us squinting in our direction. At first i was like "ok
dude whatever we are missionaries we know we look a bit different" but
then a couple minutes later the thought came: "You should speak with this
dude, thats the thing we are trying to push in the misison is finding
everywhere including trains. And those other missionaries leaving always said
that trains are a magical place to find people." So I start thinking about
what to say for a couple of seconds, and as I turn my comp Beck Elder is
already on top of it and I was like YES LETS GOOO and we stated talking to him,
he asked which religion this was we explain it , and we get off with him as
well. Then as we were walking off the train I turn to him (Beck Elder) and ask where he thinks the address of the returning member is
so that we can find them, and he pauses, tries his phone, no luck. I thought
well theres that and then this dude out of nowhere is like "Dudes Ill help
you get where you are going, lets start asking people". So for the next 2
hours basically we tried finding this address, we talked with this man about
religion, his beliefs, him and his family, and just joking around with him as
if he had been our friends for forever. Didnt find the place but we got
an idea, and then as we were separating I asked him if we could meet and talk
more about him and our message and why we are who we are (because he had
marveled at the fact we were 19 and speaking hungarian to preach about Christ)
and he said with a smile "Gyerekek, benne vagyok, mi a számatok?" (For
those of you who dont read archaic, he said kids Im down, whats yalls
number?") And then after that he took us to a coffee shop and I explained
we are fasting and what that means and that we dont drink coffee. adn he
marveled and was baffled even more haha! Dope guy, he reminded me of Robi when
we met him. Prepared, ready and open. The only problem is he doesnt get data to
call until this friday, and its super risky when they say Ill call you, and he
lives in a different city, but I had no worries really with him. I trust he
will ring us. Hes prepared. 110%. And then we found someone else in that trip.
So pretty fruitful visit despite not finding the returning member. But When you
have a plan and you go, God can guide you and Throw people into your path when
you are moving. Hard to do that sitting in th apartment thinking about what to
do. So that was a really, really cool experience.
The next story is more
of a nod to the above subject line. So yesterday we had to cross town to get to
this complex called Gál István Lakotelep, and its basically a concrete jungle
of 5 and 10 story buildings, and I had only been there once, and the feeling
there was not a pleasant one, but there was a member there we needed to visit
so we were determined to do so. But we bike there and Im in my winter coat and
I am just SWEATING because its so big and because it was literally 12 degrees
Celsius, so like I was dying in that coat. I take it off at our bathroom break
in the branch house, and then leave it there and determined to pick it up on
the way back from a mcm meeting with Lala, a dope member here. It had
previously rained but jsut stopped, and really nice volt-it was. Dang Hungarian
haha! But anyway, we get to this building and we get in, try to find the member
but failed to, but found 2 new people in under an hour, which is unheard of in
tracting in hungary, but this is not our work so whatever is needed is going to
happen! But we leave the building heading towards lala, and it was BUCKETING
rain, the temperature had dropped probably 10 degrees, and the rain was almost
flat in the sky from the wind...all I had on was my thermal garments and a long
sleeve dress shirt. Thus I had made a terrible miscalculation of the weather at
that time. I stood there under the apartment shelter thinking about it,
realizing there was literally nothing I could do we started walking to 20 min
back to our bikes, got on them, and then in this blizzarding rain storm biked
into the wind the 20 minutes back to lala. I will say it was really not
pleasant, and I was a little worried about the possibility of getting sick,
because the influenzy is serious right now in europe, and I was in the cold
storm with NOTHING. So I prayed. I prayed that I would be forgiven for my silly
oversight and lack of preparation for the storm because we had no idea of
knowing, and I asked that the present situation would not worsen and affect the
progress of those we have been teaching and who we will find. That was it. I
could do nothing else but pray. And bike super fast, but we get to lalas, he
helped me change out of my wet everything and after the meeting biked home and
jumped in the warm shower and now Im feeling pretty good. A little headache,
tired, but other than that nothing. Super grateful nothing bad has happened up
to this point, and that the power of prayer is real. When we get stuck in
situations that were not intentional and we know its bad, Heavenly Father still
loves us, and if it be his will that we are delivered from that situation or
thing that we accidentally brought upon ourselves, he will extend that arm of
mercy, if we but call on Christs name for help. In any situation. spiritual,
physical, anything. Hes our father in heaven. Hes waiting for us to ask for his
help. We just gotta do it!
Other than that, super
dope week. I am loving this mission more and more, and this area more and more.
Unfortunately, my time in tatabánya is probably coming to a close as I am
approaching my 6 month mark here by the end of the transfer, which usually
means that I will leave. I dont want to though. I could sit here my entire
mission and be perfectly content with that. But because of this fact I am
working harder and harder and continuing the efffort to give it everything
because this means everything to me. I know this work is Gods work and that he
guides the gathering of Israel today.
Love yall, til next
week! Eat your vegetables!
Hough
Elder
the pictures are first me holding a
python that one of the members owns that we taught (Super pretty smake), some hungarian words for you all to learn from english class!, beautiful
tatabánya, the good ol classic elevator selfie, and me in the clothes that lala
gave me to wear after the storm wreckede me. I look pretty ridiculous haha!
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