(Oh
Am I in trouble now Elder!)
"Sevi,
how do I stay as far away from becoming a zone leader as possible?"
[severus snape voice]
"Take exit three HUNdred and seventy foooooooooouuuuuuur
youmissedit."
"...Well
shoot."
SZIIIIIIAAAAAAAASZTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK
AAAAGGGGGIIIEEEEESSSSS!
Well, "lets get
down to business" with this one. quite a lot has happened in the last
week, and I still cant believe it has only been one week. Its been up! Down!
Left right! Inside! Outside! All side! But its been really rewarding too to see
that the craziness aside that I have been doing really good spiritually and
been really calm to be honest. havent really felt any real stress, which is
great! Or it just means Im actually a ghost and Im dead, which is also a
possibility haha!
To start off, I was
with Proctor Elder and we decided after last weeks email session to go to see
the LEGO factory in Nyiregyháza, about a 15 minute bus ride from the city,
cause they actually have a lego factory. Bringing me back to those good old
days, when I was building all the time, and I was also always broke because the
lego sets are so dang expensive, but I was ok with that for some reason,
blissfully unaware of that fact...yeah those days were good. But we show up to
this factory and its super cool cause they have giant lego bricks on the side
of the road leading up to the factory, and so we get there and we realize when
we talk wit hthe people that you need to email them and book a reservation 6
MONTHS in advance before belépés lehet (stepping inside is possible)...well
darn. I guess Ill have to settle for a couple sweet pics of the flags in the
courtyard and that was that. But the pics are pretty darn cool actually. But
that was a bit of a flop, no worries though. We planned to compensate the next
week and go to the prettiest zoo in Hungary which is there as well. Super worth
it, so we planned that out.
Ever had that feeling
of "I know something is coming but I have no idea what it may be or wheter
I will be ready" feeling?
Tuesday, March 18,
2019. 11:30:43 am. Örökösföld Nyiregyháza. We received a text from presidnet
saying to call him ASAP when we had a few minutes. We try calling, nothing. So
we decide to wait for him to call back, and 15 minutes later the phone starts
shaking my body with its vibrating. I answer the phone and ask presidnet how
his day was, and he said "My day is great Hough Elder! But yours is about
to get a bit bumpy, so why dont you find a place to sit down and buckle up.
Youre gonna want it." So, like any good missionary who gets a random call
from his president during proselyting time and receives a response like that
would do, I sat down on a bench and zip clicked my seat belt for safety. He
continues to say that my trainer and great friend Peery Elder in the neighboring
city of miskolc north of us had to go home for surgery that thursday, and so
Proctor Elder would be the District leader in Nyiregháza (Church of Birch), and
that I would be going to Miskolc to take his place as Zone Leader of the East
Zone...The thoughts that ran through my head were "ES-COP-AY! You know
thats funny, cause it looks just like the word escape!", to "I am a
dead man!" "Wow that conversation took a dark turn." Haha Im on
a quoting roll today! One might say "Im just getting warmed up!"
But yeah, and he will
be gone for 3 weeks, back before the end of the transfer, and so I had to pack
up my stuff after 1 week of Nyiregyháza and head out to budapest, meet my
companion Elder Burnett, have MLC (mission leadership council with all zone
leaders sister training leaders and the assistants and the president) in
budapest that morning without any idea what was going on, and then traveled to
Miskolc that same day! Basically traveled the length of hungary, just ina
boomerang sorta shape. So that travel was fun if headaches make you
happy.
So then I got here, Burnett elder is also super new to this area
only of a bout two weeks and so its really fun getting to know the area and
using wrong buses and such haha! We went to teach a lady about the restoration,
and the first thing she says on that doorstep was that she REALLY REALLY like
the jehovahs witnesses, and we just stood there and were really polite, let her
talk about herself, and every problem she had was answered by the gospel in
some form or another, and so we tried to throw in the restoration between her
breaths, and at one point I felt that I needed to compare her experience to
Joseph smiths and the first vision when he was searching for truth, and so I
tried to start the story, got to the point where he goes into the forest and
she interrupts, so I wait again and just felt the burning in my chest that if I
didnt get this off or out I would die, it was so strong, and then I cut in and
started, and gave her the first vision, and as I spake, I started to feel
dizzy, and I started to tear up from it, the spirit was so strong with it, and
after that she was like "awesome when can we meet again?" And so we
ended it there on the high and left. And then walking away I was drained. I was
not standing super easy, and it was really powerful experience of giving the
restoration and teaching it to this womans needs. Super super cool.
Anyway...that is about it for this week, there will definitely
be more to come in the next couple emails, about miskolc, the people, the
place, and everything, but I love this gospel, and it is the same no matter
where we are, and that is why its awesome to be a vagabond right now haha! Love
yall! Keep on the covenant path!!
Hough Elder
Doesn't this look like the Kirtland Temple just a
little different?
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