Saturday, 11 May
Today was a relaxed preparation day. We didn’t go
anywhere today. While emailing I learned that more friends, both from my
ward and from high school, have gotten married and more are engaged. I
think it might be one of the biggest contributors to culture shock when I
return home.
Sunday, 12 May (Mother’s Day!)
Today was our Fast Sunday. We had four
investigators at church today. E, Z, Z and her husband, all came.
It was great! After church was a short choir practice. In the
evening, because today is Mother’s Day, I had the grand opportunity to talk to
my family. I’m happy and very grateful to write that they are all doing
well. My miracle on this Mother’s Day is of course my beloved
mother. Mom is awesome, kind, and loving. Everything I have and am
I owe to her. What more can I say? God be blessed for creating Mothers!
Monday, 13 May
Today was a crazy day. One investigator called and
cancelled his program. In the morning I spent my time working on the
Hivatal Residency Permits. We met with E today. R came again.
E had more questions today, her main one being a question as to why we drink
water rather than the wine in the Sacrament, when the Book of Mormon and Bible
clearly specify wine. She’s still progressing towards her baptism, which
will be two weeks from Saturday. After her program, R took us out to
lunch. Upon returning to the Mission
Office, we streeted a man who said he needed help and was going to kill
himself. We met with him at the Mission Home, and learned that he’d lost
all relationships with his family and friends, lost all of his possessions, his
faith in God, and had cut his forearms to shreds. We tried to talk him
out of taking his own life. About 45 minutes in, while Elder Loveday was
reading parts of D&C 121 to him, he actually fell asleep. We finally
got a hold of the Bishop and President Smith. After finding out the
hotline was out-of-service, we ended up calling the police who, after showing
up a half-hour after we called, talked to him and loaded him into an ambulance
to take to a psychiatric hospital. I just hope we really did the best we
could. Next we met with M. He has
read the entire Book of Mormon and Index since we last met. He said he
knows it’s true and this is Christ’s Church. When I asked if he would
like to join the Church he asked if he could be baptized on August 31?
So, we have a new baptismal date! The only foreseeable problem is that he
only works on Saturdays and Sundays since he lost his job as a Geography
teacher and had to get a job performing physical labor, and doesn’t have any
savings to fall back on. He doesn’t know when he will be able to come to
church, as it is hard to support yourself off of working only two days a week. By the time we got back and started to catch
up on our office work it was already evening. We keep winding up in late
nights. My miracle is that I’m now teaching two people who have entirely
read and gained a testimony of the marvelous work and wonder that we know as
“The Book of Mormon.” It really does have a main role in missionary work.
Tuesday, 14 May (700th Day on Mission)
I’ve been a missionary for seven hundred days now.
We had one program dog us today. We first met with I. We finished
teaching her the Plan of Salvation. She’s read through the Stop-Smoking
Program and is beginning to apply some of the steps, but still needs to start
doing the rest. I has continued reading the Book of Mormon and praying
daily. She’s doing much better health-wise and tomorrow is returning home
to her family in Kecskemet. So, this is the end of our time meeting with
her. However she has agreed and promised to continue meeting with the
elders in Kecskemet, so Elder Hunnicutt will be in charge of teaching her now. Our second program was with P. B came
to our program to help. We taught P about the Word of Wisdom. The
only problem he has and doesn’t already keep is drinking wine and tea. He
had a hard time understanding why he shouldn’t drink a little wine from time to
time. However, I’d still have to say the programs are going well. After P we met with Z. R came to the
program. Z committed to come to church again and said she’ll try to bring
her husband again. With her we talked about prophets and the Sabbath.
Wednesday, 15 May
Mission Leadership Council was today. We met with E
again, and once again guess who was there?... If you guessed R you were
right. We talked about the Ten Commandments, keeping the Sabbath day
holy, and prophets. The discussion went great. In the evening we met with the H
family. A and A are a young married couple. They have a five
year-old son and a two year-old daughter. They are all very endearing and
kind. We had dinner with them and mostly got to know them. They met
with the missionaries in the past. They are practicing, active Catholics,
but open to our message. Hopefully we’ll be able to meet with them more
in the future. My miracle is that with
all the Zone Leaders here I got some news about some of my past cities.
Thursday, May 16
This morning we ran to two different government buildings
to get the Hivatal forms (well, some of the forms we still needed). We
had a fair amount of office work today. I wasn’t feeling very well
through all of it. Elder Loveday and I met with E and R. We
finished reviewing the Restoration. I’d say E’s pretty much active
again. Now we just need to get the rest of her family active as
well. We then met with I and L and talked about Christ’s life. They
failed to read or pray at all this past week. During Angolora tonight
Elder Loveday taught the English part and I gave the Spiritual Message.
My miracle is that I’ve started making a “Time Chart,” helping me decide better
between what is important and what is not. It is also supposed to
function to help me better prioritize and see how much time I truly wish to
give to various activities.
Friday, 17 May
One dog today and a member cancelled. We had
District Meeting this morning. There were brownies and ice cream which
automatically made the meeting the best. The Pest Sisters finally met
with E today. We’re trying to help make sure they meet with her at least
once a week so they can help her better fit into the Pest ward and build a
stronger support system. Our second
program was with Z. She still likes to talk and literally I had to
interrupt her every single time I said something. We watched the
Restoration Film with her. At the end we invited her to be baptized, but
she said she wasn’t sure. She did accept a commitment to pray specifically
asking to know. It’s pouring rain in a
massive thunderstorm right now. That’s why my miracle is modern
shelter. Shelter has never been as strong or great as it is in the world
today. I’m thankful for strong, concrete walls and a roof that doesn’t
leak. Lastly, I don’t think I’ve written this before, or at least not
lately, but I have tried every single flavor of “Boci” and “Milka” chocolate
that I’ve ever found on my mission, in both big and small bars, regular and
limited editions. It’s just been a fun little hobby I’ve had. Oh,
also, something else, I finished reviewing the brown Hungarian grammar book we
received in the MTC. That’s one more thing to check off my mission
bucket-list before I kick-the-can.
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