Wow....... wow... Um. Hungary is.... GREAT!
Elder Biesinger
So my first serving area is Pápa! It is a small town in Western Hungary and it is so pretty!
I'm not sure what to talk about.. Oh! Saturday we had a goal to give out one Book of Mormon. It was like 8:30
at night and we were heading back to our apartment. It was a big
holiday night and my companion said that we would probably see lots of
drunk people. Well... I only saw one. One big burly one staggering and
zigzagging up the alley towards us. Not exactly the ideal first
situation to meet a drunk person in Hungary. He yelled at us and put
himself in our way. Let us just say that he could kill a fish by just
swimming in the water! He talked to us about a lot of stuff and
intermingle English words that his daughter had taught him. After
talking about the Book of Mormon and gospel a lot we gave him the Book
of Mormon and our number. We had to refuse giving him our autograph a
lot. It was pretty great! We finally got away from him after teaching
him how to say "bye" in English, and my comp got a hug'!! Sucker! But
the man was a lot nicer than he originally seemed. I guess God answers
questions and requests in mysterious ways!
So I
will go back to my first day. We had a 10 hour flight from Salt Lake to
Amsterdam and then a 2 hour flight to Hungary. Once we got there we
were met by the Mission President and his two assistants. When we got to
the mission home we were sent to get our residency permit pictures with
one of the missionaries who were at the home. As we went to get our
pictures we practiced streeting. It was pretty fun! That night we slept
in a super nice hotel.
Day two. I was assigned
a senior companion, Elder Smith, and we left at 1:30 for Pápa with the
missionaries going to Győr. It was a 3 hour train ride to Győr where we
would then take another train to Pápa. Our train broke down at a staion
along the way to Gxőr. We had to wait for 30 minutes for them to get a
new train, then we had to wait at the next stop for 30 minutes for no
apparent reason. Once we got to Győr we got our tickets and walked up
the stairs right as our train was leaving. So we had to wait for an hour
until our next train... Which left an hour late. We ended up getting to
Pápa at 7:30
Day three. Today was my first
district meeting. My assigned topic to talk on was "How Sexual
Immorality leads to not being spiritually born due to the tendancies of
the the natural man". The world hates me!!! It went alright. We had a
good time and ate some really good stuffed lángosok (plural lángos). On
our way back to Pápa we went to the mall really quick to get my new bag.
While we were there there were some workers working on 15 foot ladders
on the ceiling. When they where done at one place they wouldn't get off
their ladder, they would just walk around, using their feet to pick up
the sides of the ladder. So they where kind of waddling around using the
ladder as stilts. It was quite impressive!!
During
one of our lessons this week we were teaching a 13-year old boy. We
were teaching about prayer and saying that you can receive and answer
to your prayers through the scriptures and Holy Ghost. Right after we
told him that he told his mom to pray for him. After she prayed he took
a bible, opened up to a random page, and read what we pointed at. It
was the scripture in Ezekiel talking about how the end of the world.
Very important answer :S We think he is a little autistic.
Sunday
was great! When I was introducing myself there were two very similar
words I used. "Magyarorszag" and "Mennyeiorszag". The first one means
Hungary and the second one means Heaven. Well.... I kept using Heaven
instead of Hungary, which isn't bad, just embarrassing.
Well...
I think taht that is about all! Below are some pictures from my
apartment. In my room there are three fans!!! Kel Heaven!!
I hope life is going well for all of you!!
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