Tuesday, September 13, 2016

September 12: Death of a Friend

Hi everyone!

So this week one of my beast friends died.... My dear fan couldn't withstand the difference in volts from the USA to Hungary and shorted out never to come back again :( I guess life is full of trial and sorrow, I just wish I didn't need to experience some of it on my mission! Oh well.... I guess life can't always be a walk in the park.

Speaking of walking... My companion and I were going to "falu blast" a small falu (village) outside of Pápa where an inactive member lived. That means that we were going to finish our studies, pack a lunch, and go spend the day tracting and trying to find people in the falu. Well... We looked up our inactive and then received a phone call from a member asking if we could do some service for him. Of course we agreed. Then he told us he was going to pick us up at three at our apartment. Thinking it wasn't a problem we went to the train station and had a very nice talk with the conductor about life and religion, and then she left. We were just sitting there, wondering why our train was late, adn she comes out and asks if she knows what time our train leaves. We told her no. She said that it left at 3:45.... Well that doesn't work, and we where on the opposite side of our area from where the member we were serving lived. We did the math and found that it was a 6.5 mile walk to get back to our apartment and we had about an hour and forty-five minutes to get back to our apartment before three. Well... We started walking... and walking... and walking. We got picked up by the scariest car I have seen in my life. It is about half the size of a normal car in the US and was about a million years old  driven my some pretty scary looking people. Being tired, exhausted, and dehydrated (we didn't bring water because we were just going to pick some up in the falu we were tracting) we accepted and got in, I was pretty much kneeing myself in the face, but it was nicer then walking in the blazing. Once we picked up our bikes from the station in Pápa(that is where we were dropped off) we were driving back and my comp had the brilliant idea to call while riding his bike to tell another missionary friend what had happened. First of all.... Talking on your phone while on a bike is dumb. Second... We are only allowed to call for missionary purposes, not to tell stories. Well... God must have been tired of him breaking that rule. While we were going back there is a hill that has some loose gravel on the bottom and we have to make a sharp turn while on the gravel to get onto the trail. Well, with a phone in one hand and God's anger over him my comp went down the hill and BAM... bike slide out he slide on elbows and hands/face to a stop while our phone skidded away in several pieces. God works in mysterious ways!! Our phone was fine, and my comp is still alive, but he still won't tell people that he was on the phone when it happened :D 

We went on splits this week and my comp wanted to go with the senior comp and go to the American families house with him. So it was me and the other Junior and we totally wasted Pápa! Both of us where ok with doing everything and didn't have any fears because of our ignorance. We talked to so many people and had some cool experiences! So many people say that missions are never like the best two years... Well I have an experience to prove them wrong! So that part in the best two years when the newbie is in the park and he goes up to the american. Well... This is my experience. On splits (so I was with mister newbie right?) we stopped someone on the street and my comp said one of our tracting approaches. The lady said, in english, "sorry, I don't speak dutch" and elder szuch (my comp) was like "neither do I! I speak English". Now, for almost two sentences it was almost word for word what happened in the best two years! If you want your mission to be fun like the best two years all you need to do is change your attitude and make it like the best two years! It can be filled with fun and amazing experiences! 

Well... I think that that was what fun happened this week! Love you all! God bless you!

Elder Biesinger

P.S. Thank you for the updates from home and things I have been receiving, they have been awesome!

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