Hi everyone,
This week was pretty good. It finally started to get a little warmer which is super nice.
We had splits with some missionaries in Tatabánya. We were tracting an apartment building (in hungary you have to ring every ones bell until someone lets you in). Well we were running out of people and everyone said no. A man finally let us in and as we were walking to the door we were on, this old néni comes charging out of here door and starts screaming at us and telling us to get out. We tried to politely fight her and tell her that since someone let us in it was completely legal for us to be there. She said that the apartment building was a special exception (which it wasn't) and told us to get out before she got her husband, who was probably just as old. Well, we didn't want to accidentally hurt either one of them when they tried to beat us, so we left. We rang one more persons bell and that person let us in. I really wanted to go back to the nénis door and knock on it. Oh well... trials of a missionary! Gotta love them.
This week we didn't really teach lot. We have the flu going through the city and so most of our investigators got sick. We met with an inactive family that had promised to come to church the week before but didn't. They told us that their kids were sick with the flu and that they hadn't wanted to spread it to the rest of the branch. I was a little confused. They didn't want to spread the sickness and so they had two young men come over who's only job was to interact and talk to as many people as they can.... Not very logical, but luckily we didn't get sick, and as far as we know we didn't pass it either.
We did meet with one of our investigators though. We are only meeting with the mother (member) and father (non member) because their son (non member but wants to be a member) is ready and so we just want to focus on the father. We taught our lesson and then he, rather smugly and proudly, pulled out his bible and gave us 5 scripture passages. We didn't understand them completely because there are two types of hungarian, normal, and biblical. Biblical is extremely hard to understand. So we asked if we could write them down and bring back our answers later. They said yes, and we did just that. We wrote them down and read them. Let me tell you the scriptures.
Ezekiel 18:21-23
St john 12:47
St John 8:11
Mark 10:9
Luke 15:20
If anyone can see why he gave us these scriptures (besides him thinking that Christ didn't judge people) please let us know. We aren't sure why we got these scriptures, and with the ones that did sounds weird, you can find the answers like 5 verses later. This is just an example of the truthfulness of Christs church. We believe in all the commandments of Christ, we don't need to pull out part of a verse here, a couple words there, and one verse over here, to prove that our church is true. You can look anywhere in the bible, as long as it is translated correctly, and our church will never openly contradict it. We can use any verse to show what we believe.
Well... We had some luck tracting. We were let in by an American who was really interested in finding the truth. I thing we can help with that. It was really nice that it was in english. My companion talked a lot because I was in a kind of shock and just didn't know what to say because I had never done it before in English. Super weird! We are going back there later this week to teach him more and give him a Book of Mormon. He is leaving to go back to the states in a couple weeks and so we will teach him as much as we can and then hand him over to the missionaries there! It doesn't matter who baptizes him right!
This week we got a sports day organised this week! I am super grateful because I have another, fun, way to exercise! This week we played soccer. It was kind of illegal and a little sketchy. We thought that we were just going to play in a field behind a boys house, but for some reason that didn't work out, so we went to this other place. Well... all of it was locked up, it belonged to this summer school thing but they just walked around the fence and up to a field, that was separately sectioned off. To get into the field there was this little section of the fence that had the bottom pulled up a little bit, so you had to get into a very wide push up position and kind of slide your way through, without touching the ground because it was a puddle. Well, to make things worse we had a bigger guy with us. After 20 minutes of working with another guy, while we played (I didn't know this was happening till after ) he used a lighter and melted some zip ties, that were used to patch another whole that had been in the fence, and kicked the fence a bunch of times to break it a little bigger. Well... after this week we told them that we were never going to play there again unless someone got a key. It was pretty interesting, but a lot of fun to play. On of the guys played soccer for a profession. He was really good!
Well... I think that is the highlights of the week Thank you all for your emails! I read them all and reply to as many as I can. I can always read them because I take a picture of the screen and read them during free time! I love reading about the happenings!!
Szeretlek titeket!
Elder Biesinger
1. Snowman our upstair neighbors kids made.
2. My sweet Hungarian party hat!
3. The people we played with. Big man I talked about is one the far right, pro is right next to him, and then everyone else (my companion is taking the picture.)
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