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This week has been super great! On Monday after I emailed and after P-day we were tracting and we were looking up a less active member. It was like 8:30, which if you know Hungarians you will know that everyone goes to bed at 7 and wakes up at 10 during winter/spring and if you tract then then the people will want to swear you to death. Anyway, we were tracting and this lady leans out this window on the second floor and yells out asking who we are. We tell her that we are missionaries and that we are looking for this man. She told us to wait while she comes down. She came down to her gate and said "who are you and how do you know him" in a stern way. We told her that he was a member and that we just wanted to see how he was doing. She told us he was dead but that we could come in if we had time. "Sweet! I love to talk to people!" Well, she was really nice as we walked to the house and she was asking why we were here and how she was looking for something else in her life. We talked about the Book of Mormon and she told us that that would make sense because there had to be more than the Bible. We walked up to her 2 story house and walked into her living room and LO AND FREAKING BEHOLD there was an active family sitting around the kitchen table. I took a double take, looked at the lady, and realized she was the mother of the family with 3 less layers of makeup. She was pulling our leg the whole time. The old man on the record was their father and he was inactive because he was dead. They fed us dinner and we shared with them a spiritual message. It was pretty great!
We were finally able to officially meet with Luca, the golden investigator, and we taught her about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She excepted everything and then at the end she shared an experience about a youth activity, that the churched organized, that she had been to the day before. Things had happened in a certain way there and so she asked people there how she could be baptized. They told her to talk with the missionaries and so she did. She asked us when she could be baptized. We seriously were speachless. This girl went to every single activity the church provided, she indexed, and when mission prep was announced and they said that it was for members preparing to serve a mission she almost cried because she was planning on going to it. She was found 3 weeks ago and has come to church every week without any reminders and goes to activities that the missionaries don't even know about.
This week in addition to her 4 of our investigators have accepted to be baptized, this ain't no "seed planting" mission, we are going to rival those South American missions!!! Of course that is not the reason why we do things, but it was a annoying thing that was told to most of the missionaries that were coming here and we are all working hard to prove it wrong, and God is blessing us with his Elect children!
Well... This week we only got lost at night running around in the slums of Budapest twice this week, pretty awesome!! If you are ever planning on visiting Budapest this advice will help you. Budapest is split up into Buda and Pest. Each of those are split into districts. And the Hungarians are so happy about keeping their culture that they can't create new street names and so there are multiple streets with the same name all over Budapest. Well, we knew that, but we still stumbled into this trap. We went to "Árpad Utca" because it was a stop right next to our house. Well.... This "Árpad utca", that this bus took us to, was about 20 minutes outside of Budapest and a 50 minute bus ride from the other "Árpad utca" stop. It was pretty great, we ran around trying to get on the right bus, and since it was so late at night we would have to wait for a long time for another bus to come because they were more spaced out than normal.
Oh... I almost forgot. There is an interesting néni (elderly lady) here in our ward. Her name is Kati. She is very hard to deal with. Well.... on Sunday, in our investigator class (for some reason she is always there) and out of no where came out and started talking about how the Bible isn't true and that it isn't from God. Well... that was shot down really quick and then we told our investigators that we believed in the Bible. Well... After our lesson with Luca, which was right after church, Kati was still there and she saw Lucas Bible and went up to her and told her that the Bible was wrong and that we can't trust it. She then went on to say that you can't find answers to our questions in the Bible or the Book of Mormon! A bunch of members shut her down and very quickly told Luca that we did. Luca has had some interesting experiences with Kati already and so she understood and wasn't bothered by the experience. Good thing!!
Well... My companion took a lot of pictures and I will send those next week!!
I hope you all have an amazing week!!
Elder Biesinger
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