Sunday, August 13, 2017

May 8: Csunya volt...

Hellosztok,
So story about the suject line. This last week there was a stake conference for Hungary. There are two girls in our ward (10 and 14) who love to hang out with the missionaries. So I was talking with the 10 year old and she asked if I was sad that I couldn't see my last companion. I told her "not a whole bunch" and she just blurts out "igen, csunya volt" which means, "yeah, he was ugly". I just sat there and stared and this savage little girl.
This week has been good. Nothing has really happened.
Here are some stuff from my weekly email.

This week we met with our investigator ...... She is doing very well. At the beginning of every lesson she comes in sad and gloomy and whenever she leaves she laughes and smiles. This lesson was a testimony builder for me about the peace of the Gospel. This lesson she came in clearly disraut and sad. As we started asking her about her week she started crying. We weren't sure what to do so we told her comforting words, started with a prayer, and read 3 Nephi 11 with her. We talked about how Christ came, and that he will come again. We talked about His Atonement and about how he has "descended below them all" meaning our sins and sorrows and pains. She seemed to have a burden lifted off of her shoulders and by the end of the lesson we were all in tears because of the Holy Ghost. She left the lesson glowing and happy. We think that this upcoming week she will accept an invitation to be baptized. We are very happy for her. She also came to Stake Conference. 
We got a let-in this week. The guy was a typical Hungarian. Hungarians love to tell about how Hungary is invovled in everything in the world. So he talked to us for a while about how Hungary is the language of God because Hungarians can express themselves better than anyone else because of the language. He was super funny with everything he thought about the Hungarian people. He made us commit to learn Robás Irás, and ancient Hungarian alphabet. It was actually the language that Dwarvish was based off of in Lord of the Rings. Maybe. But besides all of that we had a really good spiritual lesson with him!
Love Hungary and the people!!
I hope all of you have an amazing week!
Biesinger Elder
Sorry about the lack of pictures. More will come next week!


May 2: Coolság

Szervusztok!

This week has been really good! Below are two paragraphs that I wrote to my Mission President. 

This week has been one of little and big miracles. Last Saturday we invited one of our investigators, Dardai Ilona, to be baptized. She has changed a lot since we last asked her and she agreed to be baptized. She says that if we feel she is ready then she thinks that that is her answer from God. She has stopped smoking and now fills the time when she would have been smoking, with reading the Book of Mormon. We set her date as June 17.

Our second miracle from this week actually happened yesterday. We were meeting with one of our invetsigators, Vadasz Olivia, and we invited her to also be baptized. Vadasz Olivia was found a couple weeks ago and last time we met with her we were scared that she wanted to stop meeting. She told us that she doesn't want to join our church for a long time. But it has been really cool. Whenever we start a lesson with her she is usually sad and has a lot of stuff on her mind, but when it is over she is radiating and laughing. This has happened every lesson. It is a powerful testimony of what the Holy Ghost can do. She has also learned to recognize the Holy Ghost and his promptings. She loves the feeling and points it out often. She loves to pray because she always feels peaceful. But anyway, we asked her to be baptized and she told us that she really wants to become clean and that she thinks that this is the only way, but she wants to pray about it and see if it really is. We were very happy for her. She will be coming to stake conference. 

This week we are going to start teaching one of our investigators how to read so that he can read our of the Book of Mormon. It is going to be cool! 

Another clippet 

Szirmai Laszlo, is slowly but surely progressing. We have been talking about how we need to rely on God through these times and do the simple things like reading the scriptures, praying everyday and coming to church. He has been having a hard time accepting that, but we talked about it more and now we send him a prayerfully chosen scripture everyday that he said that he will read. He also is starting to open up to us a lot more. We felt like we should bring our new convert Luca to the lesson and that was a really good idea. She connected really well with him because she had had lots of similar problems.

We were able to go to a members house this last week and my companion was showing them his pictures and the last picture is of him and another missionary in a previous transfer. The father looked at the picture, at my companion, back at the picture and said "Sok Tészta" (Lots of pasta). and he hands it to another member there and she said "es zsir, es cukor, es kenyér" (and grease and sugar and bread.) I was laughing my head off from the first comment, but my companion was clueless  for the longest time and I was laughing forever. These people where calling my skinny companion fat! Super funny! The family was a lot of fun and the energy levels there remind me a little bit of my families! Super crazy! 

I think that is it! Here are a couple pics from dinner last Pday! 


Sok Szeretettel,

Biesinger Elder 

Actually... Dessert.  



April 24: Hey...

This week is transfers!!! I got a new companion. Elder Martin. He was originally called to Russia but due to new laws and politics he got reassigned  to Hungary. He is in the same group as my new missionary was but he speaks really good Hungarian. We were in a lesson this week and our investigator turned to me and said "he speaks a lot better Hungarian than you do. He must be out longer than you." I told him no.  Well... I guess I got some things to work on! Love life. 

This week we haven't done a lot. We have had several inappropriate lessons when talking about the Law of Chastity but those are not allowed to be shared over general emailing. Kind of interesting week. Besides those stuff nothing huge has happened this week. We had the 30 year év furdló for the dedicatory prayer in Hungary. We had a long celebration for it. Two men seriously shared a total of 20 pictures and spent 4 hours talking about it. It was long and boring. But socializing with the members at the end was really good! 

I think that is all that happened.... My companion and I are going to do some pretty fun things today and he likes pictures so he will probably be taking a lot so I will also show a lot in the email.

Sorry that it is short and kind of scatterbrained.... Love life!


Biesinger Elder 

This burger I ate was like HUGE!!!!!! I could barely hold it in my hand. Had 4 patties and 2 fried chicked slices. Wasn't like big patties, but it was still massive. Had a lot of fun trying to eat it. And yes, I finished it all! I couldn't stop my streak of not finishing big burgers!!  


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April 18: Interesting...

Szervusztok!! 

This week there is a transfer! I am staying here and getting a missionary from my new missionaries group (when I trained) My new missionary loved him and told me a lot about my new companion so it should be fun! 

 Easter was fun. We did a lot of tracting and people all hated us because we were "ruining" their holiday... Well... Oh well...

Last week we went to the Buda side of Budapest and looked at castle hill. It was a lot of fun and we had a party. We had some good food (burgers) and just had fun in general walking around and doing cool things. 

I'm sorry this email is sickeningly short. We didn't do a lot of crazy things this week.

Actually... We helped a man from England move from one place to another. We would load up with bags and ride public transit to his new place. It was interesting. When I told him my name was German he said "that must be a corrupt version of German"... I didn't know how to take that so I didn't say anything. He was an interesting guy. 

I hope all of your weeks are great! I will try and to crazy things or take a lot of pictures next week to make up for this sorry excuse for an email! 

Sok Szeretettel,

Biesinger Elder


My camera got stolen....

Our trip... Lots of pics!!