Monday, June 10, 2013
This week was a good week. First let us
start with the fact that I ate fried liver! yes that is right fried
liver. real life. pig liver was in my belly and it was disgusting. I
thought I was going to throw up and I am not exaggerating. So listen
to what happened. this one investigator. A always feeds us. He is the
one that bore his testimony in sacrament last week and this week he
started not smoking. We are coming up on a week of him not smoking. So
the wife E brought out food and I started eating (after we had
blessed it of course :)) and the meat was super dark so I was like
hmm I wonder what this is so I was like disznos? (pig) and they said
yes. and sister o was like what kind of meat is it and they said pig
liver and I didn't know the word for liver but now I do. and so she
translated if for me and I thought I was going to throw up the piece
that was in my mouth. Unfortunately I had to eat all of it. and these
were not little pieces. so gross. I tried eating it the same time as
the pickled cabbage but to be honest that only worked for a few bites
then it started making it worse. I tried little bites which was
better but then the liver lasted longer. they walked back into the
kitchen at one point and sis o was like can I put some on your plate
and I was like yeah right remember the time that you served me the
largest second helping known to mankind. (maybe that wasn't my most
Christlike moment) remember the find for yourself thing during eating
programs? yeah. So she wraps it up in a napkin and puts it in her
purse! real life. I realize now that I think I talk a lot about food
in my emails home. oops.
We have a baptism this weekend and the
elders have one as well! She is a cute 17 girl, who the branch adores
and fits in so well. We are so excited for her. Speaking of 17 year
old girls, we put one on bap date this week. V. she is totes adorbs
(haha) ok but really. We meet with her and her mom for the first time
almost 2 weeks ago and then we hadn't had a chance to plan another
appointment but then she should up at the same time the next week and
the Elders called us and were like your investigators here so we
raced over and thankfully a different program had cancelled so we
could meet. She had read from the book of Mormon several times and
prayed about it and knew it was true. We taught the Plan of Salvation
and she said she just knew it was right. Knew that it was a good plan
and from God. It was amazing she wanted to be baptized and will be in
June. She came to church yesterday (we had 7 investigators in
church!) and said she really enjoyed it. Thus far the easy part has
been putting people on bap date. The hard part is continuing to meet
with them after to get them ready. Like M. was supposed to be
baptized this week also but we haven't been able to meet with her
enough. So we taught the WoW hoping that she would realized that
should wouldn't be ready for baptism because she smokes but then said
she would quite right then (which is awesome! she hasn't smoked in
like 5 days now) and was set on still being baptized and we didn't
have the heart to tell her that she couldn't so then super awkward in
church when they announced the baptism in Relief Society and another
women was like M too and yeah. But it is ok. We talked afterward and
she is really looking forward to it in July after we can teach her
about chastity and tithing. Fun stuff. She gave us a referral. And we
went and met him and he wanted us to go breakdancing with him and his
friends and we were by their gym and then all his friends showed up
and were like will you train with us sometime. That was awkward. oh yeah, maybe sometime....but we know we are not going to go hangout at a gym
with a bunch of guys our age. As sister O and I were walking away
were were like were are wearing skirts passed our knees, do we look
like we just "hang"? We so don't look like we just hang
out. But it is ok and humorous to look back on.
Remember the story I told about the 12
year old boy, P? Our lesson with him this week was about the Gospel
of Christ and when we got to the enduring to the end part we asked
what that means because we meet at a member's family's apartment and
he answered all the questions! It was so tender (a word I have picked
up from Sis O. but am trying hard not to use all the time) he like
knew how to endure to the end already and we haven't even taught him
that much. It just goes to show how important the example and
friendship is of members.
I just want to say how much I love my
family and how grateful for my parents. We had an investigator tell
us that he has a problem in the past and now with adultery. And I
truly know and believe that he can receive forgiveness for these
transgressions through the Atonement because there is no sin too big
or too little that the Atonement of Christ can not cover. It was just
heartbreaking to hear, especially because we love his wife. I was
reading the family proclamation and it says that every child has the
right to be born to parents who are faithful to each other and it is
so true. And it is heartbreaking to think about this family and how
the father's actions has the potential to ruin their family
relationships.
The harder and more stressful weeks
also have some of the best times in them. I truly can see how the
Lord is preparing the people of Hungary to receive the gospel and how
if we work hard we are blessed to find them and be a part of their
lives.
It was Elder Miller's birthday this
week so we got together with the elders and the Herds and had a nice
dinner, and then had correlation meeting, and then sister Herd made
chocolate cake. So good. He is old now. Hit the big 20. Elder
Peterson played the loveliest musical number in church yesterday and
he gave me a jó regelt just now while we were emailing, which he
wanted me to mention. We always go over to the Herd's on Pday and cook
together and play games. We will have left over chocolate cake today, Sis. O is really excited.
Since I don't want to break tradition
with the whole food thing here is a picture of our grocery shopping
treat, while we were waiting for the bus last week. Sis O had to take
the picture because she was healthy and got bubbly water instead.
Ok well I love you all a lot
Grigg Nővér
Elder Miller's surprised about the cake
here is a pictures of my companion and
I tabling in the town square. it might be published on a web page
article about missionary work in Hungary by the church. we had to
sign releases that the mission president gave us so yeah. not the
worlds best pictures but whateves.
so Hungarians like freak out if it is
even the slightest bit cold and you aren't wearing a jacket. so I was
wearing a sweater underneath this one but the wife of one of our
investigators insisted that we wear her sweaters home because we
would freeze. it was very sweet of her. mine isn't too bad but check
out sister o's. haha
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