May 13,
2013
Sziasztok megint! (Hello again!)
It was so awesome to Skype all of
you yesterday!! I can't tell you how happy I was to come away from it
afterwards. Seeing all of your faces, talking to all of you about my mission
and what's going on back at home, I felt rejuvenated and alive and ready to go
after that. Thank you for everything you guys do for me. I love you all and it
was such a privilege to see you guys once again. Just 7 more months until we
get to do that again. :)
I'm not going to write too much
today since I already Skyped you guys, but I know that there are some people
who follow my blog so I will give them something to read besides my first paragraph.
For those who don't know, the
current branch that I am in here in Békéscsaba is all run by the elders. There
are other people that have callings in the branch, but there aren't very many
priesthood holders so the elders are in charge of, well, everything basically.
So yesterday I had the privilege to give a talk in Sacrament Meeting. I thought
to myself the entire week that I had plenty of time to study for it since I was
a missionary and I do these kinds of things all the time. Urrrrrggghhhhh,
wrong! I was kept busy this entire week and I didn't have time to really study
for my talk until the morning of. Luckily our church service doesn't start
until 3 in the afternoon, so I had a little bit of time to collect my thoughts
and put together a small talk. But before I even started searching or writing
down anything I began with a prayer, asking for guidance from the Spirit of
what topic would be best for the branch or what is something that I need to
give instruction for someone who would be in the congregation who needed to
hear this.
So, I closed by prayer and I began
to flip through 'True to the Faith', looking at some of the topics and seeing
if anything would catch my eye. For a while, I didn't feel anything. Being me,
I was expecting a topic towards the beginning of the book because I can be a
little impatient at times. Thankfully my mission has been helping me with that misconception
and I continued to flip through the book until I came across the section
'Prayer'. I didn't feel anything immediately from reading the title of the
topic, but I felt like I should read the sections that were underneath the
title. It wasn't until read the last section 'Receiving Answers to Prayers'
that I received a distinct feeling that this was what I was meant to talk
about. It was the coolest feeling! I just had a small conformation within my
mind 'This is what you need to talk about' and I began writing my talk. It came
so easy and simple! Sacrament Meeting finally came and I stood in front of the
small congregation that we had and gave my small talk about 'Receiving Answers
to Prayers'. After partaking the Sacrament and praying earnestly for the
Spirit, I felt like I could have been on top of the world giving that talk. I
had so much confidence, knowing that someone in the audience needed to hear
this because the Spirit helped me find this topic. No one came up to me
afterwards telling me that it was them that needed to hear it, but I felt
comfort that what I said, even if there may have been a few grammatical errors
in the wording, was exactly what was needed to say. I can honestly say that the
Lord work through us, and when He does, it is a remarkable experience.
Now, almost every week there is
something funny that happens to me while I am on my mission. This week it is
another 'Bike' experience. Ha ha, just thinking about it right now makes me
laugh. First, I have to lead you all up to the point when it happens because
none of you will understand why it was so funny to me. So, my companion and I
are riding our bikes to church yesterday, him in front and me in the back. We
were maybe 2 minutes away from the branch house when I had a thought came to my
mind, 'You know, this day is going to be an absolutely wonderful day' thinking
about how I was going to give a talk, be with the all of the branch members, Skype
with my family, have tacos for dinner (because that's what I was going to eat
and I LOVE tacos........just a side note). At the same time, my companion was
thinking of an email we had gotten last week that addressed us that if we had
any problems with our bikes that we needed to email the Mission Office to let
them know what they could do to help. So he was thinking 'Good thing there is
no problems with our bikes'.......can you see where this is going? Immediately,
after my companion and I had thought these things, I stood up on the pedals of
my bike and the right peddle snapped off completely! With the amazing reaction
skills that I have (which aren't very good I think) I caught myself from the
fall and ran with the bike with the momentum that I was riding at and stopped
the bike. Aaaannnnnddd what was I doing when this happened? That's right, I was
laughing. Ha ha ha, I could not believe that another bike problem had happened
AGAIN! But, this time, something did break from off the bike. In fact, the pedal
didn't just fall off, the metal that it was attached to snapped completely off
of the bike. Can you believe that?!?! I sure couldn't when I went back to get
the piece that fell off and saw that the metal had come off with the pedal. My
companion and I just looked at it with amazement. From my companion’s
perspective, he said that he heard me kind of yell 'Uuuuuuauaahahhhh!' Kind of
like that and he immediately thought, 'Did he run into a bush or something?' Oh
man, that was an experience. Now we have to walk
everywhere......yyyyaaaaayyyyyy. Látszik milyen izgatott vagyok, hogy most
sétálunk mindenhóva. (Seems I’m gonna be excited
just to walk!)
Anyways, I hope you like the
stories! I sure did, especially when I was the one that all these things
happened to. I love my mission, I love my life, I love where I am and I love
the Lord.
Sincerely,
Magda Elder
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