June 3,
2013
Mizű! (What’s
up?)
This week has been filled with
incredible-ság! (ság is our 'ness' at the end of words) The only hard thing is
that we have a fun filled P-Day ahead of us where we are going out to a little village
outside of Békéscsaba to see some castles and stuff and I don't have too much
time for emailing. E-gad!!! But I will fill you in on this spectacular
week.
First, I will start with a true fact
of the day. True Fact: the weather hear is ridiculously unpredictable.
Seriously, I feel like I could be in Florida right now. At one moment it's
sunny and nice outside and you think 'Well, looks like a day to wear my short
sleeved white shirt today. And then you go out and suddenly clouds come out of nowhere
and begins to pour rain. Then on another day you see that it's cloudy outside
and put on a sweater and bring an umbrella thinking that it will rain and then
the clouds disperse and the sun comes out with no clouds around it. Make up
your mind! It's June for heaven’s sake! But then again I'd rather it be cool
than blazing hot, so I shouldn't be complaining. :P
Tuesday we had an awesome find! My
companion and I were heading for the branch house for a program that we were
about to have and when we had just reached the branch house our program
canceled and rescheduled for another day. That was our last thing for the day
and now we had a whole hour to do something and my companion asked 'Well, what
should we do?' I suggested 'Why don't we go tract?' So we went out. We had no
idea where to go, but my companion was just following my lead, so I just headed
down a street that I haven’t been to before and we started tracting. We had
been going down the street for a little bit and there were other streets that
branched off from the main street we were on and I had a feeling that we should
take a left on one of them, but I wasn't quite sure when so I just kept going
till I felt a bigger feeling to go down one of them. My companion started
talking to about something and I felt this feeling to take the next left, so I
told him 'Let’s go this way.'
We were tracting a few houses when
we saw an older man standing outside on the sidewalk and he was staring at us.
Both of us looked at each other and had a feeling that he would come up to talk
to us, which he did. He asked us what we were doing and we told him exactly
that: 'We are talking to people about our church and giving out a free book.'
He began to tell us that he didn't really believe in any church and that he has
kind of given up on faith. We continued talking for a little bit and we found
out that his wife actually goes to English Class and that she has heard what we
have shared for spiritual messages and enjoys them. At that moment she came
around the corner on her bike and said hi to us and told us to come inside.
While her husband was getting things ready for us to sit down she told us that
maybe we can help him believe again. We sat down and talked to both of them a
little bit about us and why we are here and about the Book of Mormon. The
husband began to open up to us and accepted the Book of Mormon and told us that
we should come back. A miracle!! What a miracle that was! We even found out
later, his wife asked him how we ran into him and he just said 'Well I was going
outside to just sit out there. I don't know why, but I just did.' My companion
and I looked at each other afterwards and we both had goose bumps. We knew that
we had been lead to them at that specific point. If our program hadn't
canceled, we wouldn't have found them. Definitely a miracle that we were
blessed to be a part of.
The other big thing that happened
this week that was WWAAAYY kewl was that on Saturday one of our investigators
took us to her parents’ house to have a 'Garden Party' with her family. She
told us beforehand that there would be a lot of food there including pigeon
soup. That's right, pigeon soup. She also said that where her parents live is
not far from the Romanian border. We were totally down for it, so she picked us
up with her boyfriend and we went to her parents house. The weather was really
cold outside unfortunately so we couldn't eat outside in their garden, so we
had dinner inside. There was SO MUCH FOOOD!!!! It was incredible! Our first
course was pigeon soup, which was basically exactly like chicken noodle soup
and it was really good. Apparently her father trains pigeons as a hobby and
also keeps pigeons to eat also and they are fed corn and stuff so that they
taste good. So we got to have it and I really enjoyed it. Now I can say that I
had pigeon. Interesting food every week! After that we had steak pörkölt which
was THE best pörkölt (stew) I have ever tasted
in my life! We had both rice and nokedli (dumpling), which is a kind of pasta here, for the base and then
the steak pörkölt. It had the perfect spices and.......I can't even describe it
to you. I don't have the same writing ability as those professional descriptors
who describe food. But, I will just say, SZUPER CSODÁLATOSAN FINOM! (SUPER AMAZING DELICIOUS!) I finished
my second helping of pörkölt when our investigators mom pulled out even more
meat for us to eat. And THEN she pulled out homemade strawberry short cake
which was absolutely amazing!! Afterwards I really felt like I could explode.
It was incredible. After we ate they took us out to the Romanian border and we
took some pictures. It was super awesome! I'll attach some pictures soon so you
can see what it looked like
Anyways, I gotta run now. But
quickly, I must say that it is so awesome to hear that Dad rototilled the
yards!!! I remember when we always talked about doing it and it never happened.
That's going to be so weird to come back to when I come back home. Way to go
dad! That must have been a lot of work to do.
Alrighty then, I hope that you all
have another wonderful week this week! And don't forget to count your blessings
and name them one by one.
Sincerely,
Magda Elder
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