October 28, 2013
Why helllloooooooo!
For the above welcome, if anyone is
familiar with The Office, the episode where Stanly has a heart attack and
Michael has a 'Stress Management' hour and Stanly has a little stress
management beeper to alert him when his stress his picking up and Michael walks
up to him and is like 'Helllloooooooo!' and the beeper goes off. Ha ha ha ha ha
ha, I don't know if anyone knows which episode I am referring to, but that's
what's stuck in my head right now. I know Alisha will get it if no one else
does. :)
Big
things have been happening this week.
Well, at least one big thing, which is that we were able to put one of our
investigators on bap date for December 28th! Kewl, right? We were sure thrilled
when it happened. The person that we gave it to is freaking awesome! I love
this person to bits! She is somewhere in her 40's, I think, but has the personality
of someone who would be in their mid-20's. Every time we go over there she knows
how to put a smile on our faces. And, in fact, she has said that we also have
the same effect on her. She has told us countless of times that whenever we
come over to visit her that the problems or concerns that she has in life seem
to just evaporate when we are with her and she always looks forward to us
meeting with her.
We have been meeting with her for a
little more than 2 months I believe and she has been progressing wonderfully. Last
week we specifically talked about the Spirit and recognizing it in our lives
and how we can have it with us always. This week we decided to talk more about
baptism, since we already had before some weeks ago, and decided to bring one
of the members with us. Before I go into this, this is the first program where I felt really comfortable with
everything, mostly language wise. As we started the program she brought up
a few things that she was going through in her life that made me and my
companion think of taking it a different direction and talking about something
else. But as my companion was offering the prayer, I had this strong confirmation that we were meant to
talk about baptism. I love those feelings! So we continued to talk about
baptism and the member who we brought was perfect! She explained some of the
doctrines super well! Better than I could have in Hungarian, that's for sure.
As the program was going, she straight up said 'You know, I never said I wasn't willing to be baptized.' Shocked,
I had to have her repeat what she said. After her clarifying what she said, I
was just like 'Well, is this something that you are wanting to do' 'Yeah' 'So
will you be baptized as Christ was?' She said,'Yeah!' Then the date came for
December 28th and she accepted it! Pretty kewl, right? I thought so. Both my
companion and I were super stoked after the program. Hopefully the member
wasn't weireded out by our big grins. :)
Besides that, we have had some good
times getting lost, biking up huge hills that exhausted me to death almost and
running into people who tell you that Americans are bad people. But, hey,
nothing could bring us down after having a terrific program this week. :)
Unfortunately this email is going to
be cut short because I had some internet troubles earlier which took up some of
my time. But I at least wanted to tell you about the program that we had this
week. My word though, Trunk or Treat sounds like it was fantastic! Along with
World War Z party. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing that when I get
home, along with some other movies that I have missed ha ha.
Alrighty, enjoy your week this week
and let the spirit guide!
Sincerely,
Magda Elder
Magda Elder