January 6, 2014
To all you little readers out there,
In answer to the question of whether
or not this week’s quote is from an SNL skit with Chris Farley in it.......the
answer is yes! Right on the money! Congratulations! You get the opportunity of
reading another hilarious quote! Great prize, right? Here we go! Hint: They are
both from one movie.
'And when we find out
that you're guilty, we're going to lock you up and throw you in the Federal
Reserve!'
'He doesn't understand
the concept.'
Different Scene
'Stop. Humming. That.
Song!'
'Alright, fine, I
will.'
*a little later*
'Stop smiling like
that!'
'Now you're telling me
to control my emotions? That, I will not do.' (His mom is totally stumped..)
This week has been quite the busy
one for us being that it was New Years and everything. First off, we just got a
new 1st counselor to the branch president, who is the senior couple elder here,
which has made it more interesting for us since he can't speak Hungarian so we
have to translate for him. For example, on New Year’s Eve, for an hour or so we
started his training and teaching him what his responsibilities are. My
goodness did my mind want to explode! I love the senior couple here, but there
were phrases or expressions that the elder would use that had no translation
whatsoever in Hungarian. I felt like a deer in the headlights a few times. But
for the most part I was really comfortable with what he had me translate, and
some of it was tough stuff. And the guy that we have for a new 1st counselor is
awesome! For his first week with this new calling he has taking it like a
champ.
By the way, did I tell you guys that
I'm technically the branch clerk here? Pretty kewl, right? The missionaries
here have been kind of the backbone of the branch here for a while, but we've
been making it a goal to train the branch to start functioning by itself more
and more and it's been working tremendously well! Especially now having a 1st
counselor to the branch presidency. That was a huge step here. Ha ha, I didn't
think I'd be a first counselor in the branch presidency in Békéscsaba nor a
branch clerk in Eger within my mission. You do some interesting stuff on a
mission, that's for sure.
After having the training with the
member we went over to the senior couples for New Year’s Eve and had American
pancakes and played board and card games. It was way fun! I absolutely love
playing board games and it was some fun to look forward to as well. We also
went out with one of our investigators that night to check out some of the
fireworks that they had. Last year I told you that it was kind of like a war
happening outside with explosions and stuff. That didn't change. There were
people everywhere in the main square! It was absolutely crazy! We thought that
there was going to be a legit firework show, but it ended up being just random
people lighting off their fireworks at midnight. We had fun with our
investigator, but there were some crazy things going on, so we headed back
inside afterwards. We actually saw a fight starting to happen between these
teenagers. We noticed it and were like 'Well, that’s our cue to leave'. Thank
goodness for the Word of Wisdom! Definitely saw the blessings of living that
commandment that night. The real crappy part about that night though was that
we live right on the main walking street, which is in direct connection with
the main square, resulting in an inabillity to sleep that night because of the
craziness and loud ruckus going on outside. Probably only got 2-3 hours of sleep
that night. But it's mindegy. (“all the same” he doesn’t realize he’s
sticking Hungarian words in here and there…)
On New Year's Day we hung out with
the other elders and played board games and stuff and had more waffles
(probably our main breakfast now-a-days) then went out and played football for
a little bit in the park. It was sad seeing how fast it took me to get winded.
I'm so out of shape! We made it a goal this week to exercise this week. We'll
see how that one flies. That night was probably the most fun part of the day.
We went over to our investigators' house, a man and his wife, and made tacos
for them. These are the investigators who have been to America before and speak
basically perfect English. They said a while back that they love Mexican food,
so we took that as a challenge to bring them some 'as close to Mexican food'
with the Hungarian ingredients that we have here. It was soooo good! And the
best part was that they loved it too! We had so much fun with them. We hung out
with them for most of the night talking about basically everything. They even
showed us some pictures of them when they were in Las Vegas and some of the
places that they visited. They had a picture of them outside of an In-N-Out
which got me a tad bit trunky for a 4x4, ha ha. I don't know if I ever told you
how we found them. It was actually my very first day I came to Eger. We met him
before we even got off the train. He heard us speaking in English as we were
getting my luggage off and he decided to help us and he asked us where we were
from and it went into a conversation and we ended up starting to meet with them
in the following weeks. They are an awesome family! I love them to death! We
are actually going to go with them in a few hours to a restaurant to celebrate
his birthday. It's going to be delicious!
Another kewl thing that I got to do
this week was go on splits with Elder Judd from my MTC group, who is also from
Fairfield! It was way kewl to serve with him for the day. We got talking about
how long it's been since we were in the MTC and how far we have come and also
about how fast the end of our missions is coming and that we will both be going
home on the same flight. We both said, at the beginning of our missions, that
Hungarian was going to kick our butt in the field, which it has, but after
working together for the day, it was crazy to see how far we have come in the
language and in teaching. We had a really great program that morning of our
splits together with one of our investigators and the woman that we were
meeting with absolutely loves us and loves learning everything that we teach
her. That morning we taught her about obedience and the 10 commandments, which
she already follows, but as we explained to her about the blessings of being
obedient and sharing with her Mosiah 2:41, she explained to us that when she
first met with us she could see the difference of happiness and brightness that
we had among the rest of the people that she knows and it's something that she
wants to have along with her family. After the program Elder Judd and I talked
about the program and we were both impressed with how well we taught together.
It was such a great reunion! And a great one to have for that day and the
people that we met with because they enjoyed having us teach them.
We are, as a matter of fact, going
to have a baptism this weekend for one of our investigators. We found this girl
about a month ago and she was absolutely awesome! She started meeting with us
and she said that everything interested her and, in no time at all, she
committed to being baptized for this weekend. She actually had her baptismal
interview when Elder Judd was here and we both felt that she was definitely
ready to be baptized. But the best part about it is that she is the one that's
excited, and she shows it. Yesterday, for example, she actually went and bore
her testimony in sacrament meeting. It was so powerful! For only having a few
weeks of meeting with us, she already knows that these things are true. She is
certainly prepared by the Lord and it is something that we have seen every time
we have met with her. We are excited for this Saturday! Elder Gaytán will be
baptizing her and I will be giving her the Gift of the Holy Ghost. It's going
to be awesome!
We had a lot of other kewl programs
this week, but unfortunately time doesn't really permit to have me explain them
all. But, I will say, they were all fabulous! Spiritually incredible! If you
want to know more about certain weeks in my mission that I didn't have time to
explain, ask me when I come home! I would love to elaborate more. :)
Anywhoodle, that's this week. I
didn't really take any pictures this week, but I'll send what I have to give
the blog some sparkle.
I love you all! Vigyázzatok (“watch”) yourselves and BÚÉK (abbreviation for Boldog
Új Évet Kivánok which means Happy New Year!)
Love,
The Blakester
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