We have had an awesome week over here in good ol' Hungary!
Sister
Papritz and I were able to go on splits with the sisters (Sister
Hudspeth (my ősi from the MTC) and Sister Suranyi (Sister Papritz's
greenie (and last companion))) in another city over (Kecskemét) this
past week. It was so great to be able to help them out! Sister Papritz
and I are really in such an awesome position to help out these young
companionships! We were able to help them with their work and the
language. As sisters here in Hungary, we really have an interesting
position. There are only 16 sisters total, so often young missionaries
get put together.
We were able to meet with two of the people I
streeted in last week's crazy push to talk to 300 people. Both of these
ladies are SO cool! One, Evelin, is 20 years old. She is studying
American culture at a university here in Szeged and knew a little bit
about our church (even that we are called Latter-Day Saints!). She is
super interested in the gospel teachings, too, and is excited to read
her Book of Mormon! The other woman is named Zsuzsa and is really
curious about our religion. It has been neat this past week to see
additional growth and contact with some of the people we talked to. It
is added testimony to me that it is so important that we are always
looking for prepared people (for example, Evelin was one of the LAST
people we talked to that week!). We don't know where they all are
necessarily, but if we work our hardest, God will put them in our path!
One of the coolest moments this week involved a girl
named Zsofi who was baptized the week before I came to Szeged (Papritz
Nővér found this super prepared woman a couple of months ago and since
then Zsofi accepted all of the lessons, married her boyfriend, and was
baptized. She is sooo AWESOME!). We had her pick any topic she wanted
out of the Gospel Principles manual (the book we use to teach one of the
Sunday School classes) to teach us for the next lesson. She picked the
"Restoration of Jesus Christ's Church" (good topic!) and taught it to
us yesterday. I was awed. She had read through the book, looked up
things online and in scriptures, and taught us an AMAZING lesson. (It
was seriously better than many of the actual teachers here!) My mind
was blown to think that she hadn't even heard of any of this a couple
months ago and now she was teaching the missionaries :) The greatest
part came at the end when she said, "Szeretném bizonyságomat tenni..."
(or "I would like to share my testimony..." She then bore the sweetest
testimony of the truthfulness of this gospel and the happiness it
brings into lives. I haven't even known this woman for her whole
conversion, but I can see the light that the gospel has brought to her
and her life. We are bringers of light! Obviously, though, she and God
did most of the work on this! I just feel humbled to be part of the
process of helping amazing people like Zsofi!
Today, for P-Day, the elders and we dressed up in
preppy clothes and took pictures around scenic Szeged (our district has a
lot of fun together, can't you tell?). Last week, our district went to
this really cool place called Ópusztaszer.
It is this super cool park about Hungarian history. We saw this horse
show with Hungarians riding around on horses shooting arrows at things
dressed in traditional Hun costume. We saw an awesome panorama mural painting
of the Hungarian conquering entrance into the Carpathian Basin
(Hungarian history = pretty bloody and violent actually). But it was
super cool to learn more of the culture of these people we serve
everyday! I loved it!!
We have a district goal this week to SYL (speak your
language) all week together. Feel free to pray for us :P (It is like I
tell my English class every week-- God can help us with anything and
everything, including learning another language!) It is going to be
great!
Anyways, I'm going to run :) Sister Papritz and I
found Tikka Masala in the grocery store today and are going to have an
Indian FEAST tonight for dinner (complete with naan bread!).
Szeretlek benneteket!
Kramer Nővér aka McKenna
P.S. Sister
Papritz and I discussed ideal care packages and came up with some items
that should not have been neglected in my package-suggestion list last
week (which consisted of mac'n'cheese, Burt's Bee's chapstick (the
cooling-refreshing one!), Oreos, whatever). (And, basically, that means
we just had a drool-worthy conversation about all of the American food
we sometimes miss.) But for all you eager package-senders out there
(:P), some additional items that you can feel free to include: Girl
Scout Cookies, chocolate chips, peanut butter, Twizzlers, salsa,
tortillas, Ranch dressing mix packets, CAKE MIXES (especially brownie
ones). (And obviously, we like to eat, but we like to have fun and
dress well too! Oh, and stationary would be great! They don't have
that here weirdly enough.)
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