So BIG news! I don't know if you all have been
keeping up with the calendar, but it is officially the last week of the
this transfer and we received our transfer calls this morning!
(Drumroll please!) I received a call from President Baughman himself
this morning to inform me that I would, in fact, be training this
upcoming transfer! It is official!!! I will be "mom" to some little
new missionary getting "born" into the missionary field. Before you
ask, I still don't know who exactly. I will go up to Budapest on
Wednesday, have a trainer's meeting, then go into a big room with all of
the other trainers and greenies, where President will follow
inspiration and match us up right there. So, I will let you all know
next week what my new companion is like! There are two sisters coming
in with a few elders, so it is a 50-50 chance between which one I get :P
Sister Papritz is really hoping for the one from (get this) her
hometown! We'll see :P The other crazy thing is--- guess who the other
sister trainer will be? My old companion Sister Johnson! We are both
on the younger side to be training (but not unheard of-- my trainer,
Dels, trained in her seventh, too), so we went seniors together and now
we will be going trainers together too! I am glad we will be able to
talk to each other about this! I personally am nervous... but excited.
It is a lot of responsibility because I will influence on this
missionary's entire mission and attitude towards missionary work.
(Hűha!) But President told me that he is confidant that I will be a
great trainer. And, heck, I know if this is what God wants me to do,
then he is definitely going to help me out with it!
Other than that, this past week has been CRAZY with
trying to get missionary work done while at the same time preparing for
Sister Papritz's departure for America this next week. Our work paid
off, though, because we had a lot of investigators come to church this
past Sunday! One in particular had a really amazing experience. I sat
next to her and afterwards talked to her about what she thought about
our sacrament meeting. She told me it was different than she thought (I
think she envisioned a sort of mass), but it was so perfect just the
way it was. She told me that every talk and song went right into her
heart and how she just felt so GOOD there! She then asked if we had
church every Sunday. "Yes!", I said. "Come!," I said. And she wants
to! This investigator, named Gabriella, is amazing! She is so kind
(she works at a sweet shop here in Szeged and invited us to come over
there this past week while she was working. We did, picking out all
sorts of desserts so we could buy a lot from her... and then she told us
she wanted to give our giant package of goodies to us as a gift. We
felt kind of foolish and piggy-like, but she insisted. She is truly
very generous!) and she feels the Spirit SO strongly in our lessons! We
talked to her a little bit about baptism in our last program with her
and she is interested. She really is looking for God to show her the
right path and wonders if this might be it. We told her to pray about
it! (God has promised to show us the right way and to show us which
things are true. We just need to ask (sincerely, and study it out, and
listen to/act on his answers!)).
One of our other investigators, Nik, is going to be
baptized THIS Friday! (Which kind of really sucks for Sister Papritz
because that is literally the DAY after she flies home. Sad. But it
will be an awesome intro for my greenie, I guess! And, anyways, the
important thing is that Nik is getting baptized!) She is still SO
excited! It has been fun to see her entire countenance change with this
choice. It is like a weight has been lifted from her shoulders. She
is so happy all of the time! (She even helped us out in Gabriella's
program this past week!) We really do recieve a lot of joy when we
follow God's commandments. Anyways, her baptism will be on her TWO year
mark of investigation! What a neat thing :)
Anyways, I am super tired (we went to a cute little
city called Gyűla today and saw a castle there (Sister Papritz had never
seen a castle before, so that is what we did on her last P-Day!). It
was about a billion degrees outside. And inside, since air conditioning
is rarer in Hungary. And then, after that, we (barely) survived
another feast at Géza's, that member who feeds the missionaries to
bursting at the end of every transfer. Seriously. Today, we got two
soups, two main dishes, three salads, and two desserts. It kind of just
hurts to breathe!!!) so I think I will cut this email short. Also,
Sister Papritz and I have to use every minute we have left together! We
are such good friends and it has been a bittersweet experience to
"kill" her (to be her last companion here in Hungary). I am so grateful
I have had the opportunity to serve with her! We are off to go laugh
and have some last bits of fun (while packing her stuff haha).
Just know that God loves you! I love you!
(Also, pray for me? I am definitely going to need some extra help this week!!!!)
Love you all!
McKenna aka Kramer Nővér
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