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| Decker elder in Hungary |
I have heard a ton of cool things from conference. I am really excited to get to watch it this weekend. I don´t know how much of it I will see, but I am sure it will be wonderful. . . .
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| Decker elder in a cathedral |
This last week was an interesting one. Last Tuesday I went
on splits with Elder Mullen. He is part of the other companionship here in
Eger. He is only on his fourth transfer. The best part is our two programs we were going to
have we got dogged, so all day we ended up just talking to people while doing
finding. It was actually quite a successful day (until the end). We gave out
BOMs and received some numbers to call. We were happy about it. The most
interesting part was when we went to Maklár to tract at around 6. It went
alright at first. We talked to a few people and gave out a couple BOMs and got
some people to say to come back. But then it got dark. Supposedly Hungarians
get really mad if you disturb them during the dark hours, in regards to
tracting. Usually we go in and have dinner at 8, but with our new mission
president he is trying to change this so that dinner is earlier and we tract
later into the night, so we tried to be obedient. So the first house, was ok,
he wasn´t too mad. At this point we were a little apprehensive about the whole
thing, because everone´s lights were off, and no one was out. We were the only
ones around. So we said about three prayers and asked God if this is what we
should be doing. We didn´t get a direct answer, so we chose obedience, and kept
going. It actually didn´t end up being too bad, because no one would answer
their doors, so we endured it out, and got some people mad, wasn´t bad though.
Then it was bad. We headed back to the train stop to catch a train at 8:15 (the
last one back) and the trains were closed down because the tracks were being
repaired. So then we had to wait for a replacement bus to come, but meanwhile
rain started come down in sheets and there was lightning that came down that
made you go blind. Basically, this wasn´t a good sign to us. After enduring the
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| more of the graffiti tunnel in Eger |
Wednesday was awesome because of a lesson we had with Gábor.
We taught about prayer and how he can receive help. I received the prompting
that I should promise him that if he ever feels like smoking, if he prays, the
temptation will go away. We then all kneeled in a circle and we all took a turn
praying for Gábor, it was a wonderful lesson.
Thursday was cool because we had a moment to feel like
celebrities. (of course the work we did that day was cool as well) While we
were in the Branch house some random Hungarian High School students came in and
asked Elder Wright and I to follow them for some school thing. Well we did and
it turns out that 10 schools were competing and one of the tasks was to find
foreigners to bring to this building and have their names written down and they
would receive points. As we entered everyone started cheering for us and asking
who we were and where we were from, we then got candy, and I gave out English
class flyers. It was a good moment because for once everyone were on our team
rather than the other stuff. It was real awkward though because it also opened
up the chance for girls to compliment me on my eyes. I guess people still
notice that. When that started happening though, we ran away. That moment actually
opened up a chance to get more involved with some of the youth here, and we are
hoping this could be a chance to get more people aware of the church. We will
see though.
I am trying a new was of organizing my notes. That is why I
am going by days. Friday was a pretty normal day. We did go visit that lady
that let us in last weekend. She made us come in again and eat more stuff. We
got this good dessert called a holabda (snowball)
This last week we actually made ourselfs rakott krumpli
(stacked potatos) and we got to people to feed us. So the weirdest thing from
last week would be either the sweet cabbage, or this salad that had carrots,
peas, apples, corn, mayo, and tejföl (a sweet sour cream). It was really weird,
but it grew on me as I forced more in my mouth.
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| graffiti tunnel in Eger |
I don´t bike around. There are two bikes here we could use,
but one is broken and none of us want to spend the time or money to fix it, so
I mostly just walk, and I have done a ton of it. It is kind of exciting because
my shoes are already taking a toll from it. I have a goal to totally destroy my
shoes from so much walking.
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| Decker elder and Wright elder bowling |
Well I said a lot today. I hope it makes up for last week
where I was really rushed to write. Quite a week it was. . . I have had many miracles occur in the
last weeks. I have never felt God so near to me. And like I taught many times
last week. Prayer is real. And God truly answers prayers. Although it has been
hard, and this will be the hardest week Eger has seen for a long time, (with
missionary work) I can do this with God´s help. What a crazy place it has been
to white wash, and be a greenie in, but God didn´t put me here to fail, and I
will do my best until I am transferred elsewhere.
I love this work and all its hardships.
Szeretetemmel
Decker elder
