So this was a long week. It was good but it was long! It was a holiday in Hungary yesterday so we didn't get a chance to email.
So I'll start with a funny story this week. A few days ago we took a bus to this little town (which I don't even remember the name of). So there are three possible bus stops to get off at and we don't know which one we are supposed to get off at. so we just get off at the first one. After asking many people which way to go and walking in the sun for half an hour we eventually find it. The lady wasn't super thrilled to see us as she didn't remember she had set this program to meet with us. It was weird. I didn't really understand everything she was saying but I could tell that she was not really happy to see us and didn't really care to talk to us. But somehow after a couple of minutes of us standing awkwardly outside of her gate she let us in. We sat and talked with her for a while and she warmed right up and was super nice to us. I was a little thrown off but not complaining because she was being nice. Then all of a sudden she started getting really passionate about something she was talking about. Apparently, she said something about living in the forest and my companion said how she could never live in the forest. This lady walked off her porch to some plants so had and picked off the leaves. She brought them back to us and told us they smell like lemons and we should rub them in our hands. So...we did. Sure enough our hands smelled like lemons. The next part is the best bit. She says, "You can eat them as well!! Teseg!" (which means go ahead). So Broadhead Nővér and I just looked at each other and both thought "what the heck?" So we ate her leaves. I had to turn my head to "look at the flowers" because I was about ready to laugh my head off. She then took us into her garden and started picking off all different kinds of leaves and having us eat them. I know that salad is basically leaves so its probably not that weird....but it just felt so weird having her pick leaves off of her plants and having us eat them right them. We ended up going home with a grocery bag full of leaves and fun things. It was quite an interesting experience. I'm curious what she's going to make us eat the next time we go back! Our quote of the transfer is now..."Sometimes you just gotta eat some leaves and live in the forest..."
Yesterday we did half of our pday. We spent it with an investigator named Gabbi and her family. They took us on a 45 minute bike ride to see some castle ruins! The place is called Postelek. The bike ride was hard, I'm not going to lie. We borrowed the Elders bikes and they are terrible. So uncomfortable and I don't know how the bike I used is still working. It sounds like something is dying! Anways we got there and the ruins were way cool. We walked around for a while, saw some goats and pics and donkeys. Did a little exploring and then did the 45 minute bike ride home in the hot sun. Needless to say, by the time we got home all i wanted to do was drink a ton of cold water and collapse on my bed. I was so exhausted! It was fun though.
One of the Elders' investigators, Domi, got baptised on Saturday! It was a good service. Sister Hulbert, Sister Broadhead and I sang the "I like to look for rainbows" song in English and Hungarian. I'm NOT a singer haha but it was really fun.
Way cool story happened on Friday. We went home to start weekly planning and decided to give a less active member a call to see if we could go and visit her. Broadhead Nővér was talking to her and all of a sudden I hear (in Hungarian) "Okay we will come over now!" She is very busy and just happened to be home right then when we called her. So we called Elder Hulbert to give us a ride out to her house because it is a bit of a ways away. We get there and she and her son are in the garden picking cherries. We go in and chat with her. She is the greatest lady! There was such a spirit in her home. The reason she doesn't come to church is because she has to take care of her elderly mother every Sunday otherwise she would come! And her son was amazing! Elder Hulbert LOVED him!! He was so so nice and polite and spoke a big of English so translated for his mom. We invited him to church on Sunday but he had a skydiving show that he was in so he couldn't and said that he wanted to invite us to that. So instead we invited him to the baptism on Sunday which he came to. Then we had a program with him and elder Hulbert afterwards. We all had such a good feeling about him so hopefully we can meet with him again!
Well that's about it for this week. Email time is a bit shorter because we have stuff we have to do but those were the coolest things that happened. I hope you are all doing well. Thanks to everyone for their emails and love and support! I don't have time to respond to everyone but just know it is HIGHLY appreciated and I love hearing from everyone!
Sziasztok!
Simons Nővér
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