Here is a little bit about what happened this past week...
Monday
On Monday we were sitting in our apartment and sister Broadhead walked in and said, "Lets go to Gyula!" I said "right now?!" and she said "Yeah!" So...we grabbed our bags, asked Elder Hulbert for a ride to the bus station and took a 20 minute bus ride to Gyula. Its a SUPER cute little town right by the Romanian border. We practically went to Romania haha it was really fun. They have a small castle there that we went and saw and just spent a few hours walking around the cute town. It was great! Then that night, we had Családi Est which was a goodbye party for the Hulberts. It was fun! There were tons of people there.
Tuesday
Tuesday was hard. We had to say goodbye to the Hulberts and that was not fun. We went over and sat with them for about an hour and chatted. Then we went outside to say bye and the tears started flowing. Sister Broadhead and I ended up going into our apartment afterwards for lunch and just cried while we ate sandwiches. It was a pretty pathetic site haha. We were able to pull ourselves together though and go back out and work. The Hulberts did such great things here in Hungary. They also really took care of us like our parents. It was a pretty emotional day for all of us but I am glad that they are able to be with their family at home now! :) Also on Tuesday, we met a really cool lady named Bori. She was a referral from one of our investigators and she's super cool!
Wednesday
We had a few good programs on Wednesday. Then We had to bike in skirts again out to Jamina. Biking in a skirt is so hard. I have tried so many different styles. All are hard. But it makes for funny stories and we just laugh the whole time.
Thursday
We got one of our cute investigators, Hajni, on bap date! :) She is super excited and is so ready! Hopefully if everything goes well and according to plan, she'll get baptized in August! Then we had some great programs with Éva and Ádám which are always fun. Then we went over to this investigator family's house for dinner, Anna and Jozsi. We met their son, Gérgö and their neighbor Anni. It was so nice. They are a really special family. Then before we left, Sister Broadhead and I sang a few hymns for them (they had come to church last week when we did the musical number and loved it).
Friday
Friday we had Zone Training in Szeged. So we met the Elders at 7 and walked to the train station to catch the train at 7:45. However, when we got there, they told us there was a problem with the tracks so we would need to take a bus to Öröshaza and then get on the train there. So we got on the bus...and waited for at least 30-40 minutes for it to move. Finally we started going and realized we were probably going to be a little late to Zone Training because of the delay. We finally made it to the train station (after many stops on the bus which made us even later). We got on the train and made the journey to Szeged. However, we stopped many times as the train driver had to get off. One time, we think he went in and bought something? There were a few stops we sat around for a while. We finally made it to Szeged. We got out of the train station but had no idea where to go. We called the Zone leaders who said to just walk straight. So we did. After about 25-30 minutes walking and not feeling like we were getting anywhere, we asked some people. They told us we needed to turn there and walk straight. So we did. After another while, we called again to find out where it was. Eventually, we made it. The meeting went from 10-12. We arrived at 11:45. It was such a pain! But we all just laughed about it. Our Zone Leaders laughed about it too. So we had a good little 15 minute spiritual thought and then went to lunch with everyone before we made the journey back to Békéscsaba (which of course went a lot quicker going home).
Saturday
We had a few good programs. We also had Sport Nap so we played basketball with a few members and investigators. It was HOT. But it was fun!
Sunday
Sunday was really good. We had three investigators at church. Sister Broadhead gave a great talk about how her testimony has changed while being on her mission. Then we did a musical number with Enikő and Bübe. We sang "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" (who knew I would be singing so much on my mission?! I am so bad but whatever!). Then we had a program with Hajni after church and had Bübe help us with it. We taught her the gospel of Jesus Christ and it went well. She is getting really excited for her baptism!
Monday
Since its transfer week, we have our PDay on Tuesday so yesterday we worked. We had about 8 programs! We left our apartment at 9:45 and got home at 7:30. We were there for about an hour before we went back out to another program with Anna and Jozsi! We were absolutely exhausted from walking around in the sun all day and having programs back to back but it was great to be busy! We had some really good programs!
Well that's about it for this week. I read some really great stuff in a Liahona this week during personal study (I think it was from March 2012? It had President Monson on the front). It talked all about how President Monson is such an amazing example of being Christlike and completely service oriented. I feel like that is something I definitely need to work on - serving others more. That is something that I really want to try and focus on, especially this next transfer. Sister Broadhead and I sometimes jokingly sing "Have I Done Any Good in the World Today?!" That is something I will have to start thinking about every day!
I hope you all have a great week. Thank you so much for all the emails and prayers. They are really greatly appreciated!
Sok szeretettel!
Simons Nővér xx
On Monday we were sitting in our apartment and sister Broadhead walked in and said, "Lets go to Gyula!" I said "right now?!" and she said "Yeah!" So...we grabbed our bags, asked Elder Hulbert for a ride to the bus station and took a 20 minute bus ride to Gyula. Its a SUPER cute little town right by the Romanian border. We practically went to Romania haha it was really fun. They have a small castle there that we went and saw and just spent a few hours walking around the cute town. It was great! Then that night, we had Családi Est which was a goodbye party for the Hulberts. It was fun! There were tons of people there.
Tuesday
Tuesday was hard. We had to say goodbye to the Hulberts and that was not fun. We went over and sat with them for about an hour and chatted. Then we went outside to say bye and the tears started flowing. Sister Broadhead and I ended up going into our apartment afterwards for lunch and just cried while we ate sandwiches. It was a pretty pathetic site haha. We were able to pull ourselves together though and go back out and work. The Hulberts did such great things here in Hungary. They also really took care of us like our parents. It was a pretty emotional day for all of us but I am glad that they are able to be with their family at home now! :) Also on Tuesday, we met a really cool lady named Bori. She was a referral from one of our investigators and she's super cool!
Wednesday
We had a few good programs on Wednesday. Then We had to bike in skirts again out to Jamina. Biking in a skirt is so hard. I have tried so many different styles. All are hard. But it makes for funny stories and we just laugh the whole time.
Thursday
We got one of our cute investigators, Hajni, on bap date! :) She is super excited and is so ready! Hopefully if everything goes well and according to plan, she'll get baptized in August! Then we had some great programs with Éva and Ádám which are always fun. Then we went over to this investigator family's house for dinner, Anna and Jozsi. We met their son, Gérgö and their neighbor Anni. It was so nice. They are a really special family. Then before we left, Sister Broadhead and I sang a few hymns for them (they had come to church last week when we did the musical number and loved it).
Friday
Friday we had Zone Training in Szeged. So we met the Elders at 7 and walked to the train station to catch the train at 7:45. However, when we got there, they told us there was a problem with the tracks so we would need to take a bus to Öröshaza and then get on the train there. So we got on the bus...and waited for at least 30-40 minutes for it to move. Finally we started going and realized we were probably going to be a little late to Zone Training because of the delay. We finally made it to the train station (after many stops on the bus which made us even later). We got on the train and made the journey to Szeged. However, we stopped many times as the train driver had to get off. One time, we think he went in and bought something? There were a few stops we sat around for a while. We finally made it to Szeged. We got out of the train station but had no idea where to go. We called the Zone leaders who said to just walk straight. So we did. After about 25-30 minutes walking and not feeling like we were getting anywhere, we asked some people. They told us we needed to turn there and walk straight. So we did. After another while, we called again to find out where it was. Eventually, we made it. The meeting went from 10-12. We arrived at 11:45. It was such a pain! But we all just laughed about it. Our Zone Leaders laughed about it too. So we had a good little 15 minute spiritual thought and then went to lunch with everyone before we made the journey back to Békéscsaba (which of course went a lot quicker going home).
Saturday
We had a few good programs. We also had Sport Nap so we played basketball with a few members and investigators. It was HOT. But it was fun!
Sunday
Sunday was really good. We had three investigators at church. Sister Broadhead gave a great talk about how her testimony has changed while being on her mission. Then we did a musical number with Enikő and Bübe. We sang "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" (who knew I would be singing so much on my mission?! I am so bad but whatever!). Then we had a program with Hajni after church and had Bübe help us with it. We taught her the gospel of Jesus Christ and it went well. She is getting really excited for her baptism!
Monday
Since its transfer week, we have our PDay on Tuesday so yesterday we worked. We had about 8 programs! We left our apartment at 9:45 and got home at 7:30. We were there for about an hour before we went back out to another program with Anna and Jozsi! We were absolutely exhausted from walking around in the sun all day and having programs back to back but it was great to be busy! We had some really good programs!
Well that's about it for this week. I read some really great stuff in a Liahona this week during personal study (I think it was from March 2012? It had President Monson on the front). It talked all about how President Monson is such an amazing example of being Christlike and completely service oriented. I feel like that is something I definitely need to work on - serving others more. That is something that I really want to try and focus on, especially this next transfer. Sister Broadhead and I sometimes jokingly sing "Have I Done Any Good in the World Today?!" That is something I will have to start thinking about every day!
I hope you all have a great week. Thank you so much for all the emails and prayers. They are really greatly appreciated!
Sok szeretettel!
Simons Nővér xx
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