So
this week was not super crazy at all. We did a lot of tracting and stopping
people on the street, but not too much exciting happened. When we tract, we
always run into people who were baptized a long time ago but have since given
up on the church, or usually just the people there. It's crazy that so many
people who still believe in the church will let other people stop them from
going to church and doing other things to strenthen their testimony.
We meet with a number
of people who are having trouble coming to church and staying active, as well
as a few recent converts that we still meet with to help strenghten them. This
week, all of them came to church! Hurray! I think that it must be really hard
to come back to church after being inactive for a long time, so it is really
cool to see people progress back!
Most of our
investigators are being pretty cool too. We have one lady who has been planning
on getting baptized, and I have never actually taught her in a program before!
So I finally got to teach her this last week! She is really prepared and is so
excited for her baptism! We had a sunday school lesson on baptism and she and
her recently baptized son (who gave a talk in sacrament meeting) were the best
participants.
We had zone conference
on friday. It was really good! My comp and I even gave a little training for
part of it. We just had everyone practice a big role play where you find a way
to bear your testimony about the Book of Mormon in different settings- either
1. While tracting 2. if someone stops you on the street and asks about english
class 3. if you are on the bus and you catch someone gawking at your nametag.
Elder Thomas and I
have been trying to run more often. We ran almost every morning this week. I'm
not a very good runner, but I have actually seen a noticeable difference in my
endurance while running. Noticeable enough to inspire me to go and buy real
running shoes today, since the ones I've been using are 5 year old walmart
shoes...
There's a girl who we
meet with who was baptized less than a year ago. She speaks perfect english and
is moving to America in a few weeks, but will be going to BYU in the winter,
and she will also be studying biology, which is pretty awesome! I love being
able to make friends while I'm out here!
What else? I bought a
tooon of food last week so that I could practice cooking a number of Hungarian
dishes this week. It's pretty dumb though, because apparently when you ask any
human being what the steps are to make something, they take it as, "Please
make this food for me because I'm helpless," so I really came out from
this week not cooking much, but eating a lot.
At any rate, we had
Töltött Káposzta (stuffed cabbage), Madártej/madártej cake, Paprikás scirke,
and some other really good soups. I didn't even have to buy groceries this
week.
Okay, cool, so that's
my week. I left my camera cords in the car... woops. no pictures this
week.
Love you all!
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Young
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