Well like the title of the email
says it was a bit of a crazy week but I absolutely love it here in Buda.
I would compare this week to the first time I played varsity in football or
basketball. At first everything felt super-fast and I felt so overwhelmed
but with time it got easier and I was able to manage it. Let’s just say
the first few days here were absolutely bonkers but things are starting to slow
down a little bit now (but not really, haha).
I got the transfer call on Tuesday
that I would be going assistant in Buda. So last Tuesday I packed a lot
and prepared to head out by printing off pics that I wanted to give to members
in the ward and writing notes, etc, we were also able to go to the boat for
lunch which was nagyon finom (google it, haha – Google Translate was Very Fine).
It was so cool though because something absolutely amazing happened last
Tuesday. The family, the Dercséniék were nice enough to give us dinner
before I was going to head out. So we eat dinner and it was super good, one of
my Hungarian favorites, and after it the mom pulls us aside and tells us that
her husband wants to start taking the lessons! He had been talking with
one of the members of the ward in secret and he had been giving him scriptures
to read and stuff and he really wants to start to make a concentrated effort to
meet with the missionaries. We were able to have a really amazing lesson
on Alma 32 and having the faith to believe, it was one of the coolest lessons
hands down of my mission! He is so excited to keep meeting with the
missionaries and there is no doubt in my mind that in the near future he is
going to be getting baptized! Then after that we were able to go and say
good-bye to Roli. It was pretty hard to say good-bye to the little rascal,
but I told him that I would be back for sure and that I would bring you all to
come and see him in the near future. He is a pretty special kid and he
truly changed my life and the course of my mission.
Then we were able to leave the
apartment early on Wednesday morning. On the train it was snowing, it was
so crazy! Then when we got there it was like a mix of heavy rain and
snow! I got to the office and it was right to work, literally like right to
it. We planned out our day and got right into planning the presentation
we would be giving to the new missionaries and their trainers the next
hour. We gave the presentation and it went super well. We were able
to finish that and then we were able to and help a couple of the sisters off to
the train station with all of their bags. Then after that we ran home,
unpacked and ran back to the mission home to go and have dinner with all of the
missionaries that were to be going home. Then that night we were able to
go up to a super cool look out in Budapest with all of the departing
missionaries. Then we were able to go back and spend the night with Elder
Heaps ( a former AP who I looked up to a ton, then the next morning we were
able to see him off at 4 am, haha). Then on Thursday, we were able to
prepare for our training that we would be giving the next day in the missionary
leadership council on heading to the promptings of the spirit (we used Elder
Rasband's talk from conference and I think it turned out super well!).
Then we were able to have a meeting with stake member and president Szabadkai
and it went good and then we had our english class and then we had a lesson
with a recent convert named Zsuzsa (she was really sad that the old assistant
left, haha). Then the next day, we had the MLC, went well and then we
were able to do a lot of other stuff (like finally go to the store and do some
finding, found lots of cool people). Saturday was also super good!
On Sunday I bore my testimony in church and everyone really liked it and I was
also able to translate for some visitors a little bit. This member wanted
to bear her testimony to this woman from America and so I translated for her
and the American woman started to cry, it was so powerful.
I really love it here and am so
happy to serve the Lord in this assignment!!
Love you all,
Elder Gentry
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