What day is it?
I will be home in Eight weeks! Wow! I try not to count because that makes it slower, but that is pretty exciting. *1
Well, I don't know what to say so I guess I will get right into it.
Monday
It was a pretty Hectic day. I spent all morning traveling, then I had an interview with President Hettinger, then I spent all evening traveling and those were some of the longest train rides ever. But I made it back to my apartment and it all worked out well. *2
Sunday
It was also pretty hectic. I had to translate in church because our Branch is too small to have a designated translator, and beside that there currently is not a lot of people who are in need of translation. But we had a senior couple who was there this week and they will be moving into Debrecen pretty soon. So that means there will be a lot more translating in the future. After Church we had an apartment check and it was concluded that we will be getting a new apartment out here in Debrecen. So that is really nice, although that means that we will have to move a lot of stuff to the new apartment when it is found. After the apartment check we left for Szolnok because we needed to travel early in the morning the next day, which would have meant something like getting up around three or four so that we could take something like a four and a half hour train ride to another city where we would have our interviews.
Saturday
It was also a busy day. We had a couple of lessons planned, one of them fell through, but we did have our other lesson.
Afterwards we met up with the Ockies (the senior couple who is coming to Debrecen) and they took us to dinner. Beyond all of that we did a lot of tracting and streeting.
Oh yeah! Hey Jason, did you know an Elder Ockey on your mission? *3
Friday
Was super busy *4, we had District meeting, then we came right back and hopped on another train to go to a falu called Hajdúhadház. And there we met with an investigator who we have not been able to meet with for about a month, but we finally got back to him and he is still just as interested. I hope that we will now be able to continue meeing with him. Especially since I feel bad for not being able to really talk to him for about a month.
Thursday
We met with our most Progressing investigator, Ádám. He said that he would like to be baptised! So now we just need to figure out when. I am pretty excited for him and I think that he could be baptised soon. I really hope it happens. *5 Other than that we had our weekly planning and we taught our first English class for this Fall.
Wednesday
We did a lot of streeting and tracting. In between it all we met with a less active member, she... Well, we are working with her. We finished our day with a game night that we have been doing for a little while now. And it has been fairly successful. I am looking forward to the people that we can meet through that.
Tuesday
We met with a great investigator named László. He has come a long way. He used to be athiest and believe that all churches were some kind of money grabbing scheme. But he really likes our church and is willing to say that there is a god. László even prays and reads the Book of Mormon now. In fact he has even said that he might be baptized. So we will see how things will go with him.
So, I can't think of a lot of things that I can tell you about Hungary. But. The buildings are beautiful and built in this super cool old style. You can almost feel like you are walking through a fairy tale in some parts of the country. There are cobbled streets everywhere, and while some of them are really bumpy, they are all super neat looking. I really love the way this country is built. You likely wouldn't know it, but a lot of old stories and fairy tales actually were written with Hungarian things in mind. It keeps getting easier and easier for me to see that. *6
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| It is pretty. |
The Pékség *7 out here is superb. I really love all of the baked goods and I will miss being able to buy my own mini pizza, or a stuffed croissant for a dollar when I go home.
There are fresh fruit stands all over the place out here, and you can just walk up and buy a kilogram of almost anything for roughly five dollars.
I hope that helps satisfy your curiosity about this country for now, but there is so much more.
Love you!
Brandon.
Mom's Notes:
1. Eight weeks! That is pretty exciting!
2. I think Brandon will never want to ride a train again.
3. Jason served in British Columbia, Vancouver a few years ago (he got home in October 2015). Did he serve with an Elder Ockey? Or know (of) him?
4. Do you get the impression that missionaries are always super busy?
5. It would be pretty exciting for Brandon (and Elder Hess) if Ádám did get baptised soon. :-)
6. There's a big difference between the beginning of a mission and the end...thank goodness! I think home sickness and trepidation color the beginning of the mission. (" I arrived in Hungary and instead of the green beautiful country that I had seen pictures of it was and still is, brown, dirty, stinky, and smoky.") It makes me happy that he sees the beauty of it now.
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| This is the first picture he ever sent us. It is rainy, but still looks pretty beautiful to me. (In fairness, he probably sent this because he thought it was pretty, or awesome, or...) |
7. Pékség = bakery. I wish I could try it out myself! Maybe one day.
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