Hungary Budapest Mission

Hungary Budapest Mission

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

October 27, 2014

Dear Family,

Well we had another pretty crazy week, not a lot of new stuff has happened. E. is progressing very well now with smoking; we brought this member who also used to smoke and she was the BOMB! It was awesome and now E. really has that desire to quit smoking. Also we met with K. a couple times this week and he is soo flippin awesome; and is slowly becoming more and more interesting in the gospel and the Book of Mormon. He even came to a baptism on Saturday, which was sweet.

We also met with this super legit family, they are members from Serbia and have lived in Hungary for a super long time. They are like all geniuses; they each speak 5 different languages. There are 3 boys who are super funny, especially the oldest who is about 17; he so cool and speaks way good English. It was a really good program.

Also, I met up with L. from Kispest and it was way cool to see how much he has progressed. He finally has accepted a baptismal date and he straight up told me that he asked very specific questions in his prayers and got very specific answers. I was filled with so much joy and happiness when he said this, because the entire time we met, I just kept telling him to keep at it and answers would come… and FINALLY after months of hard work and determination, he got answers to his prayers.

Other than that it was pretty much a normal week, doing normal office secretary stuffs... fun stuffs. Anyway, hope that you are all having a wonderful week!

Sok Szeretette!

Waldvogel Elder
VEMS

Also I’ll make sure to get those essays done!

Thursday, October 23, 2014

October 21, 2014

Dear Family,

For some reason, my computer doesn’t like your last email, and I can’t open it . . . so if you could send me another one that would be cool; especially because I really did want to talk about starting my application but now that’s all I can see and also that it is important . . . so yea.

Anyways had a pretty intense week and an even more intense Birthday filled with unlimited plot twists, sprinkled with surprises.

But first our week!! Honestly I can barely remember it considering all the crazy stuff that happened; and because there was a senior missionary conference. During it, we were the only ones in the office. I would say that we were bored, but we had quite a bit of work to keep us occupied.

We did meet with quite a few people this week which was super good! We also just started meeting with this super awesome guy "K". We teach him English and he is the flippin funniest dude ever!! I can’t even begin to describe his amazingness; you would just have to meet him. We’ve had some pretty good programs with him and during our last program we talked a lot about the BOM and now he is super interested in reading it.

Sadly though we haven’t really heard anything from G… he kinda just dropped off and we’re pretty sad about it, so please just keep him in your prayers.

We really just had tons of supa good programs, it was really a great week, but it’s just all a blur because last night got CRAZY!!!

So yesterday we went to the Hivatal (office), which is the greatest gift I could’ve gotten! It was pretty sweet! We got out pretty fast, which is good; then we came back and celebrated a little then a missionary who was going home because he needs surgery, couldn’t go home because his flight cancelled, so he ended up coming with us and it was super sweet. I also talked a bit with L. (from Kispest) who now has a Bap Date!!!! Which is insane because he is the type of person who won’t commit to do something unless he is like super sure about it; and general conference helped him out a TON. It’s amazing at how great of change he’s gone through.

Then we went home and decided we wanted to get some madár tej and make loads of French toast. But then suddenly we got a call which shortly changed everything and we got another missionary!! So we kinda just hung out and made French toast and played a little bit of finger soccer, which was pretty cool.

So we had quite a bit of unsuspecting turns. But overall it was super sweet!

Hope yall had an excellent week!!

sok szeretettel
Waldvogel Elder
VEMS

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

October 14, 2014
 
Dear Family,
 
So, P days seem to be an ever changing thing as a Secretary, soooooo, I can’t make any promises, but hopefully the week after next week will be normal Mondays again. And it is soooooooo much better with the Bagozzis back; I am sooo flippin grateful for the finance couple.
 
Anyways yesterday was my first real Hivatal Day!!! wooot! It’s like my most important job where I go with all the new missionaries and wait in line for ever and then have them sign some stuff and then they should be able to live in Hungary legally for 2 years. It’s quite magical really. But it all went well and we somehow survived; Ill be going next week also, so that’ll be good.
 
We have some pretty crazy stuff going on lately, especially with the work here; it’s going super good! Especially with probably one of the most legit investigators ever!! His name is G. and he is golden. He actually called the secretaries wanting to meet and already did a ton of research and believed in most of it already! sooo cool! Last week we meet with him like 4 times and he also came to General conference (Which was also flippin Legit btw) and we gave him a Bap date for Nov. 1st. I really hope he gets baptized; he is so prepared and every program with him is awesome. He’s got an awesome sense of humor. He is going through a super hard time right now though and he is looking for a job; so far he has only found one opportunity and that’s to be a truck driver in Germany... pretty cool!
 
Literally so much has happened this week and there’s no way to even get close to fitting it in. But our other inv. E, who is also super cool, is going through a difficult time as well. She was super down and it was super sad. We tried our best to cheer her up; the last time we meet with her it was quite a bit better, but still hard. So on Wednesday we are Fasting with her, so hopefully that goes well.
 
Sorry for such a small email with not much epicness, anywho hope you all have a good week and stay awesome, and stuffs.
 
Sok Szeretettel
Waldvogel Elder
VEMS

Monday, October 6, 2014

October 4, 2014

Dear Family,

That’s super cool that you got to talk with Bence, he is such a cool guy; hopefully I’ll get to meet up with him sometime again. Also as far as following the Holy Ghost, there was this super cool story I wanted to share that happened while we were still in Kispest. There was that super cool girl L, who ended up missing our program, and unfortunately we forgot to get her number and we only knew her address… but she lived with her mom who’s another religion and she didn’t want her mom to find out... so we were kinda in a pickle. Then one day we planned to go tracting again around the area we found her and I just kept hoping that we would run into her so we could get her number. SO we go and tract for like 2 hours and when we start to head back, were just walking down the sidewalk and I see this other path and tell my comp "hey lets go down this grass path" we start walking and hear this voice like "hey" and it was her!!! Super cool… As missionaries these experiences literally happen ALL the time, it’s truly amazing! I believe as long as we are doing the right things and trying our best and have hope, faith and charity everything will turn out okay.


Anyway, Secretary life is pretty crazy. The last 2 weeks were INSANE, especially with the Bagozzis gone and there was transfers plus 3 different zone conferences! It was just so hectic, but it was also pretty fun; especially since we met with quite a few people and had some super good programs. The funniest was with this new convert who lives alone; We walk into his place,and see this 3 year old girl standing there playing with blocks. . . and we are just like "whaaaaaaaaaa????" super confused, but he offered to watch this girl and she was soooooo funny; like the cutest little girl ever. She was super shy at first, then later she would just giggle like crazy. Sooooo cuki and when we left she also wanted to come with us… so flipping funny.


So, as secretary I pretty much just take care of people coming into the building, the office phone and I also do all the paperwork for the new missionaries so they can live here in Hungary for 2 years. Other than that I work a lot with updating information and taking care of mail. It’s a lot different and it’s kinda sad that we don’t go out and work as much, but it is a necessary job, and someone’s gotta do it, soooo yea

My new comp is awesome; he was actually one of my ősi from the MTC so he was in the older group of Hungarians at the MTC. We have a lot of fun, and we are going to try to make the office more fun . . . somehow.

Also I’m super stoked for general conference, hope you all got your spiritual cups ready cuz they about to get filled!!

Sok Szeretettel
Waldvogel Elder
VEMS
September 22, 2014

Dear Family,

Well transfers were pretty intense this round. Mostly because I have been called to go to BUDA and serve as Secretary! So I actually got my call on Thursday and had to leave on Saturday to go start getting trained on how to be secretary... I’m still lost and confused half of the time, but it is slightly getting easier. That and I have like no time, because I’m sooooo busy. I will have to let you know how everything goes sometime later… We don’t even know if/when P-day will be next week, because the Bagozzi's (the other office financial senior couple who run the entire mission financials) will be gone for 10 days, so we have to watch the office pretty much the entire time. So yea next week will be a blast!!!

But my last week in Kispest was super good, and my first few days in Buda have also been way good. I’ll have a much more in detail report hopefully next week. Until then, I’ll just leave with you’re all awesome and if you have any questions about what a secretary does feel free to ask because I neither knew what they did.

Hope you’ve all had a great week and may it be followed by countless other fantastic ones!!

Sok Szeretettel
Waldvogel Elder
VEMS