November 29, 2014
Dear Family,
Sorry I wasn’t able to email earlier, it
looks like our p-days will for sure be on Saturdays every week. It’s
been switching so much not even I can keep tract of it. But other news NEW
COMPANION!!! Awwwwwww snap!!! And guess what . . . its Elder Blackman from my
MTC group!! We are super stoked and we have already been having a ton of good
times together! It’s been super hard though because this week with transfers
and all the Christmas packages. But I can’t wait for Christmas; here it’s like
the coolest thing ever. There are all these little shops that sell super cool
stuff, tons of decorations all over the place and most people are just overall
happier.
Work has also been going supa good. We had
some super good programs with our investigator E, she had a ton of questions
with the law of chastity but we only had like 15 min. so we just talked about
it for a while and gave her a little pamphlet that talks about it and then the
next day when we met she was like, "I read it and it literally answered
all of my questions . . " and we were just like..."WOWOOOOWOOTT"
because for a while she just could not understand why this commandment is
important. So it was super awesome. We also had another program with our inv. A.
who is an eternal investigator and is now just starting to progress. And it was
awesome because we decided to talk about and focus on church, because he just
would come randomly, and we really just promised blessings and shared our on
personal stories and it was awesome. Afterwards when we asked him if he would
come... he was still hesitant. But he ended up coming!! So hopefully he will
come tomorrow.
Other than that... not to much going on. Just
more secretary stuff, it’s always fun seeing the new missionaries and getting
to meet them all. Yup, wish there was some more exciting stuff to talk about,
maybe I need to break my ankle again . . . speaking of I’ll send some pics of
it, when it first happened... but it’s a ton better now.
Anyways have a fantastic week!!!
Sok Szeretettel
Waldvogel Elder
VEMS
November 17, 2014
Dear Family,
So this week was pretty intense. I should
probably start off by saying that I sprained my ankle super badly while playing
soccer and had to go to the Hungarian hospital; and now I have to wear a brace
for 4 weeks and the past couple days I have used crutches. But it’s cool
because It could’ve been a ton worse... I really lucked out and learned quite a
bit from it. Literally right after I sprained it, I limped over to a bench and
sat down and this lady came up and started talking to us and turns out she was a
physical therapist!!! AND helped out on a soccer team!! So she gave us some
awesome advice and helped quite a bit; it was super sweet! Then this member
came up with the idea to sit me on a bike and lead me back to the branch house.
This guy was super nice and he just kept trying to cheer me up all the way
while he was guiding me back to the branch house. Then an investigator who also
sprained her ankle super bad knew exactly where to go and what to say (because
she was Hungarian and apparently the hospital people can be kinda dumb
sometimes) so she came with us; and THEN we ran into a recent convert who
worked at the hospital and he guided me around and helped with everything...
I’m just soo grateful for all these amazing Hungarians… they’re truly the nicest
people on earth.
I also remember that a while after it
happened I said a little prayer in my heart and it was interesting to see that
the pain didn’t go down, it still hurt quite a bit, but it was my attitude
about it that changed. I also remembered the story of the elder who got egged
and instead of getting angry he told his comp to take a picture; so I did the
same and took a picture… sadly it’s on one of the other elder’s cameras, but
I’m hoping that I can get it from him by next time.
So that’s kinda how consecration week
ended… Apparently I didn’t sacrifice enough LOL. But our week was pretty tough
considering there was a ton of stuff to do in the office. And my ankle is not
working. But on the Bright side we had a super intense stake conference where two
70s came!!!! And the stake presidency for the one stake in Hungary was
changed which was CRAZY!!! Because the last stake president was the first stake
president in Hungary and has been for 8 years straight! Anyways both 70s were
sooooooo awesome and gave the greatest talks I have heard in person for a long,
long time. The spirit was just so strong especially as he was calling the new
stake presidency; because even I had some doubts, but afterwards I had no doubt
that the new president was called of God. Also K. came to conference, which was
super awesome, even though he kinda left very fast.
Also E. is doing super well. We just
set a bap date with her for December 20th since her birthday is on the 24th.
And she is just so ready; we talked with her about baptism because we weren’t
too sure how well she understood it, but she pretty much understood it
perfectly and really everything else perfectly also… it’s just amazing to see
her sheer amount of change!! Other than that we kinda got dogged quite a bit,
but we did have some super good programs with some other people that were super
awesome!!
Well hope you are all having an amazing week,
and that it continues into a fantastic month filled with wonder and amazement
Sok szeretettel
-Waldvogel Elder
VEMS csak az egész idő alatt!!
