Monday, December 28, 2015

Hungary wk#12 Az Ünneplés Folytatódik {The Celebrating Continues}‏

 Christmas 2015~ Szeged, Hungary
Sister Training Leaders came down from Buda and we went on Splits!

The Árkád




 
0ur beautiful Karácsony Fa!!!


I hope you all had a very merry Christmas! It was a little bit different experience for me all around, but it turned out to be a great Christmas!
Tuesday afternoon we discovered the true beauty of Burger King while tabling with the elders in the cold! Only two of our investigators were able to meet this week cause of the holidays, so we spent about 8 hours a day finding in the freezing cold! Which led to the discovery of the Jr. Whopper! It tastes like America and is steaming hot...the perfect combination for a cold winter day! That night the Sister Training Leaders came down from Buda and we went on Splits! It was super fun, we took them out to dinner at Trojas and explored the town for a little bit!  

The Christmas celebrations turned out wonderful! We were required to work for the whole holiday, so we spent most of the time over at the homes of members! Christmas Eve we had a family invite us and the elders over and I tried a piece of reindeer! Maybe I am losing it, but it honestly tasted just like a pot roast to me! 

My lovely mother sent us some paper ornaments that she insisted we use, so we made do with what we had. It definitely wasn't the typical Christmas tree, but it was a tree of some sorts we inherited with the apartment and it served its purpose! We woke up Christmas morning, opened our presents, and made a nice french toast breakfast with eggs, hash-browns, and some Stephens mint hot cocoa!  That evening we went over to Tóth Gábors house and got to Skype with our families! It was super nice to be able to talk with everybody and see their faces again! 

On Saturday there was another baptism here in Szeged! It was super neat to be apart of! 

This morning for P-day we got a group of members and went paint-balling! It was a super fun experience! Little Domi (the one being lifted up in the pictures) came! He is definitely my favorite member here in Szeged! He is a magician and always shows us his little card tricks, such a stud! His father is the branch president and they invited over to their house for dinner on Saturday, and Domi was doing a card trick when one of the elders was all "Domi, you are going to have a HOT wife one day!" Domi quickly responded "I know" as he winked at us and then bust up laughing, slapping his knee cause he thought it was so funny! Afterwards he told us that he just didn't know what else to say! It was super cute, I love that kid!

Overall it was a great week! Definitely not the Christmas I am used to, but we celebrated none the less! And now its time for New Years! I hope you all have a great week and even though we normally dont end up keeping them, make some good New Years resolutions anyways hahaha

Christmas District Meeting


Christmas District Breakfast
Skyping with the fambam

Elder Paul's favorite majestic, shoe-less, brave, flag-waving jester

Lunch at Kati's house out in Kűbek Háza


Monday, December 21, 2015

Hungary Wk#11 Boldog Karácsonyt Kívánok Nektek {Merry Christmas to You All}

 
 
Sis Csolity and I
Where has the time gone? I am officially 1/4 of the way through my mission, the time has flown way too fast! But, what better way to celebrate than with CHRISTMAS?!
This week has been pretty slow as far as the work goes. Szeged is a college town and therefore everybody is going home for the holidays and cant meet with us. So we have been doing a lot of finding this week!
On Thursday we had our Christmas zone conference up in Buda! It was good to have a fun day playing some games and to see everybody! For our Christmas present, President Szabadkai paid for us to go to the movies and watch A Kis Herceg {The Little Prince}. It was a super cute movie, and surprisingly I could understand a lot more of it than I thought I would be able to, so that was neat!
On Saturday there was another baptism here in Szeged! Afterwards we had a Branch Christmas Program and we had a song we sang with the elders! There were some very interesting solos of people singing that couldnt really sing, and most of us missionaries were doing our best not to laugh! Hahah over all it was a great night!
And this week is Christmas! I am so excited to spend it here in Szeged! It is beautiful here this time of year! What better way to spend the holiday season than share the gospel with people and letting them know that not only was Christ born, but that he lived for us, he died for us, and he lives again! I am so thankful for this gospel in my life, and thankful for this season that we have to celebrate our Savior! I hope that you all have a great Christmas filled with love and time with your families! I love you all!
"We Went Ice Skating This Morning"

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Hungary wk#10~~Transfer #2

I had to say goodbye to Sister Dohm


 Well this week I had to say goodbye to sister Dohm, that was definitely a bittersweet moment! It was such an amazing opportunity to be able to serve around her! She was a great missionary and someone that I really look up to! After I said goodbye to her at Kelenföld we headed over to Keleti to meet up with our new zone leader and as we turned the corner, there was a Princess Pékség, Dohm's favorite pékség in Hungary, so I got a little slice of pizza in her honor!
While I had to say goodbye to Sister Dohm, I also got a super cool new companion, Sister Csolity, so that was fun! Sister Csolity is super sweet! She is a convert to the church and has a super great testimony! She also teaches me the language, so what isnt there to love about her!
  My super cool new companion, Sister Csolity and I


Dohm loved stray cats, so naturally I had to take a picture with one hahah















Dohm's favorite pékség in Hungary, so I got a little slice of pizza in her honor!

More great news for the week...KLAUDIA GOT BAPTIZED!!!! It was such an amazing experience to be able to take part in! Klaudia is sersiously just one of the sweetest little girls I have ever met! In a lot of ways she reminds me a lot of myself when I was little, she is super smart and LOVES school, especially math, and lets be honest, not a lot of people like math! So like I said, basically me! She was so happy on Saturday though, it was so cute! We met with her one last time on friday before her baptism, and she just kept telling us she couldnt wait and you could just see on her little face how excited she was! It was a great day! At her baptism we had her and two of her siblings sing the song, "When I am Baptized". It was a little rough hahah but still the cutest thing ever!


KLAUDIA GOT BAPTIZED!!

Klaudia's Baptism Day

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

A Cica Temetése!‏

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 One transfer down! It is crazy how fast the time has flown by! This week has been full of a bunch of crazy things, but I dont have much time to tell about most of them!

Highlights of the week though:
1. We attended a cat funeral while tracting for this cat that got run over and there were like 5 other cats that joined us! It must have been a pretty popular cat!
2. The legendary Géza of Szeged fed us this week! Hungarians dont joke around when it comes to feeding the missionaries. He cooked us a 5 course meal that was straight up Hungarian and we all ate so much we thought we were going to die!
3. Róbi made us some homemade birds milk. It was way too sweet for me, but still super good!
4. KRISZTI GOT BAPTIZED!!! She is one of the elders investigators and she is a super awesome person! I love her! We also had one other baptism this weekend here in Szeged!
5. It was Sister Dohm's last week in the country! It's pretty bittersweet to see her leave, but she has some great things ahead of her back in America! Which leads us to...
6. TRANSFER CALLS! I will be staying here in Szeged and my new companion is going to be Sister Csolity! She actually isnt serving in our mission... She is a native Hungarian and she is going to serve in Arizona, but her Visa isnt here yet so she started her mission here in Hungary. She has been here for about 6 weeks already and was also trained this last transfer. So what that means is that I will be basically be finishing training her while she trains me in the language! It is a little bit crazy, and by that I mean scary, but I think it is going to be great! I am super excited to have a native teaching me the language, cause there is no way to learn it better! We are not sure how long she will be here for, but either way, I am excited to serve with her for as long as I they allow! It is going to be quite the adventure, I can't wait!

L to R:  Géza of Szeged, Elder Wilcox (From Saratoga Springs), Elder Tillamindick (From Colorado), Me~Kaylee (UTAH)
Sister Dohm (From Minessota) Elder Oakes (From Arizona), and in front Elder Paul (From Sandy),
                                                                                




"The legendary Géza of Szeged fed us this week"




More Food!

Dohm, Nover and I ~Sad that it's her last week here in Hungary!!

Cat Funeral



LeBaron Nover, Erika, and Nover Dohm

Erika and I


Monday, November 30, 2015

BOLDOG HÁLA ADÁS NAPJA NEKTEK!!!‏

 My favorite time of the year is officially here! We woke up Thursday morning to find it snowing outside our windows! Perfect day for the first snow fall of the year! Thanksgiving was just a normal working day for us, so we just went out to lunch with Elder Paul (AKA Mr. Pack your Sackage) and Elder Wilcox (AKA Thee Zsidox) and one of their investigators! We went to a little burger joint, but they ran out of burgers (not exactly sure how that happens at 12AM, but whatevs) so we ended up eating some cheese stuffed turkey, very fitting for the day! Last night we had our Thanksgiving celebration with our district at the branch house! Elder Oakes cooked us a turkey, Zsidox mashed some potatoes, Sister Dohm and I made some stuffing, Mr. Pack your Sackage brought some rolls, and I made some homemade pumpkins pies! It was quite a feast!

Mr. Pack your Sackage's first pumpkin pie!




Sir Zsidox & MR. Pack your Sackage doing their thing!

Toth Gabor's Baptism!!!











































 

 On Saturday, Gabor (AKA kid that asked me to the pig festival) GOT BAPTIZED!!! He had been meeting with the missionaries for a year but his mom wouldn'tlet him be baptized, but then 2 weeks ago his mom just had a change of heart and said he could! All his family came out to support him even though none of them are interested in the church. It was super neat though! One of the Sister Training Leaders is actually the one that found him, so they came down and we did splits on Saturday!


"Splits with Vandi"

                                 
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The Christmas Markets are officially up and running here in szeged! And the whole Fő Tér is all lit up with lights, it is absolutely breathtaking! They even strung lights up all across the huge bridge that crosses the Tisza! It is amazing! I literally love this city, I am so glad that I will get to spend Christmas here! We found a huge chocolate Santa in the Tesco this morning, so obviously we needed a pic with it!


We found a huge chocolate Santa in the Tesco this morning, so obviously we needed a pic with it!



                                                                       

We started meeting with this lady named Nora this week! We found her on the street one day while we were tracting! She is super awesome! We are going to meet with her again this week, so I am excited to see where it goes!

We have been working on our Referral goal still and the Lord has been blessing us! On Friday we had a program scheduled, but the man bailed last minute so we went tracting instead! We ended up getting 6 contacted referrals within 1 hour which is insane!!! I have definitely come to see that if you have faith and are diligent, the Lord will        work miracles!
I am so grateful for this opportunity that I have to serve here! It has been such an amazing experience thus far and I know that it will continue to be! I hope that you all have a great week!
I love you!

HÁLA ADÁS NAPJA!!!!
Sok Szeretettel, 
LeBaron Nővér



































          

Monday, November 23, 2015

#losingit

#losingit







This week has been full of adventures... My companion and I have come to the conclusion that we have both lost it hahah

Last PDay we had a girls day, cause the elders were all too busy to do anything, so Sister Dohm and I went and got some Big Macs for dinner and spent the night at the mall trying on fun clothes! 

Wednesday was zone conference so everyone came down to Szeged! It was fun to see all of their faces! During the conference they introduced our mission wide Christmas goal: to give out one Book of Mormon a day and get a contacted referral everyday. Here in Hungary those are two things that seem a little far fetched, because they dont happen very often. That day while tracting my companion was talking about how we never get let into to people's homes. Just then we knocked on this mans door and he let us in and we had a whole lesson with him and are plannin on going back this week to teach him! As we left his house, we still needed our referal for the day if we wanted to make our goal. There was a man that looked like he might possibly be homeless and he was sitting outside a little ABC store. I have been trying to work on not judging people because of their appearance, so I told Sister Dohm we should go ask him for a referal. She thought I was crazy, but told me to give it a try, so I went up and asked him if he knew anybody that we could talk to God about. He told us that his girlfriend was inside the store, but that she would be coming out soon and would be super interested. When she came out we talked to her and she ended up taking a Book of Mormon and a pamphlet on the restoration! I honestly didnt think anything would actually come out of asking him, but it was cool to see that when you are striving to meet righteous goals, the Lord will help you! Sister Dohm and I didnt quite make our goal, but we gave out 6 Book of Mormons and contacted 6 referals, which is a huge jump from our normal 1 or 2!

On Thursday, while we were walking to our tracting area, there was a huge pile of leaves in this little park we walk through. The leaves had been there for awhile and I had been wanting to jump in them, and on Thursday the city people were there cleaning up all the leaves so I decided if i wanted to jump I had to do it then. So I ran and jumped in the leaf pile. When we got done tracting, Sister Dohm asked what time it was so I went to look at the phone, and realized it was no longer in my pocket. I thought back through the day and was trying to figure out where it could be, when I realized it had to have fallen out in the leaf pile. Remembering that the worker were cleaning up the leaves, Sister Dohm and I started running the 8 blocks back to the park, praying the whole time that they hadnt collected that pile yet! When we got there the pile was there, but we couldnt see the phone! We dug around for awhile before we decided to have this kind old gentlemen call the phone. Luckily it started ringing from within the pile and we were able to find it 10 minutes later! I am no longer allowed to jump in leaf piles anymore though hahah

Friday we had a program with a couple we have been meeting with for a couple weeks. The lady has severe depression and schizophrenia and normally doesnt participate in the lessons at all. Before our lesson I said a prayer and asked that she could be less depressed and be able to partipate today. When we got inside, the woman offered the opening prayer, her first prayer ever, and it was super good! She then continued to participate the whole time! In the middle of the lesson, we were talking to the man about baptism and he said that he didnt really think that it was important, but then out of no where the lady was all " Laszlo, we need to be baptized!" So basically, prayer really does work!

Sunday we had stake conference up in Pest, so that was fun to see everybody! I accidently introduced myself as "Sister Dohm", so it is official that I am losing it! But thats alright hahah

This morning we woke up early and went ice skating with the elders! That was really fun! On the way back, we were riding on the tram and the driver slammed on the brakes cause a car almost hit us and I went flying of my seat onto the ground, so that was our entertainment for the day hahah!

This place is amazing though! I love it and I love all of you! Have a great week!