Week 49: EGAR AND NEW COMPANION

 

Hey everyone! This week I received my greenie! This is my second time training on my mission. It will be a completely different experience than the first time.  I've realized by now, this is what the people need and what my companion needs. I just have to try and do God's will.💗

 Let me say that I got pretty lucky. Her name is Laura Danneman and she's from Georgia. Get this.. she is an apprentice ballerina! (That basically means she's amazing.) She is really full of light and goodness and excited to do the work. 

My New Companion and I dancing in Egar🩰

We said goodbye to our friend Balázs and my previous companion sister Robinson. Balázs took us to a restaurant as a goodbye and bought us some farewell presents! He really is so sweet. He also agreed to move his baptism up a week so we can go to it! It is scheduled for the week before we leave Hungary, in February. How cool is that!!?

We got into this city and both reveled in the beauty of it! You would not believe this little city called Eger!  It's everything I imagined Europe to be. Bells, little shops, fields of sunflowers, and unfriendly EuropeansThe second day here we went street contacting. We met our fair share of unamicable people...(or people who are not friendly or pleasant). 

The Elders helped us move in. We are the only missionaries in Egar!

But there was one man who was playing the steel drums with waist long dreadlocks on the side of the road. We talked to him end explained we could come back tomorrow when we had coins. All night we couldn't stop thinking about how cool he was! The next day we walked out of our church building and he happened to be walking on the street! We waved him down and had an awesome conversation with him. He asked why we were here and we talked for a bit. We ended up giving our facebook address.  

I know what you may be thinking, "this homeless guy is just trying to hit up two American girls on facebook" but he actually seemed genuine and interested in what we do as missionaries. It was a miracle that God placed him in our path again.

The other day we also had a super intense/ heated conversation in a cafe with the elders and two men, one was atheist and the other was a free Christian. I have never had harder questions asked on my mission. "Well who are God's parents then? How did God get here?" He went on and on about how he had absolutely no proof that God existed. It was eye opening for sure and also just a little sad. I find so much joy in the gospel. 

I can feel that so much good will happen in this city. It feels a little bit like we ate staying at ground zero out here. We have no friends, our area book isn't working, my companion is very new to the language. In a way, it allows me to trust completely on God. I need his guidance so much right now. I am excited to let him write my story here, and help us to rewrite the stories of others with Christ in it.  

"Behold, my soul delighteth in proving unto my people the truth of the coming of Christ; for, for this end hath the law of Moses been given; and all things which have been given of God from the beginning of the world, unto man, are the typifying of him."

- 2 Nephi 11:4