Transfer Three!

Fun week out here in Hungary! Szolnok was pounded with a big rain storm last week that really lowered the temperatures down to where it was really, really cold in the mornings! It is still like that, and it will probably just get colder! So yeah, we did lots of finding this past week, and I apologize to everyone right now in advance because my dumb computer won't let me send pictures home. Again. #thestruggle. És, sziasztok a magyaroknak akik most olvasnak ezt a blógot. Tudod, ki vagy! ;)

Anyway, we went tracting out by some family houses in a suburb of Szolnok and we stopped at this one that looked like a castle! Like it had a turret(?) and everything! So sick. I rang the bell and this guy came out in a jumpsuit. I told him who we were and he totally invited us inside! We didn't really know what to talk about, so I kind of just started teaching the Restoration to him! He said that because of the past regimes in Hungary, he doesn't believe in God or in Jesus Christ (*whilst shaking my fist*) DARN YOU COMMUNISM! Anyway, it went really, really well. As I bore testimony about Joseph Smith, the coolest Spirit came into the room. The man's expression changed a bit, he became more thoughtful and open to the message.

He ended up taking a BOM and he wants to meet in the future. :) He even asked me to "dedicate" a Book of Mormon for him! I was a little confused so I just wrote my testimony in it and signed at the bottom. Better watch out J.K. Rowling, you've got competition from a mormon missionary.

Well, as evident by the title, it is TRANSFER TIME. Last night, as I sat in bed, I thought for sure that I would be going somewhere relatively close to Szolnok. Oh boy, was I wrong! I will be serving in the city of Sopron out by the Austrian border! Clear on the other side of Hungary! ...and guess who just got transferred to Vienna? yep. Dane :)

Make sure you tell Diane that! Gonna be good! :D Maybe we will see each other by the border.

So yeah!  I will be serving with Elder Becker. I hear he is a hard worker, which is good because we are going to be WHITEWASHING. Yep! 10 week transfer too! Looks like I'm in for a long hard time in Sopron! 

BUT also, guess who else is in Sopron? You guessed it: ELDER NEELY :D I'll get to serve around my MTC comp one more time! I am WAY pumped!

I am a little excited to see more of the country: in Hungary, the eastern half (where I have been serving) is generally more poor and less industrialized than the western half. I will be going from super far out in the east to as far west as you can go! I hope the culture shock isn't too crazy.

Also, I am officially done with my training! According to the "12 Week Program", I should be ready to train another missionary by now!  That is scary to think.  I would say that I definitely feel like I know what to do and what not, like with the mission rules and what goes down, but it's just the language that could prove to be a little interesting! I am happy though to be a normal Junior companion! Am I sad that my Greenie days are over? Eh, a little. But there are great things coming in the future, and I cannot wait to take them as they come!

I am so happy to be out here. Things may have seemed settled in for me here in Szolnok, but bigger and better things are waiting for me in Sopron and in the rest of my mission. I am so excited to see how it all turns out! I will always remember my good times in this city in which I spent the first 2.5 months of my mission in Hungary. I had some great experiences and made some great memories. I bore my testimony on Fast Sunday in sacrament meeting, and everyone was crying in the congregation when I had finished! I'm so grateful for the advances I have made in the language and with how well it has been coming. 

Super excited for these next few days! I know that the Lord is hastening His work! See y'all in Sopron! :)

Lots of love, and have a great week!

Elder Giacalone